T-Mobile Park (Seattle) “Mystery cards” at the team store. Buyer beware!
Well, I certainly can’t prove it after buying just three cards for my son (he wanted them as a concession since I wasn’t going to buy him another box since he’s already ripped about 10 this season, plus I was a little curious myself ) I have the feeling that they are most likely taking the $70 complete set of 700 base cards and turning it into a $630 profit. (minus a few bucks for the cost of the cardboard envelopes). That’s if they even paid for the cards at all.
My buddy and his kid who went to the game with us also bought three as well with the same results. I feel like if these had low value common parallels that people overall would be happy with that and they would still make a solid profit. At the very least, any non-base card in every other one. I wouldn’t expect an auto, relic, or numbered card at all, but if they did include a low value
one of those every hundred cards or so I’d go so far as to say people would most likely be really happy with this idea/product.
I feel like people should be pissed off about this, and we should make some noise directed at the Seattle Mariners social media pages in hopes to get them to change up their strategy here. As it stands, this is a pretty crummy cash grab that is a big disappointment for any kid(or anyone else for that matter) that collects cards.
What are you guys think? Fair or foul?