I see you got my package. :) Thanks for opening it to share what to watch out for. It sucks to get scammed and if I can help others out it's my absolute pleasure. (I realized I forgot to give you my contact. How do I PM you?) Love your content. Thanks again Hon.
Ashen one, to be Unkindled is to be a vessel for souls. Sovereignless souls will become thy strength. I will show thee how. Ashen one, bring me souls, plucked from their vessels...
You know what the sad part is? That product is the one parents choose to gift their beloved ones when they are interested on the things their kid are doing. They don't know any better. Thinking they are doing something awesome to their kids, they get hosed
This is an epidemic at Walmart for almost everything. People are constantly doing it with things like Marvel Legends by removing the BaF part, and often the figure and replace it with some old Toy Biz garbage. One of the more recent problems is the 50 dollar G1 Optimus reissue being returned with a 6 dollar, non transforming die cast vehicle in its place. I know a lot of people, hell probably most people, don't give a crap about Walmart "losing money" but when you're actually stealing from and screwing over your fellow fans, that's just pure shit.
I work at a Walmart and the marvel legends thing is a big issue. Recently people have been taking the UPC codes off of booster packs and legos and using them to make it look like they are ringing up bigger, more expensive items on the self checkout machines. It's very upsetting as a magic player and collector of all things nerdy, but management cant do much to stop it.
@@Davidsmith-lw8gb all self checkouts i've encountered have a weight system. So switching upc's wouldn't work unless the product was the same or similar weight. Not sure how accurate that is but it seems like it would keep the upc switching to a bare minimum
This just makes me sad, imagine a little kid spending all his money to buy on of these and then this... Or even worse the parents of that little kid gift him this and he just starts to cry when he opens it...
i only buy from people who actually know what mtg is, that's also why i never invested in the cubes with a commander deck inside, nor the themed boosters, or worst of all... repacks, i only buy SINGLES from www.cardkingdom.com i know it's online and tcg player has lower prices but heck, i've used it for 10 years now spending $70 on standard a year and not once have i been scammed by them, just know that there are some people who work there who don't know a thing about magic, don't think you're safe buying from anyone, if you buy stuff from rudy you need to ask yourself, can i run a store all by myself???
Would be funny if there were multiple ppl that bought this, opened it, found they got screwed, sealed it back up and returned it...thats why there's all kinds of colors of glues on the bottom :P
I bought an Hour of Devastation bundle from my local Walmart that someone had done that to. They even went as far as taking the spin down die and replacing it with a steel nut.
@@gwendolynbarnett9233 Really nice of you to try to spread awarness likte this! =) We need more people like you in the world so the people wount get away with doing stuff like this...
@@gwendolynbarnett9233 Hard to blame the Walmart employees, because they might just be doing their jobs. And for what they make per hour, I prolly wouldnt give a shit either, lol... Sorry you got taken by Walmart, and then Rudy. At least youre hot Ok byeeeeeeee
Yu-Gi-Oh has the same problem, just like Pokemon. We throw away perfectly fine food because it´s a day before expiration date, and sue people that only want to make use of the unused rests that would be thrown away, but trading cards need to be re-packaged and sold again. Man, fuck society.
CCGs and the like are such a MINISCULE amount of Walmarts business they arnt going to take the time to do anything about it. This is one reason why Ive always said that specialty gaming product should NEVER be sold in big box stores. But of course its all about sales so no one gives a flying fuck.
People do this crap with all kinds of products. I once bought a 2TB SATA hard drive at Best Buy and when I got home and opened it, I found an old IDE drive in the box instead. I drove back to the store to do something about it. They were very skeptical of me. My saving grace was when we opened another box from the shelf right there at the customer service counter and it had the same thing. The third box from the shelf happened to have the proper drive.
When I first got back into collecting hockey cards I didn't know any of this sort of thing, and one day found that Walmart had booster boxes from (at the time) three previous seasons ago (2010) for 39.99. The rookie class had Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vladimir Tarasenko and several other extremely valuable cards so I thought why not and bought like 7 on pay day (like an absolute dummy). I found out later these were "redistributed" from a secondary source WITHOUT DISCLOSURE OF THIS after the distributor implemented certain measures to determine these boxes as completely worthless. And the combined value of the 14 autographed rookie pulls was a whopping 4 bucks...
Something similar happened to me when I was a kid. My parents bought me a computer game as a gift for my birthday. When I opened it, there was no DVD inside. This was before steam or anything like that, so without the disc it was useless. Someone bought it, removed the DVD, then resealed it and returned it. I still remember how betrayed I felt.
When I was new to MTG, I unwittingly purchased something like this. Of course when I opened it, the culprit left the booster pack (ripped open like a pack of wolves ate it), took all the rares, and the promo card (I didn't know what that was at the time). However, I was smart enough to know that this wasn't right and took it back. Walmart refunded me, but could care less that someone tampered with the box. Didn't even question if it was me or not. I now buy from local card shops.
The second products like this are bought and leave the store it shouldn't matter if there "open" or not it should be a No Returns policy, Walmart does it with Ammo, it should be the same with sealed card product as you never know if the returner is trying to scam other people.
@@airbomb34 I know its 2 years old but... I'm sorry but walmart employee wouldn't care. You could just cut with a knife the product, reseal it with shipping tape and they would refund it. Not excatly the employee fault, more of a company policy as a whole: Very few employee compared to the size of store, low wage, high turnover rate, general "I don't care feeling in stores", a tendency to destroy any kind of employee group (Like a syndicate) and owners in the top 10 earth's billionnaires.
Walmart gets the MTG on credit. They pay zero for them and only have to cut a check for cost equal to sales. So they will never care it's a zero loss problem.
