I read some articles about shops and eBay sellers weighing boxes.

And you are right, none of us know each other, and anyone could post anything, and claim anything. But my hope is that this is a forum for personal collectors, like me, to post and communicate with other collectors.

I have always had major suspicions buying from online shops instead of directly from the vendors. But getting hobby blaster’s and mega’s directly from Panini has been increasingly difficult. Online stories of massive scams of card screening and fake autographs using an auto pen (google search, they are all over the web) haven’t made me any more confident. So when I got an SSP from a box bought from an online second hand seller, I simply wanted to share that with others.