Collector field reports

Four Boxes. Zero SRs. What Does That Prove?

Enough to document. Enough to change how we open marketplace product. Not enough to accuse a seller—or to turn an unofficial pull-rate estimate into a verdict.

48PACKS OPENED

Four boxes purchased as sealed marketplace product. Zero SR cards recorded in those boxes.

0SR in 48 packs

Four Dawn of Palpagos booster boxes purchased from one high-volume online seller were opened for PalCollector. The listing represented the product as sealed. Across 48 packs, the opening log recorded no Super Rare cards from those boxes.

That result felt wrong. Feeling is not evidence, so the first job is to separate three questions: Was the result unusual? Does the published product promise a particular result? Is there physical evidence that the delivered product differed from the listing? The answers are not the same.

An improbable result can justify documentation. It cannot, by itself, identify a cause.

THE CENTRAL FINDING

What our opening logs show.

The four-box result is one internal opening record, not a random market sample. A later PalCollector opening of ten factory-sealed boxes produced a dramatically different distribution: 20 SR, 10 OSR, and 3 SP cards. That comparison is important because it motivated this report. It still does not establish a universal box guarantee or prove what happened to the earlier four boxes.

MARKETPLACE LOT

The opening that raised the question

Boxes
4
Packs
48
SR
0
Physical tampering proven
No