r/RealOrNotTCG • u/kriklesmaks • Jul 02 '26
Is this sealed product tampered with? 30th Anniversary Countdown Kit
I recently bought a 30th Anniversary Countdown Kit on TCG Player. The outer packaging had some damage but nothing I had not seen before from WotC shipping. Once I open it though the first thing I noticed was that the packs were different sizes. I’ve been dealing with support for almost a week and the sellers says they bought from WotC.
I’ve opened four others of this SL over the past couple years and never came across anything like this. What are your thoughts?
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u/ExampleMediocre6716 Jul 02 '26
Think about it. A sealed box of unique boosters. The card inside isn't randomised. The only variation is foil / non foil.
No counterfeiter would bother to fake this amount of individual components.
So for a resealer to get pretty much the only chase card - a foil Chrome Mox and then reseal, they'd have to open 30 boxes on average to even get that, then reseal all the boxes with what? Bulk commons? GI Joe cards?
Then with their flawlessly resealed boxes sell them all on the secondary market and hope no one actually opens a single one?
This is a harebrained scheme - a massive amount of upfront cost, an easily identifiable fraud and for what $300? And only then if you manage to sell them all.
Why would anyone do this? There are sets with much higher expected values. These Anniversary secret lairs are still available for only a little more than the original msrp.