Scan to Win! New Technology Can See Through Sealed Cases
 

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/598...anners-ethics/

How much do you trust your LCS? This new scanning technology can look through packaging to see which cards are in sealed packs, boxes and cases.

Cut and paste version: nytimes.com/athletic/5987857/2024/12/12/trading-cards-sports-collectibles-scanners-ethics/

For some reason the link posted above didn't work for me

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/598...anners-ethics/

Article Title: How CT scanners are being used on trading cards: The ethical and legal issues it presents

Sounds pretty bad for unopened material collectors.

Thanks, I updated the link. It should work now.

I get a pop-up ad that doesn't let you read the article.

To me this is just the latest "the sky is falling" issue the hobby has latched on too. There is no way CT scanning is cost effective on 99% of the releases in the market. No one is paying to scan Flagship, Update, Chrome, Bowman, Heritage, or Ginter and that is 80% of product moved in baseball. Another 10%-15% of the product is releases that have a shelf life about two weeks before the hobby forgets about it. The only new release baseball products I could even fathom it would be worth the cost of scanning would be high end product like Definitive, Dynasty, and Transcendent and the vast majority of that is opened on release in group breaks.

The only segment of the market I can see this become a major concern is in high end key release/year product: 2009 Bowman Chrome Baseball, 03-04 Exquisite Basketball, etc. Even then, if you're busting chase releases for bombs and taking a bath that's your own fault as the entire value is built into what the box/pack "could' contain not what it does contain.

Agreed; the risk is way overblown, since it's basically a ridiculous proposition to scan modern cases.