Small victory at Target

[elgato]

Pack searching is encouraged at Target. Have you ever noticed that nearly all packs at Target, all vendors, are nearly transparent? Only Target, all other retail and Hobby are usually foil. I guess they think that this is one way to sell at least some of the retail crap.

[spuds1961]

Yep bearfield when I see a dealer with a display case chock full of hits I know exactly what they're up to and will only buy a sealed box from them.

[sportzking]

Yep bearfield when I see a dealer with a display case chock full of hits I know exactly what they're up to and will only buy a sealed box from them.

I think it's wrong to assume the dealer searches his own stuff to get the hits. My brother and I have a friend that owns a hobby shop. He buys all his autos and gu off Ebay to sell at his store.

My brother and I? We have pulled just about every high end product from both of our friends store. Including a Mickey Mantle Quad Jersey.

[dfr52]

They should have vending machines to buy retail packs lol

Unless I'm mistaken, in the 80's there were vending machines for cards. You can still find vending boxes for football and baseball on ebay.

[The Kraken]

lol

I was at wal-mart last night with the wife doing the grocery shopping. I went over to the card section to pick up a few packs of toploads and saw a dude searching away at the loose packs. He had his kid with him and and was bending packs and giving them to his kid to "buy". I gave him a pretty filthy look and he move along.

[bearfield]

[QUOTE=sportzking;6104559]I think it's wrong to assume the dealer searches his own stuff to get the hits. My brother and I have a friend that owns a hobby shop. He buys all his autos and gu off Ebay to sell at his store.

if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, its usually a duck. i stand by what i said. i assume you can prove what you say, because hearsay doesn't work for me.

[elgato]

How about the dealer who knowingly makes regular bulk purchases from the searchers? Yes, everyone know who the searchers are and why they have boxes full of current low end GU and autos.
Also, one of the larger shops here has a horrible reputation for searching their own packs. Not the owner, but most of the kids who work behind the counter. Another partner in one of the shops was one of the biggest searchers in town. He was quite proud of his pocket scale.
The manufacturers and Target could do a lot to stop it. They just prefer to ignore it.

[dherm360]

lets not forget the dealers that search their own stuff. i say that they are lower than pack searchers.

I agree with you

[bearfield]

How about the dealer who knowingly makes regular bulk purchases from the searchers? Yes, everyone know who the searchers are and why they have boxes full of current low end GU and autos.
Also, one of the larger shops here has a horrible reputation for searching their own packs. Not the owner, but most of the kids who work behind the counter. Another partner in one of the shops was one of the biggest searchers in town. He was quite proud of his pocket scale.
The manufacturers and Target could do a lot to stop it. They just prefer to ignore it.

as ebay chooses to ignore the fake jersey and auto forgeries. ebay and paypal are accomplices to theft. they do way more harm than the searchers ever could.

[themanishere]

I think it is naive to think many dealers don't bust boxes/cases. But that doesn't mean they all put the rest of the crap boxes for sale.

I know for a fact (because my friend works there) that the shop I go to busts boxes and puts the cards they pull for sale in their cases. But the boxes/packs they have out for sale come from sealed cases, so it isn't like they pull a case/box hit and leave the rest of them for buyers.

The manufacturers and Target could do a lot to stop it. They just prefer to ignore it.

Target isn't going to waste man-hours or resources on products that bring little relative revenue. It isn't about ignoring it, it is about focusing on what brings in more money (which is just good business).