{"id":32,"date":"2015-01-16T03:06:17","date_gmt":"2015-01-16T03:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=32"},"modified":"2015-01-17T15:19:18","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T15:19:18","slug":"a-followup-to-the-post-about-collectibles-and-scamming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/?p=32","title":{"rendered":"A Followup to the Post About Collectibles and Scamming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34\" style=\"width: 265px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-34\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor.jpg\" alt=\"I eat eBay scammer's brains!\" width=\"255\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor.jpg 255w, http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor-230x230.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-34\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I eat eBay scammer&#8217;s brains!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So I was about to jump on 2 &#8216;cases&#8217; of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ebay.com\/itm\/D-D-MINIATURES-UNDERDARK-12-BOOSTERS-CASE\/291355428194?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042&amp;_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D27673%26meid%3D0d44f4d17b6544088ed4ac40aa2e6a9a%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D291355428194\">Underdark that showed up on eBay<\/a> today (01\/15\/15; the listing won&#8217;t be visible after 90 days probably, so I&#8217;ll tell you what it says)&#8230;they had a price that was reasonable to me, $214 or so shipped.\u00a0 However, here is the fine print:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>This item is not sealed case<\/b><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b> All Booster Packs are randomly selected and factory-sealed<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><b><br \/>\n<\/b>Did you catch it?\u00a0 &#8216;This item is not sealed case&#8217;.\u00a0 Underdark as a set has always been prone to this. This means that the likelihood of you pulling a Balor from these &#8217;12 random boosters&#8217; approaches zero.\u00a0 This person has probably cracked open 25 Underdark cases and opened the boosters that were heaviest.\u00a0 There really is no other reason to not offer sealed cases.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Caveat emptor, my friends!<a href=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor-stat-card.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-33 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/balor-stat-card-213x300.gif\" alt=\"balor stat card\" width=\"213\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I was about to jump on 2 &#8216;cases&#8217; of Underdark that showed up on eBay today (01\/15\/15; the listing won&#8217;t be visible after 90 days probably, so I&#8217;ll tell you what it says)&#8230;they had a price that was reasonable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32\/revisions\/39"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/playingwithmyself.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}