no refunds
No refunds
LMAO
XD
thinly-veiled brownoid thread
Get your packages insured?
Can't they xray this shit?
Based customs officers
With that many layers of protection it was clearly a ploy to smuggle drugs.
that's, eh, awfully specific damage going on there, i get shit from aliexpress that's under less scrutiny. what the fuck service are they ordering it from that it's even in a place where that happens?
True, everyone that cares about Japshit is
kwab get fucked manchild
$3000 video game
only because retards like the guy in OP were willing to pay that much
find a picture
attach made-up text
shitpost on Anon Babble
if I was a customs officer i would do this just to trash the used videogame market
sealed video game market
toddlermon
Well deserved, they should have taken a fat shit on it for good measure.
no one tell this anon what all prices are based off of
Based now the game will be played like it was meant to, it’s like Toy Story 2.
it's faster and costs less for a minimum wagie to just rip it open.
Take a worthless item
Put it in a plastic box and say its valued at $3000
Goyim are unironically so stupid they actually buy it
...........How do I get a cut of this?
That's the price you pay for safety. Do you know that terrorists sneak bombs inside anything?
$3000 for a video game
I don't get it, why not just download the game for free and play it in an emulator?
yeah like pagers
Do you guys think some customs guys destroy stuff just for fun? Like they have a hard on for a specific thing and gain pleasure from destroying the thing. Like Doctors and Nurses that kill or hurt their patients on purpose.
see game boy cart on x-ray
Looks like a bomb to me.
probably because retards smuggle drugs inside cartridges
normally it's through their bumholes tho
I went to Canada once. At customs they pulled me aside and did a deep search of my shit. They looked through all my bags and ended up finding my dildo. Was a strange experience. I wasn't even embarassed or anything, just annoyed.
Thank god I deleted all the porn from my phone before the plane landed or I would have had to answer some very awkward questions after they looked through it.
i get shit from aliexpress that's under less scrutiny
Would you even know if the trash you got from there was fucked with by a 3rd party?
You lost.
lol fag
spending 3k on a game that's just gonna sit in a display
Waifus become real when you buy graded CIB
They don't want to play the game. Sheeple saw a youtube video telling them that buying it would make them rich in a couple years.
Very astute, anon
it's a collectors item. you can't find a mint condition complete in box copy in the wild anymore, hence the value increases
american customs agents rip up american's shit to check for ak 47s
lmfao land of the free
tits or gtfo
What, no hand?
Anon, I...
Customs knew exactly what he was doing.
what if you just kept repeating "I do not consent to a search" over and over, then what can they do at that point?
So he can put it on a shelf alongside $50k worth of cardboard and plastic and stare at it.
write 100 on a piece of paper
goyim are unironically so stupid they think it's worth 20 bigmacs
they rape you
They search you anyway and then beat the shit out of you for being a nuisance.
they were just making sure you had your mandatory dildo to enter their faggy country. your fault for not just telling them from the start
Sounds like another department that needs to be culled
I dunno bro it was my first time traveling out of the country and I was barely 22 at the time. I didn't know what my rights were. Probably still don't.
Nigga it's like baseball cards, or shiny TCG cards or limited runs of comics. It's not about using it, it's about the rarity.
yes i would, aliexpress stuff is typically packaged pretty well since ali has a vested interest in shit actually arriving to you unmarred
you can sue over this btw
3000 bucks....for a 20 year old baby game, yeah okay, Tojo. That there's a smugglin' operation rip 'er open.
Based, collectorfags BTFO
I will do that knowingly, stay mad tendies
Apparently US Customs can *not* comprehend the sealed video game market
HOW DARE THEY NOT RESPECT THE SANCTITY OF STICKING CARDBOARD AND PLASTIC IN A KEKBOX
Why was he importing a US region game into the US?
huh... why does this old game for kids cost 3k?
let me check to make sure theres no fentanyl hidden in there
*rips open*
huh thats weird, no drugs
must be some other kind of fraud above my paycheck
proceed
please do. would be hilarious for drugs to flood into the USA afterwards
People that collect stuff just for the sake of collecting it without it serving any further purpose are mentally ill.
That wouldn't happen, customs duty would devolve back to states as it should and they’d be light years more cheap and efficient than the Feds, sorry Pedro
thats what i do lol, too lazy to organize
try to claim insurance
"how much did you say your package was worth?"
$3000 freakin dollars!!!
"and the contents?"
cuckmon yellow for the basedtendo gameboy mint condition sealed!
"ok I've googled your product, we'll refund the $30 it's worth to your bank account in the next 3-6 months"
Post hand
That's what a price is.
*Deports you*
By owning a cart grading company and then going on reality TV shows like Pawn Stars to give yourself some air of legitimacy when all you're doing is putting old games in plastic and sticking a number on the shell.
That's how value works anon. Everything in life is worthless. It's humans that define value, not the other way around.
try to claim insurance
"how much did you say your package was worth?"
$3000 freakin dollars!!!
"and the contents?"
cuckmon yellow for the basedtendo gameboy mint condition sealed!
"ok it's clearly worth way more than that, we're giving you a billion dollars and committing sepuku and also rolling back all war on terror overreach security so you don't have to risk getting your butthole fingered every time you fly
A better world...
Why does it matter if it was $3000? Using games as an investment is beyond retarded and it was just going to sit on a shelf until the guy died. US Customs did them a favor, no sympy. Going to feel bad for rich people spending money on stupid shit?
In reality you can say no to customs but they can also say no to you entering. So if you're flying you waste your entire ticket or have to drive home. Then they will never let you in the country again. Is it worth it to you? Sure, whatever you'd like. It's usually not worth it since you're travelling there anyway.
Rick and Morty ahh take
It's not about playing it, it's about owning it.
A pirated video game has the value of $0 while that sealed game has a value of $3000. Think of it as stock but for manchildren instead of hebrews.
