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Been asking my local card shops to do the same. Some, oddly enough, are refusing to do so, or “don’t see the point cause the locals still buy their stuff”. If your local shop is eating good because of the market, it’s going to be hard to get everyone on board. Only one store has offered me a nice discount on product for cutting the seal before I bought anything. Retail stores must implement this tactic in order to see a real effect.

The Pokémon scalper war in Japan has reached a breaking point. Stores are now literally cutting the corners of booster packs at checkout to kill the resale value. If we’ve reached the point where we have to mutilate the product just to keep it in the hands of fans, the hobby is in serious trouble. This isn't a solution; it’s a symptom. And it’s only going to get uglier. Valid move or total desperation?

Cause singles/ slabs are not product you can get from a retail experience. You’re never guaranteed a hit from what you pull, so why pay market for sealed product you can’t get your hands on, of which also may not contain whatever it is you’re chasing? You don’t buy a cow for a day for a carton of milk.

Why does no one have a problem paying market price for single cards or slabs But sealed is a complete different story

These will take a point or 2 off. Centering isnt horrible, might fall within guidelines. The front is hard to say 100% without better quality photo. Looks like it has great centering in the face, but hard to see any whiting, surface scratches if any, etc. Would say an 8 or 9 based on just the back photo, with a 9 being more probable since the face appears to be in good condition.

@TitanRio9 I realized afterwards my photo of the back was terrible this is a better one

FINALLY got my grail today at a card show in Boston after spending months manically looking for a clean one. Thank you to the 12 year old vendor that sold me this. Y’all think it’s worth grading?

@NBAPR “Found no basis to any claim”… Proceeds to rescind technical foul. Pathetic league

The following has been released by the NBA.

DP👽Y WEMBY Victor Wembanyama is the first-ever UNANIMOUS Defensive Player of the Year 🏆 @wemby | @spurs

@PokeCardsDaily Desirability, as someone else mentioned, but also, potentially, who the illustrator is. He illustrated bangers in Southern Islands and Neo. Aquapolis Lugia last sold at around $8k. That’s his art. He’s got a reputation

Pikachu with Grey Felt Hat🤨 There were well over 200,000 copies of this promo printed for the Van Gogh event. Over 100,000 graded at PSA. Hundreds of people still have hundreds sealed in their collection. No matter, it continues to rise. Why?

The left’s argument for birthright citizenship is obviously insane but it’s even more insane when you consider that they actually don’t believe in your or my “birthright.” We are on stolen land and don’t belong here, according to them. But the anchor baby whose parents got here from Guatemala 10 seconds ago has a “birthright” and is tied to this nation by blood for all time. That’s actually their position. It’s so psychotic that you can’t even argue against it. Like trying to have a political debate with a dog. These people are not rational.

“For a time is coming when people will no longer listen to sound and wholesome teaching. They will follow their own desires and will look for teachers who will tell them whatever their itching ears want to hear. They will reject the truth and chase after myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4

🚨 #BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled parents ARE allowed to opt their children out of being indoctrinated with LGBTQ+ propaganda HUGE WIN for religious liberty! Government Schools were attempting to EXPEL CHILDREN for this.

@TheGameVerse In such a big RPG, that absence feels refreshing.

Damn a lot of these players ain’t respecting it 😭😭😭

Tim MacMahon GOES OFF on Bam 83 point game 😳 “He’s jacking up 3s triple teamed! It was honestly just awful, hideous, disgusting basketball down the stretch… I never ever (x6) want to hear about Heat culture & professionalism and all that crap again because that was the most blatant stat chasing I’ve ever seen! It was embarrassing for the wizards and egregious for the Heat. I enjoyed the ethical 39 by Wemby more than I did the egregious 83.” (Via @BannedMacMahon)

Ime Udoka was HATING on Bam’s 83 point game 😭💀 “First thing you think is HOW? I saw he only made 6 threes but 40 free throws… Tells the story right there… And it’s the Wizards.”

Kobe 81: 18-20 FTs Luka 73: 15-16 FTs Dame 71: 14-14 FTs Embiid 70: 21-23 FTs ALL more respectable then 83 on 36-43 from the FT line

Bam Adebayo took 44 free throws tonight Steph Curry took 47 free throws over 10 games in November

What Bam did in three quarters…incredible. Keeping Bam in during a blowout, I’m even cool with that. Intentionally fouling up 25 late to get extra possessions to stat pad and eventually break Kobe - of all people’s - record…corniest thing I’ve seen in a while 😂

After releasing, and even during the development of, Legacy: Steel and Sorcery, we were told the extraction elements of the game were to help facilitate their MMO release. They continued to develop the extraction elements, almost entirely ignoring any traditional MMO aspects, and released the game as a totally unfinished product, but slapped on the “mini MMO” identification to, what? Not even sure what the thinking was behind that decision, but it’s apparent it was a way to deceive original backers and new comers into believing the game was more than what it is/ was.

Notorious Studios have announced their mini MMO Action RPG Eldegarde is officially being sunset and taken offline indefinitely as of March 31st, along with most of the staff at the studio A small team will remain to volunteer and try to convert the game to be playable offline

Innocent until proven guilty means nothing anymore, apparently. You should give Mizkif the benefit of the doubt here, considering there’s been no court ruling against these allegations as of yet. You can be more inclined to believe a specific party, but to outright believe someone, EVEN AFTER they’ve retracted on a VERY impactful claim, is utterly stupid. I don’t even like, nor watch, Mizkif anymore, but he’s innocent until proven guilty, and Emiru isn’t, and won’t be, the only women that has ALREADY hurt those who HAVE been sexually assaulted, definitively. If her lie is true, she’ll only reinforce the disdain for what was the “me too” movement and how it negatively impacted both men and women who were assaulted, or who were not but faced unprecedented backlash simply because, “I’ll believe them until proven otherwise”.

Denims comments on the Emiru & Mizkif situation Says she’ll continue to believe Emiru for now but is very worried about the ramifications for everyone (especially women) if the lawsuit reveals certain info “I want to believe so..but if any of the lawsuit brings things out that she’s lied abt in other cases..and if it turns out she lied whether or not this was traumatic for her..or an attempt to remove Mizkif from the organization..it’s gonna set back everyone, esp women so far..that come out about SA” “Finding out that one of the largest woman creators would use terms that she knew weren’t accurate or that she didn’t actually believe for personal gain it’s like” “Unless I have reason to believe she ever lied about this stuff in the past, I’m just gonna believe her until then”

Vietnamese Grandma is based 😭🔥 “I love Donald Trump. He’s strong. He said he do it. He do it.” “Never vote for Democrat. No one. They asshoIe.”

Let’s see who grieves for that garbage.