Jake Paul & Logan Paul - Youtuber, Viner, Team 10, Former Disney Star, Expert Doxxer

[Low IQ Doctor]

Company named BBC isn't capable or trustworthy? I'm shocked.

Also what dumbfuck even bothers with the goddamn case? Why? It's not like the sealed box can be effectively weighed out and it offers less clues about condition and authenticity.

 

[Frail Snail]

Why is this featured? Do people really care about how this guy mismanages his money? like to the point of sadistic joy at his stupid blunders. Kiwifarms seems like it's always walking the tightrope of obsessive weirdoes and just having a good time laughing at "exceptional individuals"

Guess you could say that they're A-Logan him a little bit

 

[Stoneheart]

Some people do collect sealed products but I usually see it for the more flashier (and more recent) promo box products, I personally don't get why people would collect sealed booster boxes unless they're treating it like an autistic form of gold bullion.

Dont talk shit about the tacco king you timmy....
also they its not a gold bullion, its Schrödingers autistic Index fond.
If you own a sealed box, you own x% of all cards that can be in the box. and you only know what realy inside if you look.

 

[AmnasLord]

Also what dumbfuck even bothers with the goddamn case? Why? It's not like the sealed box can be effectively weighed out and it offers less clues about condition and authenticity.

Often the boxes contain toppers or special items that are included if you buy the complete box. While I have delved heavily into TCG, and have bought boxes, the mentality is (if you buy it firsthand like from a CCG store or somewhere reputable and not Ebay) you may potentially have X cards and copies of those X cards in your box that may net you hundred if not thousands of dollars if you open the box. Thus, for a $1000 (for example) you may own $2000 or more valued cards if you open it. Thats the speculative aspect working here.

So, the idea is to take a chance and keep it sealed and sell it when it's not available anymore. Many people who play MtG often buy two or three booster boxes, open one or two, take and kee the cards themselves as investments and then keep the third as an investment in itself. For $600 or slightly more (Boxes often cost anywhere from $200-$300 CDN) for an unopened box, and if the set contained within has really rare/expensive cards, you can in theory make your money back in 6 months or so.

 

[Billy_Sama]

Just thinking of millennial collectable industry going bankrupt from stupid speculation from stuff like this warms my heart.

 

[Apochrypha]

Why do grown adult men buy children's trading cards in the first place.

 

[Meiwaku]

After watching that video, I am almost certain that this whole thing is fake. The original story of how the box was "found" was very blatantly a lie, to the point I cant imagine anyone in that industry would fall for it. Im willing to bet this is all for free social media clout/news and media coverage to promote his new hydration drink that came out last week.

If this is true I'm very upset he was NOT ripped off for millions and someone in Minecraft should ammend this injustice

 

[Stoneheart]

Often the boxes contain toppers or special items that are included if you buy the complete box. While I have delved heavily into TCG, and have bought boxes, the mentality is (if you buy it firsthand like from a CCG store or somewhere reputable and not Ebay) you may potentially have X cards and copies of those X cards in your box that may net you hundred if not thousands of dollars if you open the box. Thus, for a $1000 (for example) you may own $2000 or more valued cards if you open it. Thats the speculative aspect working here.

YOu never open your box.... you exchange a small upside for a huge risk.
your box is containing parts of every card in the set as long as its sealed. if you open it, you exchange the safety of owning parts of every card in the set for the chance of getting a top 5% box.
from a financial standpoint, it makes always sense to leave the box sealed. if a card in the set becomes hot, your box will not only go up in value because it contains x% of the card on paper, it also goes up because stupid people will open boxes
to find the hot card, making sealed boxes more rare...

Why do grown adult men buy children's trading cards in the first place.

pretty good unregistered asset.

 

[360NoTrope]

In 2001, the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia, who is the highest religious authority in the kingdom, issued a fatwā banning the Pokémon franchise, claiming it encourages gambling and promotes Zionism.

Not like he wasn't warned.

 

[zero-who]

Not just that, he made that money doing some of the most hollow, simple-minded, normie bullshit imaginable.

I swear, if humanity used all its resources in an efficient manner and only focused on that which has substance we'd probably have a advanced, thriving colony on Mars by now...at least.

 

[FFinfo]

Not just that, he made that money doing some of the most hollow, simple-minded, normie bullshit imaginable.

I swear, if humanity used all its resources in an efficient manner and only focused on that which has substance we'd probably have a advanced, thriving colony on Mars by now...at least.

If humanity used all its resources in an efficient manner, everybody posting on KF would've been ground into fertilizer already. Nothing's stopping you from doing the same thing he's doing.

 

[Zaryiu2]

The box was gutted and refilled with GI Joe cards. A company that specializes in reviewing vintage trading cards, the Baseball Card Exchange (BBCE), was initially brought in some time ago to verify if the boxes seemed legit, which they believed to be the case at the time. Though after further speculation, they opened the box to reveal the contents being a total sham.

https://archive.ph/byy86

Unsurprisingly, the BBCE's reputation took a massive hit from this massive blunder. It's a really bad look to say the least, considering their business was all about verifying expensive cards for collectors to purchase.
They tried to address the fallout on Twitter, though it hasn't gone over very well, considering various Pokémon nerds debunked the box's authenticity from their own rooms while an "expert" miserably failed to verify it in-person:

https://archive.ph/ufaWi

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Spoiler: Videos of some guy reviewing the evidence

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Assuming this was the same guy, Logan's "card dealer" has been called out in the past for being super sketchy with some of the deals he's made in the past. This was not the first time this guy has sold a tampered box to some interested collectors.