Just sounds like mental health issues to me.
based boomers btfoing nerds
Ruby's all rubbish.
Who do you think they are, fucking swiper from Dora the explorer?
A pirated game has the value you get from playing it, a collectors item is just something you put on a shelf.
can't you get your money back somehow? like sue for reimbursement or something?
You can actually claim insurance on collectible items like this but this is usually a specialized service, regular insurance probably won't cover it
Yeah, that was pretty much my thought process at the time. I figured "whatever, they're just gonna find a dildo, and it's either that or potentially sit here for hours upon hours arguing with customs and potentially being sent back to the US"
So, business as usual?
pirated game has the value you get from playing it
How much is that in dollars again?
BASED
TOTAL SCALPER/COLLECTORFAG DEATH
HH
You can put a price on fun :)
wait a fucking second
why was he FLYING with a super rare sealed ancient videogame owned purely for collection purposes?
No more mentally ill than stocks or crypto. Or fiat currency if you wanna go that far.
The retail price for that game, since that's what they charge for it. If you steal 10 dollars worth of cookies that's the damages you'll be charged for.
No idea if you're playing devils advocate but dude, even you have to agree paying anywhere near even $500 for a 30 year old video game is fucking retarded. I don't care what rich assholes have to say on "value". Buying something just to own it and not use it is some serious mental brain rot.
FLYING
he was most likely buying from overseas and package was inspect by customs to make sure nothing else was hidden into the box.
I work for customs and I do this shit as often as possible knowing that I'll get away with it and that it pisses you spergs off every single time.
Oh is that a collectible item?
*dropped* Oopsie
Wow that looks like an expensive sealed case!
Pliers go *CROMCH*
Oh shit does that serial number say 1/500 limited run?
*ssscccrrrraaaaaattttccchhh* Cant read it now
All in an honest days work, feels good man.
suing a government entity
over a video game
Even if you miraculously somehow did win, good luck convincing a judge that your item is worth $3,000 because Pikachu has plastic around it. Realistically they'd drag the trial out so long your court costs would make $3k look like peanuts.
kek if I were a wagie at customs I would absolutely wreck any Nintendo shit I saw, just say I saw some white powder on the seam of the cartridge so I had to smash it open.
I'll put in a little apology note saying I'm sorry for ruining his kid's birthday gift, knowing full well it's some 35 year old manchild.
based sealed collectors are fags
I suggest trying to sell your pirated game for retail price. I'm sure that it's more than zero in a place like India, all things considered.
A bunch of guys showed up at my house to fix water damage
I had an open bag of sex toys that were conspicuously moved out of the way
They definitely knew I shoved pink cocks up my ass but mercifully didn't say anything
I don't believe this story. They'll open your sealed packages yes, swab test truffle salt for 10 minutes, and all that shit, but I don't believe any airport would have a policy with enough livid "I'll fucking murder you" situations, that they would permanently slice into a box with a knife instead of just carefully opening it, how I've always seen them do it. I call bullshit. Insurance fraud? Attention? I can only guess.
Based
spiteful wrestling retard is part of the TSA
wow shocking
Has 3,000 dollars to waste on a video game
Good fuck him
Buying something just to own it and not use it is some serious mental brain rot
Most people buy things they don't use. If you own even a single stock or fraction of asscoin you are in this category.
answer this you stupid fags
I am telling you this right now: Anyone whose job involves going into other peoples houses have seen shit way weirder than that. Believe me.
Based, I'd do the same 2bh. If I can't have nice things then why should others?
Not trying to sound like an eBay shill, but the customer would get their money back and the seller would keep the money if they use eBay's international service. So there's not much risk to buying/selling expensive shit internationally if you use it.
stocks
easily liquidated
crypto
easily liquidated unless you're doing something very stupid
fiat currency
liquid
gold certificates
fiat with extra cope
physical gold
easy to liquidate at a write-down
collectors xxxxxx
lmao good luck
Yes obviously you can sue the customs for damaged in most first world countries. The burden of proof is obviously on you regards to the value thoughbait.
sue customs for $3000
owe your lawyer $9000
gee I wonder
if you pirated it you didnt actually beat it though
You have no idea how customs work. They deal with cartels sending cocaine hidden in shit you can't even imagine and God knows what else retards send.
They don't give a fuck about some manchild's bing bing wahoo toy, or him being butthurt over it.
TSA
I feel really happy knowing nigger-tier anons will be homeless and out of the job thanks to based Musk, lol
Retards who buy shit just to display and not to actually use
Deserved.
airport
this is not exactly how it works it was most likely inspected during custom duties from overseas delivery, not traveling with the guy on a plane
go to someone's home
bedbugs drop from the ceiling
cockroaches crawl in your clothes
dead moldy smell
dried cum and poop and cat pee
I still have a factory-sealed copy of Suikoden II for PlayStation. How much does that cost?
They can look through your phone?
What a retard.
I just wish I knew the day they were coming so it wouldn't have lined up like that
I do anal once every month and they had to pick that fucking day
i think collecting is a fine hobby most of the time but collecting children's toys or games makes me a little sad, these things should be enjoyed and played by children not stuck behind a glass case to be gawked at by adults
lmao good luck
You put it up on the same market you bought it from, same as with art or antiques. Collector's items have more liquidity than fucking cars.
smells like insurance fraud to me desu
bringing it with you on a flight
you fucked up. not saying what happened to you is right. it's a gross violation of your rights.
I dunno bro, they told me to hand over my phone and I did. Then they almost immediately went to my photo gallery.
Like I said, thank god I had the foresight to delete all the furry porn off of it before landing.