I never liked the idea of any big box store carrying specialty gaming products. It takes away from the LGS that actually build a community and causes shit like this cause the big box store doesnt give enough of a shit. Exception was ONE store, Toys R Us. Toys actually ran MTG/Pokemon/and YugiOh tournaments in their stores and fostered the community. Walmart/Target/and Amazon do nothing to actually expand the game, all they care about is the sale of the product and thats it.
memnarch129 My university bookstore carries some stuff as well, but when I asked about where to play, they directed me to the university’s gaming club and to my LGS. It’s thanks to that latter recommendation that I’m attending the Pre-Release event for War of the Spark in a few hours.
they probably opened it in store and re-glued it back to avoid the anti-theft device I DO NOT ENDORSE THE OPENING OR THEFT OF ANYTHING FOR ANY REASON but it would have been the easiest way to do it considering people have stolen big screen tvs right from the store [edited content] happen right through the front door
@@gildarmesh3809 if you bought it why would you need to avoid an anti theft device?? Just buy it open it at give tahr start you want and return saying you got the wrong thing.
@@johnnyscifi and who the hell would want to live in a world where walmart gets fucked a fraction as hard as they fuck over communities and their workers? Fuck walmart, they deserve to be stolen from and anyone who shops there deserves to get empty purchases.
i love this comment, like why even bother if they don't want to check their own product. i'd say buy it, check it, refund it the same way it ended up in that state xD
Yeah 15 wrongs dont make a right. Yes it sucks that you get screwed but doing the same thing knowing it will just be resold AGAIN doesnt make things right.
@@memnarch129 You think they care? Doesn't seem like it do they? I'm not saying go out to the store and do this to every pack. I'm saying if they're dumb enough to let it happen en they won't do anything about the matter when you tell them. Then why should you treat them not like an idiot? I've had a LGS here in my area that sold resealed booster packs. I went back to tell the owner who already had a defensive answer stating alot of bs trying to make himself look clean and trustworthy instead of just saying oh damn i'll check it up. Walmart is basicly doing the same thing.
@@giocommentary Im not defending Walmart. What Im saying is yeah it sucks that you lost 20$ but Walmart is just going to put it once again back on the shelf and someone else is going to get fucked. Taking it back just perpetuates the cycle, cut the loses and just eat the cost if you buy one.
They can keep their Ajani; what good is it if I end up using Fall of Thran followed by a Cleric that exiles all cards from their graveyard and they have no land left to do anything...?
@@brandons1411 Tbh tho.. for what maybe a 10 buck card in your 36 stolen boosters? ^^' i agree with people being incredibly sad if this is what they're resealing. see a MM box or something sure, i can imagine someone resealing a box with 200+ profit p box. but a planeswalkers ajani deck?.... its like robbing the candy store, but being satisfied with the small one on the corner thats not even worth the time robbing, and having charlie's chocolate factory next to it. like someone a little down me says :p ''damn, this mastermind stole his way into like six bucks ''
@@brandons1411 And then sell the mass produced "rares" online for a measly $0.99 when you LOST money driving to and from Wal-Mart x 2? Looks like you would have made more money by working a minimum wage job...
This probably explains why they redesigned the UMA blister packs so you practically have to destroy the package to get at the packs. The earlier iterations (Unstable, Iconic, Masters 25) were pretty sketchy, even separating during shipping.
as a former walmart employee and CSM (Customer Service Manager) we cannot question the customer about returns as they then complain to corporate and get a gift-card as well as the return. it was a pain to deal with.
I once was accused of swapping prices on a fan. They had an entire cap of one type, with one price. When I told the cashier the price was $10 lower listed on the shelf they got LP involved. LP found the correct price under the shelf. I told them to call the police and show us the video. A manager quickly came to front and gave me a $100 gift card and told me to have a great day. I complained to corporate and they gave me another gift card and the LP person was fired. I should have sued but didn't. After reading your comment I knew what you're saying was true.
So basically what I'm getting from all these videos, is that I'm glad I stopped playing MTG back in high school in 1996. Seem's the whole hobby has become scummy and filled with people including Hobby Store owners who steal from and rip people off. I prefer people scam me and rip me off to my face, like Games Workshop does when they want me to fork out 35 bucks for a squad of plastic figurines.
Tbh. That's why I just buy the crap cards to start with. People who are super into the rare stuff get pissed when you beat their custom built super deck with a cheap prebuilt that doesnt even have a good rare. lol
This is a VERY prominent thing with Pokemon TCG Boxes. I went to target and found atleast 5 boxes that were cracked with different promos and the Dollar Tree 3 card packs in place of the actual 11 card packs. yet they still ended up going back out onto the shelf.
This is a long problem. I've bought single packs as a splurge. Had four. Each individual pack was resealed and trash cards with no rares. Also boxing I was in a hurry I didnt check the pack inside from the outside. The packs inside the dominaria sleeves were from rivals and ixalan.... Not dominaria. I went to reexamine all the packs and damn near everyone was tampered with. I swear it. Do NOT go to Wal-Mart. For the love of God save yourself the time and money
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i got Gisela, the Broken Blade and Emrakul, the Promised End in a single pack from Walmart. I also got a completely hosed Ezuri commander deck from them lmao. But yeah, our booster display is huge and out of the way, so if you just reach to the back, nobody's touched those since they went in
Thank you alot for this video Rudy, it helped me out alot. Recently I started to get intrested in MTG. I purchased some giftboxes online form a store I used to trust. I knew something was off when I looked at it, but if it wasn't for this video I watched beforehand I probably wouldn't have truly notice that im dealing with an resealed product. Thanks to this, my purchace hasn't been touched and I can return it and get my moneys back.
