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Tom Boblittto the instant gratification, lottery-style life that some people lead. I've been guilty to a certain extent of buying some new stuff, although I'm in a 12 step program and quit......recovering now....
A local guy with a store also gets some vintage stuff from time to time, so I go in occasionally and on anything older than 1950, he generally calls me to help him out. It's always interesting seeing people in there mowing through wax boxes to find those 1/1's and they generally leave all the regular cards behind, so he sells the boxes, takes the 'commons' and puts sets together and then sells them. Great deal for him......he's a great salesman with it all too....someone will get a 1/5 Keith Hernandez glove card or some crap and he'll just go nuts. That's so great....blah blah blah. Let me get a polaroid of you. Which, of course, validates that as a HUGE pull!!! I'm on the wall of fame!!! Kinda like those youtube videos of those guys busting wax boxes. Great tool for a website of a cardstore..........
I've seen people mow through literally 1000's of dollars of wax boxes and cases in 30-45 minutes. But.....it's not a lot different than people buying large dollar cards otherwise. It's their disposable income and that's how they decide to burn it.
As for game used stuff, I agree with a lot of the sentiment earlier in the thread that some of this stuff shouldn't be touched but also some of it is already in either poor condition (ripped, torn, pieces) or I'd bet quite a bit of it is fake to begin with.