I recommend reading through this short thread from last year for some additional context:

https://kiwifarms.st/threads/pokemon-lolcows.2178/post-7764326

I am certain i am not the only one who's reaction to this news can be resumed with

I would have more sympathy if it was someone sympathetic and the sum lost on cards for a kids game was not more money that most people will ever make in their lives

 

[MirrorNoir]

I mentioned this earlier but the case he bought was tracked by the Pokemon TCG community with enough scrutiny and precision that even the CIA's glowniggers would hang their heads in shame.

Literally ANYONE who wants to buy a modern Pokemon TCG product at their local Target/Walmart/Barnes & Noble without having to watch a bloated, BO-spewing man-boar and his braindead hoglets buy up the store's weekly stock drop.

The reason I can't bring myself to buy Pokemon cards is that the cards have looked like garbage ever since they stopped using traditional manga style artwork and moved to garbage looking CGI artwork

 

[Common Shadow]

Most neckbeards generally accept this kind of shit anyways. The collectibles community (if you wanna call it that) is pretty much as autistic as it gets, and mostly consists of people scamming eachother a ton.

When I was a kid, I collected comic cards, comics, action figures and all kinds of shit. I still have POGs. Of course I grew out of that, as anyone would, but I still retained some for nostalgia and also some of them have genuine monetary value. Nowadays, everything is remanufactured and mass produced to the point of most things not being worth a damn to anyone with the exception of these basement dwelling sad saps that have Cabbage Patch Kids, massive bins of Beanie Babies from the 90s or, in this case, fucking useless Pokemon cards. Hell, I still have a few first series Pokemon foils from when I was in junior high that probably aren't worth the cardboard they're printed on. Collecting most things has lost its meaning and fun.

 

[Mr. Bung]

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Ew. Gross... Walked right into that one, didn't I?

 

[Full Race Replay]

dumbass

 

[MirrorNoir]

Is this the only way Millenials learn to be skeptical about 'Experts' ?

I actually think the GI Joe cards are cooler. Not 3.5M cooler...

Disagree and this coming from a GI Joe fan.

The cards omitted SEVERAL major characters (no Lady Jaye or Destro in particular, even though Destro had a new toy still being pushed and Lady Jaye was still a main character heavily featured in the comic as a lead character AND heavily featured on the DIC revival cartoon even with no new figure out) yet at the same time gave cards to EVERY character killed in the Faux Operation Desert Storm storyline that ran a year prior AND cards for all the Cobra La characters that had toys, even though the set was 100% based on the Hama written Marvel Comic AND toy specific to shill the then latest toy releases (featuring the infamous Eco Warrior characters and Cobra Commander's infamous Red Mask get-up).

As a kid I collected them but they were over saturated as part of Hasbro's final early 90s push to promote the franchise before they mothballed it. And I can't remember the number of times I asked my mom to get my Marvel cards when she was out shopping and she would get me GI Joe ones instead because the stores didn't have the Marvel cards in stock but had boxes upon boxes of GJ Joe cards.

 

[Lord of the Large Pants]

What a fucking dumbass. Stupid people shouldn't have ownership of massive sums of money since the potential is lost on their feeble little minds anyway...

When you think about it though, this is sort of a self solving problem.

 

[Common Shadow]

Disagree and this coming from a GI Joe fan.

The cards omitted SEVERAL major characters (no Lady Jaye or Destro in particular, even though Destro had a new toy still being pushed and Lady Jaye was still a main character heavily featured in the comic as a lead character AND heavily featured on the DIC revival cartoon even with no new figure out) yet at the same time gave cards to EVERY character killed in the Faux Operation Desert Storm storyline that ran a year prior AND cards for all the Cobra La characters that had toys, even though the set was 100% based on the Hama written Marvel Comic AND toy specific to shill the then latest toy releases (featuring the infamous Eco Warrior characters and Cobra Commander's infamous Red Mask get-up).

As a kid I collected them but they were over saturated as part of Hasbro's final early 90s push to promote the franchise before they mothballed it. And I can't remember the number of times I asked my mom to get my Marvel cards when she was out shopping and she would get me GI Joe ones instead because the stores didn't have the Marvel cards in stock but had boxes upon boxes of GJ Joe cards.

I was more into the G.I. Joe action figures than the cards. Didn't they start including Upper Deck or Topps cards with figures at one point?

Remember trading cards from movies like T2? Blockbuster carried them among others. They had so many different series it was insane. Going into my local comic shops, the walls were littered with them. My mom tried getting into the more fantasy-based stuff like Beyond Bizarre. I only got into Pokemon cards through Nintendo Gameboy red/blue/yellow games otherwise I couldn't have cared less about them. The show was so stupid, too.

 

[TrippinKahlua]

The worst part about is, within a single, callous gesture, Logan ruined the professional reputation of a Sports Memorabilia Appraisal Company. Three Decades of experience flushed down the toilet, because a Disney Channel Retard came to them with trading cards out of their element.

The way those old guys react, they are dumbstruck and should have realized these toys were out of their element.