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The original was posted on /r/tifu by /u/Small_Desk_4344 on 2024-04-07 20:10:12.

TIFU - Important detail to the story I work as a eBay seller for a sport card company.

So my friend group LOVES to take “gambles” if we see a box of cards we open them. I have two friends who in a whim decided to go an hour and a half to a video game/ movie convention.

I get a call at 6pm asking if I can would go in on a 1000$ can’t miss mystery box. I instantly show hesitation, but ITS A MYSTERY BOX!

I ask what’s inside and they say the vendor said 2000$ in value. Most items are autographed from creators and there is a chance to win a brand new console! Okay I’m sold!

I send my friend the 333$ for my share of the box and eagerly wait for them to come back so we can dig in. They finally get to my house around 10PM and we start to dig in……

Not only are there ZERO autographs but it is a box of JUNK! I mean this vendor through everything he couldn’t sell into a box with a question mark on it and sold it for 1000$!!!

As we are digging we find random masks, chipped coffee mugs, random pins and figurines, but ZERO autographs. So we are nervously laughing as we get farther and farther into this box.

We finally get to the bottom and in total we have around 20-30 items all worth 5-10 dollars. My friends knowing what I do for work Insist I sell it to recoup as much money as we can. I say over and over no way but at the same time I knew they would never do it.

Now I am currently out 350$ and have a massive box of junk in my bedroom that I need to deal with. Only way to describe this. ABSOLUTE DISASTER!

“TL;DR:” I trusted my friends on an opportunity to make a flip selling gaming collectibles. I’m now stuck with a pile of junk and hours upon hours of work to scrap back maybe a 3rd of my “investment”

Okay let me have it. How dumb am I?