Another reason not to pour outrageous money into boxes or get into breaking. The game is rigged and been that way for a very long time.

*checks into hospital* Nurse - what’s wrong today? Me - my hobby box needs an X-Ray…

This hobby is a never ending Springer episode.

You telling me I need a Geiger counter now when looking for wax at a show? Uh-oh that’s got too much radiation, must have been searched in a CT scanner lol 😂 just a joke but not too far fetched.

As someone that does industrial radiography for non-destructive examination, it would be relatively easy to get access to CT equipment. At my university where I work, anyone could get access to some of our CT equipment to scan an object for about $300-350. Or can get access to one of our micro-CT systems and get much better image resolution for about $750 and possibly see the lettering. It is also not that difficult to build a CT scanner. One of my students built one for under $5,000, including the imaging camera.

I cannot afford Flawless anyway. Next hobby drama article. 😂😂

This is why i no longer buy cases or boxes anymore i just buy the singles i want

People also weigh packs and pull the case hit boxes out of a case and sell the rest. It doesn’t stop people from buying. This won’t stop people from buying.

I'm an MRI Technologist and work right next door to a CT dept. The thought of utilizing table time to scan a box of cards instead of an ill patient is so America in 2024 😂. Sad but true. In reality you would not scan this box of cards at your local hospital. Need a Drs order to do anything. More likely a research scanner or Veterinary clinic would be the choice here.

Not all x-ray machines are medical. There's a ton of industrial machines available to the public.

Collecting really took a hit in the last 4 years. Scalping, price hikes, and dishonesty. It's sad to see.

Interesting. Not a radiologist/tech but familiar with how these work as I’m in pharma/oncology. Standard CT’s have a standard gap thickness of ~3-5mm. This means it cuts an image every 3mm to view the object in layers. Players name and auto is going to be very hard to detect unless it’s a sticker. If any text is concave or convex is any way, you can see it. Patches will be clear as day. People are crazy these days.

Another case of when you think the game is out to get you, sometimes it is! Never invest in these crazy high end boxes. Someone always finds a way to cheat the system. By the time you have access you have already been played. Nice vid as usual NEO!

This is much more useful than the X Ray vision glasses at Party City. I do think he was saying this is how they know what's in the product. I wouldn't be surprised if Topps has one. Can't wait to see someone do a scan on a box at some hospital or clinic.....just imagine what you could see on a CT scan. Lolol. This would also be helpful to find the gold and silver bars as well🧐.

In the olden days, Target and Walmart would have let you bring that machine in the store

Thanks for flagging, Neo. I always suspected this was happening. Bad actors will find any advantage they can to scam and profit through dishonest or illegal means. All it takes is for someone or a group of people to have access to an xray/ct scanner or know someone who does. Flawless makes sense to target because the hits aren’t stacked but rather laid out. I wonder if this works with stacks/packs of cards. One card products like Dynasty could be an easy target as well…

I’m a former Vet CT Tech, never thought of this but I could easily do this and delete out scans afterwards. Scans could go as thin as .5mm, and reconstruction could show types of cards (patch vs not), but not signatures (you’d need high-density ink to even try)

Man, i honestly thought that maybe this was feasible with xrays and cts, but i assumed we wll would have heard about it if it worked. Well... I'm with you, stay away from the ultra high end, because clearly it does too some extent. I don't like having anxiety over the value of my cards anyways, i keep each card under$200 because that's the limit I'd be comfortable with losing completely if they drop to zero (trust me, values tank wayyyy more often than you'd think). If a card sitting in your zion case gives you anxiety, consider switching up your strategy, that's not why we do this. Similarly, be careful out there with any sealed wax. Always assume someone has already given your box a once over, its getting gnarly out there. That or its been gnarly since day one and channels like NEO's are slowly exposing how bad it really is. Ok that was a bit of a rant but hopefully you guys get it 😂

Molding companies can have CT scanners. It ensures the part you’ve molded matches your prints and tolerances. If this is overseas, there’s a lot of cheap molding done in China. But obviously could be done here in the states. All you need to do is know someone that runs the equipment and go in on an off day. .

