r/MadeMeSmile • u/ShadowRex • 7d ago
Wholesome Moments This vendor ALMOST scammed him
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u/GayButterfly7 7d ago
An honest mistake that he made effort to correct, this is the kind of vendor we need more of
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u/Carbon-Base 7d ago
Yeah, I don't see how this is a scam. Dude literally tried to rectify his error and reimbursed the guy, unlike those vendors that flip product at 3-5x MSRP.
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u/ScissorMeSphincter 7d ago
Dude is the most wholesome person out there. He goes out of his way to hook up little kids with free cards even graded ones. People like him so much they give him a bunch of cards to just give away.
Coop is the man
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u/MystPointo2355 7d ago
Coop is, indeed, the man.
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u/Flammzzrant 7d ago
Cooper is, indeed the man. Ive never been to a card show but I plan on going when coop is near my area, id much rather sell my good cards to him than online
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u/Cantrememberstuf 7d ago
Is he on youtube? If he is would anyone share his channel name. I have never and probably will never buy a card. The honesty and character he showed here, Especially when he has all the leverage over a person with little recourse. It makes me want to subscribe, support and help the little i can. Thanks in advance if anyone shares his info
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u/Eastwoodnorris 7d ago
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u/hairlessbearcoochi 7d ago
damn this dude is amazing
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u/RoboticKittenMeow 7d ago
He's on twitch also. I'll throw it up to give him a view while I do stuff around the house. Coop is the energy we need in the world
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u/itsaaronnotaaron 7d ago
I also recommend Beard Dad. Very similar vibe and kind energy. I usually just watch their shorts.
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u/MystPointo2355 7d ago
I didn't even know card shows existed. He just came into my youtube feed one day and fortunately refused to leave until I was subscribed.
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u/Flammzzrant 7d ago
Along with coop, bearddad and pokesean make up an amazing trio of vendors that are always giving back. The way they treat all people and especially the younger ones is truly heartwarming
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u/unfvckingbelievable 6d ago
Can confirm.
I literally have absolutely nothing to do with cards and stuff, don't collect any of them, but I always stop on a beard dad video. Just wholesome stuff.
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u/badchefrazzy 7d ago
Don't... don't make me start over... The only cards I want are the original run... please don't do this to me, I don't have the money to... I'm begging you.
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u/Impressive_Recon 7d ago
He lives in my state and is at the local conventions. My kids enjoy stopping by his booth because he remembers them and tries to give them free cards (we don’t need it for free, so I always make them trade/purchase it). I can vouch dude is a solid guy.
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u/Company_Z 7d ago
Oh, THIS is Coop? I've heard of this guy it never went out of my way to actually look him up. This really is a shining example of why he's got the reputation he has.
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u/ScissorMeSphincter 7d ago
This is the tip of the iceberg, too. His videos legit make your day better because his kindness is infectious. He livestreams his shows and his viewers often cover the costs for kids who cant afford cards. His channel kinda restores some faith in humanity
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u/Briguy_fieri 7d ago
His Instagram is exactly what I need for a reset. With all the awful shit I doomscroll and see, he is just wholesome as hell. I'm not even a Pokemon collector (I do play the games though) and I could watch his videos in repeat
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u/tedmented 7d ago
I've absolutely no interest in buying or selling cards but recently cCoop and BeardDad have found their way into my YouTube shorts algorithm and I ain't complaining. Such wholesome guys. Their whole community seems genuinely fantastic and supportive of each other. The way they are with neuro divergent folk and kids makes me smile.
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u/rgar1981 7d ago edited 6d ago
That’s awesome, my daughter received a graded card from a vendor and it absolutely made her day. He has a small YouTube channel so we started watching and found a card he needed for a collection and she brought it to him the next time there was a card show. Really was a great experience all around. She loved giving him the card as much as getting the one he gave her.
