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Originally Posted by agfesc
OP here. There is not one sense of entitlement to believe that going to my retail store I should be able to buy a box or pack of the new product. I buy everything but hockey. I've even bought the new Fortnite cards just for the fun of ripping them. I happen to be at Wal Mart the day the vendor was restocking the shelf because my daughter forgot to tell us she needed something for school that morning. I spoke with him about how quickly things disappear. He said he sees a lot of the same people that buy the stuff as soon as he puts it on the shelf. I said "Really? That explains why I see the containers of products that are empty all the time." He said he had something new and handed me two boxes of Optic Basketball. He asked if I wanted more of them and I said "No. I just like to open them, two is fine for me." I open anything and everything including the crappy boxes that have the mystery graded card. It's fun. But when something new does come out, it's nice to have a place to buy a pack or box of it.
To the one guy who said calling people Turds at the beginning loses my audience, you're probably right. But by the comments and length of this thread, it's a 50/50 split on opinion and there were enough who weren't turned off that weighed in.
As for the claim I'm only looking for high end to get those hits, when I decide to do that, I don't buy from WalMart or Target. That's when I order online from a hobby shop. When I complain about retail it's because I like the chase of finding a nice card that didn't cost me a good chunk of my paycheck. I don't need it to be a Pete Alonso auto or Zion refractor. Just nice cards.
I hope everyone gets what they want for sure, but let's be honest. Buying up everything in retail and then selling it for 3x the prices is pretty sh itty. I'm not hating, I'm complaining. Which I'm allowed to do just as you're allowed to buy them all as some kindly keep yelling "Capitalism!" across the posts. Good for you. It just means I have to work harder to get a box or two and if that's what I have to do then fine. I'm still going to call out those who are greedy in their quest to "retire early." haha What a joke.
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Ah, the kindler, gentler OP now that he got what he wanted. Which, by the way, was not baseball cards to open with your son (which are ALWAYS available), but the hot basketball product.