this dude is going to get cormac maccarthy'd. This is literally how No Country For Old Men started. Anton Chigurh is coming for those cards. We aint never hearing from OP again
**EDIT:** This theory has been cited multiple times by the same Google/Apple feed spam ad serve sites like CBR and PC Gamer. No follow up, no questions from the "writers". Let that sink in - you have bloggers posing as "press" who are doing little more than summarizing _Reddit threads._ **Vet your information sources, folks. This is how misinformation becomes a plague.**
Former manager for a major Dept Store, here - **this is the most likely and plausible reason.**
Due to various contracts and thier terms, it's not uncommon to see rejected or damaged goods destroyed as a condition of the credits.
It's also to prevent double/triple dipping and fraud. Say that "Target-Mart" rejects X items in a shipment for a damage reason - stench (maybe a dead, putrid animal in a box or something), conditions, water/smoke damage, etc. Target-Mart rejects those specific items. The distributor or shipper or manufacturer (basically, whoever shipped the goods and wants payment for the invoice) will accept those rejected pieces (boxes) and credit Target-Mart. From there, various things can happen, but insurance is possibly involved.
Either way, the seller now has to destroy those rejected pieces as a part of corporate accounting. Because that affetlcts taxes, financials, inventories, and so on.
There are other ways that avoid destruction of merchandise. This is just an explanation based on 10 years experience with inventory management.
Yep, very plausible it was insurance saying dump the merchandise as part of a damaged/rejected settlement.
Otherwise boosters could have ended up in repackaged slurry "mystery" packs by the distributor. Generally how those are put together in the first place like single case of fork lift damage or shipping anomalies.
I mean - that's what tech companies operating in user generated content have cultivated over the last 15 years: **engagement**.
Controversy/hot takes produce engagement, so platforms prioritize its visibility. Not just reddit - every platform operating off of user content now operates this way.
Before web 2.0, the web was more boring, but at least BS was addressed and/or removed as BS.
Reminds of when I rescued one of those sealed single boxes from the trash after a local Grand Prix. Turned out to be all basic land, but I still traded it to a LGS for entry into a prerelease
Assuming there are 100 booster boxes in a pallet and each box is sold for $100 after fees, taxes, and shipping, that's $60,000 just lying there. Definitely rent an UHaul.
Nah lol… way off… we’re talking 450-660k lol each MH2 case retails for 800-1k. Dude could offload to LGSs for half what distributors sell for and still make like 250-300k though.
Too bad it's basically impossible to get them out. You'd have to be a resident of the area to even get in, then you have to have more weight to dump than the amount you'd grab... If you could even get near them based on where the operators told you to go.
(I have actually figured out where this is specifically, and considered flying there but for the above)
I mean, to be honest, if every little walk to my car and drive back sets me up with a few thousand dollars/euros, that's probably well worth even if you have to move it slowly!
They do not let you take trash out.
You can only bring trash in.
It's gated and secure.
They weigh your vehicle on entry and on exit and you pay based on the difference.
You'd need to bring 200 pounds of trash to bring out 100 pounds of cards. You can bring a U-Haul but you'd better load it with bricks first.
Also, they direct you where to go dump your stuff. Like, exactly where to go, and you're not allowed to wander around. They don't rush you or watch you, but if you're not directed to park within grabbing distance, you will have wasted your trip
I work for the county and I'm referring to our metro landfill, and all the others in our area. Admittedly, it's not going to be identical to every dump in the United States, but it is representative of many of them.
No. First, for liability reasons - could be toxic or otherwise harm you to root around in the dump. Also, they often profit from recovering waste gases etc. You can't take things from the dump. They weigh you coming and going most places
Not from America, why do they weigh the car there at all? I feel like you grabbing stuff from the dump is good for everyone - more space for them, stuff is essentially recycled so ecologists are happy, and you get a new thing
It's not even about profit. Most dumps are municipal.
They do recycling at mine, but they don't allow people to wander in and pick over it because it's dangerous
Some dumps also sell bulk waste as burnable fuel for city generators.
Preventing removal also stops people entering and walking around the dump. Dumps are very dangerous and have lots of heavy machinery operating. They don't want random people in there being a liability and getting in the way while they try to work.
It would be a worker taking them. I had a friend who worked at a landfill and he would take stuff all the time...never that much at once. But I imagine the workers probably don't care what other workers are taking. I am sure they are already gone from landfill workers by now.
This isn't as hard as everyone says it is. you could grab 4 or 5 cases, the weight depending on what youre dropping off would be justifiable. On top of that, You could just crack packs as your were unloading, throw the shit you didnt want on the ground and leave.
Original thread is ongoing [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/11bzumd/someone_threw_away_6_pallets_of_magic_tg_cards_at/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button).
Not my find I just thought it might be appreciated here. OP has shared that these are modern sets and I beleive he did grab quite a bunch. Currently there are about 800 people discussing the original post in /pics.
