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There was a pack release today at $99/pack for 6 moments: one /499 "Metallic Gold Limited Edition" and the rest /15,000 or more copies. They had 175K accounts trying to purchase during the 15 minute window they were available to get in the random line. Only 10,000 packs were awarded, and 1,000 more were held back for more influencers/players. I've seen people selling their pack they bought immediately for $1,100 cash or opening them and selling their /499 clip for thousands by itself. Then when the network opened up to trade/sell cards on site again, the servers got overloaded again and they restricted sales, again.
So if you were one of the 6% who got a pack, good on you. But companies can only provide this poor level of service for so long until their core customers get annoyed and leave. Currently only 6K of the accounts are permitted to withdraw any money because they are totally unprepared to meet government regulations, specifically the "Know Your Customer" provision.