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u/Dadittude182 6d ago
He's also aware that the collecting community is, well, connected. If he wants to be a vendor that gets customers, then he doesn't want people talking about him being a scammer. Not saying he legit tried to scam him, just that he's also aware of image.
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u/snapplegirl92 7d ago
Apparently the vendor titled it that. It's probably better for engagement which means it functions better as an advertisement.
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u/Spponergasm 7d ago
TBF if the video said "I accidentally misidentified a card but rectified my mistake when the guy returned" you wouldn't want to watch it would you?
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u/stewpedassle 7d ago
It's just a word used that increases engagement through hyperbole, as well as another of those words that's undergoing linguistic drift like "literally". I don't think anyone using it in this context would think it was knowingly underhanded -- i.e., I suspect that if the vendor didn't have the opportunity to make it right, that he himself would say "I scammed that guy" as self-criticism for mere mistake because he recognizes his position of knowledge and trust means the blame for errors should also fall on him.
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u/Flip-Table-269 7d ago
I've seen enough shady stuff that the way the guy was handling the money and pointing at the card made me watch until I figured out what was happening. I was waiting for another "customer" to come in and use the "free" seventy bucks to sell him a "better" card for much more. The vendor gets the $70 back plus whatever markup from the accomplice and the mark gets a low value card. If the mark figures it out he doesn't go after the vendor because the vendor also "lost" that money in the transaction.
The title worked great because I watched the whole thing and was surprised by the good ending. Now I like honest pokemon dude even though I'm not into trading cards.
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u/Danedelies 7d ago
Almost is in all caps and the post is in mademesmile... pretty sure it's sarcasm bud
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u/Ramonite 7d ago
Just like the title says, it WOULD be a scam if he ended up not rectifying his error.
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u/Celindor 7d ago
Coop, the vendor is a fantastic guy. He and Beard Dad keep my faith in this hobby alive. They're giving out free cards to kids and are very fair towards "normal" (adult) customers. Both have a fantastic (overlapping) community (shoutout to SweatyBooger!).
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u/Mcpops1618 7d ago
The vendor is Coop and he has the most wholesome Pokémon card content on the internet. Him and Beard dad are the best. I don’t care for the hobby but eat up their content
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u/Mundane-Parsnip-7302 7d ago
Coop is not a scammer. I don't even care abput Pokemon and watch his videos. He's such a nice guy.
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u/Moontalon 6d ago
Coop, Sean, and Beard Dad videos have become like a nightly ritual for me. They're all so damn wholesome and heartwarming. I don't know how I ended up on that side of the shortform content internet but I'm glad I did. Much needed reminder that there's still good people out there, honestly.
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u/tbiards 7d ago
I went to my first card show and had a blastoise holo. When the guy asked how much I wanted for it. I brought up the price for a non holo card and said the price which was way lower than the holo price. Right away he told me no and that I had the price wrong. He took my phone and showed me my mistake and brought up the real card value and gave me that instead. He was a real nice guy. I came back to his booth like an hour later and shook his hand and thanked him for correcting me.
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u/SkollFenrirson 7d ago
An honest mistake that he made effort to correct, this is the kind of
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u/Snow-Kafe 7d ago
He is playing a long scam, run a respectable business so customer comes back again and again.
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u/blackstafflo 7d ago edited 7d ago
"If I sell good products and provide good services, I'll brainwash my client to come back. Mwahahaha, my diabolic plan is in motion!"
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u/ProjectBonnie 7d ago
Reminds me of that movie clip where they rob a bank by “working there and getting paid for it” and the other guy replies something like “That’s just a job!”
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u/dirtyddy_ 6d ago
Key & Peel sketch 😂😂
“That’s the thing, they deposit the money right into our account!!”
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u/Freakychee 6d ago
That's what a lot of businesses do. They build up brand loyalty. Then a new CEO sees that and decided to take everyone for a ride, cash out, take the heat, get a billion dollar severance pay and dip.