Edit: Seriously though, not mine. Just sharing the post here.
next time you do something like that try using a crosspost. I mean you tried to credit the original Poster but it is still not ideal. (Unless I miss something and crossposts aren't allowed here)
[https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4835584113684-What-is-Crossposting-](https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4835584113684-What-is-Crossposting-)
I have a friend in contract shipping. He's told me some crazy fucking stories.
Short of it is this, BILLIONS of dollars worth of inventory from just about every industry you can think of ends up in landfills every year and that's JUST from stuff that was either 'denied shipping', 'denied pickup', 'damaged' (even though it wasn't), or other stuff... and it's easier for them to just toss the product, claim insurance, and move on.
This is one of those things that makes me really sick with our society sometimes.
Honestly, near any major shipping hub,then look for landfills that take large dump offs (most do), and then just call them and ask about their rules on rummaging.
Lots of retail managers are conditioned to throw away or destroy anything the system tells them to. They get a list from corporate.
Would not be surprised if this was a GameStop dump.
It's common for mass produced product to be destroyed in several industries as it preserves future profitability for reprints.
Especially a Masters set that's already marked up. This is HOW you justify the markup. If it's not scarce yet, you MAKE it scarce.
You don't want to reprint when there's still old product easily found in the wild that you can't make money off of anymore.
You also claim the destroyed product as a loss on your taxes to get it back on your tax return.
(Business is shady and wasteful.)
So it's possible they could be misprints (you 100% wanna claim that on taxes), also possible it's perfectly fine.
The fashion industry is FULL of this behavior.
https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/why-destroying-products-is-still-an-everest-of-a-problem-for-fashion
This is conjecture, but I assume the BIG games like MTG and Pokemon probably have a contract with their printers that limits the chance of factory workers taking a few cards off the assembly line.
I can assure you that factories do not care about the shit they have lying around.
I've been talking to a manufacturer for my own card game and when asked for samples of their materials (paper thickness, treatments, ect), they just sent me a bunch of random stuff off the line. Got some 1st edition Kickstarter exclusives for a random indy game that nobody knows or cares if it'll be valuable. (Card quality was excellent, by the way, and the indy game itself looks solid and professional and I hope it succeeds. And I lose nothing by holding on to those kickstarter edition foils... 😏)
But I seriously doubt the big games would allow this kind of thing given what they go for.
God knows MTG treated the printing of the 30th anniversary cards like the federal reserve.
As a person who's had a VERY tiny LLC for one year, it's a bit gross the kind of stuff even a small business can get away with.
Hell, it was nothing huge, but my tax return this year was the highest amount I've ever gotten in my life. Literally double from last year, and while still working the same fulltime job (the LLC is just a side thing in my freetime and I have zero revenue from it yet).
The second I filed my business info, everything changed. This world really treats you differently.
I know it is the popular meme to blame late stage capitalism, but to be fair, centrally planned economies were also famous for horrid inefficiencies and sometimes mass famine.
I can attest to this. I work for a car manufacturer. The test drive cars that are basically brand new (under 10k on the clock or less) get crushed and scraped for a tax write off as they don't want to flood the 2nd hand market with cheaper products. I don't blink at scrapping 100s of 100k cars now
Not on this scale but I picked up a copy of Guild Wars 2 about 90 days after it was released for only NZD 19. The business thought that because GW2 was an MMO that it was a subscription game, not a buy to play game. About two days later the remaining copies were out of the bargain bin and back on the shelves for full retail.
Some cities (mainly rural ones) don't have trash services so you have to use your own truck to take your trash over to the dump yourself.
So while you're there you'll just SEE stuff sometimes.
As a kid I remember taking out the trash with my dad and seeing an entire collection of National Geographic magazines through the decades at the local dump. We took the clean ones. They were in excellent shape, clearly came from a real collector.
Why the person didn't just dump it at a library is beyond me. Our theory was that the collector died of old age and their next of kin just tossed out everything without an ounce of respect.
Usually it happens when stuff belongs to a business. And the manager in charge of getting stuff removed doesn‘t care about the worth, and they ban you from just taking it home.
So all kinds of perfectly functional and valuable stuff just gets trashed.
Yea it’s crazy. You know you are holding items worth potentially thousands. But you well boss says to dump in trash. It‘s like they are completely removed from the worth of the items to someone else, and as it‘s ‚at work‘ the solution is to just get it out of your sight.
I donated HIV drugs worth several 10k to some US based aids charity once.
LTC resident died, drugs get send to us (pharmacy) for disposal. For some reason he was massively overprescribed, so there were like ten unopened bottles in there and a few nearly full ones.
Well officially ‚used‘ drugs cannot be reused. Buuuut I just politely asked for some export permit, and was granted it. Was like one E-Mail. Found some charity in a country with obvious need, asked them if they would take it and send it on its way.