You think you're clever but in Eastern Europe pirated games and even fucking mods were sold in retail stores, that's how CDPR got its start.
larping for (you)s
cringe, have one on me
They don't care bro. I have a life sized Minion plush dressed up like an SS officer in my living room and not a single person has said a thing about it.
that's what everyone says until it's time to sell the entire collection, and then it turns out that no, it's hardly worth a fraction of the expected value
he hasn't touched the TSA, and he isn't going to because he only cares about agencies who are auditing him
Most countries open your phone and scan it with software to find all your messages, images, and anything. If you have anything locked you HAVE to give them access or they take it and never give it back.
yes I know I'm from Eastern Europe but I also know that was 25 years ago
That's hilarious though, a far cry from a bag of dildos
NOOOO YOU’RE INALIENABLE RIGHT TO COLLECT WAS DISRESPECTEDINO!!
art
you realize "the art world" is literally money laundering used to organize political payoffs right? like, it's not even a secret. the buyer is in on it.
That's because they know you're likely a homicidal freak and don't want to trigger you.
This *was* a 3000$ game
No it wasnt
it's just typical "investment" jewery
he bought a $3000 hunk of plastic so he could sit on it for 5 years sell it to some other retard for $6000
I'm terrified of ordering fragile or rare stuff and getting one of those [REDACTED] UPS/Amazon delivery fellas, that just throw your shit. Or even having it be stolen.
When I saw those [REDACTED] stealing packages from trains and throwing them on the tracks, I could only sadly imagine all the awesome stuff that was destroyed by those baboons.
what are you talking about i've traveled to europe several times and they have never opened my phone or looked into it. i put it into a plastic bin, it moves with me while i go through the checkpoint, and i pick it back up after
SMT V
going on flight one time
bring a huge backpack full personal items, among them an assortment of poptarts because a friend in a foreign country wanted to try them
get stopped by security
the retards think I have a bomb or something
they seize my bag and evacuate all its contents
they touch EVERY SINGLE POPTART AS THOUGH IT COULD HOUSE SOMETHING SUSPICIOUS
faggot officer at the end was like, "hurr I can help you put them back inside"
fuck you niggers and fuck this bullshit. I'll never fly again if I don't have to. it's a huge pain in the ass.
707148003
being a retard
lmao ok retard.
selling in bulk undercuts the value
Wowee, who could've thought! If you desperate to sell something quickly you'll get fucked for it
My favorite thing to destroy as a customs agent are Pokémon cards. SOOOO many faggots have been shipping these stupid fucking cards recently. Why are these retards so obsessed with shiny cardboard?
Every time I see a stupid graded plastic card slab I snap that shit open instantly. I've crushed and folded so many of these gay ass cards. I dump water on them and scrape them up. I've done everything you can imagine to fuck up literally tens of thousands of these things over the years.
Pic rel is like one I smashed today that was in a PSA 10 plastic box.
Depends if you're flagged or not. The interview/interrogation is different.
Isn't this the perfect scam for some Chinese company to exploit?
Make cheap repro cart+box+manual for pennies
Shrinkwrap, grade it and seal it
Sell at 50000% markup
No one is going to ever realistically open the case and pull apart the box/cart to verify authenticity
This would most likely count as small claims which involves way less bullshit.
the problem is nobody is buying this shit
it's all fake sales to make the "graders" look legitimate
Slicing the front is crazy, lol. (if this even really happened)
I know you are lying but BASED
25
More like 15. And the only reason it stopped is because torrent trackers undercut those prices all the way to zero. So I guess any videogame that can be pirated is worth nothing now.
I am trans and desperate for attention by the way.
didn't even just open the box, they SLICED it
Okay, so $1000 for a lawyer and a couple hundred in court fees. You're still out at least a grand.
has anyone ever wondered if some overseas sellers ship intentionally broken and fucked up items knowing that customs will get blamed in the end?
I sould my Hitmonchan and used the money made from that to get a pretty young girl to lick my butthole and let me cum in her mouth 5 times over the course of 3 months. Reddit for life!
A bag of dildos is also funny, just in a different way.
Im unironically not
That's ok you can pretend that, like you pretend that shiny cardboard is actually worth anything. Lmao
Rick and Morty ahh take
What the fuck does this even mean? Fuck off, illiterate niggerfaggot.
What if say you order tea or coffee from over sea, would they cut open the box to inspect too?
This is like those guys who work at hospitals and larp as angels of death on 4chin
Dude that's retarded. I went to Canada in '16 alone from a 3rd World Country and I was fine. I even brought my fucking Desktop with me. Like you're not telling us something, do you look like a lunatic?
The only country that has stopped me in customs was fucking Brazil, but only because they wanted to tax the living shit out of me by accusing me of bringing products to resell at a lower price (which many do). The dude was such a fucking piece of shit, he had a smile at every sign of opportunity to try and tax me. When I proved he was full of shit, his big smile turned into a nasty frown and he told me to get out in a rude manner.
Sorry I keep responding to myself but wanted people to respect my trans identity.
The entire point of them is to be so straightforward that a lawyer is unnecessary.
I was flying alone and I did look like a total loser at the time (long hair, neckbeard, ~220lbs) so that probably had something to do with it
I'm literally Canadian and got pulled aside as a Canadian in Canada.
You can cope. You can lie. Hell you can even cry. But when it comes to you sending these stupid ass Pokémon cards, I'm going to catch them all. I'm going to fuck them up everytime. And you cant do shit about it nerds. Hahahahaha
racist prick
Very possible. My dad was also a custom's custom (hehe) because he had long hair, full beard and was often wearing "useful" jackets (pic related).
Canadian Canadian or Indian Canadian?
I just really think it's important people respect my identity.
What does this topic have anything at all to do with the brown skin color? Why is 90% of Anon Babble discourse like this now
zoomies trying to fit in, stop replying to them
If I don’t like it then it’s the work of darkies, simple as
nintendies are willing to pay thousands for a single game
I wonder what their limit is.