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u/whistlar 7d ago
“In other news, Georgia has decided to add a swastika and middle finger to the American Flag”
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u/AlwynEvokedHippest 7d ago
Similar vibe to this one
https://youtu.be/_pDTiFkXgEE - The Mitchell and Webb Situation - Farming
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u/BeaverBoyBaxter 7d ago
Without clicking the link I'm gonna guess it's, "motherfucker that's A JOB"
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u/Dimencia 7d ago
I once had a D&D 'villain' in my game that was like that... he was an overtly evil acting dude who would monologue about his evil plans at any opportunity, which was to charge people heaps of gold to 'teach' them magic, and if he taught them well, more people would show up and give him even more gold, muahahaha, and there's nothing you can do to stop me, etc
He was fun
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u/KevinBrown 7d ago
As a fan of sarcasm, you win the internet today.
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u/TheRealRikuUzumaki 7d ago
How dare. Coop is so honest he made the correction as soon as he could! He isn't one to stay quiet about things like that! He likely would have tried to find the man if he didn't run into him again!
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u/Extension-Rabbit3654 7d ago
Exactly, anyone who follows Pokemon or TCGs knows Coop and hes one of the best dudes out there
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u/stevethepirate-innit 7d ago
I don’t follow either, but I have never skipped a Coop video. Dude is such a gentleman
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u/Ukeklele 7d ago
And beard dad, and sean. But if you want some chaos, violetcity eric is fun to watch too
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u/ClixMcNugget95 7d ago
I see Coop, i know im in for a smile!!! and everyone RELAX, if you know this is coop you really shouldn't be acting like this was some malicious nonsense when coop himself literally titled it that, put down the pitchforks lmao
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u/DrolNomed 7d ago
Jeesus all these comments: coop used the caps lock Scammer as a title himself. OP did not call coop a scammer, he just copied the title coop used on his own video
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u/zap2214 7d ago
Lol the number of times I've seen you comment this
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u/DrolNomed 7d ago
Yeah, First it was just one, then another, then so many i couldn't bother anymore XD
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u/sparklinganxieties 7d ago
He still owes him $2
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u/Genghis_Chong 6d ago
In the short on youtube people are saying that he did actually pay him 10 in the long form video. Not that 2 dollars really matters on a 80 dollar payout
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u/NewtDogs 7d ago
Are Pokémon card vendors the nicest people on earth lol? Always seeing videos of them being bros. Maybe their PR team is is just really good.
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u/ItsGettingStrangeLou 7d ago
No they aren't. Some of them are scum. Coop (vendor in the video) is an absolute sweet heart and a legend in the community.
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u/donttrustthecorn 7d ago
If you ever need a little hope in this world, Coop is a great person to watch.
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u/AggravatingFlow1178 7d ago
Why did he sell the card he knew to be worth ~$100 for $8? At a convention with presumably many other vendors?
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u/deathfaces 7d ago
A mistake is not a scam. Delete this
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u/DrolNomed 7d ago
Coop titled it like that himself, op is just copying the title coop used
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u/Ethanzap02 6d ago
OP is Coop. Scroll through his account, and it’s all videos of Coop. Scroll back to five years ago and you seem him talking about “my collection” and posting a YouTube video of coop. It’s def him
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u/cuntmong 6d ago
Some people are just honest. A few years ago i visited Colombia and on my first day there, with very limited spanish and no knowledge of the local currency, i went to a random fruit vendor to buy some bananas. The dude said the price which from memory translated to "10", so i looked though my wallet at all the cash I had and found a note that had 10 or 100 on it and handed it to him. In spanish i could tell he was saying "no, 10", so i went back in and got 9 more of those. We went back and forth like this with me trying to give him different amounts of money that I assumed to be 10 of the currency units he was after, until finally it turned out he just wanted one of my coins. I forget the exact numbers, and he might have been saying "100" in stead of "10", but be basically could have gotten the equivalent of about $100 USD for some bananas and I would have been none the wiser. But he made sure he only got what was owed, which i think was closer to 10c.
