I finessed my cousin to trade me his prized Mudkip back in the day on Sapphire. Pretty sure he reset his save file shortly after.
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When I was 8 or 9 I stole the Ruby and Sapphire (Ruby version) game cartridge from a playground bully. He’d make up rules where whenever he won a card game he got to pick a card of his choice from the looser’s deck. If he lost he’d make up new rules. I stopped playing with him but he got all the cards from younger kids and was a total dick.
One day he dropped his game cartridge on the floor while swapping games or something and my gut instinct of hatred took over and I slyly pocketed it with my foot. I didn’t even have a game boy or know how to play the video games.
He was really upset thinking he’d lost it… It was the first or second week the game had come out and he was one of the few people to have it. I hid it in my room shamed but not knowing what to do. Thought maybe I could “find” it for him.
But he continued being a dick so I held onto it for like 5 years until giving to a cousin who actually had a game boy.
To those concerned his parents assumed he lost it and he got a new one. Which I did not steal.
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FBI? Yes we got him
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The first time I’d ever encountered Pokemon was actually a big sin on my part that I still feel a bit bad about. I have wanted a good opportunity to share this story before and here it is!
To set the scene; I’m about 8 years old I think, my friend of the same age is with me and my Mum, and we have all popped in at a ‘family friend’ house because it was the boys birthday (He is one day older than me, that’s how our families met, in hospital).
Okay, so we arrive and everyone is in the living room, and he has a few of his friends there while he is seemingly opening some of his birthday cards and gifts. Someone must have bought him some Pokemon theme decks, and everyone was passing all the cards around one by one in a circle to look at them. On reflection it’s crazy to think how cool we all thought they were straight away, knowing nothing about them. So you can imagine everyone in the room sitting in a circle pattern, me and my friend are sitting cross-legged on the floor, and as we’re passing the cards around, say someone gives me 5 cards, I’m putting one in my lap and passing him 4, then he’s doing the same and passing on 3, and we’re stealing his cards.
I go upstairs to the toilet and I guess soon after my friend follows, and we’re upstairs and showing each other what cards we’ve managed to pocket. Then the boys Mum comes up (I imagine she saw what we were doing) and says ‘I’ll take those’. I was really embarrassed and I don’t think his Mum ever told my Mum, though I do feel that ever since their family saw me as a bit of a bad egg, which is a shame, though fair enough I guess.
Edit: Also they were Unlimited Base Set cards, the one card in particular I remember seeing was Charmander. Thought it was so cool!
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Had a messy break up with an ex gf, not long after Xmas. Had gotten her a first ed Team Rocket booster box as a gift, as we were both into cards. When I was at her house collecting my stuff, I went FULL petty mode and stole the box back. Opened it that very night while she was snapchatting me saying how much she hates me lmaoooooo
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This is a Yu-Gi-Oh story. When I was in third grade we would play during recess. I played a kid for keeps for his 3 magnet warriors (I forgot what he got if I lost) and of course being kids we just played by our own rules.
I used the revival jam combo from the TV show and told him I could never lose now it was infinite. He gave me his cards and cried. Teacher said I couldn’t play dodgeball that day if I didn’t give them back haha
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Oh boy, I’ve got a bunch of these:
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I thought all rare cards were the same rarity despite being holo or not. So I traded every holo card for 2 non-holo rares and thought I was smart.
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I was a visitor at the first national championship in yugioh (my cousin was competing with a deck we build together) and I got ripped off all my rare cards by older kids because I had no clue about rarities.
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I traded almost all my pokémon and yugioh cards for duel masters cards because I thought it would be the next big thing.
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I ripped off some kids in internet trading forums by not sending them anything because I figured the deal was not really in my favor so I just ignored them and kept their cards.
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I tried to get back into tcgs post-puberty but never got really invested until 2017.
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In an attempt to tidy my room with 17 I threw all my original packaging of my Nintendo games away and sold the cartridges at a second hand shop for 5€/game.
Most of this is only in hindsight a sin and felt right back then.
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21 Years ago (damn time goes fast) I bought my friend a bunch Dragon Ball Z Trunk Saga booster packs for his birthday. I think I bought 10 in total, 5 for myself and 5 for him. Obviously I opened mine and had total junk pulls out of it. He always did get the good pulls whenever we opened packs together… so… you guessed it. I opened the 5 other packs as well, swapped it around and did my best try at resealing them. He never mentioned anything about it.
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When I first started getting into the hobby, I really over spent. I would buy sealed WOTC packs like crazy. The first pack I bought was supposed to be heavy, and it came light. The person ghosted me. I was so mad that I just threw it up on eBay as unweighed and sold it right away. I felt bad, knowing I had weighed it myself. I learned a lot in those first few months. Always use goods and services, and just be upfront with what you’re selling, and either buy from a trusted seller or expect bad things to happen.
Instead of weighing my booster packs from the beginning, I opened multiple entire boxes of the same sets because the idea of the practice felt wrong.
I opened the packs very carefully without damaging them, but ultimately threw them away because the idea of selling empty packs felt wrong.
15 boxes in total.
Sucker.
I encourage people to send me questions on my ebay listings and then I almost always block people when they ask me questions because the questions are stupid.
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Back when we had Pokemon Gold and Silver I used to take the Link cable and steal my younger brother’s shinies every week and tell him the game glitched and they disappeared.
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Ok we are actually all scumbags
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When I was 10 I asked a YGO playing friend to buy a Pokemon booster pack and see who has better pulls (now that I think back, it was like a pack battle). We each bought a Crystal Guardians pack at our LGS.
My friend pulled an Exploud ex and I was salty because I only got a holo Blastoise. I badger him into trading me his Exploud ex for my blastoise and keep selling him on why Blastoise is the better card at the time knowing full well an ex is harder to pull. Since he knew nothing about Pokemon, he decided to trade his card to me.
Young pokemon collectors are savages.
They say acceptance is the first step. 
I was told I do have a FBI file because of this.
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