It's funny you think its primary purpose is to do that. Or secondary.
Now that you mention it, I would never know if customs opened my packages, looked at them, then resealed them since a lot of sellers half-ass the shipping packaging these days
British Canadian and Cree Canadian. Here since the start and for 10,000 years before that m8. This is MY country.
If you suspect there are drugs or other contraband you slice it like that.
this
if you are going to have a 3k game shift, get that insurance
this *was* a $3000 game
Well you paid $3000 for it.
another win for china
Cree
It's not your anything, you need to gtfo
Native Canadian
Get out
Kek, you wish faggot
Total Pokémon card death
charge retard $3000 based on a picture of a sealed game
send them an unsealed game that you've busted up to make look like customs opened it
Fell for meme
found your problem
totes 3000 dollars worth on our grifting speculation market where we preach about physical media merely for the sole purpose of profiting with our hoarder/scalper pyramid scheme.
He got a refund
Don’t care about your sob story Pocahontas, you’re not wanted
Crying AVGN hoarder grifter.
Anon Babble is just defending customs because they can't afford, or do not have so they can sell, stuff like this. If this was a pic of a dragon dildo that got unboxed and sliced up by customs they'd be frothing mad about it.
What idiot doesn't have their high cost collector's item insured when shipped?
your lawyer will know to sue for lawyer's fees, too
Hey fuck face I don't pay taxes on my land because I own it. Cry about it.
You are not from here and you don't run the military, you are just another target to the rulers.
go to germany and buy a book I dare you
If you own it, you stole it bro.
Videogames should be free, like the buffalo.
Don't you have a landlord to pay? You should be grateful the government let's you pay a tithe for the privilege of living here.
You ever see the .webms of entire rooms/basements packed wall to wall with Nintendo shit? Some sealed game/card collectors make them look poor by comparison. The limit is as high as their bank balance (or credit cards).
You get people collecting this stuff because they want to, but then others see what kind of prices some collectors are willing to pay so they try to get in on it and sell things for higher prices, and then other people buy them hoping to sell them for even higher prices etc. etc. The people actually interested in the items have mostly checked out because of the 5000% inflation of prices, and it's just a bunch of people selling items to each other, without any of them having any desire to actually own them outside of their resale value, until the bubble pops.
Bonus points if someone stages an auction where they "sell" an item to a friend for a ludicrously high price to inflate the value, and then just give them the money back afterwards.
My dad was also a custom's custom (hehe) because he had long hair, full beard and was often wearing "useful" jackets (pic related).
Don't you guys read the constitution?
Or are you so busy rewriting it you forgot some of us actually live by it?
That's not the own that you think it is.
Anti-injun posts don't have the same bite if they're made by a canuck.
There are no Indians in the USA because they all fled to Canada
I was genuine. I was being humorous.
Think of it as stock
No, it's more like when people buy jewelry or watches or antique cars or antique furniture all in the hopes of selling it for more down the line when it appreciates in value.
lol, whoever invented baseball cards or whatever started this bullshit is a genius. Printing money is illegal, printing shitty cardboard cards and saying they're worth $1000s is fine.
"This one is extra super duper rare because we arbitrarily decided to only print 300 of them."
speculative investors speculating on shit that don't make sense because they honestly don't give a shit.
the more common and popular your game was the more money it's worth.
some rare game that only printed less than 1000 copies? worthless. super mario bros or zelda, worth millions.
is that not grounds for a lawsuit?
what do you think stock is?
XD. This guy eats shit LOL
The people actually making these things aren't raking in all that money. Baseball cards were made for cheap, during the later mania they were printing way more, but they still weren't selling them for $100 a piece of whatever, that was resellers.
WTF?
HOW DID YOU KNOW? DO YOU HAVE FOOTAGE?
the US is entering its terminal decline phase
Oh yeah. The shit I saw when I did HVAC shocked me for a while, then I just got used to it. Had to adopt a very whatever attitude to walking into a rented college flophouse and having to gingerly move someone's gas mask bong and mall ninja'd AR out of the way to set up temporary A/C units.
A share of a company. Stocks are rooted in something actually concrete, some will have inflated meme values, but those are the exception not the rule.
fuck off namefag.
Me after buying Panzer Dragoon Saga and Magic Knight Rayearth
Kill Pokémon cards. Behead Pokémon cards. Roundhouse kick a Pokémon card into the concrete. Slam dunk a Pokémon card into the trashcan. Crucify filthy Pokémon cards. Defecate on a Pokémon card. Launch Pokémon cards into the sun. Stir fry Pokémon cards in a wok. Toss Pokémon cards into active volcanoes. Urinate onto a Pokémon card. Judo throw Pokémon cards into a wood chipper. Twist Pokémon cards in half. Report Pokémon cards to the PSA. Karate chop Pokémon cards in half. Curb stomp Pokémon cards. Trap Pokémon cards in quicksand. Crush Pokémon cards in the trash compactor. Liquefy Pokémon cards in a vat of acid. Eat Pokémon cards. Dissect Pokémon cards. Exterminate Pokémon cards in the gas chamber. Stomp Pokémon cards with steel toed boots. Cremate Pokémon cards in the oven. Lobotomize Pokémon card buyers. Mandatory abortions for Pokémon card buyers. Grind Pokémon cards in the garbage disposal. Drown Pokémon cards in fried chicken grease. Vaporize Pokémon cards with a ray gun. Kick old Pokémon cards down the stairs. Feed Pokémon cards to alligators. Slice Pokémon cards with a katana.
but most of them don't pay dividends, so the only value is the hope that you can find a bigger sucker later on
Why the fuck does that Pikachu have 200 HP and do 300 damage. What is this powercreep?
i have boxers with two holes in the bottom where my balls hang out. it's the only one of its kind in the world. does that mean i can charge 5000 dollars for it?