It’s so rare to find an honest Seller/Shop Owner... Thanks for all your infos about these unlikable episodes... You got a follower from Italy, Thank Sir
Always will be a problem as the staff at the stores are not really taught how to deal with these things and are told "Just do the Return" The Vendors get pissed as they lost money now on that, Other employees who know better are pissed that they now are being told to "put it back out for sale", and customers are pissed that they are not sure if the product has been tampered with.
I once bought a yugioh premium gold box that someone had re-shrinkwrapped. Inside was filled with a bunch of commons from recent booster sets. First and last time I get swindled by Walmart thieves.
Was doing a chaos draft with some friends. My buddy just picked up his packs from the Stoughton, WI Walmart on the way over. As soon as we started the draft he noticed all his packs had a slit down the one side of them. Luckily Walmart refunded him but when he went to pick out different packs he saw that EVERY single pack had been repacked. The cardboard on the pack was reglued.
I wish I saw this video prior to buying a planeswalker deck for my son from Walmart. They only had one box, which is the one that I bought. The box was seal in a plastic wrap so I though... it was sealed. But I was wrong, when my son opened the box we realised that it had been tempered with. We had 90 card totals, but it was 45 mountains and 45 island. I am not quite sure why someone would go through that much troubles. The way I understand this, there is not much value in the planeswalker deck.. As you can imagine, Walmart doesn't want to take this product back, since we opened it...! @Alpha Investments, I love your videos!
Bought some sealed old duel decks at target once, all the rares, and mythics were picked out, returned it and got another, and surprise it was the same way. Hilarious how little these commercial stores know about the products they're buying.
it's a problem at all big box stores. Most workers don't really know what the product is supposed to look like when someone returns it, because the vendors handle all the merchandising. There were similar issues with Transformers collectors of people reboxing old transformers in new packaging and returning them to Target//Walmart to get the newest version for free
I had a friend that had done something similar with the Star Wars CCG Premier and Hoth introductory sets. He would open them in the store and get the booster pack out, open that and take the card(s) he wanted from the pack.
This happened to me at walmart as well. I bought an Ezuri EDH deck that was filled with lands. Walmart has a strict policy in place that they do not return card games to prevent fraud, but most of the employees either don't know or don't care enough to enforce it. I was able to get my money back after I told the manager, but she nearly refused.
Wal-mart is the worst place not only to buy TCG things but video games with serial codes and even time cards. My son bought a few boxes for WoW TCG some years back and he opened them all the cards where lose in the box when they should have been in packs. Lucky, my X girlfriend was a manager there and she let us exchange them. one of her CSR notices the bottoms were torn a bit and saw what look like super glue on the bottoms. things like that are either workers stealing or Wal-mart is buying f 2nd hand crap shipped in from a China company. our local store sells everything from Pokemon to magic cards and you can buy like 100 cards in a clear box" none in closed packs" pretty much trash cards lol
Had same problem at my Walmart. Employees would rather turn you away trying to return it rather than have to log the loss and get into trouble with the vendors.
I bought one once that looked like staff had roughly taped back together. I opened it in the carpark because it was likely to be tampered with and yes, the boosters were gone so I took it back.
I wish I would’ve watched this before I spent $50 on the evolution commander deck. I was ultra pissed... the cards were in resealed plastic and were all the same card. Tried to return it and Walmart said they don’t accept returns on them. Really helps to know what to look for, thanks for making this video.
The wal mart near me has these sealed with an extra layer of that thick plastic wrap. You have to cut it with scissors to open them. Even the boosters are wrapped in it
That was the absolute best hose job (giggity) ive ever seen in my whole entire life. I like how the people at Walmart couldn't identify it being tampered with. IT HAS A FREAKING UNCOMMON INSTEAD OF THE PLANESWALKER THAT YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE WHO IT IS THROUGHOUT THE PACKAGING! WTF
I had purchased a Teferi commander deck at Walmart thinking that I had gotten a lucky find. Opened it and found nothing but basic mountains from Khans block and some tissue to pad things down. I was lucky enough to be able to return it, though.
Went to Walmart today looking for the Lorehold Commander deck and to my shock and awe i saw a 2019 box of mystic Intellect and grabbed it so fast cuz i was excited to get a $50 Dockside Extortionist and got it home and it was resealed and just full of basic plains and tried to take it back and showed them and they treated me like the criminal and would not return or exchange it! i got Hosed.
A friend of mine's wife got an Atraxa deck from Target, it was also resealed and had nothing but basic land inside. Definitely be wary everyone. It's not just Walmart, it's any retailer with employees that don't know details of the product and will cave to any customer screaming for a return.
I bought a Mindsieze deck from them back when it was new and it was also a resealed with the True-Name Nemesis and all the other goodies missing. Luckily I worked there and they did return it for me and got AP involved to try and catch the people doing this. It sucks that people like this are out there, scamming not only the retailers, but other players as well.
My friend had a rare missing from one of those smaller plastic wrap booster pack so it must of been glitch or actually stolen from a factory worker, so returners isnt all you have to worry about.
When I was at my LGS before I moved the store owner told me about some little kid who somehow obtained a fat pack from the local target and every packs rare was missing. There we’re literally just basic lands in the place of all the rares. The kid brought some of the packs in the the LGS and the owner saw it with his own eyes, crazy shit. I don’t play magic anymore but I look when I’m at target a lot and I’ve seen so many tampered with products, normally the mystery cubes it’s saf
When the first set of Commander decks released, this became a problem. Walmart as a big box store, I’d it looks like it is still sealed and sellable they’ll put it back on the shelf again after someone returns a tampered one. I work at an lgs, and when I first saw this happening it was really disheartening after someone came in and told me they got screwed.
The guy who wrote that note is totally wrong, there are employees who play the card game, and tamper with it, all it takes is one or 5 employees to have each other back. I work at wal-mart before, and seen a lot of this stuff happen behind the room people opening box’s and resale it
A similar scam hitting Walmart, people buying the marvel Legends figures, taking the piece for the build a figure, then slapping some random lego/McDonald's toy/etc in its place than returning them.
