A few years ago, we heard that one of our local collectors got a job distributing card product to retail stores in Northeast Florida. His job was to deliver and stock the packs, blasters, storage items and displays at Walmarts, Target, Kmart and supermarkets. He lasted 2 years on the job, until overwelming complaints from consumers forced the distributer to look into the issues: open packs in "sealed" boxes, no hits in packs (even guaranteed per box hits were missing), hot products never making to the stores, and packs with tiny slits in them.
When the manager of the distribution company came down here and surprised the guy at a local Walmart, upon inspecting his truck, they found: a diamond scale, a metal detector, razor blades, a box with hundreds of game used jersey cards in it, a heat sealer with plastic wrap with UD logo and thousands of common cards strewn about the truck bed.
He admitted that he was 'addicted' to shredding packs and couldn't stop himself. he was weighing packs to find the hits, using the metal detector to find the plates, and opening boxes, taking out the hits and resealing the boxes with his plastic wrap. He sold his big cards on Ebay. He went to jail.
Awful story, but true. There are some real losers out there.