Its not worth it because I, someone not involved in the buying or selling of it say so
this was deliberate damage
I know someone ordered a random rare pokemon card in a blind auction and it was that rare pikachu trading card, it was even the rarer rainbow shiny version, and the guy in customs made sure to bend it diagonally for lol lmao reasons. basically turning a 6k card into a 200 one.
like pikachu cards are the rarest bunch and the shiny rainbow first series pikachu is the magnum opus of pokemon trading cards rarity.
dude was expecting a random rare card and when he saw which card it was and its state, he started bawling right there on camera.
imagine winning the hardest lottery just for the titty mcgee thats handing you the big bill to rip it in half and go whoops while giggling
customs know about collectors and they enjoy such behavior.
gotta admit, it may be heartless but its still quite funny.
Sure, but their value is based on something more predictable and stable than cultural trends. Again, with some occasional exceptions.
The ones printing the cards wised up to it and are raking it in now. A lower end hobby box of basketball cards is ~$300 MSRP and "premium" (read: slightly thicker cardboard) products can go for upwards of $2000 at retail, for seven fucking cards.
your mom maybe worthless too but I still paid 5 bucks for her last night
you must have absolutely zero experience with stock if you believe this
see: tsla
breh... don't lie to me like that.
Don’t care about your sob story Pocahontas
Sounds like a Soldier domination line.
fine
it was 2 dollars
HOLY BASED. faith in humanity restored.
Funniest part of stuff like that is that their value usually doesn't rise at all. The most expensive cards are ones that are rare, and they're usually rare because they had a limited run and then most of those got worn out or thrown away. If everyone buying these cards is carefully preserving them they're not going to have the same level of rarity down the line.
DTI
tip: the last line is too obvious.
its also incongruent with your naive approach from the first line
keep trying mate, you'll become a master baiter in no time
Like I said, exceptions exist.
fml
based customs officers. fuck game 'collectors' (read: scalping hoarders) inflating the prices of games
sheeeit nigga, who cares, just tear that shit up
Not his fault fakes sales were made and spread by news organizations to create an investment bubble.
could buy so many prostitutes with those worthless pieces of paper/plastic we assign value to...
but the exceptions expose the fact that it's not based on anything other than vibes
massive swings could happen to any company for no reason
deepseek dropped NVIDIA stock even though you need NVIDIA hardware to run it
investors are retarded and stock prices are meaningless
Yeah I understand that part, it's that they're selling $.01 worth of cardboard for $.25 back in the day and it's ballooned into $99 pokemon card boxes that still only cost $.01 to make. The fact that people are spending $1000s for $.01 worth of cardboard is the icing on top.
There is no reason a game(especially one as common as pokemon) should be 3000 dollars. No I don't care if it's encased in cardboard, plastic, and acrylic to the point you can't even play it. You're retarded for even considering taking part in this scam.
why not insure the package before sent if you have so much money?
nobody is buying this shit
it's all fake sales to make the "graders" look legitimate
this x100. it's all a scam
Wait, customs can look through your fucking phone? How is that not a severe violation of your rights?
I have hundreds of gigabytes of porn on my phone, I'm never leaving my house
Implying I don't know what a PSA graded card is.
My trust pair of Milwaukee pliers and I have become well aquainted with them over the years
because it's fake
Nobody would ever import anything through Milwaukee, Mike. Nor would anyone outside of Milwaukee own anything made in Milwaukee.
it can be hard if your item wasn't insured for whatever amount your claiming. you can file a claim for 3000 dollars, but for this they'd probably tell you to fuck off best they can do is 10
All your rights are imaginary if an authority figure decides, especially at any kind of border.
My Milwaukee (brand) tools are stronger than your chinese plastic box. Sorry bud
How is that not a severe violation of your rights?
It is(was), but retards love giving up freedoms if they are whipped into fear and told it's necessary for their safety.
Get fucked nigger lmao.
Then they detain you and go through the proper channels (taking hours) to search you anyway.
Have you ever left your mom's basement?
I keep forgetting to mention in my posts that I'm trans
Based, those buying marked-up children's memoribilia are the "people" slobbering over $80 games
I hope these heroes continue to punish artificial inflation when they see it
Kek'd.
'SWEEPER, NO SEARCHING!'
My Milwaukee (brand) tools are stronger than your tiny feminine penis. Sorry bud (male)
damn she's fat as FUCK
How does it work with video game consoles? Do they make you turn on your Xbox and go through your save files??
but can customs actually look through your phone
that sounds like absolute bullshit
there's so much sensitive information on my phone I don't let anyone else even touch it
Whoops silly me please see
She's making sure the entrance is blocked properly
there has to be some legal protection.
send original monalisa via mail
customs tear it to pieces
lol you can buy one online for $3
even the sole part of messing up other's people pricing (scam) can be used in court I guess.
Yep, the whole reason old Pokemon stuff is coveted is Timmy and Billy would carry their Charizard around in their pockets without a care. Nowadays noone in their right mind spends thousands of dollars on cards without a stack of Fort Knox Ultra Pro Card Vaults on standby. Even then PSA became such a meme it's required for high end resale and that pack fresh card could still grade a 7 or 8. Sure that extra shiny Pikachu might only be one per case or two but they're printing enough of these sets to fill a small country.
the card was worth 6k
dude got it in a blind auction for a random card so he didnt pay much
but yeah what a loss for him
I’ll play along that any of this is real. What’s to stop someone from shipping a fucked up game and saying customs must have done it?
Pliers go *CROMCH*
you are fucking retarded
Then they send you home and keep the phone.
So you like to play CASTLEVANIA?
Not gonna lie, picturing someone handling that package, giving it a look like "what is this shit" and then just absolutely obliterating it is funny as fuck.
You can either comply with the search or they detain you for further questioning, then seek authorization to look through it (they'll confiscate it). It's best to not bring any sensitive information on your phone through customs.