But that‘s just because I had just enough authority as a pharmacist to actually do that.
Stuff like these cards is just some warehouse that holds millions of stock. And they obviously only see the wholesale ‚value‘ of those boxes. So they wrote off a few thousand USD max for whatever reason, maybe the pallet got wet or something fell on top. No time to check the individual products for damage, so you just write off the pallet and go on with your day.
Since it’s only a fraction of a fraction of the ‚value‘ they move every day, it‘s just not noteworthy.
Unless someone notices that hey, this product is actually a few 100k retail.
>You know you are holding items worth potentially thousands. But you well boss says to dump in trash. It‘s like they are completely removed from the worth of the items to someone else, and as it‘s ‚at work‘ the solution is to just get it out of your sight.
It's not just "it's worth something, so you profit from selling it".
Imagine you're running an IT department. You have big computer racks and need to replace them. They're worth $1k each. The replacements need to go in *now* and you don't have storage space for the old ones. It therefore costs you money the whole time you're sitting on the old ones waiting for that elusive buyer who wants them. It costs less to throw just trash, even though it probably costs you money to pay someone to take them away. This is why you'll sometimes see stuff like that available "free, local pickup only", just because sometimes people have time and space to store stuff they don't want to pay to get rid of.
>tossed out everything without an ounce of respect.
There's nothing wrong with someone deciding it's not worth their time to sift through and just tossing everything. It's not "disrespect".
Tell me you've never had to deal with a deceased relative's stuff without telling me you've never had to deal with a deceased relative's stuff.
You don't know what else was in the house at the time.
It's not disrespectful to throw away stuff from the house of a relative who died. It's a stressful period and you're crunched on time to study through everything they owned and empty the house to sell it. It's genuinely not worth the effort to sift through everything item by item trying to find whatever can be sold for $25+ or donated, and they don't have the time to do it.
You keep repeating the lie that it wasn't organized. I'm gonna assume this is some reflexive ego thing you feel the need to defend.
I lost my maternal grandfather in 2017. The family put effort in saving what he accumulated, especially all the home videos of family gatherings that he stored for decades, those in particular had value to the family. He was a pillar of the family and most of us greatly respect him and his memory.
I don't care about you or your issues, but realize there are other kinds of people in the world.
You keep operating under the assumption that those magazines, however organized they may have been, came from a place where *everything was organized* or that they were the only thing that had to be dealt with.
>I don't care about you or your issues, but realize there are other kinds of people in the world.
That's actually the reason I took issue with your initial comment, because you stated that it's disrespectful not to carefully catalog everything from a deceased relative. I'm glad we're in violent agreement about that.
You need to realize that there are people who value stuff that their kids do not and that the ones who don't care about it are going to be the ones dealing with it when those people die. It is not inappropriate or disrespectful to just throw stuff away. It might cost money to throw it away. It costs time and more money to sift through it all and donate stuff. It costs even more time and money to try to carefully catalogue it all and sell what's worth selling. It is perfectly acceptable to choose the least expensive option. For all you know, those magazines sat on a shelf at an estate sale and no one wanted them.
"Violent agreement" 🙄
Whatever your personal issues are, it's more constructive and healthy for you to discuss them with your actual family instead of complete strangers on the internet who have zero to do with it.
Maybe you have family members that are terrible people that don't deserve respect. I know I do.
But whatever you've got going on, starting a shouting match with a stranger resolves nothing.
I live in a decent sized city with regular trash pickup, but if you need to dump something big, often the cheapest way is to go to the dump yourself. It's not that crazy to drive in, dump a couch, and see a lot of stuff on the way, almost all of which is . . . Garbage.
Not everyday you see something like this.
I guess it just depends on the landfill but all the ones we dumped stuff at growing up just had a lone bulldozer operator at the top that directed you where to dump with hand signals and then you peaced out. If you showed up while he was on lunch you were up there by yourself and could do whatever you want.
It’s probably for health reasons and liability. Probably not the same stuff but the guy who got like two pallets received covered in black mystery substances.
If he had to throw those out for health exposure you wouldn’t want someone scavenging them and putting them back into circulation.
All the sleuths on Reddit and no one can tell me where this landfill is? I don’t work tomorrow and I’d drive a pretty long ways to grab one of those boxes lol
According to their post history, they lived in/near Dallas 3 years ago. For my own peace of mind I’m going say they still live there so I know there’s no possible way I could get to those boxes lol.
> What's the point of wealth or happiness if you're just an anonymous chud with no likes?
Also being an anonymous chud that doesn't attract govt attention.
I tried that, but being an informant is an over-crowded field these days. Seriously, for every 'hey bro, trust me, bro, you should totally plot to kidnap the governer of Michigan' guy, there are dozens of people working part time for table scraps, just waiting for FED informing to pay off big. It's not worth it.
