Buying Older Packs

[Elbow]

I wanted to buy some older ex packs from 2004-07. I planned on buying from Amazon or Ebay, but I just wanted to know if those packs are weighable, because if they are I won't buy from them.
Specifically, are older ex's, gold stars, and/or holos weighable from a loose pack?
(http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000N8DZ60/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new)
Link is to show a type of pack I'd want to buy.

 

[NameBlank]

Yes, they might be weighed, and I'm very certain that pack is fake. Five dollars is way too low for an ex booster pack.

 

[Elbow]

Its about 7 dollars with shipping, which is very reasonable for the Power Keepers series (they are usually 8 dollars).
Care to explain why you think the packs are fake? All of the amazon sellers have at least 1,000 sales and more then a 94% positive rating.
Also 'they might be weighed' isn't really helping my question: "are older ex's, gold stars, and/or holos weighable from a loose pack?"

 

[Familiar]

Also 'they might be weighed' isn't really helping my question: "are older ex's, gold stars, and/or holos weighable from a loose pack?"

Yes

All of the amazon sellers have at least 1,000 sales and more then a 94% positive rating.

That doesn't mean, they are knowledgeable about packs.

 

[Jeremy1026]

All of the amazon sellers have at least 1,000 sales and more then a 94% positive rating.

That doesn't mean, they are knowledgeable about packs.

60 buyers out of 1000 to know about what they are buying is an incredibly low subset.

 

[adam44]

They are weighable but as long as you buy from a trusted seller you should be fine.
Look for reviews and such online, I would recommend you to NOT buy from stop2shop and gaming broker(also called gethering ground).
Because they don't seem very trustworthy and they don't answer on emails.

 

[xxashxx]

Why so high on price? Sometime you can buy them in a retail store. I have gotten older packs once every 5 or so years when they have them in stock but it is pretty rare though.

 

[Elbow]

Why so high on price? Sometime you can buy them in a retail store. I have gotten older packs once every 5 or so years when they have them in stock but it is pretty rare though.

Idk why, but my target/walmart area has everything arranged correctly and almost never has anything out ahead of time. They usually don't have those cards up there, but I know what you're talking about (the 3rd party packaged packs).

 

[MrSquarepants]

I have gotten re-sealed Unseen Forces booster packs. I can tell they were resealed because they had super glue holding them together. They cards were fake except for the holofoil Unown. Weird. And I knew they were fake because they had very blurry text, weird fonts and 20,000HP. And the Unown had normal fonts, nice thickness and regular foil. :S Guess the seller decided to be generous for odd reasons.

Buying old packs is tricky... and expensive, but EX Power Keepers wasn't a very popular set so... get them while you can if they're not too expensive. Most ex sets are 10-20$. And yes, stay away from stop2shop, I bought 36 packs from the once and only 3 of them were holo-foil and they were dupes. They listed it as a booster box on Amazon but it was loose packs. =_=

Gaming broker aka Gathering ground did the same thing with Skyridge except they have a "guarantee" their packs are not searched or weighed. And yet when I tried to buy a Skyridge box, they refunded me because they realized it wasn't a sealed box and knew I wasn't going to be happy about that because of the note I wrote to them when I bought it. Go figure.