I never got into Magic but when I was a kid (around 9-12) I played YuGiOh, and you would see this same shit from packs I would buy at Books-A-Million. I stopped after buying 5 of the mega YuGiOh packs for $30 each and found that they had all been resealed with all the cards that were worth a damn removed or replaced with junk. After complaining to the manager and showing them the obvious tampering (really obvious super glue reseal on the box), he said there was nothing he could do. Wouldn't even offer me a refund. 12 year old kid who got scammed out of his summer lawn mowing money, and wouldn't even give me a refund after acknowledging the reseal...
My Walmart stopped selling magic because of losses. Every time I’d glance at them when I was checking out everything was just ripped open, it’s kinda sad really.
I remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s when pokemon was big. People would open packs of magic and pokemon and steal rares and leave small stacks of cards lying around. That's was before they would sell them at the check out.
Found the same thing at a near by WM with the guild kits. 2 golgari kits were ravaged, i let a WM associate know and a few days later they were back on the shelf.
As someone who has worked retail, this is what you're told to do. The customer isn't wrong. He clearly tampered with the packaging, but they tell you to give him his money back and take the quarter of a product back, repackage it, and sell it for full price. Not every location does this, sometimes they throw it in the bargain bin area where fucked up packaging items and stuff goes to sit for a discount. But not every Walmart does this. They know it's tampered, but for some bizarre reason they find that screwing over someone else who might buy it is better than losing the customer who is scamming them. Makes 0 sense.
had a similar thing at Target, Bought a booster pack, and the cardboard was opened at the back and the rare stolen out. Took it back inside, cause i found it when i got to the car, because who can wait to get home. They DID refund me, but they were suspect of me.
This happened to me with a commander deck from Walmart, they left the oversized card, and filled it with commons and lands from random sets. Weight seemed right, oversized card in the front, no shaking, no way to tell when I bought it. Couldn't do anything about it after.
I see you got my package. :) Thanks for opening it to share what to watch out for. It sucks to get scammed and if I can help others out it's my absolute pleasure.
(I realized I forgot to give you my contact. How do I PM you?) Love your content. Thanks again Hon.
Wait I just found your email address silly me.
I don't play magic, but I think I just figured out why only 3% of players are female.
@ LMFAO
@Gwendolyn Barnett I hope you got your money back or at least a new one.
@@Timett_son_of_Timett Timmy son of Timmy. 😉
Who needs Gideon's Sacrifice when we've got Gwendolyn's sacrifice.
Lol
Ashen one, to be Unkindled is to be a vessel for souls. Sovereignless souls will become thy strength. I will show thee how. Ashen one, bring me souls, plucked from their vessels...
You know what the sad part is? That product is the one parents choose to gift their beloved ones when they are interested on the things their kid are doing. They don't know any better. Thinking they are doing something awesome to their kids, they get hosed
smart person would just re seal and bring it back..
That is very sad:(
Great point, Leonardo. Quite sad indeed. This is beyond putrid behaviour to actually set out and accomplish this.
Because the world is full of losers. But people acting like assholes tend to get theirs in the end... even if I have to make it that way ;)
I agree, but perhaps they would either check the front and see differences between packs, it makes buying online seem safer.
So Rudy buys a sealed product. Takes the rares, and returns it. Then gets the rest of the commons on top of it, sent by a viewer. Truly diabolical.
They even took the basic strategy guide!!! ^_^
whatta grinch
They obviously needed it.
Lol how else are you going to learn to play.
Doesn't that come with a list of the cards that are meant to be included? If so, they're removing any evidence it's tampered with
This is an epidemic at Walmart for almost everything. People are constantly doing it with things like Marvel Legends by removing the BaF part, and often the figure and replace it with some old Toy Biz garbage.
One of the more recent problems is the 50 dollar G1 Optimus reissue being returned with a 6 dollar, non transforming die cast vehicle in its place.
I know a lot of people, hell probably most people, don't give a crap about Walmart "losing money" but when you're actually stealing from and screwing over your fellow fans, that's just pure shit.
I agree though that g1 reissue is way over priced.
I work at a Walmart and the marvel legends thing is a big issue. Recently people have been taking the UPC codes off of booster packs and legos and using them to make it look like they are ringing up bigger, more expensive items on the self checkout machines. It's very upsetting as a magic player and collector of all things nerdy, but management cant do much to stop it.
That is part of the reason that self check out machines did not take off. People scamming them by replacing the UPCs.
@@Davidsmith-lw8gb all self checkouts i've encountered have a weight system. So switching upc's wouldn't work unless the product was the same or similar weight. Not sure how accurate that is but it seems like it would keep the upc switching to a bare minimum
elkor420 that’s easy to bypass just scan the barcode and pay not letting it set down lol
This just makes me sad, imagine a little kid spending all his money to buy on of these and then this... Or even worse the parents of that little kid gift him this and he just starts to cry when he opens it...
Took a hit to prevent that. I succeeded.
That's why I only purchase my sealed product at Rudy's.
i only buy from people who actually know what mtg is, that's also why i never invested in the cubes with a commander deck inside, nor the themed boosters, or worst of all... repacks, i only buy SINGLES from www.cardkingdom.com i know it's online and tcg player has lower prices but heck, i've used it for 10 years now spending $70 on standard a year and not once have i been scammed by them, just know that there are some people who work there who don't know a thing about magic, don't think you're safe buying from anyone, if you buy stuff from rudy you need to ask yourself, can i run a store all by myself???