Not at today's prices. Modern prozzies have pretty princess syndrome like crazy and are waaaaaay overcharging.
This was a deliberate form of protest against these kinds of faggots who drive up used game prices for everyone. Can't say I disagree.
Wait until you learn how much it costs to make most of the things you buy daily
psycho mantis as a customs agent
fund it
then what am I supposed to do with my hundreds of gigabytes of sensitive information on my phone that I can't put anywhere else??
Damn I keep making the same mistake please see
because it's a fake image made for internet points.
customs specifically has certain legal exemptions so they can do their jobs which involves cutting shit open to search for contraband. you really have to insure your shit and file your paper work to clear it with customs so they know it's a really valuable painting
Deserved, desu. I mean yeah, it was a shitty thing and I do feel a little bad for him-but he’s still retarded enough to drop 3k on a pokemon game, completely brain-dead market that shouldn't exist.
Sounds like you don't fly. Don't travel.
I propose we simply rangeban the dark areas of the world, and then normal posters can carry normal discussion without even having to weigh the possibility that some of their peers are actually sub-IQ nitwits.
I believe that the anon was trying to posit that it is poor people who would take delight in the misfortune of another, simply because the thing that was destroyed was worth almost a month of their wages.
Wow, that's awesome. You're valid and I respect your posts even more now.
Customs can do whatever the fuck they want and your options are:
go back to where you came from
call the cops
submit to a search of every device and crevice of your body that they feel like that particular day (including urethra)
I dunno. You can take the chance that the TSA agent won't look through it, or don't fly. The era of the government respecting your privacy is over.
so anyways, if you didn't insure it, you have to file a form and submit it to customs for reimbursement, but if you claim a gameboy game is worth 3k, they're are probably going to call bullshit on you since the game can be rebought for much cheaper, and your 3rd party rating agency doesn't mean jack shit to them.
Do customs offices in normal countries do shit like that too?
What did he mean by this?
I can't believe I learned something on Anon Babble that could actually save my ass
thank god I'm an autistic shut in
and your 3rd party rating agency doesn't mean jack shit to them.
how do you know
The dead, corroded battery inside makes it more valuable.
Nah, US Customs will cheerfully tear packages open for thorough searches. It's lawful, too. This buyer's an idiot for ordering something like that overseas without using a stateside importer. Then again, he's an idiot for paying $3k for a fucking video game cartridge in the first place.
and somehow in all that you fucking thought paying to post on Anon Babble had value you fucking loser
Wait do they search your phone and shit even if you're just flying domestically?
What can I say, I'm a sucker for fast pass.
Why does he carry a bought yet still acrylic-sealed game in the first place? It's not even legal for stores to give or sell acrylic seals to the public costumer to begin with.
could've been fentanyl in it
why do kids always talk like their experts on everything. you think cbp doesnt break shit all the time? they have a form for this.
I used to be a corrections officer and I'm not gonna lie It gave me immense pleasure to tear apart prisoners personal items and rip through them one by one leaving a tornado mess behind that they would have to reorganize. I imagine customs guys feel the exact same way.
"people" who hoard meaningless pieces of plastic and trade them with each other for absurd amounts of money deserve that kind of treatment, they need to suffer, be humuliated, and financially ruined. Perhaps this kind of shock therapy will snap them out of this retarded existence.
This isn't customs. Customs agents can not be fucking bothered to examine anything and are unironically prohibited from checking anything listed as worth less than 200 USD because it's "not worth their time". It's the TSA.
Not him but these grading companies mean jack fucking shit to everyone else in the world outside of a niche community. Do you think the government especially cares that some retard put an old gameboy game in a plastic box and slapped a sticker on it?
and if you claim 3000 dollars for an uninsured copy of pokemon yellow, they will tell you to fuck off, they have destroyed far more valuable shit and still told people to fuck off, because when you file that form, the CBP are the ones who will investigate the facts and examine the legal basis for your claim.
He had it in an acrylic box like a nigger after shoplifting.
Deserved.
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This place is an artificial hell
The average IQ of a TSA worker is 80.
he is about to get the netflix alucard experience
you get what you deserve for spending $3000 on this trash
I now what you mean, I used to work in a warehouse and got a mad kick out of ruining peoples shit. I remember unpacking a giant order of WH40K minis and threw that shit at the bottom of the pallet ensuring that it gets flatted to bits during transportation. I also loved repackaging sex toys from opaque bags into transparent ones.
I worked in a warehouse (real) and workers don't unpackage or repackage anything. If a box gets opened, it is taken to QA to be repackaged, it is not done by the floor workers.
...and then you woke up
99% the guy you're replying to is lying, anyways. Most of these people just make these stories up.
Do people really do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?
What do you mean by "THESE PEOPLE"?
good thing the thread is about things that are priced in the thousands then
No way it's that high.
Save your ass? What the fuck are you keeping on your phone?
Pokémon stuffed toy huh?
Cut it open there could be cocaine inside
Sealed Pokémon games?
Nope, there are fent capsules in there, pry them open.
Pokémon cards?
They could be LSD blotters. Cut them up and soak them in the testing solution.
Pokémon figurines?
Definitely heroine in there, smash that shit.
It's just that easy.
I do think it's funny how every thread there's one pathological liar that has an obviously made up anecdote to the topic and people buy it.
Based. he sealed video game market is a scam.
I work in US customs.
We don't do this.
However we do have to crack open a case a little bit to have a K9 unit check it out.
Xray isn't enough. You can sneak illegal contraband though Xray.
I have a LOT of porn on my phone
including of myself
every time someone asks to even hold my phone I freak the fuck out and say no
It's even more funny that there's always some reddit tier newfaggot in the thread that deepthroats the bait and needs to "educate" everyone else as if they didn't already know what was happening. Kek
One time I tried to take the train with my phone on.
