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People opening mystery boxes in the store!?

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People opening mystery boxes in the store!?
This happens all the time. Doesn't anyone remember the situation where CMs were asked to feel the "conceal" pin when the Reveal/Conceal Rapunzel chaser was being sought. The three jewels in this pin made it easily distinguished from the regular no-jewel conceal pin.
 
And I thought I've heard it all . People are absolutely unbelieveable . :(
I admit on the DCL I was collecting the PWP , a set of 6 pins which formed a puzzle . I needed the last three which I knew were larger, but I never forced them open , I got two Donalds, one Pluto and finally got the last one Stitch . My friend said your getting another Donald and I said, well if I do I do . Luckily it was Stitch . She was bad as she needed one too .
She told me to feel one for her and I laughed I said, I'm not going to be blamed for picking the wrong one .
 
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feeling a mystery bag is not stealing.. its cheating, but not stealing.... totally different from what these people in the OP were doing. I dont buy enough to try to feel the mystery bags.
 
Packages/Boxes should never be opened before being purchased, but is it really that bad to feel a bagged pin when you've already spent a ton of money and just need one more? I don't think so, as long as you're not damaging anything. But opening a box or bag is outrageous!
 
I do not approve of what they did, but I can certainly understand it. Opening the boxes may be trying to cheat the system, but mystery boxes are trying to cheat the consumer. Instead of providing quality product people want to buy, they're trying to artificially inflate sales by forcing people to keep buying them until they finally get what they're looking for. I've seen this and other tactics used over and over again in different collectors markets and it baffles me why people play along. I personally would never touch a product where I didn't know what I was getting.
 
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sorry i didnt read through all the posts so on the verge of being repeated////// NO CLASS. Somebody wasnt brough up right. These folks probably throw their trash out the car window, never yeild a seat to an elderly person, let their kids run around a restaurant...you know what i mean. all of those things are my pet peevs BTW.

Princessbecky brought up such a good point, always folks, always open every single box at the register as you pay to make sure the "hidden" pin or sacs of pins are accounted for. I was told by ED (awesome CM) at DTD WDW that people try to steal the second pin. STEALING FROM FREAKIN DISNEY WORLD really people??? Perhaps you should be at your second job not stealing pins in disneyworld...good gravy i'm gonna punch somebody.

done venting, going to get a choclate cookie to calm me down...bye
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wow..+1000000 that was like words out of my mouth... i will add.." why cant moms and dads rase kids right? They grow up to b this kind of trash"
 
Opening them is completely wrong! You should have reported them to a cast member.

I really wish they would keep mystery packs behind the counter to avoid things like this.
 
My two cents: Life would go a lot easier if people just followed the rules. These are marketed as mystery pins, so if one chooses to buy them at all, then they are signing up for the chance of getting repeats--the purpose is to actually promote the act of pin trading, right? Needless to say, these people mentioned in the OP were probably seeking out the Rapunzel pins to resell. A closed item should not be opened until it is purchased, simply put. I think that feeling a sealed pin baggie (that is not normally inside of a box) is fine, because that's how it is distributed and sold. It's no different than if any other person picked it up and then changed their mind to not buy it. And theft (re: the empty mystery boxes or missing pins from mystery boxes) is just wrong by all accounts. What is the world coming to?
 
If its in a bag with no box so u can feel it without removing packaging then feel away. But removing or oppening packaging is theft and not fair at all.

Its almost as bad as the my little ponies I buy. They come in a little sealed bag so u can feel the shape but 5 in every set use the same mould so it doesnt help. Buuut collectors lie me worked out that hasbri printed numbr on tbd pack of the pack hidden. These numbers matched the ponies on a chart so I could get the ones I wantted but it also made it super hard to get thhe most popular character as evryone had ope a new box in the store just to buy him
 
And for the record: I did call a castmember AND the manager but like someone posted before they didn't do anything. Which I was suprised. I guess their more concerned about people never coming back because they would have gotten in trouble. I don't know. I'm not always thrilled about having to buy mystery packs but not enough to cheat.
 
At that point, snap a picture of them doing it and report it to a CM at City Hall (after checking with the CM that can't do anything that they, the CM, won't get it trouble).
 
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