Sometimes he’ll even share a floppy taco 🤷🏼♀️
Would be funny if there were multiple ppl that bought this, opened it, found they got screwed, sealed it back up and returned it...thats why there's all kinds of colors of glues on the bottom :P
Ajani Planeswalker Mythic Timmy Resealed Reglued Returned Rebought Edition - Sponsored by Minimum Wage Manager at your local Wal-Mart
"Always check the bottom"
-Rudy, 2019
There's my shirt idea.
Always check Gwendyllen's bottom.
Or something like that..
Got it.
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I bought an Hour of Devastation bundle from my local Walmart that someone had done that to. They even went as far as taking the spin down die and replacing it with a steel nut.
Shit, that's where my nut went
The nut was probably worth more than the spindown, lol
I do this at Walmart all the time. Except I fill them back up with Dual Lands and Power Nine.
MrDrokkul and what Walmart do you happen to shop at again? lolol
@@jerryhoffman4645 Dunno. It's all a part of the game, lol!
Some hero's don't wear capes XD
Youre just a modern day fucking Robin Hood!!!
Imagine
If he found a black lotus
"How did you shove this thing in here ?" Giggity
thats what she said
Always buy at the game store! Walmart is screwing over local game shops by selling magic in the first place.
Gwendolyn thankyou for your sacrifice.
You're welcome. :)
@@gwendolynbarnett9233 Really nice of you to try to spread awarness likte this! =) We need more people like you in the world so the people wount get away with doing stuff like this...
@@gwendolynbarnett9233 please tell this to Ownage Prank for a payback to that Walmart store lol
FYI: I never got paid back from Rudy. I considered it but decided not to worry. Thanks all. And always be yourselves.
@@gwendolynbarnett9233 Hard to blame the Walmart employees, because they might just be doing their jobs. And for what they make per hour, I prolly wouldnt give a shit either, lol...
Sorry you got taken by Walmart, and then Rudy.
At least youre hot
Ok byeeeeeeee
2:29 LOL behold Rudy's _serial killer slash cardboard collector kit_
Walmart could fix this by not allowing returns on booster packs/decks of all card games. I can't imagine this is just a problem with MtG.
Yu-Gi-Oh has the same problem, just like Pokemon.
We throw away perfectly fine food because it´s a day before expiration date, and sue people that only want to make use of the unused rests that would be thrown away,
but trading cards need to be re-packaged and sold again. Man, fuck society.
CCGs and the like are such a MINISCULE amount of Walmarts business they arnt going to take the time to do anything about it. This is one reason why Ive always said that specialty gaming product should NEVER be sold in big box stores. But of course its all about sales so no one gives a flying fuck.
People do this crap with all kinds of products. I once bought a 2TB SATA hard drive at Best Buy and when I got home and opened it, I found an old IDE drive in the box instead. I drove back to the store to do something about it. They were very skeptical of me. My saving grace was when we opened another box from the shelf right there at the customer service counter and it had the same thing. The third box from the shelf happened to have the proper drive.
When I first got back into collecting hockey cards I didn't know any of this sort of thing, and one day found that Walmart had booster boxes from (at the time) three previous seasons ago (2010) for 39.99. The rookie class had Taylor Hall, Tyler Seguin, Evgeny Kuznetsov, Vladimir Tarasenko and several other extremely valuable cards so I thought why not and bought like 7 on pay day (like an absolute dummy). I found out later these were "redistributed" from a secondary source WITHOUT DISCLOSURE OF THIS after the distributor implemented certain measures to determine these boxes as completely worthless. And the combined value of the 14 autographed rookie pulls was a whopping 4 bucks...
@@Coderjo. you honestly got really lucky there was another fake lol
Something similar happened to me when I was a kid. My parents bought me a computer game as a gift for my birthday. When I opened it, there was no DVD inside. This was before steam or anything like that, so without the disc it was useless. Someone bought it, removed the DVD, then resealed it and returned it. I still remember how betrayed I felt.
When I was new to MTG, I unwittingly purchased something like this. Of course when I opened it, the culprit left the booster pack (ripped open like a pack of wolves ate it), took all the rares, and the promo card (I didn't know what that was at the time). However, I was smart enough to know that this wasn't right and took it back. Walmart refunded me, but could care less that someone tampered with the box. Didn't even question if it was me or not. I now buy from local card shops.
The second products like this are bought and leave the store it shouldn't matter if there "open" or not it should be a No Returns policy, Walmart does it with Ammo, it should be the same with sealed card product as you never know if the returner is trying to scam other people.
They really should have tamper proof seals on the products and if the seal is broken no returns. It would literally be that simple.
@@airbomb34 I know its 2 years old but... I'm sorry but walmart employee wouldn't care. You could just cut with a knife the product, reseal it with shipping tape and they would refund it. Not excatly the employee fault, more of a company policy as a whole: Very few employee compared to the size of store, low wage, high turnover rate, general "I don't care feeling in stores", a tendency to destroy any kind of employee group (Like a syndicate) and owners in the top 10 earth's billionnaires.
Walmart gets the MTG on credit. They pay zero for them and only have to cut a check for cost equal to sales. So they will never care it's a zero loss problem.
as a licensed proctologist i can't stress enough how important it is to check the bottem.
as an unlicensed one i've gotta say i agree
The bottem is close to the bottom. Within a few feet anyway.
I just like butte
This and other theft is why a lot of Walmarts and Targets aren't carrying cards anymore.
I never liked the idea of any big box store carrying specialty gaming products. It takes away from the LGS that actually build a community and causes shit like this cause the big box store doesnt give enough of a shit. Exception was ONE store, Toys R Us. Toys actually ran MTG/Pokemon/and YugiOh tournaments in their stores and fostered the community. Walmart/Target/and Amazon do nothing to actually expand the game, all they care about is the sale of the product and thats it.
memnarch129 My university bookstore carries some stuff as well, but when I asked about where to play, they directed me to the university’s gaming club and to my LGS. It’s thanks to that latter recommendation that I’m attending the Pre-Release event for War of the Spark in a few hours.
