It can't be coincidence that your videos about shenanigans and shill bidders as my slab shark bids are about to expire lol getting ready to land 1 of 25 offers.. lmfao

I've flipped card 12 hours hours for 70% profit so Indy cards could be legit in flipping in 12 days. Sometimes you get a mispriced card and make great money on it.

what cards did brady buy?

Great show!

Fun episode Jeremy!

Really like these watch list videos you're doing Jeremy.

Thanks for sharing, I’ll catch up with you on the livestream

So can do you scan third pack in the box

Easy Fix all packs receive a Lottery Redemption card for each high-end card, Problem solved, Card Company Holds all the High-End cards /Logo man etc... and a big lottery Draft Televised End of Season!

direct to consumer singles. Pricing by demand

Lots of valuable hobby wisdom in this discussion! Thanks!

Get a friggin hammer and open that up bro

One idea is with new product going forward is to put a "radiation card" that is sensitive to the radiation from the scan and it turns an incriminating color once scanned. The trouble with this, though, is what if a malevolent customer then scans the radiation card intentionally after opening a box that had no hits in it, just so that they can try to get a bogus refund out of it. Otherwise, what materials can the wrappers be wrapped in the block out the scan? Lead sounds, uh, toxic and sketchy, though, i know it would work. Anything less toxic and cheaper to produce?

Sports card collecting has become a Pyramid Scheme. 99.9% of collectors will lose their money. The card companies has figured out to keep the marks, sorry collectors interested in this dead hobby is to put out cards with out of 1 or 10 or some bullshit number. At the end of the day sports cards are junk unless you are talking about the 1960s and earlier. People are paying stupid prices for some of these newer cards are for me “mentally retarded “. Like the saying goes “ you can’t fix stupid “.

The best thing about this video is the dumbfounded faces of the 2 Guests, that for 18 minutes, their faces are like " Dude.... when are WE going to talk??" or "Hey,, I appreciated you inviting me on so I can listen to your monologue

ALL high end products or any product that has supposed to be a really big money card the HOBBY is F!!!!!

Ethics in this hobby has always been a very grey area. There hasn't been a level playing field in a very long time. Cost, who you know and who you are has seemed to have cornered the extreme high end stuff for a very select group.

I’d like to see the images from the CT scanner. I don’t think they can tell you the image on the cards inside. I think they can potentially see the card sizes and perhaps memorabilia present but unlikely they can tell you what thick cards or jersey is present

Clever but sad evolution for the hobby.

The same type of coating you scratch off lottery tickets is what they are gonna line boxes with going forward..or something comparable..

Excellent presentation and very eye opening.Recently I have been purchasing Panini Optic 2023 football blasters & megas and wondering if they have been scanned for the downtowns & case hits. No more sealed product for me and will focus on graded singles even though there have been issues with those. Never got into the group break thing also.

Who in the Hobby is going to ask the tough questions of the distributors if they have done CT scanning of received product and if they used the information to decide who in their channel gets what boxes or cases?

Walmart pack searching on the rich boy level

I personally think we should all boycott the industry for a year or two (not easy)... Let the manufacturer (Topps, Fanatics, Panini, ect ) know that without all of us the cards are worthless. If you watched the entire interview, this has been happening for years and was kind of a "dirty little secret".... They are currently investigating a number of big breakers as being crooked and especially the couple of breakers who are foolish enough to predict their pulls seconds earlier. I personally will not be buying from any breakers (especially the big ones).... This is truly sad news! Why do you think everyone is a breaker now??? Seriously, think about it!!! I am sure that there are legit individuals breakers but how do u know that their distributor has not scanned previously. This simply sucks!!! Can't trust anything in this industry right now!!! Sorry for the pessimistic view!!!

Pleasantly surprised to see you stray from hockey, however briefly. 👍

I think its safe to assume every unopened box of high end product like Flawless has been scanned. Lower end product and blasters it would seem would be too expensive right now....2-3 years from now who knows.

People think $15 is too much to grade a card. I don't think many packs will be scanned at $75 per. But can they do this at scale? I wouldn't think so. So the hobby is grumbling over some negligible amount of packs being scanned? I just don't really get the uproar.

You’d be crazy to touch sealed Flawless, Dynasty, Panini One, etc….as well as any repack. Why wouldn’t I buy out every single repackers product, keep the 1-2 good cards from the run and sell the rest sealed at full price….the hobby is full of scammers.

Wild that one news update can flip the hobby on it’s head like this…

As soon as I see a bidder with zero feedback bid against me. I stop bidding. Like seriously you just discovered eBay...

There is not a “ton of content” of seeing actual scans.

I HATE the idea of auctioning off or offering cards direct to consumers...that would be terrible for the hobby! There's going to be a solution within the boxes or sealed cases that keeps these scanners from seeing what's inside!

The scanning is not nefarious it is the intent of doing the scanning that is nefarious in my opinion.

If a seller provides a CT scan that shows a hit will that create great market value for that unopened pack or unopened case?

We need to become aware of the current technology being used and if portable CT scanners called Cone Beam CT can produce similar quality which will allow potential mobile services.

Great content.

We need the F.B. I to go to goldin auction and backyard breaks and find out the truth.

Great new series! That Griffey Cup Auto card sold for very low, because it’s not licensed by MLB and Griffey is wearing a generic blank hat with no Seattle Mariners logo which would have made it much more valuable! And that Deion Green PMG with the factory serial number would probably sell for over $40k or more, because the same Green PMG’s with serial numbers for Barry Sanders and Jerry Rice are worth over a $100k or more!!

Love this series

great vid!

I’ve thought this through a million different ways. There is actually 1 way to completely solve this issue but hobby shops/3rd parties would be hit. Direct from Topps/Panini to consumer. All worry would be eliminated as they already see all the cards that they create. I believe Topps is heading that way anyway as a lot more can be made doing so.

damn... you haven't shown up in my youtube timeline in ages! nice to see you jeremy!

Remember when there was no metal in trading cards? What a novel idea 😆

Another reason to stick with vintage.

Maybe scanning everything is the way. Definitely gives me pause to buy any new product. Going to focus on vintage singles for a while. Thanks for bringing this practice (although it seems has been going on for some time) to light.

They appear to be doing their damnedest to turn this hobby into nothing but gambling.. I ask you aren't there enough goddamn ways to do that.

How on Earth is scanning the closed product not a legality in some shape way or form that is fucking ridiculous. .........................

A good ol’ class action against the manufacturers and/or distributors may lead to increased consumer protection.

Definitely feels like the easiest excuse for the card companies to cut out every middle man and claim "for the safety of our consumers" we are strictly doing direct-to-consumer / online distribution / licensed breakers. To counter that, this breaks their fundamental selling point of trading cards: the gamble. So if everyone knows what's inside, then it becomes about addiction and fomo, which to be fair has been Topps' business model for a while now, and it has been proven to work very well. Pack weighing and attached value to weighed packs has been around for a long time, and rumors of some LCS/online distributors weighing product has also been around, so this new tech adds another layer to the 'trust' aspect of the hobby supply chain. No matter what or who is doing it, be it one company publicly or many privately, one thing is undeniably true: any currently sealed product from any era before this discovery has an *. Whether or not the card companies will protect their product from this type of tech is yet to be known, but I think most collectors would appreciate it if they did, and hopefully without just going to direct-to consumer. PS: A possible idea that could help is doing what Pokemon Center Japan does, which is do lotteries for a single box at cost before the product release date, so X number of consumers can get a direct-to-consumer price and product shipped to them on release date, but before there is any possible tampering or price-bump from the secondhand market.

Great video! We need to keep shedding light on import issues like these.