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Rich guy dumps millions on something stupid. More at 11.
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After some more thought on the situation, if Logan Paul getting involved with collecting Pokemon trading cards to begin with drove more scalpers and speculators to the market will this video potentially cause some of those people to exit the scene? I don't really care for his content but I will admit he does have a great deal of influence and reach in terms of audience size.Logan got scammed out of $3.5 million on some rare Pokémon cards:
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.
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:
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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:
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"
The guy from BBCE looked about to cry when he saw the obviously fake boxes inside the case. He was seeing his business go up in flames. No way it was fake, but damn the fool deserved it. I wouldn't trust him to buy an ounce of weed and not come back with catnip after this.Because the BBCE has been around for over 30 years and there is no way they would willingly destroy the reputation of their very profitable business just so Logan Paul can make a video. People have been tracking these Pokémon cards and talking about BBCE’s bad analysis of them for longer than Logan Paul has even known about them. If there is any sort of grift going on here it’s that Logan might have already been aware that they were probably fake before buying them, but that doesn’t make the situation itself and its fallout on BBCE’s reputation any less real.
Why are there so many retards on KF these days?
Just like that episode in The Mask where the Mask trades a Naval carrier for baseball cards he thought were rare only to learn he was ripped off. Logan Paul trading military secrets for cards would be hilarious and scary at the same time.Logan got scammed out of $3.5 million on some rare Pokémon cards:
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.
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:
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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:
He's going to make a follow up video to own all the haters when he shows the refund went though.
That’s depends on which aspect of the scalping scene you’re looking at. The vintage scene is pretty much fucked if the set’s from the WOTC era but anything younger than that would go down due to nostalgia for those sets being low. For modern sets it’s what people are hoping for but it’s largely up to TPCi, they’ve been keeping Shining Fates in production despite the set being a year old at this point but finding some products in-store varies from region to region.After some more thought on the situation, if Logan Paul getting involved with collecting Pokemon trading cards to begin with drove more scalpers and speculators to the market will this video potentially cause some of those people to exit the scene? I don't really care for his content but I will admit he does have a great deal of influence and reach in terms of audience size.
Not just that, he made that money doing some of the most hollow, simple-minded, normie bullshit imaginable.This is sad as fuck. Not for the reason you may think, though. This moron can dump 3.5 million dollars down the drain on something absolutely unnecessary, and still is rich as fuck and in the long run it won't bother him all that much.
Infuriating that we as a society -- that we live in, btw -- let someone like him thrive that damn much.
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.I'm glad I never got into the collectibles craze. If I did I'd probably be frothing mad that retard normies like this are jacking the prices way up to the detriment of the neckbeards they were intended for.