But you can always glue it back and they would gladly accept the return.
returnception ( o.o)
they probably opened it in store and re-glued it back to avoid the anti-theft device I DO NOT ENDORSE THE OPENING OR THEFT OF ANYTHING FOR ANY REASON but it would have been the easiest way to do it considering people have stolen big screen tvs right from the store [edited content] happen right through the front door
@@gildarmesh3809 if you bought it why would you need to avoid an anti theft device??
Just buy it open it at give tahr start you want and return saying you got the wrong thing.
This is what happens in a world where the customer is "always right" fuckers
@@johnnyscifi and who the hell would want to live in a world where walmart gets fucked a fraction as hard as they fuck over communities and their workers?
Fuck walmart, they deserve to be stolen from and anyone who shops there deserves to get empty purchases.
you can totally do something about it. just super glue it closed again and return again lol
i love this comment, like why even bother if they don't want to check their own product. i'd say buy it, check it, refund it the same way it ended up in that state xD
Yeah 15 wrongs dont make a right. Yes it sucks that you get screwed but doing the same thing knowing it will just be resold AGAIN doesnt make things right.
@@memnarch129 You think they care? Doesn't seem like it do they? I'm not saying go out to the store and do this to every pack. I'm saying if they're dumb enough to let it happen en they won't do anything about the matter when you tell them. Then why should you treat them not like an idiot? I've had a LGS here in my area that sold resealed booster packs. I went back to tell the owner who already had a defensive answer stating alot of bs trying to make himself look clean and trustworthy instead of just saying oh damn i'll check it up. Walmart is basicly doing the same thing.
@@giocommentary Im not defending Walmart. What Im saying is yeah it sucks that you lost 20$ but Walmart is just going to put it once again back on the shelf and someone else is going to get fucked. Taking it back just perpetuates the cycle, cut the loses and just eat the cost if you buy one.
And then stomp on it while no ones looking later while to make sure no one buys it or it gets discounted.
You have to be pretty desperate to fake out a PLANESWALKER DECK planeswalker.
Goodness gracious they are hot garbage
People are really that crappy that they need to reseal a not so great planeswalker deck. Damn must of hit rock bottom.
tbh, do this enough and you get a free booster box along with the value of all the rares.
must've* or must have
They can keep their Ajani; what good is it if I end up using Fall of Thran followed by a Cleric that exiles all cards from their graveyard and they have no land left to do anything...?
@@brandons1411 Tbh tho.. for what maybe a 10 buck card in your 36 stolen boosters? ^^' i agree with people being incredibly sad if this is what they're resealing. see a MM box or something sure, i can imagine someone resealing a box with 200+ profit p box. but a planeswalkers ajani deck?....
its like robbing the candy store, but being satisfied with the small one on the corner thats not even worth the time robbing, and having charlie's chocolate factory next to it. like someone a little down me says :p ''damn, this mastermind stole his way into like six bucks ''
@@brandons1411 And then sell the mass produced "rares" online for a measly $0.99 when you LOST money driving to and from Wal-Mart x 2? Looks like you would have made more money by working a minimum wage job...
This probably explains why they redesigned the UMA blister packs so you practically have to destroy the package to get at the packs. The earlier iterations (Unstable, Iconic, Masters 25) were pretty sketchy, even separating during shipping.
as a former walmart employee and CSM (Customer Service Manager) we cannot question the customer about returns as they then complain to corporate and get a gift-card as well as the return. it was a pain to deal with.
I once was accused of swapping prices on a fan. They had an entire cap of one type, with one price. When I told the cashier the price was $10 lower listed on the shelf they got LP involved. LP found the correct price under the shelf. I told them to call the police and show us the video. A manager quickly came to front and gave me a $100 gift card and told me to have a great day. I complained to corporate and they gave me another gift card and the LP person was fired. I should have sued but didn't. After reading your comment I knew what you're saying was true.
This makes me nostalgic for Alliances, when you could open a sealed booster that was not tampered with and get no rares!
So basically what I'm getting from all these videos, is that I'm glad I stopped playing MTG back in high school in 1996. Seem's the whole hobby has become scummy and filled with people including Hobby Store owners who steal from and rip people off.
I prefer people scam me and rip me off to my face, like Games Workshop does when they want me to fork out 35 bucks for a squad of plastic figurines.
Bro. I feel ya. The bits ordeal.
Tbh. That's why I just buy the crap cards to start with. People who are super into the rare stuff get pissed when you beat their custom built super deck with a cheap prebuilt that doesnt even have a good rare. lol
Also supposed to be 60 cards. I tried to count them as Rudy went through them believe it was around 46 cards total.
This is a VERY prominent thing with Pokemon TCG Boxes. I went to target and found atleast 5 boxes that were cracked with different promos and the Dollar Tree 3 card packs in place of the actual 11 card packs. yet they still ended up going back out onto the shelf.
This is a long problem. I've bought single packs as a splurge. Had four. Each individual pack was resealed and trash cards with no rares. Also boxing I was in a hurry I didnt check the pack inside from the outside. The packs inside the dominaria sleeves were from rivals and ixalan....
Not dominaria. I went to reexamine all the packs and damn near everyone was tampered with. I swear it. Do NOT go to Wal-Mart. For the love of God save yourself the time and money
i got Gisela, the Broken Blade and Emrakul, the Promised End in a single pack from Walmart. I also got a completely hosed Ezuri commander deck from them lmao. But yeah, our booster display is huge and out of the way, so if you just reach to the back, nobody's touched those since they went in
Thank you alot for this video Rudy, it helped me out alot. Recently I started to get intrested in MTG. I purchased some giftboxes online form a store I used to trust. I knew something was off when I looked at it, but if it wasn't for this video I watched beforehand I probably wouldn't have truly notice that im dealing with an resealed product. Thanks to this, my purchace hasn't been touched and I can return it and get my moneys back.
