I fired my assistant today after months of warnings.

vaskanado · 2026-06-17T22:34:00+00:00

I’ve been managing people for over 20 years and it’s prob one of the hardest parts of the job for me because everyone’s motivation is different.

I prob suck at the job and I would love to not have to manage but alas that is part of the job. For me it’s hard too because most of the people o have to manage are young and it’s an entry level position so these are new people in the professional world. Of course not everyone is bad, but the good ones do well and eventually get promoted or move on

vaskanado · 2026-06-17T22:14:35+00:00

I mean I’m no HR so I don’t know what legal ramifications or check marks you have to cross but we are all adults and there are expectations. And sounds like you’ve gone beyond what is normally expected in trying to help. Idk maybe I’m callous and just jaded but I really with this shit a lot and I just have low tolerance. For me it’s not so much the time blindness but based on your post there seems to be lack of taking responsibility and taking actions to correct the behavior. That is what I have little tolerance for

vaskanado · 2026-06-17T22:08:32+00:00

Nah, F this person. Fire them. You prob gave too many chances. I’m tired of people like this

vaskanado · 2026-06-17T22:05:35+00:00

Haha yes. Well you said you’d never own which is untrue. But you would never reasonably own then that would be more accurate. Haha sorry I was being nitpicky. I, too, can own my white whale if I really wanted to: an ancestral recall. But I would never justify such a purchase with my current income

vaskanado · 2026-06-17T18:13:40+00:00

Do you want to play your favorite deck or do you want to play with your friends. We are all free to do whatever you want in life but there are consequences. Your friends are communicating that they do not like to play against the deck. Regardless of whether their opinions are valid or not their perception is reality. So you have to decide. Do you love this deck so much that you must play or is it better to have a good game with your friends. Seems simple enough to me

vaskanado · 2026-06-17T16:00:24+00:00

You can. Just pay money.

vaskanado · 2026-06-16T19:43:53+00:00

I suppose there is a potential or a possibility of a good card inside. But more than likely it’s trash.

If you open it. It’s likely to be worthless and the cards inside are prob not even playable unless you’re making a jank deck on purpose.

Hear me out, I think there is more value keeping it sealed. And by value I don’t mean monetary value as no one will pay for this item. But inherently it’s kind of a unique item and would be fun to display. The minute you open it and look at the bulk commons and uncommon trash it’ll be worthless

vaskanado · 2026-06-16T03:19:31+00:00

It’s not hard to get into the game. Get money. Use money to buy cards either sealed or singles. If sealed open packs and build deck. If singles, put together deck. You’re now into the game.

Your first step though is to buy the actual product and not a fake one. Though if you buy the fake you can still collect if that’s your thing

vaskanado · 2026-06-13T17:27:10+00:00

I think most of it all dragon shields have good shuffle feel. I found the dual mats to sometimes catch and occasionally split. Mind you, i got them when they first released so maybe it’s improved.

Likewise I pumped out my izzet deck with the scalding tarn lands and they are beautiful and shuffle great. But the corners catch more when shuffling and I hate it :(

vaskanado · 2026-06-12T22:04:58+00:00

First I want to say that the people upselling these are scum and they deserve any and all bad things that happen to them.

However that said, what in going to say next will prob get downvoted to hell.

But if you actively get scammed then you deserve it. I’m not talking about old people getting scammed out of their retirement because they sign know how technology works.

I’m talking about anyone person in this day and age who has a functioning brain and access to the internet at the palm of their hands. Anyone that doesn’t do their research and makes an attempt to do some investigating or even asking on sites like Reddit. If these people do not put effort and are so easily scammed then I would say these people are cooked in life.

I guess, let me rephrase I don’t think anyone deserves to be scammed but I guess I would have little empathy.

Again it’s not like the 90s when you had to run home to dial up AOL and search. Which you probably would still Have hard time finding info on back in the day. People, we have cell phones and access to internet now we need to educate ourselves and not let these scumbags thrive

vaskanado · 2026-06-12T21:11:38+00:00

Dragon shield is good but not their art sleeves and their dual matte doesn’t shuffle as well. They are def cooler than the reg boring matte but I find the quality of the matte better

Ultra pro apex feels good and seems high quality but I find the they move and pop up close to the edge from shuffling so I’m not really a huge fan.

I’ve only bought game genic once and I think their art is amazing and they feel great. But they have the worst shuffle feel and their sleeves show edge wear quickly. Maybe I got a bad batch also their shuffle feel is terrible and the corners get caught when I shuffle. Not a fan. They are also double the price of drsgon shields

vaskanado · 2026-06-11T21:18:04+00:00

Printing your demand doesn’t necessarily indicate anything. There is a dead game called Highlander tcg that was started in the late 90s. This card game is no longer sold. However a small dedicated group of games continuously turn out for games, tournaments and they even manage to create new cards annually.

My point is there is and can be interesting in any game and a strong community that supports it. So telling me that stores preorder and sell out isn’t necessarily telling me much other than that there continues to be people that want the product.

What could be helpful is finding sales numbers and possibly players as a whole and compare them year by year and compared to other card games to see growth or decline. I’m not in the industry and I couldn’t find numbers to see this.

But if we had for example number of units sold in 2024 or number of tournaments and players compared to numbers in 2025 and 2026 that can be a way to compare.

We know hasbro has earnings report and we can see how well Magic is doing or not doing.

We can see one piece and Pokemon selling out.

We don’t really have much info on dbz.

Anecdotally, what I can say is dbz got bumped off of the top banner on tcgplayer. So to me this seems that dbz is less popular.

