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I have never, during my entire collecting span, ever encountered a lot purchase this insulting in my life!

Facebook market has usually been good to me, filling holes in sets, and providing a decent assortment of cards.  Ad specified two boxes of hockey cards, over 650 cards per box. 20 bucks each.  Looking at the ad, I knew they were early 90's. there was a sprinkle of loose cards on top from 89-90 Topps and 90-91 Upper Deck.  I figured I'd chance it. 40 bucks isn't much.

there was 40 unique cards out of 1277.  Funny... anything less than 1300 is lying.

I get it if a lot of cards has a few doubles.  I get it if it has a LOT of doubles. What I do not get is that I am sitting on 214 1992-93 Upper Deck #598 Reine Rauhala Rookie cards. Or 201 cards, from the same set, #603 Michal Cerny, plus the ditched collection of 162 #528 Tommy Sjodin.  I was anticipating this set what with the addition of the variants in Upper Deck creating holes all over my near complete set.  Who actually keeps 91 #521 John MacLean cards? 

Did I mention the ad said this guy knew nothing about the cards? ...Someone did.  Sorting through 1277 cards took less than an hour. They were pre sorted, Most of the doubles bunched together at the bottom, with the Gretzky's Lemieux's and older Topps/OPC on top... and I struggle to call "The 50/50 club" from 1991-92 Upper Deck a "Gretzky."

Another disappointment was the 1990-91 score selection.  It's another set I'd like to fill holes in.  each card was #422, Andrew Cassels... all 169 of them.

Arturs Irbe took the lead for the 1993-94 Topps Premier with a whopping 80 cards #442, followed by Brian Leetch at 52 for #505

Yea, I know.  You take risk? Can get burned. Until today, I have never seen a unique card count this low. I'm usually adding cards to my collection at 30-40% the number in the lot.  I doubt this measly 3% is going to be added at all...

Ok, Vent over.  I'm not overly mad, per say. I just needed a channel I knew would understand my irritation.  That's all.  Feel free to share your own stories if you have them.  I am curious if this has happened to anyone else.

wow, never that bad.

I bought a lot a few years ago, asked the guy if they had been picked over by anyone else. He said no.  When I went through, every key card was missing, so yeah obviously it had been picked over.  Still got some stuff out of it so not a total waste like this is for you.

I rarely leave negative feedback here, or ebay, or any other buying / trading site. Stuff happens, a corner gets bent, condition on a card is not noticed, a wrong card is sent, thats's life, leave positive feedback.

If that happened to me, I'd leave neg feedback, and I'd go nuclear with the negative feedback.

I'd search out the other apps that the seller might use, and complain, I'd file their name as scammers.

And, I'd try to get my money back.  I'd even consider claiming the cards never arrived, because

they claimed to send you 1,300 cards is so far from the truth, that you can claim not to have recieved 1,300 cards, and you would be equal in honesty to them

Tbh, the thought crossed my mind.  I have rarely left negative feedback anywhere really. Mechanic shops that try to lie for an extra buck? You bet! Insurance places that are hard to get ahold of? That Google review is making me famous apparently lol.

The seller did specify that he doesn't know anything about cards, doesn't collect them, just chucks them in a box and sells them off when he acquires them from other purchases. Like estate sales or storage lockers.  He started out with 9 boxes, I bought the last two. They were solidly sealed, which honestly should have red flagged a bit.  He has a 5/5 rating of FB Market, which leads me to believe this was a one off.  Minus the fact that he didn't do an exact count like I did out of curiosity, OCD, and statistical purposes... I'm not going to go after him for 23 more Arturs.  that is way too much work for 40 bucks.  if I had spent 200 or something like that... different story.  I am just going to watch out for him in the future and not fall for his ads.

like I said... Not mad, just irritated.

Yikes. That's bad...and crazy. 

I can help you with 90-91 Score American. Send me your address. Not all the cards are 100% perfect, but you should be able to fill some holes. 

I have looked at a few offers like that and they would not let me open them so I walked away.

Billy!  Long time! 

My collection is far from mint itself. lol.  Most of anything I have pre 1989 was rescued from my card guy.  He had a box he put the "not good enough to sell" in. For 10 bucks, I got thousands of cards to sort through... and some of them were real grizzly!  Lets call them 'space savers' lol

I'll message you when I finally make it through the unsorted stuff I have here piled around my desk.  There's some Baseball that's been untouched for a few years now. Lack of time and back issues with my set up.

Well... not a total loss... Out of the 40 unique cards, 15 went to the collection. 1% success is still success!!

That's dishonesty at best, fraud at worst.  If you have 2 650 count boxes with only 40 unique cards....you know it.  And you state it in the ad.

Yeah, it's been a while since I've seen you around! Most of the ones I've got are not in bad shape per se, but I got a factory set last year and upgraded a bunch of them. Interestingly some of the cards I already had were upgrades over the factory set cards based on corners alone! 

They won't be going anywhere any time soon so whenever you are ready is fine. They don't meet my exacting standards to be listed on my tradelist for the most part but I'm super strict about what I'll list.