Question about vending boxes

Big80s · October 22, 2007 8:19AM

I was opening up a couple of older baseball vending boxes that I bought a while back and noticed that some of the cards had wax stains on them. The same wax stains that you'd get from wax packs. I was under the impression that vending boxes were put together at the factory, and not from cards that would have been in packs. Can anyone clear this up for me? Also, I think I've read on these boards before about people having size problems with cards coming from vending boxes - ie. cards being under minimum size requirements. Any truth to this?
Thanks for your time.
Jeff

Estil · October 22, 2007 10:47AM

I can understand maybe that little "dark spot" on the backside (you can still get one or two cards like that from factory sets) but as far as an actual WAX stain, yes, I agree it should not be possible unless the vending box had been picked through.

vintagetoppsguy · October 22, 2007 10:54AM

Sorry bro, but you got taken! It is 100% impossible to have wax stains on cards from a vending box. Do you happen to buy these from a guy named Gary?

earlycalguy · October 22, 2007 11:25AM

<< <i>Sorry bro, but you got taken! It is 100% impossible to have wax stains on cards from a vending box. Do you happen to buy these from a guy named Gary? >>

maybe it was Stephanie

Bosox1976 · October 22, 2007 11:33AM

Sorry you got hosed.

grote15 · October 22, 2007 11:42AM

100% searched and repacked. Some of the more notorious wax resealers will include cards with pen marks in their "packs," too.

1neatstuff · October 22, 2007 2:44PM

i have opened many vending boxes and cases over the years if you get wax stains on even 1 card that box has been searched you cannot get wax stains from vending box cards

Big80s · October 22, 2007 2:57PM

Well they were definitely wax stains, and that answers my question. Thank you.

1neatstuff · October 22, 2007 3:03PM

your very welcome also when openeing vending boxes you can almost see a pattern of the cards to know if they have been tampered with or not over time you can tell..sorry you got burned..in the vending boxes look for like solid lines up and down the vending box if the dont appear like that they have been taken out most of the time..terry

Big80s · October 22, 2007 3:12PM

Well, I definitely saw that pattern that you speak of, but maybe it wasn't as defined as it should have been. The funny thing was, I bought two of these boxes and the first one didn't yield any wax stained cards, while the second one has produced about a dozen and I'm only half way through it. I was able to wipe the wax off with the old panty hose trick, but I knew immediately that something was wrong about them having those stains that were obviously from wax packs.

And no, these boxes didn't not come from Gary/Stephanie. Came from someone I buy a lot from and have great trust in.

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