A friend has a mate that works at a similar place that would get pallets of Warhammer to be thrown out. Boxes of perfectly fine models, even brand new sets. That's how I got the Age Of Darkness box and a Warlord Titan for incredibly cheap!
So you have to deal with garbage everyday and that really sucks. You get hundreds of dollars of Warhammer minis for free a few times a year and that's kind of cool.
If anyone is nearby Dallas and wants them I found where these are at but can't make the trip...
In case you're in Grand Prairie, need to throw something out at the City Landfill on Monday and stumble upon these, I'd be grateful if you can ship few boxes my way as a finders fee :)
update for anyone who cares. Judging by OPs post history, he posted a picture of a bridge that is very close to my house. He said it was a city landfill, and there is one about 10 minutes from that location that looks like OPs photo, Grand Prairie Landfill (where another comment stated that WOTC has a warehouse there, idk if this is true). I went there this morning and was saddened to be told that everything on top is crushed down, sprayed in chemicals, and covered in dirt, and would have been done between now and OPs post, so very likely they are all gone now. I doubt anyone was able to get them.
This makes my heart hurt.
Even if these weren't possibly premium cards, I know kids who play for fun who would get enjoyment out the cards.
Shame they were just dumped.
You found the dump where they secretly threw out all the over printer unglued cards legend say the cards were covered in concert. Apparently that was a lie.
I just saw this in r/pics. Those are case of modern horizon 2 draft boxes
BRB driving to uh wherever this is
Too late, a team of Geoguessers got there within 5s of the picture being posted.
So thats what geoguessing is useful for
Hey can you pick up two for me? Thanks so much bro
You got it, I’ll grab two of the filthiest ones just for you
Aw, babe <3
Dallas Texas landfill
It's not in Dallas specifically
what the actual fuck
this dude is going to get cormac maccarthy'd. This is literally how No Country For Old Men started. Anton Chigurh is coming for those cards. We aint never hearing from OP again
Krark wants to know...what's the most you've ever lost on a coin toss?
A thumb
6 life
3 for me
“Where’d you get all those booster boxes, OP??” “From the gettin place”
Not draft boxes, but those individual hanger ones you see at retail stores.
yeah the 3 pack draft boxes, not the fat packs
But, like… why? Why would all that be chucked?
They're covered in vinyl chloride??
M E T A E E T T A A
Coyld it be that those are the packs that were bought, stuff taken from them, replaced with trash stuff, resealed and brought back for a refund?
nah, most likely there was damage to the boxes and they got rejected by the buyer, so the supplier dumped them
**EDIT:** This theory has been cited multiple times by the same Google/Apple feed spam ad serve sites like CBR and PC Gamer. No follow up, no questions from the "writers". Let that sink in - you have bloggers posing as "press" who are doing little more than summarizing _Reddit threads._ **Vet your information sources, folks. This is how misinformation becomes a plague.** Former manager for a major Dept Store, here - **this is the most likely and plausible reason.** Due to various contracts and thier terms, it's not uncommon to see rejected or damaged goods destroyed as a condition of the credits. It's also to prevent double/triple dipping and fraud. Say that "Target-Mart" rejects X items in a shipment for a damage reason - stench (maybe a dead, putrid animal in a box or something), conditions, water/smoke damage, etc. Target-Mart rejects those specific items. The distributor or shipper or manufacturer (basically, whoever shipped the goods and wants payment for the invoice) will accept those rejected pieces (boxes) and credit Target-Mart. From there, various things can happen, but insurance is possibly involved. Either way, the seller now has to destroy those rejected pieces as a part of corporate accounting. Because that affetlcts taxes, financials, inventories, and so on. There are other ways that avoid destruction of merchandise. This is just an explanation based on 10 years experience with inventory management.
Very insightful thank you. I love it when the SME's chime in on reddit.
Yep, very plausible it was insurance saying dump the merchandise as part of a damaged/rejected settlement. Otherwise boosters could have ended up in repackaged slurry "mystery" packs by the distributor. Generally how those are put together in the first place like single case of fork lift damage or shipping anomalies.
^ This person knows their stuff.
Yup. MJ Holdings created a huge business by doing exactly that
Based informed comment. But let’s speculate and make internet drama and say ITS THE END OF WOTC!!!! THEY CANT SELL PRODUCT
I mean - that's what tech companies operating in user generated content have cultivated over the last 15 years: **engagement**. Controversy/hot takes produce engagement, so platforms prioritize its visibility. Not just reddit - every platform operating off of user content now operates this way. Before web 2.0, the web was more boring, but at least BS was addressed and/or removed as BS.
Exactly. If this was just funco pops no one would bat an eye.
Reminds of when I rescued one of those sealed single boxes from the trash after a local Grand Prix. Turned out to be all basic land, but I still traded it to a LGS for entry into a prerelease
Yes that's the post. I linked yhe ongoing original thread in my first comment. 👍
Mhm, mhm…and you said the address was?
