Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Well, I figured for $10, I'd take a chance and see what I got. Not knowing which cards or pack you'll get is half the fun anyway. I wasn't hoping for much card wise, but I was at least hoping to get something as far back as Black/White. I got two packs of XY Roaring Skies and one of XY Primal Clash - both of which I could've bought at the nearest toy store, so that was kinda disappointing. Out of them, the only thing of worth was a reverse rare Banette. So, I can't say if they're weighted or not. It might just be I had bad pulling luck. Might give them the benefit of the doubt and try again at a later date. 3/16/16 - I decided to give these sellers another try. Since I've been collecting, I've gotten into collecting the coins and pins you can find in some boosters and packs. So this time I purchased (2) Three Random Booster Packs from VGMX, which stated I would get an extra coin and promo/holofoil card. Foolishly, I assumed that it would be three random packs, a coin and a promo from varying sets or previous boosters or whatever that had already been opened and distributed for sale. What I got was legitimately 2 blisters, resulting in all of my "random" packs being Breakthrough. Seeing as it would likely cost me half as much to send the packages back as paying for them, I decided to just accept the fact that they weren't random and opened them to see what I got. I got two reverse rares out of the packs, aside from the holo promos that came with the blisters. Something seemed fishy, but I figured that you can't really weight boosters, right? 3/30/16 - Wanting to solve the mystery once and for all, I purchased a gram scale so that I could weight the packs I buy from different stores and sellers, to see which places were the safest to buy cards. I decided to give this ONE LAST shot. So I bought 3 packs of Three Random Boosters, nine packs total, from Swift Buy. They arrived today and, honestly, I'm surprised that I was as hopeful as I was. But when I opened it and saw that my "random" boosters were in packs of three, resulting in three packs of 2 XY Base Set and 1 Flashfire almost with the exact same art too, I knew I was screwed. Still, I wanted to be dutiful and weighed each pack. It is as follows: X/Y Base w/ Yvetal Art = 18.5 grams X/Y Base w/ Yvetal Art = 18.4 grams X/Y Base w/ Yvetal Art = 18.4 grams X/Y Base w/ Yvetal Art = 18.3 grams X/Y Base w/ Blastoise Art = 18.5 grams X/Y Base w/ Venosaur Art = 18.4 grams Flashfire w/ Mega Charizard X art = 19.8 grams Flashfire w/ Mega Charizard X art = 19.7 grams Flashfire w/ Pyroar art = 19.7 grams Needless to say, after seeing those numbers, I was upset. So I opened them all and with EVERY SINGLE NON HOLO RARE I got, I just got more livid. The whole reason I bought nine was because I wanted to rule out any chance of my having just rotten pulling luck. With Pokémon cards, you are expected to get one EX/Ultra rare every 4 packs, MAYBE five if you have a bad day. But nine packs in one sitting with absolutely nothing to show for it? Statistically, it simply doesn't add up. Further, if you add my other two previous purchases, that's 18 BOOSTERS WITH NOTHING! Now, I'm willing to concede that the first time I bought from Swift Buy (when all I got was the reverse rare Banette), I just had bad pulling luck. And while it IS hard to weight boosters, it IS possible. But I chose to give VGMX the benefit of the doubt. But having bought 9 packs (for a total of 12) from Swift Buy with nothing but non-holo rares to show for it, I can - with complete confidence - tell you that there is absolutely nothing random about these packs. They clearly pull the best packs and then resell the duds to unsuspecting online buyers, probably in the hopes that an unsuspecting parent or grandparent buys them for their kids and will never bother to submit a complaint to Amazon. Well, Swift Buy, you aren't fooling me. DO NOT BUY FROM THEM! And only buy from VGMX if you're looking for pin-free blisters. My suggestion to you is to save your money and buy at your local stores. Either that, or go to eBay. That's where I'll be from now on.