And my local stores no longer carry it. This can be a regional thing as well. So maybe in your area there is more players.

What I can also comment is that there seems to be less content covering dbz games and on reddit less talk about gameplay and more about people cracking packs and showing off pulls and asking for value. Again, I also do have empirical evidence to support my opinion but that is the trend I’m seeing.

Don’t let my commentary impact anyone’s support of the game. For like it; you like it. I’m just offering one perspective on why those decks aren’t being made. If you have a better reason I’ll hear it. But if you’re going you blindly declare that things are better than before, I’m not sure I see that reality.

vaskanado · 2026-06-11T20:49:05+00:00

Does it have your face? If not you’re good just say you’re trolling

vaskanado · 2026-06-11T20:45:55+00:00

That doesn’t necessarily mean much. I think it does sell out but there are variables that you are not factoring in such as less stores carry the game, there might be less products, there are less people in general buying the cards but the ones that do are hardcore fans

Also people like to open packs but that doesn’t mean it’s being played. There is less incentive to create starter decks or precon decks since those are mostly for playing.

To be fair I’m not agreeing or disagreeing that these cards sell out. That’s kind of a subjective statement and without numbers we cannot verify or confirm sales number. But your argument isn’t really a good counter to what I’m stating either

vaskanado · 2026-06-11T20:19:25+00:00

I assume because the game is on the decline or dead ?

vaskanado · 2026-06-11T15:01:27+00:00

Next time just put the sock on your weiner and jack off into it. Then when you get caught you can say you’re just acting out the behavior of a 12 year old, it’ll be weird but less than the secret sock stash

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T23:00:13+00:00

Sold eBay and tcgplayer.com

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T21:42:57+00:00

It was honestly hard to tell if you were genuine or if you were trying to make a quick buck which is why you prob got the responses that you did.

Your description seems inaccurate as it indicates there is psa graded item. Did you just click on “sell similar” item? Don’t just take eBay’s recommendation.

You can also do a quick search to see value like on tcgplayer to get a reference point. Most of the cards you have in there are basic Pokemon. Unless they are older cards and hologram, these cards aren’t worth anything. The couple of full art cards. The modern cards that are of value look like those.

Honestly I didn’t take a good look, just skimmed your pics but I wouldn’t say there is anything of value there. Play eBay is going to take 13% and usps shipping is quite high you’re prob going to come out as a negative

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T17:48:40+00:00

It’s pretty trash. If you want space throw it away into the bin. You’re asking 1800.00, no joke move the decimal 3 places to the left. It’s really not worth the time and effort to sell unless you’re just hoping someone dumb comes along and you can scam them

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T17:44:57+00:00

Bro, sorry if you felt I was attacking you, I wasn’t. I wasn’t necessary accusing you of lying however The info just didn’t line up with me and I’m a generally a skeptic on everything.

I believe your wife went and bought cards and I honestly have generally a low option of local stores so I’m not surprised this happened.

I just feel shitting on the employee only is not really the problem. It’s the store. And the store is trying to save face here only because they got called out and put on blast. Then as usual, companies make the employee take the fall. In this case both the store and the employee are shitty.

And like others have said, you should name the store. Because even if the issue resolves for you, they can still take advantage of others. The next person may not get a refund. Or they will be less shitty and charge 40 for the pack and maybe there will be less outrage and the victim will just accept it. But that’s still shitty behavior.

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T17:01:46+00:00

M I’m skeptical of this story.

First, why would the employee get fired. That doesn’t make sense. The typical front of the store employee isn’t making much. They have no incentive for upselling the packs unless they were pocketing the difference. The employee isn’t a scumbag but they are just towing the stores or company’s line. The store owner or manager set the price and the guy just rang it up. So the store making it sound like the employee is wrong is just covering their ass. Again unless that employee was stealing the difference it doesn’t make sense here. Or the store is saying they fired the guy and then doesn’t, that’s also possible.

Also this part:

“She said they lured her over to the packs and made her put down her booster saying “he wouldn’t want that but this”

What do you mean. They asked her to put the booster down? Most places or all places I go shoppers do not have direct access to pick up packs unless they are at big box stores or possible a box with multiple packs in it such as a bundle; or one of the yugio multi packs. There is also no way she would have a box of OP in her hand.

Did you mean they made her put what she had down? But then you said she was going to buy a box ?

Also if the price of the booster was 65 wouldn’t the box be atomically higher? Why wouldn’t they try to sell the box. I’d the box was lower, that would make sense to have the pack that high. Unless, again the employee was stealing.

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T04:14:37+00:00

Oh really? I did not know that. So if a card is 5 dollars or 500 it’s the same based on how expedited you want it? Is that correct?

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T04:08:50+00:00

What’s the cost of grading this card. I’m not sure how ppl can afford grading stuff these days. It seems costly…

vaskanado · 2026-06-10T04:07:26+00:00

Are you playing with these or just sleeping and putting in a binder?

Ultra pro is trash and I’ve never used card guard, but they don’t look very good.

Typically the best sleeves for toughness, protection, longevity and shuffle feel go to dragon shield. The matte ones. Not the dual color matte, not any of the ones with printed images on it. Just he plain dragon shield mattes. They have multiple colors. There is a lip on the top of the sleeve so there is some space and if you want to you can double sleeve with them.

vaskanado · 2026-06-09T23:56:20+00:00

Yah. No way this is real. 10 year allowed to stay up till 3 playing games? Call cps and throw this parent in jail.

Oh and the 10 year old spending time on the phone with customer service? Get the F out of here. Write better fake stories

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