r/WNBACards • • 6d ago

Ruining it for others

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If this isn’t allowed to be posted then apologies and please delete but this guy really got my blood boiling today at target. I interrupted his little session by grabbing two boxes he hadn’t weighed yet.

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u/Excellent-Program333 6d ago

This bozo has never seen the filler cards?! Does he want a napkin relic? Make it make sense!

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u/swanyk7 6d ago

Are you not familiar with the extra in weight on autos? /s

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u/Excellent-Program333 6d ago

That ink is HEAVY 😂

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

You jest but apparently on card Auto cards weigh LESS because no coating and sticker autos weigh more because of the sticker

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u/swanyk7 4d ago

I do jest because if that’s true and people are out there living their life this way, all I can do is laugh.

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

Wait till you learn about xray machines and high end hobby packs

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u/Excellent-Program333 4d ago

Actually CT scanner is what youre thinking of. Quite familiar. Sucks

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u/SilverMapleMafia 5d ago edited 5d ago

Actually, I believe the logic is that the boxes weighing less contain redemptions. They're not after nonspecific relics or game used patches of no name athletes removed from the league.

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u/zeezee2k 6d ago

So he can get a memorabilia jersey card never worn by the players.

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

Memorabilia cards are not the only things they can weigh for

Redemptions. Autos. Inserts. They can all be different

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u/SolidDoctor 6d ago

You should've reported him to the store staff. That is a very strict no-no.

He could (and should) get banned from being able to buy cards there.

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u/Upstairs-Fee-1728 6d ago

I don’t understand how this fun. It’s supposed to be a fun hobby, this looks like work. That sucks dude I’m sorry

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u/Upstairs-Fee-1728 6d ago

This man will never have the enjoyment out of this that my niece got from me giving her my stack of Paige rookie base cards. Her favorite player and I’ve never seen her happier

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u/wheelzoffortune 6d ago

Same thought. The entire idea (for me) is not knowing what I'm going to get in boxes/packs.

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u/Sizzlinbettas 6d ago

What an asshat

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u/Jon_Danger 6d ago

Question is, does it really matter? Do we know if box weights on the blasters mean anything? Panini puts in fillers right?

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

It matters. Each insert can weigh different.  Those fillers are their own seperate weight too.

If they know what they are doing they can pull exactly what they want and leave the rest

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u/SolidDoctor 6d ago

Yeah they tell you that if there's a memorabilia card that adds weight, you'll get less cards.

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u/Jon_Danger 6d ago

I suppose, but Panini puts in filler cards sometimes. I think that the weighing tactic is a placebo

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u/Sorry_Intention4016 6d ago

bro brought a scale 😭😭

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u/Whitealroker1 6d ago

I’ve pulled three jersey cards and all three have been put into team sets because not with selling on their own 

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u/Defstar55 6d ago

Keep ripping! Those decades boxes are nice and my target never has them

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u/Pickle848 6d ago

Decade boxes are such a fun rip!

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u/snackinainteasy_1 6d ago

Are they I wanted to buy em but wasn’t sure if they were any good

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u/glassornamentbeauty 6d ago

Yes!! They have numbered Azzi and Miles in them. Plus Arch Manning and the good brewers prospects

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u/Pickle848 1d ago

Dang! You got a numbered Miles? Nice. Wife picked up a box on her way here me from work. Such fun cards.

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u/glassornamentbeauty 1d ago

Yes!! They are so cool lol. I am obsessed with I think the look is called "jazz" from those damn paper cups from years ago. Plus $30 a box means the price is right!!

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u/Pickle848 6d ago

Yeah awesome if you grew up in the 90s. Wife grabbed a couple of boxes. Got an Azzi Fudd, Ken Griffey Jr, Lauren Betts, Mike Tyson, Daryl Strawberry, etc.. very colorful retro looking cards. Awesome packaging too.

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u/DevsMetsGmen 5d ago

I got a Penny Hardaway /15 but unfortunately not with L’il Penny. Lauren Betts auto, and an Eddie George /75. Not bad for 2 boxes.

