I gotta say, leaving a million dollars on the floor during SHOW CLEANUP is ridiculous, it was literally the last thing on the floor.

You need to embed an AirTag in those cases. Or add some kind of sensor that will alert you when the case gets moved.

This guy has no chance. Video is everywhere…

@Narynan1

14 күн бұрын

Well, I would alllllllmost think that if he had really thought it through, a facemask (standard Kn95 does the trick) and less IDable clothes would have made this a very hard person to find. Instead it seems like we have... an opportunistic idiot.

As someone that sets up at large gaming events, this is 100% on the thieves and 100% on the vendors. Like, how are you going to let unknown people into your booth? We have processes in place where NO ONE is allowed into the booth unless you are with the team, that includes convention staff. And if for some reason staff has to go in, some one is assigned to watch them the whole time.

@popsequentialism7213

15 күн бұрын

That's 200% 🤔

@stusomers8613

15 күн бұрын

@@popsequentialism7213 As an accountant, your math checks out

This kind of theft will be the bane of all "comic book shows" to come. They will need security guards.

Confirms my policy of not posting my comics.

Take this how you will. When I was a Young Artistic Boy working at McDonald's lol. My manager Jessica told me things that I'm supposed to do when at the cash register. 1 of them was that I was never opposed to my back to my cash register if it's open. Common sense but 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️ If you're at a show especially when you have product worth over a million dollars you should always have somebody at the table no matter what looking over the table and they cannot leave or have eyes off it. Just saying this should be a learning lesson for many businesses that you should always have somebody with eyes on your table and eyes on your product. Small Talking can come later. When your at a show until you leave its time to Work... Coming from me a person on the Spectrum telling Normal people how to behave in public 🤣

Sad world we live in now

Even Swaggle gettin in on this story. It is a wild one

That's terrible, but who leaves a million dollars unguarded? I would have had that box handcuffed to my wrist.

I just lost over 50 of my grails at Shortboxed Live event in San Jose. Handed over my boxes of comics to CGC and all the vintage and modern stuff came back but the high value and unlimited value boxes disappeared. CGC claims books made it to Florida but won’t provide a tracking number and now I am in insurance purgatory. Sure wish I had insured those books myself but last time I checked the cost of insurance was about $2k a month for my collection. Oh well. I feel really bad for those dealers and hope the crooks get caught. Thanks for posting Swag.

Man - i just appreciate these type of vids - I hope we get more of this stuff and it catches the jerks, so it's well known that you just don't steal collectibles at shows, etc, or you'll get caught. I flipping despise thieves as is, but god dang this stuff has to stop.

How could somebody leave a million dollar case of sports cards unattended like that. Insurance scam or inside job?

@rogera616

15 күн бұрын

Neither, the people attending the cards were distracted. Did you even watch the video?

@TT-fq7pl

15 күн бұрын

@@rogera616 How could you possibly allow yourself to be so easily distracted with a million dollar case of sports cards in your possession?

@Thisistheway-2187

15 күн бұрын

Hate to say it but after watching the video thats the first thing i thought of. I’m sure most vendors know when there is CCTV coverage. And if there were 3 men working the take they would have known there were cameras too. Either they were really dumb or really had this planned to have them on camera.

@MetalBum

15 күн бұрын

Not scam or inside job smh. They’re all on camera they could get in way worse trouble trying to scam an insurance company

@randyhampton6281

14 күн бұрын

​@MetalBum really? A million bucks? On the floor?

"One million dollars in baseball cards, FREE! Be quick, first come first served!"

I hope the people labeled as "lookouts" are actually guilty, otherwise the implication of complicity (since there is no proof and none them actually grabbed the case) is potentially libelous.

It is so sad that theft like this take place. If these guys get caught, I wonder if they were even do any jail time. By the way for information purposes the card that you’re talking as a Mickey Mantle rookie card is actually a 1952 tops and is not the rookie. Mickey Mantle rookie is a 1951 Bowman card. It is a very common mistake that people outside of the comic world make because the 52 tops is a much more valuable card even though it is his second card.

