So I'm at Best Buy today, picking up a printer during the mad post holiday sales, when I find a stack of Knights of the Republic boosters up by the registers! Sweet - that's one of the sets I'm actually missing a bunch from! So I scoop them all up, along with a couple of Legacy of the Force too, figuring what the hell.

I get home and start tearing into my boosters with rampaging enthusiasm. . . only to find that the bottom of the box opened really, really easy, and the the double tab on the inner flaps were missing. Wait - what?

I go through the box - the cards are in a ziplock baggie instead of the sealed bag and all the boosters are commons. Some jack-hole got into the booster before me, stole all the good stuff and returned it.

I check the next booster - same condition. Third one, yup - missing the rare. As it turns out all of the boosters had been pawed through. The weird thing - either the lowlife thief was looking for something in particular or was dumb as a sack of hammers. They left the Darth Scion behind, a 25+ dollar figure!

So, to sum up: people suck. And from now on, I'll be keeping a close eye on the condition of the boosters I get at the store. And this crap (except for the Scion) is going back to the store first thing in the morning!

Thanks for finding the scion for me. I thought I saw that then I coudln't find it after I returned the figs. Just let me know where its at and I'll even give you tips on other ways to screw people over for just $10.

See you soon
-Signed, person who's a d-bag

Hey, where I live, Best Buy usually takes info on people who make returns. You should have them track the original returner d-bag's address or whatever, just in case they were dim enough to give real info. Then they could get charged with shoplifting or something.

Well, the good side - unless I wind up finding some boosters that I just dont have any of, I think I'm out of the buying boosters game and just gonna pick up singles and trade for what little I need.

Anyway, an update to my story. This morning I went back this morning to make the swap, and ran headlong into the Best Buy system that clearly says "Do no return if opened" - normally a perfectly sensible policy. However since it was clear that I had gotten screwed (even finding some more boosters on the shelf in the same condition, helping out my case), the lady was sympathetic. After some head scratching, she just swapped a couple that were on the shelf that were not opened and returning the rest of my boosters as "unopened" and calling it good.

The kicker to the story? Out of the untampered boosters, I pulled two Ultra Rare Nomi Sunriders. So I got three URs out the 4 boosters - this guy was either stupid, incompetent or just looking for very specific figures!

There's been a couple of times where I found a booster that had it's side ripped open and the figures obviously gone through - and yet all 7 were there (including some high priced VR figures). I've even managed to get the store to knock 10% off the damaged item.

Anyway, so back to my current condition. So going through my LotF boosters, I notice that the Lumia had her hand/lightwhip broken off. Sheesh! I cant win! So this time I decide "screw it" and go to Target, where the boosters are untainted. If I'm going to get stuck with a set I'm nearly done with, I'm getting one that's still sealed, blastedit!

So I make the swap, get store credit and head off to the boosters. Only a couple of LotF, but a bunch of Galaxy at War - oh, sure, I figure. I might as well, since I need more from GaW than I do LotF. My two boosters? My second Cad Bane and a Mar Tuuk - one of the few I didn't have yet!

So thanks to this nimrod, I wound up with two awesomely tradeable VRs, two moderately tradeable VRs and a figure I didn't have. Thanks Thieving Douchebag!

Okay, I'll grant you that Target may not be free of pilfering, but that Best Buy was 100% certain to be tainted with open boosters while the Best Buy had a much lower chance of tainted boosters. Oh, and believe you me, I checked the seals on those bad boys like you wouldn't believe.

Well, sealed in that the flaps were still firmly glued shut. They were intact enough to my eye that I felt secure buying them.