Brought a sealed unlimited team rocket booster box via ebay, picked it up today and saw it has the examined by u.s customs tape on it.
Opened the flatrate box and my heart drops the booster box is opened. There is no clear WOTC wrap in the box.
First thing i did, took photos and messaged the seller on ebay…
Has anyone heard of sealed product getting opened by customs?
Brought the box from a great feedback seller/big store so dont think they are trying to pull a fast one on me.
Wow talk about a horror story, yep this has happened before, you are covered by ebay so can return it if you choose to, as you paid for a sealed box and received an open one.
Yeah, that’s everybody’s fear who orders sealed product internationally. It’s happened many times and is nobody’s fault. Personally, if I bought it I’d just eat the loss though I’d avoid buying sealed product that needs to pass through customs.
I purchased a booster box from dacard world and paid $70usd postage (wasn’t given an option), they used UPS and it arrived sealed. I did get stung $500aud in custom fees.
It may be worth paying the extra money for UPS in the future.
Nightmare. Sorry about that, OP. Not sure what recourse there is, but I do agree with anyone who says it’d make an amazing display! I’d be almost tempted to display one of my base boxes like that…
US customs reserves the right to inspect anything leaving the country. They can’t issue duties since it’s an export but still perform checks on exports to screen for illegals exports.
Very very rare for us customs to inspect outgoing mail. Years ago I did get info on this and was told if a bomb sniffing dog reacts to a package it will be opened. Only in extreme cases like that.
Yeah it’s not that uncommon, I had customs open one of my packages from @garyis2000 but all that did was delay delivery a bit. Sucks that they opened your booster box, I’ve had a lot shipped here and thankfully it’s never happened.
