[swarmee]

I would say this isn't really a thing. If the first pack had been opened, and then replaced, it would have, because the breaker could have seen the McHale or Magic or Bird, and then kept it. The person who bought in got all the cards in an unopened pack of 1981-82 Topps basketball, exactly what he was going to. Whether or not there was a second pack is really immaterial. Now if he had busted the seal on the first pack, different story. But that didn't seem to happen.

I have broken with Vintage Breaks before, and specifically Chris Gilmore. I'm not really a fan of his, and it took 6 months to get a resolution on a missing $25 card from my order. But after that time, he way overpaid me to close it out, sending approx $200+ worth of graded cards as an apology.

I'm all for calling out scammers/scams, and I do so regularly myself. I just don't think this is any kind of issue. VB probably sends an unopened box of 1981-82 Topps to Chris and he may have had a couple on the desk because more people ordered them for him to break afterwards. I see no malice and no profit incentive.