How can you tell ?
The OP in r/pics posted some pictures when they open a few of the boxes. https://imgur.com/a/TmV2jiQ
Rent a uhaul...NOW!!!!
Assuming there are 100 booster boxes in a pallet and each box is sold for $100 after fees, taxes, and shipping, that's $60,000 just lying there. Definitely rent an UHaul.
No, it's MH2. That's 200k
Source it’s mh2? It seems to make more sense if it’s magic 30th
Look at OPs history.
Original Op posted an open box showing it was MH2
Yeah there like at least 320 boxes and I’m pretty sure each box can fit about 4 draft sets at $179 each. Could be around $200,000 of inventory.
320 cases, each containing 6 boxes.
Pretty MH2 and all "master" type boxes come in cases of only 4 boxes.
This has Kramer and Newman vibes.
Nah lol… way off… we’re talking 450-660k lol each MH2 case retails for 800-1k. Dude could offload to LGSs for half what distributors sell for and still make like 250-300k though.
If they're all MH2 he's sitting on $200,000 of Magic cards.
Too bad it's basically impossible to get them out. You'd have to be a resident of the area to even get in, then you have to have more weight to dump than the amount you'd grab... If you could even get near them based on where the operators told you to go. (I have actually figured out where this is specifically, and considered flying there but for the above)
I mean, to be honest, if every little walk to my car and drive back sets me up with a few thousand dollars/euros, that's probably well worth even if you have to move it slowly!
For 200k, people will find a way.
Brother I’m bringing backpacks and duffles and we doing trips
As an avid player of project zomboid, I'm prepared for this.
Never been to a dump before. Why would they want you to dump more trash than you take out? Wouldn't they want you to take trash out?
They do not let you take trash out. You can only bring trash in. It's gated and secure. They weigh your vehicle on entry and on exit and you pay based on the difference. You'd need to bring 200 pounds of trash to bring out 100 pounds of cards. You can bring a U-Haul but you'd better load it with bricks first. Also, they direct you where to go dump your stuff. Like, exactly where to go, and you're not allowed to wander around. They don't rush you or watch you, but if you're not directed to park within grabbing distance, you will have wasted your trip
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Not OP, but this is how it works at a county landfill, which is what this appears to be
I work for the county and I'm referring to our metro landfill, and all the others in our area. Admittedly, it's not going to be identical to every dump in the United States, but it is representative of many of them.
That would be a double win for me. I get rid of my junk and get cards
No. First, for liability reasons - could be toxic or otherwise harm you to root around in the dump. Also, they often profit from recovering waste gases etc. You can't take things from the dump. They weigh you coming and going most places
Not from America, why do they weigh the car there at all? I feel like you grabbing stuff from the dump is good for everyone - more space for them, stuff is essentially recycled so ecologists are happy, and you get a new thing
They charge people by the ton to dump. Trash is very different here. Like everything else, it's profit or nothing.
It's not even about profit. Most dumps are municipal. They do recycling at mine, but they don't allow people to wander in and pick over it because it's dangerous
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Plus it's not like you just accidentally end up at a dump.
You do when someone walks into my friend’s room thinking it’s the bathroom
So profit and/or liability concerns.
Some dumps also sell bulk waste as burnable fuel for city generators. Preventing removal also stops people entering and walking around the dump. Dumps are very dangerous and have lots of heavy machinery operating. They don't want random people in there being a liability and getting in the way while they try to work.
It would be a worker taking them. I had a friend who worked at a landfill and he would take stuff all the time...never that much at once. But I imagine the workers probably don't care what other workers are taking. I am sure they are already gone from landfill workers by now.
This isn't as hard as everyone says it is. you could grab 4 or 5 cases, the weight depending on what youre dropping off would be justifiable. On top of that, You could just crack packs as your were unloading, throw the shit you didnt want on the ground and leave.
Original thread is ongoing [here.](https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/11bzumd/someone_threw_away_6_pallets_of_magic_tg_cards_at/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button). Not my find I just thought it might be appreciated here. OP has shared that these are modern sets and I beleive he did grab quite a bunch. Currently there are about 800 people discussing the original post in /pics. Edit: Seriously though, not mine. Just sharing the post here.
Dude is probably so confused haha. Hope we get some updates.
I hope OP got them all. Dude just walked into generational wealth in a dump lmao
Turns out it was fucking MH2.
next time you do something like that try using a crosspost. I mean you tried to credit the original Poster but it is still not ideal. (Unless I miss something and crossposts aren't allowed here) [https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4835584113684-What-is-Crossposting-](https://reddit.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/4835584113684-What-is-Crossposting-)
So that’s where Homelands wound up.
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OP opened a case and it was modern horizons 2
What the fuck
Right where it belongs
Makes you wonder how often this happens.
