How To Pull A KABOOM Guaranteed (Not Clickbait)

Not for nothing, but this has been going on for a decade or more. People use to ask me to check those silver sticker #s quite a bit back in 2012 and on. Then when I open the box, they would always get a big hit or case hit. That seemed so unfair to me. So at that point I stopped showing sticker #s and made it where people had to roll the dice or pick a number. Also in other products the code # inside the box would tell if you got the case hit. The 8 string # would change for the case hit, but that was in the inside the wrapped box. But once I figured out people could find sequences, I refused to show those sliver sticker #s and made people pick a #. For many years, I would write in sharpie # 1 to 12 on the boxes once the case was opened. Then they had to pick #s or roll the dice. I did this so the people that were following the case, would know I wasn't switching out boxes, etc. I use to draw faces on the Flawless boxes, so people would know that was the leftover box. I would do anything to show that I wasn't switching any boxes out of a case. But I wouldn't show the identifying silver sticker #s to identify them.

I was one of the 1st members of LMS Breaks. We speak sporadically being that we are on opposite ends of the country. I broke with him because of his integrity. Phenomenal. I'm also so very proud and happy for Kev. & Gio. ...and I can continually be happy that everyone that buys from him will get an equal chance at a monster.

Hats off to LMS for doing the right thing and bringing this to light.

SPORTS CARD RADIO once again helping and saving us from getting ripped off. Thank you SCR for informing us with this significant information about loaded boxes.

Being severely green to collecting, videos like this scare the shit out of me but I’m so grateful there’s good guys like this in the hobby

By keeping the sequence secret, you allow the nefarious people to capitalize on that. They could buy cases and resell the ones that wont have the card. If you properly educate the masses on what to look for when buying boxes, you can better prevent people from getting screwed over

They all are in it together! I have stopped buying boxes and even packs a while ago I will go buy what I want and that's it. These card companies are so dishonest it makes me sick. This stuff has been going on for years! Keep up the good work in exposing these guys. Love the channel!

I love Crown Royale and I love collecting the Silhouettes with the Prime patches in the background. I only buy into breaks if I can pick my team and there was one WhatNot breaker that ran PYT’s. For a good while when the product was new, he would run four breaks a night with each break having 1/4 of a fresh case. I watched these breaks off and on for a few weeks. Anyway, all 10/10 cases that I saw him break the Kaboom would always be found in the final 1/4 of the case. This would drive up the demand for each subsequent break and allow the breaker to get more money for each spot since it was always “Kaboom is live”. Up until the final 1/4 case, which would then be the “Guaranteed Kaboom” break and prices would go way up. I always knew it was fishy, but I figured that the Kaboom box was always in the same position within the case (like 3rd from the bottom on the right for example). Well now I guess that it was even easier than that and for sure these breakers knew the con.

Yeah you're going to see this all over eBay now. extra jacked up prices for the boxes with Kabooms. Hot boxes LOL

This is not the first time the hologram has been a give-away to the contents. Going old school on you here, but Upper Deck put out a box set in 1991 or 1992 that had a gold version randomly inserted in the cases. Only problem was, you guessed it, the hologram was the give away to the gold version! Now I feel old for remembering this!

I remember there was the same sort of thing with the Panini Donruss Soccer RTQ Hobby boxes too. The boxes had a series of numbers printed on the inside flap which would, eventually, indicate a case hit Kaboom or not

Saw a dude do this today on whatnot, makes me wonder how many breakers and card shop owners know this too and knowingly hold the kaboom for their last break of the night selling the dream in all their early breaks of “kaboom is active” knowing they are holding the kaboom for the last break of night and off loading their shit boxes first pumping the bids on early breaks selling the dream of hitting the kaboom, and even one step further once the breaker finds the code out they just keep the kaboom for themselves and NEVER EVEN PUT IT INTO A BREAK and continue to sell the dream

Being able to figure out what products have inside by serial #s has been around for many years. People have been buying cases for a long time just to figure out the pattern and reselling the boxes to companies like blowout and Dave&Adams. My LCS has been putting price stickers over the serial #s just for this very reason.

Yep. Been this way for a while. I remember opening cases of UD NFL stuff way back in the day and there would be a couple boxes in each case that would have serial numbers out of sequence on the NFL holograms. Some products is definitely meant something, others not so much.

this is REALLY BIG! thank you guys for breaking this into the public! hats off to LMS and SCR, hopefully Panini do something about this.

This goes back to when I started. 1989 Upper Deck. Upper left, three packs down… Griffey Jr Rookie. I bought every one in the state. Ha ha and I was just a kid.

You guys continue to be the most important channel in the hobby, always holding people accountable it’s needed now more than ever!

I'd say there is a very high chance this stuff has gone on for years and only a very select group of people were onto it. The people that could figure it out the easiest are of course those massive breakers that do many cases of each product. Would be pretty easy to just take note of what came from what box and compare those stickers to find similar patterns after 4 or 5 cases.

My guess is there are combos on all Panini boxes where the numbers correspond to what is in the box. I would say that codes exist for Select, NT, Crown, Prizim. Wonder if there is a code for downtowns on One and One basketball??

Good on these guys from LMS for helping bring this to light. Sadly I feel these guys are more in the minority than the majority of "breakers" in the hobby. I'm so glad I have no interest in ever buying boxes of modern cards, it just gets more and more shady.