It’s just a super special edition “misprint” ultimate edition.
TM WIZARDS OF THE COAST
It’s so rare to find an honest Seller/Shop Owner...
Thanks for all your infos about these unlikable episodes...
You got a follower from Italy, Thank Sir
Always will be a problem as the staff at the stores are not really taught how to deal with these things and are told "Just do the Return" The Vendors get pissed as they lost money now on that, Other employees who know better are pissed that they now are being told to "put it back out for sale", and customers are pissed that they are not sure if the product has been tampered with.
Looks like some people are going to have to overcome their laziness and stop doing all their shopping at walmart.
"It's a one way street to pound-town." Thanks for that laugh!
They also took the MTG Arena code.
darthrex354 there is none in this deck unfortunatly. I bought the Sarkhan deck and the Ajani deck but the Core 2019 decks don’t have any arena codes
Reported this problem to my local Walmart as well. The employees also didn't care that they were selling tampered products.
I don't play MTG, I don't know any card, yet I love your videos.....WHY ARE YOUR CONTENTS SO GOD DMAN SO INTERESTING
I liked this video a lot, and I appreciated that you didn't stretch this out to 10:00. You are a great guy!!
Always check the bottom 🍑
thats what i do
Certified Bottom Inspector o7 o7 o7
♪I like BIG♪ bottoms and I♪ can't deny♪
mmm giggidy
Rudy forgot to make this video 3,5min longer.
I know. It's like, how did he fit it all in there? Heh heh heh.
That is a very nice gesture of you to send her the money or a gift for her troubles.
Gwendolyn's signature has two Gs, and the small g is bigger than the big G. I love it. Holy crap that handwriting indeed.
I love the fact that this comes up as a recommended video after I pull a foil TS thoughtseize from a Walmart booster.
I've spent half my life looking at various bottoms. Good advice, creepy man!
I once bought a yugioh premium gold box that someone had re-shrinkwrapped. Inside was filled with a bunch of commons from recent booster sets. First and last time I get swindled by Walmart thieves.
Was doing a chaos draft with some friends. My buddy just picked up his packs from the Stoughton, WI Walmart on the way over. As soon as we started the draft he noticed all his packs had a slit down the one side of them. Luckily Walmart refunded him but when he went to pick out different packs he saw that EVERY single pack had been repacked. The cardboard on the pack was reglued.
“Always check the bottom” - A life lesson for any situation (Giggity).
I wish I saw this video prior to buying a planeswalker deck for my son from Walmart. They only had one box, which is the one that I bought. The box was seal in a plastic wrap so I though... it was sealed. But I was wrong, when my son opened the box we realised that it had been tempered with. We had 90 card totals, but it was 45 mountains and 45 island. I am not quite sure why someone would go through that much troubles. The way I understand this, there is not much value in the planeswalker deck.. As you can imagine, Walmart doesn't want to take this product back, since we opened it...! @Alpha Investments, I love your videos!
Funny thing is, I would rather want a militia bugler than a planeswalker deck ajani
Nice video......The Moral of the story is,..IF there is no Planeswalker promo in the Planeswalker promo slot, No buy item.
Bought some sealed old duel decks at target once, all the rares, and mythics were picked out, returned it and got another, and surprise it was the same way. Hilarious how little these commercial stores know about the products they're buying.
it's a problem at all big box stores. Most workers don't really know what the product is supposed to look like when someone returns it, because the vendors handle all the merchandising. There were similar issues with Transformers collectors of people reboxing old transformers in new packaging and returning them to Target//Walmart to get the newest version for free
So glad to live in Europe where there is legal protection against this kind of thing.
He's bashing? Europe has better consumer protection laws in place.
I had a friend that had done something similar with the Star Wars CCG Premier and Hoth introductory sets. He would open them in the store and get the booster pack out, open that and take the card(s) he wanted from the pack.
This happened to me at walmart as well. I bought an Ezuri EDH deck that was filled with lands. Walmart has a strict policy in place that they do not return card games to prevent fraud, but most of the employees either don't know or don't care enough to enforce it. I was able to get my money back after I told the manager, but she nearly refused.
Wal-mart is the worst place not only to buy TCG things but video games with serial codes and even time cards. My son bought a few boxes for WoW TCG some years back and he opened them all the cards where lose in the box when they should have been in packs. Lucky, my X girlfriend was a manager there and she let us exchange them. one of her CSR notices the bottoms were torn a bit and saw what look like super glue on the bottoms. things like that are either workers stealing or Wal-mart is buying f 2nd hand crap shipped in from a China company. our local store sells everything from Pokemon to magic cards and you can buy like 100 cards in a clear box" none in closed packs" pretty much trash cards lol
Dang an alpha investments video under 10 minutes, i never thought I'd see the day
i just bought 3 new decks, and about 10 boosters from Walmart...absolutely no problems. It's all about the location.
Gwendolyn is now my queen. LONG LIVE QUEEN GWENDOLYN!!!!!!
Awwwww. Thanks. :)
Had same problem at my Walmart. Employees would rather turn you away trying to return it rather than have to log the loss and get into trouble with the vendors.
I bought one once that looked like staff had roughly taped back together. I opened it in the carpark because it was likely to be tampered with and yes, the boosters were gone so I took it back.
This has happened to me before, whenever it has happened I call the support number for wizards of the coast and they sent me replacements
I wish I would’ve watched this before I spent $50 on the evolution commander deck. I was ultra pissed... the cards were in resealed plastic and were all the same card. Tried to return it and Walmart said they don’t accept returns on them. Really helps to know what to look for, thanks for making this video.