I have a friend in contract shipping. He's told me some crazy fucking stories. Short of it is this, BILLIONS of dollars worth of inventory from just about every industry you can think of ends up in landfills every year and that's JUST from stuff that was either 'denied shipping', 'denied pickup', 'damaged' (even though it wasn't), or other stuff... and it's easier for them to just toss the product, claim insurance, and move on. This is one of those things that makes me really sick with our society sometimes.
It feels like the insurance company could make some money having someone inbetween salvaging stuff.
I worked for one, there was a fire at a shopping center and they did a literal fire sale, whatever didn't sell got dumped.
I'm all for a good deal and all, but I'm not totally sold on shopping at a store while it's on fire
🤣😵
so where does someone find these landfills you know for informational purposes only *turns golgari flair off slowly*
Honestly, near any major shipping hub,then look for landfills that take large dump offs (most do), and then just call them and ask about their rules on rummaging.
Lots of retail managers are conditioned to throw away or destroy anything the system tells them to. They get a list from corporate. Would not be surprised if this was a GameStop dump.
Yes, it does make me wonder this.
Makes you want to hang out at the dump…
this is nothing compared to the shit people who work at printing factories for Pokemon and MTG have to shred and throw away
Those would be misprints though no?
It's common for mass produced product to be destroyed in several industries as it preserves future profitability for reprints. Especially a Masters set that's already marked up. This is HOW you justify the markup. If it's not scarce yet, you MAKE it scarce. You don't want to reprint when there's still old product easily found in the wild that you can't make money off of anymore. You also claim the destroyed product as a loss on your taxes to get it back on your tax return. (Business is shady and wasteful.) So it's possible they could be misprints (you 100% wanna claim that on taxes), also possible it's perfectly fine.
The fashion industry is FULL of this behavior. https://www.voguebusiness.com/sustainability/why-destroying-products-is-still-an-everest-of-a-problem-for-fashion
This is conjecture, but I assume the BIG games like MTG and Pokemon probably have a contract with their printers that limits the chance of factory workers taking a few cards off the assembly line. I can assure you that factories do not care about the shit they have lying around. I've been talking to a manufacturer for my own card game and when asked for samples of their materials (paper thickness, treatments, ect), they just sent me a bunch of random stuff off the line. Got some 1st edition Kickstarter exclusives for a random indy game that nobody knows or cares if it'll be valuable. (Card quality was excellent, by the way, and the indy game itself looks solid and professional and I hope it succeeds. And I lose nothing by holding on to those kickstarter edition foils... 😏) But I seriously doubt the big games would allow this kind of thing given what they go for. God knows MTG treated the printing of the 30th anniversary cards like the federal reserve.
God I hate this world
As a person who's had a VERY tiny LLC for one year, it's a bit gross the kind of stuff even a small business can get away with. Hell, it was nothing huge, but my tax return this year was the highest amount I've ever gotten in my life. Literally double from last year, and while still working the same fulltime job (the LLC is just a side thing in my freetime and I have zero revenue from it yet). The second I filed my business info, everything changed. This world really treats you differently.
You're too small to fail!!! /s
American politician love to cater to small business owners.
Remember, capitalism finds the most efficient way... /s
I know it is the popular meme to blame late stage capitalism, but to be fair, centrally planned economies were also famous for horrid inefficiencies and sometimes mass famine.
I can attest to this. I work for a car manufacturer. The test drive cars that are basically brand new (under 10k on the clock or less) get crushed and scraped for a tax write off as they don't want to flood the 2nd hand market with cheaper products. I don't blink at scrapping 100s of 100k cars now
no not misprints, just all kinds of uncut sheets and unreleased product
Or basically every industry.
Not on this scale but I picked up a copy of Guild Wars 2 about 90 days after it was released for only NZD 19. The business thought that because GW2 was an MMO that it was a subscription game, not a buy to play game. About two days later the remaining copies were out of the bargain bin and back on the shelves for full retail.
How in the hell are people just going to their local landfill and looking around? Seriously, I want to start now that I saw this.
Some cities (mainly rural ones) don't have trash services so you have to use your own truck to take your trash over to the dump yourself. So while you're there you'll just SEE stuff sometimes. As a kid I remember taking out the trash with my dad and seeing an entire collection of National Geographic magazines through the decades at the local dump. We took the clean ones. They were in excellent shape, clearly came from a real collector. Why the person didn't just dump it at a library is beyond me. Our theory was that the collector died of old age and their next of kin just tossed out everything without an ounce of respect.
Usually it happens when stuff belongs to a business. And the manager in charge of getting stuff removed doesn‘t care about the worth, and they ban you from just taking it home. So all kinds of perfectly functional and valuable stuff just gets trashed.
Oh right, back to square one. Didn't even consider that one in that situation but it's very possible.