I only have hentai manga as wallpapers, so this one white girl scoffed and almost laughed me to scorn. The train was so packed that she was forced to watch my phone the whole time. I don't get it either, she could have used her phone instead. But she just kept sighing and scoffing at me.
How is that not a severe violation of your rights?
Traveling is considered a privileged not a right
You say this, but people mass-reply to these stories all the time. Sorry I didn't believe your made-up anecdote, bro.
T. One of the mass replies
She was trying to hide her power level but your taste is so shit she couldn't help but let it out
Honestly he deserves it for spending $3000 on a video game
We'll all be spending $3000 on video games with how these Switch 2 prices are shaping up.
have imported tons of shit from Singapore and mainland China
these gooks declared the contents as "spart parts" worth less than $15 every time
no packages ever opened
none delayed
none even opened and inspected
Absolutely based gook smugglers. I have bought at cost cellphones straight from the factory and got them within two weeks.
Sucks to suck, normie retards.
Reddit is better than this website by miles.
The upvote system lets you see the best content first and filters out the rest.
Plus Reddit lets you sort comments by popularity, that way I'm always guaranteed to see nothing but the best content, as chosen by the community.
Here's it's just "first come first serve" like some disgusting rural cafeteria. I want my web content catered and curated, thank you very much.
Anon Babble is just an endless stream of shit by comparison.
You probably all come here because you're failed Redditors who couldn't get any upvotes with their r*cist trash content.
As we speak I have 3 different Reddit threads on the front page of their respective boards, bringing me many hundreds of upvotes each hour.
Feels good to be a successful Redditor and not an outcast like you bunch of chuds.
Burgers can't have freedom
When her stop came, she stomped out of the car and just power walked up the stairs. I swear I wanted to stop her and ask her what's wrong but it felt weird doing that for a stranger scoffing at me so hard.
i used to delete my sisters save files all the time on the nintendo 64
it was hilarious
TSA agent here (and I’m fat as fuck) AMA
kys (this is you annual (You), enjoy)
Based, me too. "Oh shit you finally 100%ed OOT after 2 years of playing? Oops deleted, sorry I'm just a dumb little kid..."
Well, it's been nearly 30 years since the base set released. Gotta have bigger numbers to sell new packs.
Is it true you can look through people's phones? Sounds like bullshit
How many traffickers gave you let through?
Can you at least kiss my ear the next time you fondle me?
On things like that I usually get delivery insurance.
You accidentally gave him two "you" by being a retarded esl. Get it together nigger.
Is there a list of passengers whose bags always get checked? Ever since I checked in a suitcase full of gacha capsules one time I get one of those fliers in my bag every time now telling me my shit got "randomly searched".
Not him, but this is real on international flights. Ports of entry are different from normal checkpoints for domestic flights. Your phone and laptop are subject to screening.
t. I travel a lot
So when you fly international you just accept that they will see pictures of your dick? Do they act weird about it?
I fly every once in a while in the country but never international so I didn't know this
Because that Pikachu is doing the new Scarlet and Violet power-up gimmick, retard.
Why are you so fat?
I have a separate phone and laptop I use just for travel. If you do fly internationally you should be aware of this.
His job is to sit and scan people why wouldn't he?
don't post spaghetti meltzer dog on Anon Babble
so they don't check your phone if you're not flying internationally?
he keeps dick pics on his phone
What are you gay?
Also they see your dick in person when you go through the body scanners.
and if you claim 3000 dollars for an uninsured copy of pokemon yellow, they will tell you to fuck off,
you havent a clue what youre talking about.
That's actually really funny
lmao
No. That’s a customs and police action. If you fuck up enough going through security, the police can be called and they are the ones who do that. Same with customs. Customs is run by DHS but is not TSA
If they aren’t a threat to security, a lot? How many murderers and thieves etc do you think fly all the time? If they aren’t actively murdering or doing illegal activity there isn’t much that can be done
No one wants to touch you. Try not being sweaty or having things in your pockets
There’s lists of course, but you’ll know if you’re on it. If you’re being “randomly screened” it’s because your bag looks odd. A bunch of capsules with electronics might look weird and require a check
no way this is the full story lmao, they would flag the item and set it aside not destroy it.
Pays 3000 dollarybucks for a fucking dead copy of Pokemon Yellow
Shocked when it returns in a bad state
I don't get it, 3000 dollars can get way more impressive gaming-collection bullshit and you landed on fucking POKEMON YELLOW?
Behead speculators, dunk a speculator fetus into the trash, burn speculators, shoot speculators in the head, run speculators over with a car, blend speculators into paste...
Also they see your dick in person when you go through the body scanners.
T-they do?
I have been to almost every state in the US and never had to hand over my phone to be unlocked. Its just different going to and coming back from another country, even then its "random screening" shenanigans.
Yep, it's like x-ray vision. See's right through clothes.
Yeah. Full blown. There was a huge scandal when body scanners were first introduced. TSA contractors were saving pictures of people's bodies, laughing at them, sharing them. Now the software pastes a little censor over breasts and genitals as a result.
Yeah we do, and we laugh. Working the X-ray machine with my female coworkers is great. They give absolutely humiliating and ruthless critiques, savage really. Who says women can't be funny? Lol
my co workers and I do the opposite and give them major props no matter what shape their penis is
If you are entering your own country you cannot be stopped for any reason. If you are entering another country they can send you back and you may or may not have any rights at all.
Fugg that's kinda hot
so you dont know
no one tell this anon what all prices are based off of
Collective mental illness?
Pokemon yellow is $3000
What the FUCK?
are you a dei hire?
cry that video games are art and that they shouldn't be treated as toys
cry when people start valuing them as such
why are gamers like this?
