Anybody who would prey apon the ignorant just to move their unwanted garbage doesn’t deserve any type of business.
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I would venture to guess that a company willing to prey on those with gambling addictions would be more than happy to lie about there being fewer than 30 left for sale. Just another ploy to make sales of a garbage product.
Yeah that’s so true. I wonder what “instagram celebrity” will somehow be the one that opens the big hitter lol
I would t buy any Yugioh product from them. The fake LOB cards that PSA graded came from them. I’ve also know a hearsay story about them, it’s hearsay so I wont post it. Seeing this though, there’s no justifying this. It’s a scam, and if you fall for it I’ve got some sea side property in Nebraska to sell you.
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I’m interested in hearing people’s opinion about lotteries in general like the Power Ball, especially from people who are against this.
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Typically the Powerball is pooled into a fund for each local state. Typically used for education, social programs, miscellaneous expenditures.
The lottery is considered fools tax. You are just willing donating tax money.
I’ve never bought a ticket and I never will, it’s an even bigger scam.
There’s a lot of research that goes into the lottery and why people are willing to pay into it. The basic answer is, the more reward for an action that people see the more willing they are to participate despite the actual likelyhood of winning. In fact the lottery actually decreased the odds of winning some years ago, I don’t remember when, but they increased the payout and had more participation. If you want to explain to me how that’s not a scam I’m all ears.
With that said, there’s a lot of publicity about the lottery paying out. Will DA have any public announcement and verifications of paying out?
Just for the interest of full disclosure and making myself clear, I’m not advicating people not do what they want. If you want to participate in DA’s raffel or the lottery go for it. I also don’t care if someone wants to get addicted to drugs, sell their bodys to prostitution, or whatever you want to do in this life. But just because I don’t care how you want to live your life, doesn’t mean I have to agree with your life descisions or not advicate that what’s being done is a scam in my eyes.
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I think you nailed it when you said with DA have verification of paying out and a public announcement? Because really if it is 100 boxes and there are quite a few of the cards that are worth a large amount (and two of them worth over $1000) then having a 2%-5% chance of winning are INCREDIBLE odds compared to the lottery. But once again at least the lottery is truely random, who knows if they are sending out the good onces to high end instragram peeps or their friends.
I disagree. I’m not impressed by this at all. They’re most likely netting 40-50% on this, which is a similar number you’d expect from any lottery or scratch cards.
Unless someone can prove me wrong and they really are sending out $12k(or really close) in cards and just clearing inventory.
This raffle system is common in the UK, as well.
I am against those as well. I don’t like how they are a system that overly affects the poor who can’t hardly afford to play. Then you reward one winner with an unreasonable and excessive amount of money that no person should be able to use in a lifetime. It causes on a micro scale huge inequality in wealth which so many people are so against. They do raise money for taxes though and in most cases the money that goes into them would have been wasted elsewhere I guess. They also are transparent at least in that they are 100% “fair” in that they show the odds up front. They can’t be cheated or beaten by either side.
What D&A is doing though can so easily be cheated and manipulated unless they are livestreaming the drawings. Even if “fair” it is a shitty way to get rid of their junk. I know loads of people aren’t fans of the 100 card grab bags that give a garbage ex but those are at least hardly worse than paying retail for single weighed packs in stores and they aren’t purporting any chance at a $4k card.
You misunderstood. My point is thatif there really is a PSA 8 1st edition charizard going out and there are only 100 boxes, then you have a 1% chance of winning. Granted yes you are only netting probably 40% (or maybe even like 20%) for the other 90 plus boxes, but my argument was that is a lot better than the lottery where you have a .0000000000001% of winning and net 0% for the rest.
Let’s be clear though I am not buying the box nor advocate for it just saying if it is truely random then the odds are much better than the lottery.
Nah, if they are graded, they are graded. Not a scam. /s
Do you want to try and reread what I posted, and understand the context?
DA sold fake product, the product wasn’t PSA graded when they sold them. That’s a fact, I’m not calling this a scam. I’m saying to the person asking if they’re a totally clean company with no issues, the answer is no. I don’t know if they refunded the individuals or tried to remedy the situation, I’m just asnwering the question posted.
The scam part is clearly in reference to the situation we’re talking about, the raffle. Has nothing to do with selling fake product. Although, if you think selling product you know is fake, even if it’s been falsely authenticated isn’t a scam. Please enlighten me to that justification.
Am I allowed to sell a fake stamp card knowing it’s fake just because it’s in a PSA case?
Seriously, this stuff isn’t hard to figure out. Think if I was on the recieving end of the worst case scenerio would I be mad, if the answer is truthfully yes, then it’s not a good thing to do.
-If I paid for a ticket for a raffel from DA and got nothing but junk cards, would I be mad? Yes. Don’t do it.
-If I paid for a card and found out it was fake, would I be mad? Yes. Don’t do it.
See how easy this works people with questionable morals?
Sorry Gary, I was interested to know people’s opinion on this, was not really aware that dacardworld is not considered a trustworthy site until reading some of these posts.
Hopefully this thread is beneficial for others to read as well! I’ll just change the title slightly on the thread to include a question mark over legit lol.
As Scott said, state lotteries are legal and the money goes to education etc. Basically, it’s a tax on the poor though, and that’s a shame.
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Grab bags, whoever hosts them are always scams. At least that’s how you got to look at them.
Years ago I ran something that was very successful. Over a months time, everybody who won one of my auctions was entered in a random drawing for a sealed Base Box (before they were worth thousands lol). There’s many who would object to that contest too.
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Your is a Giveaway, not a raffle. This is a different scenario. It is a bonus incentive, not a pay to entry situation. I would categorize this similarly to giving away free cards in an order.
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Do that again, Gary. It’s Christmas soon. 
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