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Actually, I like him and am truly saddened by his stance on this. I know it really bothers him though he won’t admit it.
It’s actually easy to scale these. You just need to check if the packs have security tags or not which are visible. Then you just split them into piles and weigh them seperately.
Ohh… Well this is ummm… Good to hear. Maybe im being a bit dramatic then lol.
If you are worried about not getting enough bang for your buck when you’re weighing packs when you are working at Walmart, why don’t you just steal a few extra? This will offset some of the cost and leave you with a little more profit margin. Who knows hand out a few commons and uncommons to some kids on your way home from work a little charity goes a long way.
P.S
Make sure the commons/uncommons you give out are from the stolen packs as there is no outlay
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Gary’s graded packs statement reminded me of something in sports cards that might add to the discussion.
In sports cards, at least in hockey and a good amount of baseball, the “wax” packs were folded and have a bit of adhesive closing them in the back. If someone were unscrupulous and diligent enough, they could find a way to open/search the pack, check for a rookie, and re-seal the product.
If you want a guaranteed sealed pack from 30-40+ years ago, you get a graded pack. What makes those graded packs so special and valuable is that they are guaranteed sealed, and if you wanted, you could break it open and possibly pull a rookie card.
Translate this to pokemon, this same problem exists but is two fold. First, people already have accepted that loose packs are weighed, thus you have little to no chance to pull that rookie equivalent charizard card. Second, since weighing does not alter the packs physically integrity, they can be graded. Thus, you have little to no chance of that graded pack containing a Holo/Special card. The kicker is that pokemon is a very young hobby compared to sports cards, and the sealed market is already majority weighed.
Ultimately, what makes that graded 1979 opc hockey pack so valuable is the integrity of the item and also the chance of pulling a gretzky rookie card. It will be interesting to see when pokemon is 20 years older and sealed product is almost gone, how the opinions will be on the decisions people make today in the hobby.
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Provided the outside packages are similar weight.
Yeah I’ll be honest I used to weigh packs a long time ago with these blisters and they are all from the same box and have similar weights. The tagged ones were a little trickier but as long as you had a .xx scale it would be fine. That is unless someone else scaled through it before you.
i never encountered that when i was a kid, the packs were always on the counter and could have been weighed if you had a portable scale
Here in the UK they were kept behind the counter in alot of stores, now they are just put in the stores like I imagine it is in the US, pokemon was like hundreds of times more popular in the UK during the WOTC era so I’m guessing more shitty little kids were out to rob packs back then than there are now, to be honest hardly anywhere even sells packs anymore and when you find them they are so overpriced compared to online that it’s just not even worth it.
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It doesn’t matter how a store sell packs, they could be sold from safes with laser trip wires - if the employees are raiding them and leaving the light packs behind lol.
Imagine buying 20 packs from behind the counter and all have rares
are you from australia. Im from shepparton, and I remember even harisscarfe having a draw and the dude at the counter held the key. At target and big W they use to keep Booster box sometimes in the window. I never seen them just laying out in front of the counter, but thats just my town.
yeah, i live in perth, targets and kmarts had boxes sitting on the counters near the games/dvd sections, and at the height of the craze newsagents and kiosks in the middle of shopping centres had packs for sale, always on the counter so you could pick which packs you wanted, fond memories!
Maybe I was Imagining things half the time and only half the time there was a thick glass in front of what should have been all mine… Everything was always Unlimited in Australia… Where always getting the shit, not that it mattered back then because people where running arounf with there 1st edition matchamps going haauuuahahahaaa huhuaa huck huck huck I have a first edition card muhahahaha… That’s what 1st edition was all about back in the day in STRAYA!
Oh wow - hey guys, remember when we got the Jungle set? And the trade events? They were fun 
The Big W trade events was like the greatest moments of my child hood… People had Ivory pikachus and shit.
I remember this one dude who had this massive folder with like 7 Charizards in it. I wonder where he is now…
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id guess CEO of a company… you had to be doing something right to have that much heat back then lol!
I’ll say. He had a ton of other base set cards too - the folder was pretty thick. Compared to my tiny handful of cards, his collection was amazing.
It seems like a lot of people here are very connected with the Pokemon community. There have to be people floating around with ties to current employees at the printers and/or at the actual Pokemon company somewhere on the interwebs. Why not petition to have “holo” code cards made to be inserted into the packs without a holo and normal code cards in the holo packs. This would make the weights indiscernible and the weighing of new packs moot. It would probably really be best for the hobby as a whole if packs on the shelves at stores could not be tampered with. It would come at an additional cost though, and it’d really only have hope if someone high up at TPCi had strong feelings on the subject like Not Zelda Gilroy does.
Honestly the new packs are harder to weigh and have less consistency anyways. The old packs are reliable and have a clear 0.1-0.2 gram difference, the new ones I have had the heaviest packs in the box come out to be non holo, and initially I weighed and opened an entire case just to see if weighing was plausible and there were some surprises at both far ends of the spectrum (ex’s near the lightest and non holos near the heaviest). I don’t know why some people think blisters are immune to weighing though. The cardboard/plastic packing probably has less variance in the weight than there is in difference between weight of non-holo vs holo. I bet they can be weighed. Never have and never will try though. That being said. I bet if you had 50 of Not Zelda Gilroys old graded “true” 1st edition packs that you could weigh those. The weight of PSA’s slab/label should be fairly consistent I would imagine and would likely show a difference of 0.2 grams.
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I started weighing packs at the store I work at. Other than me buying them. Kids steal alot of them. Why should I let them get the good cards if they don’t even pay for them?