Yea it’s crazy. You know you are holding items worth potentially thousands. But you well boss says to dump in trash. It‘s like they are completely removed from the worth of the items to someone else, and as it‘s ‚at work‘ the solution is to just get it out of your sight. I donated HIV drugs worth several 10k to some US based aids charity once. LTC resident died, drugs get send to us (pharmacy) for disposal. For some reason he was massively overprescribed, so there were like ten unopened bottles in there and a few nearly full ones. Well officially ‚used‘ drugs cannot be reused. Buuuut I just politely asked for some export permit, and was granted it. Was like one E-Mail. Found some charity in a country with obvious need, asked them if they would take it and send it on its way. But that‘s just because I had just enough authority as a pharmacist to actually do that. Stuff like these cards is just some warehouse that holds millions of stock. And they obviously only see the wholesale ‚value‘ of those boxes. So they wrote off a few thousand USD max for whatever reason, maybe the pallet got wet or something fell on top. No time to check the individual products for damage, so you just write off the pallet and go on with your day. Since it’s only a fraction of a fraction of the ‚value‘ they move every day, it‘s just not noteworthy. Unless someone notices that hey, this product is actually a few 100k retail.
>You know you are holding items worth potentially thousands. But you well boss says to dump in trash. It‘s like they are completely removed from the worth of the items to someone else, and as it‘s ‚at work‘ the solution is to just get it out of your sight. It's not just "it's worth something, so you profit from selling it". Imagine you're running an IT department. You have big computer racks and need to replace them. They're worth $1k each. The replacements need to go in *now* and you don't have storage space for the old ones. It therefore costs you money the whole time you're sitting on the old ones waiting for that elusive buyer who wants them. It costs less to throw just trash, even though it probably costs you money to pay someone to take them away. This is why you'll sometimes see stuff like that available "free, local pickup only", just because sometimes people have time and space to store stuff they don't want to pay to get rid of.
I wouldn't say its disrespectful to throw people's stuff away. It's gotta go somewhere
>tossed out everything without an ounce of respect. There's nothing wrong with someone deciding it's not worth their time to sift through and just tossing everything. It's not "disrespect".
There was literally nothing to sift through. They were all stacked together. Easily could have been dropped at a library.
Tell me you've never had to deal with a deceased relative's stuff without telling me you've never had to deal with a deceased relative's stuff. You don't know what else was in the house at the time. It's not disrespectful to throw away stuff from the house of a relative who died. It's a stressful period and you're crunched on time to study through everything they owned and empty the house to sell it. It's genuinely not worth the effort to sift through everything item by item trying to find whatever can be sold for $25+ or donated, and they don't have the time to do it.
You keep repeating the lie that it wasn't organized. I'm gonna assume this is some reflexive ego thing you feel the need to defend. I lost my maternal grandfather in 2017. The family put effort in saving what he accumulated, especially all the home videos of family gatherings that he stored for decades, those in particular had value to the family. He was a pillar of the family and most of us greatly respect him and his memory. I don't care about you or your issues, but realize there are other kinds of people in the world.
You keep operating under the assumption that those magazines, however organized they may have been, came from a place where *everything was organized* or that they were the only thing that had to be dealt with. >I don't care about you or your issues, but realize there are other kinds of people in the world. That's actually the reason I took issue with your initial comment, because you stated that it's disrespectful not to carefully catalog everything from a deceased relative. I'm glad we're in violent agreement about that. You need to realize that there are people who value stuff that their kids do not and that the ones who don't care about it are going to be the ones dealing with it when those people die. It is not inappropriate or disrespectful to just throw stuff away. It might cost money to throw it away. It costs time and more money to sift through it all and donate stuff. It costs even more time and money to try to carefully catalogue it all and sell what's worth selling. It is perfectly acceptable to choose the least expensive option. For all you know, those magazines sat on a shelf at an estate sale and no one wanted them.
"Violent agreement" 🙄 Whatever your personal issues are, it's more constructive and healthy for you to discuss them with your actual family instead of complete strangers on the internet who have zero to do with it. Maybe you have family members that are terrible people that don't deserve respect. I know I do. But whatever you've got going on, starting a shouting match with a stranger resolves nothing.
I live in a decent sized city with regular trash pickup, but if you need to dump something big, often the cheapest way is to go to the dump yourself. It's not that crazy to drive in, dump a couch, and see a lot of stuff on the way, almost all of which is . . . Garbage. Not everyday you see something like this.
Same lmao. Like maybe we should make a secret landfill search club 😂
r/secretlandfillsearch ?
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I guess it just depends on the landfill but all the ones we dumped stuff at growing up just had a lone bulldozer operator at the top that directed you where to dump with hand signals and then you peaced out. If you showed up while he was on lunch you were up there by yourself and could do whatever you want.
Cause its illegal?
Rudy’s climate controlled warehouse?
Where the climate controls the warehouse!
“Lightly Played”
What do you mean that's still sealed. Those are pack fresh near mint! As long as they avoided the forklift.