Actually the more I look at this the more I’m not buying that this was a legit heist. No owner turns away from this caliber of merchandise. Something stinks here, I just can’t put my finger on it. This looks like an inside job.

I think my Mom owes me a million dollars since she threw away all my cards from that era. Well maybe not a million but 55 years later it still hurts.

my local comic shop owner told me he will not keep anything in the shop $300+. all high value individual sale itmes are online only. makes sense.

In the current economy with very sluggish sales of non-essential items, the vigorish on loans that many high-end dealers carry overdue, color me skeptical and put me in the column of those whose guess is that these cards were very RECENTLY insured for the high end of full price index retail value. 🤔

This dealer had no security person ?

Pefectly executed plan. I worked loss prevention for 30 years, It's commonly done this way. The group splits up distracts everyone and boom. Done. Seen it sooo many times.

No one buys sports cards anymore. How are they worth that much?

@Acheron_426

14 күн бұрын

Vintage Baseball cards are worth more on the whole than comics by a wide margin.

@soullesstaco9897

14 күн бұрын

I am the only one out of friends and family who collects comics. While tons of my friends collect cards sports/pokimon/magic etc. Sports cards as a whole bury comics by a wide margin just look at any auction site.

@richardolney1822

12 күн бұрын

Sports cards are doing much better than comics. They keep breaking record sales. A 1of1 Luka Doncic rookie card from 2018 sold for $4.6 million in 2021!

Way to support Swaggle. I salute you.

There is also a girl off to the right that was likely involved, one aisle over from the targeted booth. She appears to be a lookout. I think two of the booth workers may have been involved, as well.

Sad that the an X-Men 1 was stolen from a well known member of the community at a convention and it wasn’t worth making a video, but baseball cards made the cut.

@kylereist3655

15 күн бұрын

The value was much less, that’s why.

@Buckshot33

15 күн бұрын

@@kylereist3655 It shouldn't matter if it's a long time and good member of the community getting a grail book stolen at a con in the same city.

@Acheron_426

14 күн бұрын

Baseball cards made the cut? These are Mantle rookie cards which 💩 on X-Men 1 in terms of value. And I say this as an X-Men collector.

@richardolney1822

12 күн бұрын

Comics being stolen at conventions happens a lot, did Swag even hear about the X-Men 1? The Comics Den they were at Megacon last year and a vendor got a $20k AF15 stolen from him. Most channels didn't talk about it.

@Acheron_426

12 күн бұрын

@@richardolney1822 20k is a drop in the bucket compared to 1 million+

There is a shop about 20 miles north of me, awhile back, he had several people in his store, two guys started to fight each other. Owner came out to break it up. Afterwards his FF # 1 was gone off the wall. No cameras ! It was all a set up. To this day, he us not the same guy he used to be. So sad that things like this happen 😢 DTA don't trust anyone with your comics or cards.😮

One thing is when people get caught they should be publicly named and shamed. I don't understand why all the scammers involved with the CGC shenanigans last year were not. I mean if you know people in the know you can find that but they should be shamed in public videos on channels like yours. I feel like it would be a big deterrent.

Sad

That is so freaking sad. One of the frustrating things is, I bet that group was breaking all of those slabs out.

@ScottTice1971

15 күн бұрын

They will have to. All of these cert numbers are now listed as stolen.

Stop advertising everything you have!

@DW3010

15 күн бұрын

Exactly. I know someone who calls social media media show off media. And that’s what it’s becoming. Don’t advertise what you have on social media. If only a close a few people know what you have, and something happens, the suspect list is much shorter.

@MetalBum

15 күн бұрын

That was at a shopping booth

Of course these are dirtbags but honestly some blame goes to the seller. There is no way that I’d leave $1,000,000+ of merchandise left unattended.

Good looking out

Quick, Frank! Find out where Robert Deniro and Edward Norton were during the time

Good lookin’ out Swag!