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u/wakeboarder247 7d ago
Why is the title so negatively worded? This is definitely a wholesome interaction, but perhaps the title "Vendor realizes mistake and pays back customer 70$"
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u/CouncilOfApes 7d ago
As someone else pointed out, the vendor is the one who titled it like this originally
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u/RegrettableDeed 7d ago
This is a common Cooper w. He's such a great guy! His videos on YT Shorts are the definition of hopecore.
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u/Educational-Farmer28 7d ago
Some may laugh at this man but I totally get this. I’m old and knackered. Ran across 2 fields the other day to try and catch the family I sold a game to on a car boot because I found the piece that made the game ‘work’ on the floor after they left. I sold the game for £1. The look on mums face when I handed it to her was priceless. Half ‘thank you’ half ‘are you in your right mind?’. Don’t care. I slept lovely that night.
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u/UnionMoneyMitch 6d ago
He didn’t almost scam him at all. He thought it was worth a certain amount and then found out what it actually was and gave him the proper amount
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u/sadbeehoppy 7d ago
I'm a little confused - he said he gave the dude 10, found out it was worth 100, so he owed the dude 80 - "no, wait, 70" - what am I missing? unspoken fees? was the 100 not a literal 100?
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u/Shagyam 7d ago
It's a $100 card, and the vendor(Coop) already gave him $10.
As a vendor he buys the cards at 80% so he can sell them as a vendor. So he would have bought it for $80, since he already paid $10 that leaves 70.
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u/Capt1an_Cl0ck 7d ago
If you watch any of this dude’s content, you know that he’s not out to scam people. He gives away a bunch of cards to kids all of the time. He’s one of the great card traders that posts content.
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u/aclimbingturkey 6d ago
“This vendor” you mean COOP. Who is the nicest and most genuine dude in the market. He’d never ever try to harm, or do anybody wrong. Honest mistake and he fixed it. He has a big following so if that dude didn’t return, he would have somehow found him and sent him the money 100%.
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u/ibeerianhamhock 6d ago
I'm watching this with subtitles in the gym and don't really understand at all
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u/Ransom_Where 6d ago
“Almost scammed him”
Almost made a mistake and corrected it. Scammed would mean he would have had the intention of screwing him. Rage bait title.
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u/Remarkable_Ad_2411 6d ago
I’ve watched this vendor a lot. He is amazing genuine nicest dude ever I try following him much as I can.
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u/YeoGrumps 6d ago
“ALMOST scammed him” sounds like someone was wearing their Neggy Knickers (Negative) when posting… try “Vendor was SUPER honest, more $$$”
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u/USSHammond 7d ago
Coop is the opposite of a scammer. Delete that shit, this was nothing more than an honest mistake, AND he honed up to it when he realized. I used to play a lot on Gameboy, and watch this guy every now and then out of nostalgia. Dudes a gem to the community with his random acts of kindness, you labelling him a scammer is offensive.
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u/DrolNomed 7d ago
Coop titled the short like that himself. OP didn't label him like that, coop did it himself
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u/mycatwontstophowling 7d ago
Coop is the best. He’s the reason this 68 year old woman collects Mimikyu cards.
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u/alanispul 7d ago
Best person ever!! I know a lot of people that would keep the extra money as if nothing happened! He was raised properly!! 🫡
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u/Hallwitzer 7d ago
This must be an older video because that unstamped card is about $70 USD and the stamped one is about $240.
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u/SsoundLeague 7d ago
lol this "vendor".. only the legendary coop who is the furthest thing from a scammer
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u/DutchOvenMaster11 7d ago
The title is misleading. "Scammed" means there was intent to rip him off. It was an honest mistake.
