Childhood or adulthood rip off stories

[packs]

There's something on the packs that indicate whether or not it will contain an insert as well. If you do a search on eBay you'll see a lot of auctions for "hot packs." I'm sure a large percentage of the hot packs are just re-sealed packs with a crappy bat card in them. But I bet there are some legit ones too that people have figured out how to spot. They never tell you how they know its a hot pack in the description of course.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by packs

There's something on the packs that indicate whether or not it will contain an insert as well. If you do a search on eBay you'll see a lot of auctions for "hot packs." I'm sure a large percentage of the hot packs are just re-sealed packs with a crappy bat card in them. But I bet there are some legit ones too that people have figured out how to spot. They never tell you how they know its a hot pack in the description of course.

I don't know if it's true or not as I haven't bought a new pack of cards since around 1991, but I've heard the "hot packs" might be a slightly different weight then the regular packs.

[bender07]

I had to look no further than the room next to me to find the one who would rip me off. At around 10 years old I was into vintage cards and had bought a nice 59 Topps Clemente that my brother was able to procure from me with an 84 Topps Update Rose (the one with him in an expos uni). We still laugh about it today...well at least he does!

[packs]

A lot of the "hot packs" on eBay now are auto hot packs. I would say the weight issue would come into play for the memorabilia cards. But I'm not sure how you spot an auto hot pack. Unless of course you've resealed the pack. There must be something on the pack that identifies it as having an autograph inside if they are legit.