There are some awesome people in our hobby. Unfortunately for as many awesome people there are, there as just as many shitty, money hungry, hobby killing, thrives among us. I just can’t with this information. So upsetting.

Having access is key. I work in aerospace manufacturing we have those machines. They are extremely expensive.

You can't even trust the manufacturers, when they jack up the price due to the hype of one player, Bedard.

In going to the original IG post the annotations on the screen indicate this is a helical CT scanner and a scan protocol was used that is used for imaging the cervical spine. You see the silhouette of the person taking the video as a shadow on the screen.

You gotta be kidding me. This is what the hobby has come down to ?

Card manufacturers should develop an outer wrapping that changes color when exposed to the radiation.

You mean my order from C.T. Sports Cards and Medical Equipment was a bad idea? Oh, now he tells us....

If it was as easy as downloading an app I think we would all be peeking into boxes.

Supposedly if the CT Scanners can execute to where the major hits are prior to the selling of the hobby packs or boxes the owner could then hike the price of both the packs/boxes knowingly there is a guaranteed case hit thus killing the hobby once again.

I think it's time for everyone to take a step back in collecting and buying.

I stopped buying boxes of cards after going to Walmart on more than one occasion and getting scammed with resealed boxes and packs. you could tell cause one end of the pack was way different like it was sealed with a hot press and cut with spiked scissors. they wouldn't open well or were already open. that and the quality control is horrible. you're lucky to pull a psa 9. most of the time they come with corner dents. print lines. way off center. dings and scuffs. I just buy psa 9s and 10s off ebay now. I don't even care about losing money cause it's better to get rhe card you want and lose 50 or 100$ than to spend the same amount and just end up with a pile of junk that you didn't want and can't even get graded. if you're a breaker or buy off breaker channels then you're good cause they get all the hits. but I live in canada so we don't have anyone like that with the amount of fame to actually put the good cases into breaks because it's better for their channel. I will never buy another box of cards. and that hurts cause ripping packs was most of the fun of collecting. thanks to all the crooked people I can't enjoy my favorite thing to do anymore.

Yeah like a bunch of us have access to a CT scan machine

Hey Mr. Neo, I'm a noninvasive test engineer, hobbyist, and proud owner of his very own CT scanner. Patches as shown are relatively easy --- medical grade scanners are sufficient for big features like that. Looking for individual cards with thinner details is a lot harder, and a battle against physics, and really, ridiculously hard for doing so inside of a case like you mention in your video. However... individual packs are absolutely possible --- I was able to identify holographic cards inside vintage sealed packs of Pokemon cards using my Ebay machine that is more than 20 years old (albeit costing $500k USD when it was new). I just released a video on this, where I give some detail, and would be happy to do a Q/A session about the science and limitations, if you or your fans are interested.

Makes sense on product that cost thousands per box.

I am a CT tech, I have never thought of this, but I have scanned the guest the amount of candy in a jar, I think the candy in a jar is slightly less sketchy than this, and I made the others aware that I was doing it.

That is very expensive way to scan Flawless. The CT scan cost more than the Flawless compared to what the hospital charges the company head.

You mentioned Kurt. He posted on IG a PSA graded altered Fleer Jordan card due to paint being added to the card. He successfully removed the paint so I guess this is still considered an altered card?

Dont think it has to do with the Value being so high, has to do with a vast majority or ppl spend 20k for 2 boxes and get 2k worth of cards, if the companies made sure there was value to the boxes and not such a crap shoot, with large such large amounts in product cost and such extreme variations in the value in thos boxes... Things like UD exquisite didnt have this issue esp in basketball, WHY, cuz they guarenteed that in every 3 box case there would be at least 1 jordan or lebron auto card in every case. now you can spend 10k on a box and get 1k in value and thats after listing everything, hoping it sell and the time that would take...

There are possible use of an inexpensive CT scanner called cone beam CT.

Y’all keep buying them 60,100,600, 1200 boxes tho 👍

More crazy allegations against breakers…coming sooner! 😅😂

A Hobby has been taken by the Pirates

I must invest $1.5M into one of these machines to pull the two cards l want…

I wouldn’t worry too much about boxes getting CT scanned. These machines are very expensive and not used unless a Doctor orders it to be used. In other words, it’s not likely very many if anybody in the hobby is going to have special access to use one.