Just sayin....smells funny

The thief will have to crack them all as they all have serial numbers on them, also no way he does not get caught

@crzdcolombian

15 күн бұрын

holds it for a while then cracks same as when comics get taken. If they are smart enough to go after huge keys and go for graded stuff they would have to be smart enough to know these have serial numbers. Tho if someone is stupid enough to try to sell 3 Micky Mantle cards at 1 time haha . Well lets hope he dumb enough

@ransom6892

15 күн бұрын

Somebody said they could just send them to Asia and sell as is. Plus we don’t know what citizenship these guys hold, we know they are Hispanic, so no telling where they are now. Could have left the country

@Kevin-fn1rn

15 күн бұрын

How would he get caught if he cracks them & piecemeal grades lol them lol

@crzdcolombian

15 күн бұрын

@@Kevin-fn1rn magically having 3-4 of the same Grail comic/card that was stolen seems suspicious unless your a massive reseller that could potentially have access to stuff like this. But anyone else just randomly grading 3-4 copies of AF 15 or X-men #1 when a few had recently been stolen would be a pretty big red flag.

@Kevin-fn1rn

15 күн бұрын

@@crzdcolombian again. He could crack a psa slab and send to beckett/cgc vise versa and do it over the course of years. You can’t trace raw cards to anyone

He already flipped it all for a baggie of rocks he smoked up.

😢😢😢

Not trying to victim blame but, never keep all your eggs in one basket and then leave it unguarded. 1 million+ in cards in a briefcase on the floor 20 feet away from the owner?!

Did they catch the met?

Let’s be real here. Pawnshops will not be getting this stuff. This will end up broken down from the slabs and resubmitted to a new holder with new certifications. A raw card looks the same between one another. It will be broken down and sent to auction in increments slowly.

@Narynan1

14 күн бұрын

A raw card is not the same as one another. I believe with a large enough image database and software, I could tell you each of of these cards via grading metrics alone. They are all visually distinct enough. Hell that PSA 6 Mantel could be measured to the pixel and ran as a comparison against all others in the future. Or, you set the software to looking for any left borders w/in 1% variance of the card and then you're really only looking at a few hundred of the same over all card, and all future submissions. This is actually really easy to do, but the companies are not motivated to do this. Why? Because they dont actually care, really. The people in charge are not connected with this part of the hobby in a way that would allow anyone from a "cost standpoint" to decide than any of this "needs" to be implemented. And then they resub and the company makes its money. Not to say that it will happen THIS time, but it HAS happened..... likely 1000s of times before.

@Hobbiest34243

14 күн бұрын

@@Narynan1your expecting that those cards came out of those holders with utmost care in mind if they are going to do so. Realistically, if those thief’s were smart you don’t send that to the original holders certified companies. The smart thing is to send them to different companies and handle those cards to where you get a half a point to a point lower on the grade. Surface, edges, gloss gets altered by improper handling. What dose the thief care! He’s going to make money even on lower grades! Also, in a court of law it’s going to be very difficult to prosecute bad people who send altered cards in raw even tho there’s pictures from when they were not altered by handling. Old pictures of stolen items become indistinguishable when it’s been altered.

@richardolney1822

12 күн бұрын

@@Hobbiest34243 The problem is everybody knows about the theft. If they send off a raw Mantle card it will raise some red flags. They'd be better off sending them to TAG or HGA or some other small grading company, but even that is risky. Also a lot of people won't care the cards are stolen if they are cheap enough. If somebody offered you a AF15 for $1000 you gonna pass on that?

maybe the vendor was in on it, and its an insurance scam

Cameras everywhere to include outside. More face recognition from them to include vehicle tag id. Too many scumbag thiefs involved, they'll rat each other out. Sad situation for dealer however can't have pity for 'em because it was just plain ignorant, stupid or both not to hire two armed plain clothes off-duty cops. Probably would have cost him $400.00 ($200.00 ea.) for the entire day. Better than loss of one million!