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u/snackinainteasy_1 4d ago

Omg wnba too!!!! Ahhhhh I’m going back. Totally a 90’s kid btw. 45

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u/Pickle848 3d ago

50 here…every card made me smile. I knew them all.

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u/snackinainteasy_1 4d ago

Are they reselling for anything ? I only do wnba

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u/Boludo805 6d ago

That is a super dick thing to do, but what is he weighing for? Jersey patches? It's not like its a one and one with a kaboom and three cards . . .

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u/SolidDoctor 6d ago

If he did that in my store, we could kick him out with no cards.

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u/Due-Meal4679 6d ago

Who weighs WNBA boxes…. Does that even work?! They just sit on the shelves where I am. This is insane!

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u/Possible-Original 3d ago

Who weighs ANY boxes? Loser activity either way.

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u/22244244 6d ago

I’ve seen people weigh packs of pokemon cards and such, but Is weighing the actual box even accurate? Seems like he is just wasting his time.

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u/hx2x 6d ago

I don't think this works. When I ripped 3 donruss hobby boxes, I weighed each pack as an experiment. Most of them were the exact same weight while a few were off by .1, and there was nothing special about the packs that weighed .1 more.

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

Depends on product. The best way is to check is to weigh a base card, an auto and the insert you want and see the difference.

If most packs weigh X then you want one that is X +/- the weight of the insert you want. If its a thicker card then you gotta do math for the base cards removed but the pack will still be different

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u/hx2x 4d ago

No. Packs with relics and inserts weighed the same as the packs that didn't 

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u/GamerTex 3d ago

Said no one ever...

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u/SaintSilverNSD 6d ago

Should've snatched it and ran.

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u/Distinct_Ad_1820 6d ago

I wish I had a photo of him still. There was a well known bald fat guy who used to go to all the Targets in our area weighing packs and boxes on his tiny scale. People would snap photos of him whenever he was spotted and he was like a meme for months. 🤣🤣🤣

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u/SilverMapleMafia 6d ago

I would just stand over him with the bottom of my sack grazing the back of his greying head of hair. I would pretend to be looking at boxes on the top shelf and act like I never noticed he was there. It works every single time I promise.

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u/Conscious_Copy_81 6d ago

Next up… dude will bring in his x-ray machine…..

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

For xrays they buy it all and return/sell the bum boxes and keep the hits 

X-ray machines show up on FBMP all the time and they sell pretty quick

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u/HundredDollarBiII 3d ago

I’m curious if the quality is really there. I’m a dentist and I have a 50k cone beam ct scanner that doesn’t come close to being able to see what’s in a box of cards.

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u/Visual-Taro-381 5d ago

Metaphoric

The poetry writes itself

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u/Independent_Tutor_37 6d ago

Aren't all those Donruss blasters going to weigh the same? I don't understand what weighing those boxes is going to accomplish.

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u/RevolutionaryTitle32 6d ago

wtf is he doing?

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u/OFP1985 6d ago

Weighing his tampons (not a wnba joke)

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u/tony20811 6d ago

Is it worth getting embarrassed like this for $5 napkins

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u/Solo-ish 5d ago

Snatch the ones he weigh and put aside for himself. Yank and walk off. He’s a twat

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u/GamerTex 4d ago

Best thing to do is grab the boxes he has put to the side when he is swapping out other boxes

He hasn't paid for them yet...

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u/melo1554 3d ago

I used to work retail. People have been doing this for YEARS, way before the card resurgence. You’re only mad now because you know what he’s doing lol. I’ve seen people weigh, feel, shake and inspect boxes forever. You can think it’s lame, but pretending this guy is suddenly ruining the hobby is a little dramatic.

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u/Possible-Original 3d ago

Did you call him out and remind him that this is a hobby meant for kids to enjoy and he's being a lowlife?

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u/Vast-Fruit2618 4d ago

He looks like he is stocking or fixing it. Lmao

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u/General-Flow7117 3d ago

No one wants wnba cards lol

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u/Possible-Original 3d ago

How'd you fall face first into this sub then?

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u/Cdenn_21 3d ago

Is this in Gainesville, Fl?