I recently bought an Ikoria Special Edition pack from Wal-mart, and the box contained a Battlebond pack in it.
This must of happened at my local Walmart because everytime I check out the rack where they carry Magic, everything has been ripped open and taken.
Fun Fact: here on the good ol' Moline Illinois we actually have a local chain called in fact Rudy's Tacos
The wal mart near me has these sealed with an extra layer of that thick plastic wrap. You have to cut it with scissors to open them. Even the boosters are wrapped in it
That was the absolute best hose job (giggity) ive ever seen in my whole entire life. I like how the people at Walmart couldn't identify it being tampered with. IT HAS A FREAKING UNCOMMON INSTEAD OF THE PLANESWALKER THAT YOU CAN CLEARLY SEE WHO IT IS THROUGHOUT THE PACKAGING! WTF
most people don't play MTG. i doubt they even know what a planeswalker is much less know when a box is tempered with
I had purchased a Teferi commander deck at Walmart thinking that I had gotten a lucky find. Opened it and found nothing but basic mountains from Khans block and some tissue to pad things down. I was lucky enough to be able to return it, though.
"Rudy look i found garbage at walmart AND paid full price"
Thank you Timmy
Went to Walmart today looking for the Lorehold Commander deck and to my shock and awe i saw a 2019 box of mystic Intellect and grabbed it so fast cuz i was excited to get a $50 Dockside Extortionist and got it home and it was resealed and just full of basic plains and tried to take it back and showed them and they treated me like the criminal and would not return or exchange it! i got Hosed.
A friend of mine's wife got an Atraxa deck from Target, it was also resealed and had nothing but basic land inside.
Definitely be wary everyone. It's not just Walmart, it's any retailer with employees that don't know details of the product and will cave to any customer screaming for a return.
I bought a Mindsieze deck from them back when it was new and it was also a resealed with the True-Name Nemesis and all the other goodies missing. Luckily I worked there and they did return it for me and got AP involved to try and catch the people doing this. It sucks that people like this are out there, scamming not only the retailers, but other players as well.
My friend had a rare missing from one of those smaller plastic wrap booster pack so it must of been glitch or actually stolen from a factory worker, so returners isnt all you have to worry about.
When I was at my LGS before I moved the store owner told me about some little kid who somehow obtained a fat pack from the local target and every packs rare was missing. There we’re literally just basic lands in the place of all the rares. The kid brought some of the packs in the the LGS and the owner saw it with his own eyes, crazy shit. I don’t play magic anymore but I look when I’m at target a lot and I’ve seen so many tampered with products, normally the mystery cubes it’s saf
When the first set of Commander decks released, this became a problem. Walmart as a big box store, I’d it looks like it is still sealed and sellable they’ll put it back on the shelf again after someone returns a tampered one. I work at an lgs, and when I first saw this happening it was really disheartening after someone came in and told me they got screwed.
The guy who wrote that note is totally wrong, there are employees who play the card game, and tamper with it, all it takes is one or 5 employees to have each other back. I work at wal-mart before, and seen a lot of this stuff happen behind the room people opening box’s and resale it
Had this happen with numerous packs of khan's that I bought from target here in Australia. They Believed me and let me return the items.
I can’t remember a time when I have gone to Walmart and haven’t seen cards stolen/tampered with on top of them being mostly out of stock
I see a lot of videos about Magic products at Walmart although my Walmart doesn't sell Magic products, kinda makes me sad.
A similar scam hitting Walmart, people buying the marvel Legends figures, taking the piece for the build a figure, then slapping some random lego/McDonald's toy/etc in its place than returning them.
I never got into Magic but when I was a kid (around 9-12) I played YuGiOh, and you would see this same shit from packs I would buy at Books-A-Million. I stopped after buying 5 of the mega YuGiOh packs for $30 each and found that they had all been resealed with all the cards that were worth a damn removed or replaced with junk. After complaining to the manager and showing them the obvious tampering (really obvious super glue reseal on the box), he said there was nothing he could do. Wouldn't even offer me a refund. 12 year old kid who got scammed out of his summer lawn mowing money, and wouldn't even give me a refund after acknowledging the reseal...
I remember when I worked at Walmart that a person returned an item because they thought it was haunted.... the store had to take it back
Rudy doing a
oh Rudy you totally flashed the return address in the video haha, so I hope the right person got it...
My Walmart stopped selling magic because of losses. Every time I’d glance at them when I was checking out everything was just ripped open, it’s kinda sad really.
I remember back in the late 90s/early 2000s when pokemon was big. People would open packs of magic and pokemon and steal rares and leave small stacks of cards lying around. That's was before they would sell them at the check out.
Found the same thing at a near by WM with the guild kits. 2 golgari kits were ravaged, i let a WM associate know and a few days later they were back on the shelf.
Same thing happened to me at Target 😔 Dominaria packs filled with Pokémon energy tokens
As someone who has worked retail, this is what you're told to do. The customer isn't wrong. He clearly tampered with the packaging, but they tell you to give him his money back and take the quarter of a product back, repackage it, and sell it for full price. Not every location does this, sometimes they throw it in the bargain bin area where fucked up packaging items and stuff goes to sit for a discount. But not every Walmart does this. They know it's tampered, but for some bizarre reason they find that screwing over someone else who might buy it is better than losing the customer who is scamming them. Makes 0 sense.
had a similar thing at Target, Bought a booster pack, and the cardboard was opened at the back and the rare stolen out. Took it back inside, cause i found it when i got to the car, because who can wait to get home. They DID refund me, but they were suspect of me.
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what a great human
This happened to me with a commander deck from Walmart, they left the oversized card, and filled it with commons and lands from random sets. Weight seemed right, oversized card in the front, no shaking, no way to tell when I bought it. Couldn't do anything about it after.