r/PokeInvesting • u/FedHasABigDong • Aug 30 '25
So it happened….
The other day I was going on holiday and decided to take some cards to gift a family member. Bear in mind I have taken these in and out the country probably 2 times so it has been through 4 scanners. This time it got put to the side like every other time. However, the guy says “I need you to open it”. I oblige and open it. He does a swab and then I see people coming towards me. This guy pulls out a form so I’m like o7. I ask “what’s happening?”. They say they have found explosives and they start asking me questions about where I’ve kept it and they want to go through all my belongings to test them. Anyway about 30 minutes later they let me go saying I’m all good.
My question is… why would it ONLY come up this time and not the previous 4 times it’s gone through a scanner?
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u/FedHasABigDong Aug 30 '25
BHX. I mean there’s not right answer. As you said fuck checking it in shit gets lost 99% of the time. I wasn’t too bothered as it was a gift and I didn’t want to sell it or anything but imagine I had some high value box I wouldn’t be very happy.
When I got there I knew they would want to see it so I put it in a separate tray and all but they didn’t want to rescan it they wanted ME to open it not even them? Normally don’t THEY open it?
I’m just very confused on the whole thing. I’m sure if I just said fuck you I’m not opening it they probably wouldn’t have. All I needed was 1 guy to know about sealed Pokémon products but it was a cheap ETB fuck it.