Pokemon has a battery. A battery that expired decades ago and may well be leaking acid inside the cartridge by now.
only in a perfect unopened box with no damage that has been certified as such
White people are shabbos goy they gave all their rights away.
you see, taking the mass produced cartridge in a cardboard box worth $30 when it was brand new and maybe $5 now, and sealing it in a plastic case makes it a collectors item worth thousands! Because reasons!
GOT 'EM LMAO
That was a $3000 box inside of a box. The game is a superfluous detail.
Kill yourself.
increase border and airport security
this only encourages criminals to bribe said security
security becomes even more corrupt and nasty as a result
You don't have to bribe airport security. Its Jamal and Shaniqua with a GED at best.
In North America all ports are run by the Mob. Nobody does anything about this. How does it make any sense?
Rare TSA W
Muh unions
Yeah wonder why.
Bros, I'm starting to think the government does not respect us or our property
The promise of the market economy was that consumer goods would always have their demand met with an increase in production, making sure that no consumer good like the one in OP would ever cost $3000, making it available to everyone.
As prices increase, there should be more people jumping in producing more copies, as producing those copies with the available means becomes more and more viable and profitable as the prices increase.
Higher the price, the more expensive methods and higher scale production techniques become viable.
This attraction of more producers in turn eases the demand, which lowers the prices, until an equilibrium is reached and the product is as affordable as possible to the consumer while the production still breaks even and turns a profit.
Why is this not happening? Where are all the producers of fresh boxed copies of Pokémon Yellow?
The prices of everything just keeps climbing, yet production of goods in high demand is not allowed to ramp up to meet that increasing demand to lower the costs of living.
These are not the results that were promised to everyone if the profit motivated system was to be adopted.
It turns out that profit is not in providing abundance, but in creating scarcity and desperation. Misery and suffering.
The greatest potential profit was always in charging whatever you want, while producing nothing. Maximum profit, no costs.
Ever more expensive treatments, while no one is healed.
Ever more expensive food, while no one is fed.
Ever more expensive Pokémon games, whole no Pokémons are getting caught.
100% deliberate. some bitter customs wagie knew what this was and went out of his way to ruin it because he couldn't have it.
I've had sharp metal chisels mailed to me before from Japan and customs didn't even open the package to check
And if you complain about them they'll just chalk it up to "it's just vidya games lmao chill out"
anon learns about how Copyright kills the market
reminder that liberals want these people to have a job
Famous paintings have gotten stolen and lost countless times.
businessinsider.com
The owner had purchased it from a Canadian seller for $3,800, they told Kotaku.
The game was rated 9.2, which is a very high and valuable score.
"I couldn't believe it at first, but I promptly took pictures to document the damage," the new owner told Kotaku. "I notified the seller immediately after taking photos of the damage, and to say he was shocked is an understatement. We then began working through the dispute process with PayPal, which is currently ongoing."
The seller will have to eat the loss
shipping insurance exists for a reason
This is from 2 years ago with no followup. Likely the case, or the OP was lying and got caught
I dont think shipping insurance covers that
It exists for these very instances, you just have to honestly declare the dollar amount of the item you're sending.
Underrated
This. Everything on eBay is free, they always side with the buyer.
Correct. Because it was destroyed by customs and not by the handling of the package, it won't be covered.
I had a package destroyed by customs and USPS refused to give me the $50 it was worth despite it being insured for $75.
fpbp
fpbp
They don't cover damage from customs only the carrier itself
you could do this with literally anything and because its sealed no one would ever break the seal to examine if the worthless piece of plastic was actually mint quality or even INSIDE the seal
this retard says he paid $3000 for a gba cart
its clearly drugs or something else, open it the fuck up
oh shit he's actually retarded lmao
It's a collector's item in an intentionally inflated market.
Buying any cardboard, sealed, etc game online
Never making it
Everyone knows faggot we don't need to post your screencaps.
reminder: the only namefags/tripfags left get off on people being disgusted by their existence
never reply to them
never acknowledge them
Everything on eBay is free, they always side with the buyer.
They afford it by taking like a 13% cut of all sales. When a buyer complains, and it's not clear-cut bullshit from the seller, ebay usually eats the loss and refunds the buyer without taking anything from the seller.
SHIN SAVE ME
Because the brownoid hoped he could sell it for $4000 to another retard. He's scum.
Wrong
paying $3000 for Pokemon fucking Yellow
retards like this deserve it
unfortunately you're gonna spend more in legal fees and time just to get back that 3000 dollars and potentially have the customs agent fired
That customs officer?
Was a Digimon/Yokai Watch/PalWorld/Medabots chad.
Now I think the speculation collectors' market is a gritfing money-laundering scheme on par with the modern art exchange, but I hate customs agents even more and hope this is grounds to sue.
Because you're buying cheap shit and customs specifically ignores cheap shit (though this literally just ended for China in the US).
When you're importing something worth $3000 you either lie and say it's worthless, or you tell them and then they get very curious about what it is that you're actually importing.
Paying 3,000 dollaridoos for fucking pokemon
DESERVED.
money laundering in a [market] involves flipping the object between several different shell companies to inflate the value, having it appraised by a company you own to establish the value and then taking out a loan using it as collateral and then immediately defaulting on said loan and having some chump buy it at auction.
john paul getty invented this concept.
We were perfectly fine pre-9/11 without these communist TSA faggots using their fake jobs as an excuse to steal and invade peoples' privacy. The vast majority of them are the same kinds of people who would buy drugs off the streets before Bush started employing them.
Should've shot you too, faggot
They found a dildo in your brain
Japanese man rips up his plastic toon box in protest of blumphs tariffs, and blames it on TSA agents.
Didn’t have that one on my tariff day bingo card.
It was never a $3000 game. It was a 34.99 game that some fool paid 3k for.
Paying $3000 for a gameboy game is insanity no matter how you justify it. The way I see it, nothing happened. The only mistake was the moment he confirmed the purchase.