This is sad 😔

I just got my veterinarian certificate and am passionate working with animals. Anyone know of any veterinarian businesses that are hiring? I'm willing to relocate.

Funny I sent this out to several people last week. Glad you’re sharing. Sold Too Early Podcast broke this story

I did not see a logoman. But I’ll take your word for it.

Wow. This is wild. Never would of thought this but I can deff see this happening now. These boxes are running Tens of thousands of dollars. With that type of money on the line ppl will think of every which way to get an edge/scam.

Does this work on scratch off lottery tickets? 🤔

late to the party been doing that for long time lmfao this is a unregulated maket we can do whatever we want lmfao

My father is a radiologist and I'm just a normal person. I could get access to use the CT scanner if I lied about my reason to use it however, I would need the tech's help just to use the damn machine lol. Just saying it is possible to pull off but it's a long stretch.

Work in jail . You can Definitely take out patch cards. Furthermore, I doubt it has any benefit.

This was the most obvious thing. I’m surprised it took you 9 months of “loaded boxes” discussion to get here

We can think goldin for this. Scanning sealed iphone boxes

With dynasty you could probably see the size of the cut auto window, being bigger than the patch window

Here come the flippers to sell CT scanners... 😂

What's next for the hobby newest scam .

For multi million dollar cards this is surprising?

well if they weren't - they sure are now, thanks!

Between increased prices, pushing the hype/gambling aspects to new heights, and a massive PR push Fanatics is letting every criminal in the world know about cards.

Not even the $20,000 boxes are safe lol.

I line the innovation beats the produce weight scale

"HA-HA" ~Nelson Muntz~

hey look NEO finally understanding how certain people always hits the good stuff GOOD FOR NEO keep pumping those card manufactures garbage companies lmfao late to party

Scalping trash have ruined this hobby. They buy all the blasters in the stores, then try to sell them for more. Then you have the pos who weigh packs. It’s to the point that shops and online sellers can’t be trusted. They can pick the boxes that have the better cards, then sell the other ones. I typically avoid stores that have retail blasters, or already have cards from a product that just came out.

So this is out there, but everyone flipped out about people weighing packs in the store, this is just another reason to let others waste money opening packs and just buy singles. I think all of this is the reason Pokemon is taking over. It's a better value proposition to "waste" $50 on Pokemon and let the kids open it

Ha ha even respectable cheats are being pushed out of market because of technology

Would you be able to find the Bedard 1/1 doing this? lol

A low end CT Scanner starts at $80k. Hard to believe people are actually doing this.

When scalping is just not enough...

This is just sad. Just when you think you’ve reached the bottom, nope. The good news is most people don’t have access to this technology, although when the money gets big enough people will find a way. Sigh. I never buy high end stuff like this and I never will. Not even singles.

Weigh packs..too..

Shouldn’t this make market prices plummet for boxes of this type of product?

Yes it's common knowledge that it can be done . Common sense actually.

Who da fike has a scanner of this magnitude 😆

Jesus 🙈

Sweet

its over

these boxes could get cancer if they keep this up

Fun!

buy singles, let the big wigs invest in ct machines to find inserts

Did they show Netflix king collectibles series 2 about ct scanner if the sealed box if the first edition iPhone is legit. They got it from Netflix show series.

It only works for single card. Like flawless. The depth of cards with nt wouldn’t work

⁠funny scenario… neo cards has a brain hemorrhage… needs life saving measures… oh wait… I’m scanning my breaks… neo dies… this is reality

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lol

Why would anybody be mad at this? If you have the bread to buy Flawless and you have the bread to have them scanned before opening then good for you. Average Joe can’t buy Flawless and the majority of the people in the hobby are average. Let’s all get upset over something that’s not on our radar!

Been saying it for a decade....its all rigged.

Great Content. Appreciate your reporting these issues. I messaged you on Instagram of a issue I have been having. Thought you might look into it. I know you must be very busy so i won't waste your time with nonsense. Would love to know you got my message. Thanks again Gary.

This is sad 😔