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Old 10-07-2025, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Eric72 View Post
I'll take that as a serious question.

A repack is when people gather up single cards they don't want. They package them in something opaque, typically a bubble mailer or something similar. They'll tell prospective buyers that they have a chance to pull [name of popular card(s)] from the repack product. Then buyers will purchase these mystery packs, hoping to pull something much more valuable than the amount of money they spent. They usually won't; however, there's a gambling aspect of this that keeps the marks customers lining up to buy more.
Thank you.

Yes, it was a serious question, although I do understand that my snarky sarcastic nature would cause people to think it wasn't.

I had a feeling what it was, but was hoping that people wouldn't be stupid enough to buy such a thing, but of course they are.

I would say it's closer to a scam than to gambling, but that would be semantics, I suppose.

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