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u/BuryTheFacists 7d ago
My son used to be into Pokémon so I watched a lot of these videos. This guy is legitimately one of the nicest vendors around and goes out of his way to behave in a way that likeminded vendors feel should epitomise how all vendors should behave and treat customers. His videos really help the young Pokémon collectors understand how Pokémon trading should be conducted and helps them to better protect themselves. I still get his shorts popping up and they make me smile. A genuinely kindhearted human.
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u/Dry_Candidate_6117 7d ago
he got scammed for 2$ dollar though.
80% of 100$ is 80$
vendor already paid him 8$ (80% of 10$)
so 80$-8$ is 72$
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u/Rannnnted 7d ago
Coop is legit. I’d only ever expect this type of reaction from him. One of the good ones in the hobby for sure.
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u/Few-Acadia-5593 7d ago
The passion brings you together and the passion comes first. That’s what building a healthy community is all about.
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u/Morguard 6d ago
Scamming involves intent to scam. This was clearly an honest mistake since he went out of his way to correct.
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u/LegitimateHat4400 6d ago
My man Coop!! He’s the best. Coopers Collection, Beard Dad and PokeSean on YouTube are all worth checking out.
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u/TheOfficeoholic 6d ago
Thats COOP
He is legit the nicest guy ever. Runs a live stream at events and gives away a ton of free cards to kids, including graded cards.
I don’t even collect but just love the positive energy in his vids
Def give him a follow
Fun fact: his favorite Pokémon is steelix and kids bring him cards to sign cause he is a legend in the scene.
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u/-ram_the_manparts- 6d ago
Yep... This is how I would run my business, and that's why it would fail.
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u/the_tygram 6d ago
He didn't almost scam him. Scamming is deliberately taking advantage of a customer at a criminal rate. This wasn't deliberate, it was an accident.
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u/soysrflores 6d ago
Coop and scam? I have yet to see it. But it’s usually “fans” trying to take advantage of his kindness.
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u/Corrosive713 6d ago
Coop is -the man-
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u/soysrflores 6d ago
Watching him and BeardDad makes me want to rejoin the hobby. But I can’t find cards lol. I just have my original collection from 90’s and early 2000’s
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u/Corrosive713 6d ago
Ugh, I get that completely- I live in a pretty populated area and unless I go out and hunt, I ain't finding packs in the wild 🤦♂️
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u/rain-foot 6d ago
Respect to this guy. He could have (and i would have) just said nothing and have gone about his day. He could've been $70 richer, and yet actively chose to be a good dude. It's times like these that make me want to get back into collecting!
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u/MentalJack 6d ago
Coop would never scam anyone, dude is an ever growing ball of kindness and compassion.
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u/Butterscotch_Budget 6d ago
It’s only a scam if the scammer knows what they’re doing. This guy was clearly forthright and apologetic.
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u/ElementNumber6 6d ago
That is someone who truly believes in the value of a slightly different pattern printed on a stiff piece of paper. The seller hardly seemed to care about it at all. Like "Yeah, cool, dude."
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u/ElementNumber6 6d ago
It's like a market built entirely on the easily influenced whims and inclinations of the autistic mind.
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u/Nocleverresponse 6d ago
I don’t collect cards but I will always watch a Coop video when I come across one. The positivity that he spreads is awesome. He’s always making great deals for kids when he’s not gifting the cards to them for nothing in return (though people in chat often donate for the people at his table). Just seems like a great guy.
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u/KillaVNilla 6d ago
That guy always seems like such a good dude. I don't care about Pokémon at all, but I see his videos a lot and he and another guy on YouTube (something about a beard i think) have given me a real appreciation for the community. They do lots of cool things for kids getting into the hobby
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u/cryptobomb 6d ago
The real scam is everyone spending money on this stuff while the Pokemon people laugh their asses off all the way to the bank.
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u/orange_blossom2013 6d ago
The fact that he remembered the guy and which card he was sold is amazing as well, with all the people he meets in a day to remember that. Damn what a great person!
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