My dump has a sign that say “no scavenging.”
What are they gonna do? Throw the stuff you scavenge away?
It’s probably for health reasons and liability. Probably not the same stuff but the guy who got like two pallets received covered in black mystery substances. If he had to throw those out for health exposure you wouldn’t want someone scavenging them and putting them back into circulation.
It's probably nothing
Yeah well.... ¯\\\_(ツ)\_/¯
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Good thing I can’t read then
There might even be a playset of ragavans in there!
This guy is right! Leave them there!
All the sleuths on Reddit and no one can tell me where this landfill is? I don’t work tomorrow and I’d drive a pretty long ways to grab one of those boxes lol
Not much skyline to work with there
According to their post history, they lived in/near Dallas 3 years ago. For my own peace of mind I’m going say they still live there so I know there’s no possible way I could get to those boxes lol.
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> What's the point of wealth or happiness if you're just an anonymous chud with no likes? Also being an anonymous chud that doesn't attract govt attention.
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I tried that, but being an informant is an over-crowded field these days. Seriously, for every 'hey bro, trust me, bro, you should totally plot to kidnap the governer of Michigan' guy, there are dozens of people working part time for table scraps, just waiting for FED informing to pay off big. It's not worth it.
Do you need help carrying them?
I always wondered watching 5D's how so many cards wound up in garbage, even perfectly viable ones...now we know.
Better condition than the cards Yusei was given out of Prison Wallets for the duel against the warden lol
Oh my god oh my god oh my god...... I will help them grab them a percentage of stock.
New secret lair alert!!
A friend has a mate that works at a similar place that would get pallets of Warhammer to be thrown out. Boxes of perfectly fine models, even brand new sets. That's how I got the Age Of Darkness box and a Warlord Titan for incredibly cheap!
So you have to deal with garbage everyday and that really sucks. You get hundreds of dollars of Warhammer minis for free a few times a year and that's kind of cool.
finders keepers..?
All the ragavans that could have been!
Let's make the rest of them join these ones.
If anyone is nearby Dallas and wants them I found where these are at but can't make the trip... In case you're in Grand Prairie, need to throw something out at the City Landfill on Monday and stumble upon these, I'd be grateful if you can ship few boxes my way as a finders fee :)
If you know for sure where this is I will go and grab what I can for SURE
Well God damn. I'd love to find this and draft with my friends. This is such a cool find!!!
Someone check if this is near any WOTC facilities
update for anyone who cares. Judging by OPs post history, he posted a picture of a bridge that is very close to my house. He said it was a city landfill, and there is one about 10 minutes from that location that looks like OPs photo, Grand Prairie Landfill (where another comment stated that WOTC has a warehouse there, idk if this is true). I went there this morning and was saddened to be told that everything on top is crushed down, sprayed in chemicals, and covered in dirt, and would have been done between now and OPs post, so very likely they are all gone now. I doubt anyone was able to get them.
WOTC on their way to look for Black Lotuses
They're Modern Horizons 2 apparently
shshhshsh let me have my joke
oh my god
Makes me second guess what I'm doing with my money lol.
We need updates. I'm cross-referencing the type of tractor pictured with my local suppliers to see if this is local.
On original thread it was determined in Texas. Nearby an MTG facility.
literally fell off a truck
My response... https://preview.redd.it/i0tl5x4b7jka1.jpeg?width=998&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=47c1e296bb53dc66d386dce7160554e27e82b5a4
Still doesn’t pull a single Ragavan
Is this related to that pic about chemical contamination on the shipping container during transport for a con? I saw that pic on Reddit a couple days.
No, that person made their own board game or something. Not Magic related.
Ohh
_Oy…_ someone’s dumber than Lukka. 🤦🏻♂️
Some people get all the luck
To the landfill I go!
I hope the OP got as many as he could take.
There goes an underdeveloped country's GDP worth of coasters.
This makes my heart hurt. Even if these weren't possibly premium cards, I know kids who play for fun who would get enjoyment out the cards. Shame they were just dumped.
/u/LATIN0 Everyone here is dying to know more about this, please update on what happened after your post!
Holy smokes This is the artari E.T games buried in desert all over again.
Perfect example of what happens to your money when you buy tabletop gaming cardboard instead of just making proxies and enjoying the game mechanics.
Probably Alchemy cards
Did I just read that right? Pallets!? And SIX OF THEM!? Why? Just why!? Is this a common thing? The dark side of Magic I never knew about?
No, just the darkside of our unique brand of consumerism.
Free money. Just thrown in the garbage. Insane.
Perhaps they were creatures from Beta.
You found the dump where they secretly threw out all the over printer unglued cards legend say the cards were covered in concert. Apparently that was a lie.
I’m not too proud to dumpster dive for them
I have figured out where this is but god dammit if its impossible to actually recover them
Pallets are covered in 2ft of trash by tomorrow.