I recently was in the market for a sealed base set booster to keep sealed as an art pack, since a few years ago I opened my remaining base set boosters (and got a few hits!). I’ve bought and sold on ebay before, and even though I know the signs to look for on base set boosters for a reseal, I saw Probstein’s enormous number of sold listings and user feedback and thought “ok, they also must know what to look out for”. I realize Probstein is a consignment service. I won an auction, the day came, and the pack arrived with clear red flags of being resealed along the bottom (faded/burning signs, the bottom seal being open about 50% of the way, the cards basically falling out, etc.).
Since the cards were falling out anyway, and since the red flags were there, I wanted to confirm my suspicions. Fully expecting the dreaded pokemon breeder card or an electrode (resealer favorites, from my experience), the resealer couldn’t even be bothered to include a rare card whatsoever - only commons and uncommons.
I’ve been having a pain of a time getting this sorted out so far with ebay and the seller and it has yet to be resolved. In the last few days of research I certainly have learned a zillion other reasons that one might think twice before shopping with Probstein that I wish I had known prior to auctioning.
The seller clearly doesn’t care about taking on consignments for resealed product and selling them as factory original, in my opinion.
