Alternate Universes - Holmes

Absolutely love the new location. ask for Ben, he's super informed about the current state of the games we love to play. I legit stood and geeked out with Shane for 30 minutes about nothing but MTG. I think I've found my new gaming home. 💯

Everyone that works here is a cocky know it all. Treats you like you know nothing about the TCG. I don’t think anyone at this store has ever even made eye contact with me while talking to them Just make the trip to royal cardz over the Walt Whitman bridge if you want to find a good shop

Terrible place to go and trade for cards to cash. Couldn't even be served 1 night because the "short-staff" was running 2 events and couldnt take 5 minutes to serve 2-3 customers & over this weekend I get lowballed by your staff on cards that were middlemaning for scalpers from what it seemed. Literal cancer to the card playing scene and proper foreshadowing to these card shops getting robbed or raided.

My kid loves visiting this shop for pokemon cards. Staff is great and usually remembers us and lets us know of new products that would interest us.

I typically don’t write long reviews, but I had to for this store. TLDR: They sell resealed/tampered packs. My brother told me about the store nearby and I was excited because I just got back into collecting Pokémon cards after SV 151 released. I love to support local businesses instead of big brand stores, so this was great news. He wanted to surprise me for my birthday so he went by himself and got me a GENEROUS gift of 38 fusion strike packs and 36 lost origin packs. I bought a twilight booster box which came in as well, so it was going to be a glorious day of ripping (hopefully). Fast forward, we get to ripping the lost origin and everything is great. Packs feel legitimate, cards feel good; great, so far so good. Now comes the fusion strike which we are all excited for. My wife really wants the alt art Espeon and this was our first chance of potentially getting it. We all take a pack, and rip it. Top and bottom tabs don’t rip off the seams on any of our packs. Weird. All 3 packs, cards are warped to oblivion almost as if they bathed in the sun and air. Weird, okay; no big deal. We open another one each. All cards warped again. Odd. We don’t let it get to us and we continue ripping. Then we hit 3 Appleton V’s back to back, regular holos with white code cards, upside down code cards. I immediately stop and inspect the booster packs and YES without a doubt every single fusion strike booster was resealed or tampered with. I didn’t even second guess this as they are a local reputable shop. The crimping is completely off, there’s guidelines on the boosters for where to cut. The packaging is uneven and there’s extra plastic on the top and bottom tips. I attached a picture of the twilight I opened and the fusion strike bought from here, you be the judge. Fast forward, we go to the shop with our unopened packs and evidence. We politely explain to the representative that we believe the packs may be resealed. Almost immediately with an NPC like response; he says he opened the product in store himself. Smells fishy… okay. We try to show him the evidence, but he doesn’t even try to look at the pack to give us the benefit of the doubt. He explains it all away with poor manufacturing. I proceed to tell him that all the cards were warped, then he says “Oh, they may have came from the blue bell location.” Wait-a minute, first he opened them himself in store; and now they’re from the bluebell location? In the end, he allows us to trade the rest of our unopened packs (16) for lost origin and he throws in a few extra(4) which was nice. He then proceeds to take the fusion strike that was CLEARLY tampered with and puts it back on the shelf for resale and in my head I’m like ????????????? Please do not buy fusion strike from this store. For anyone who read this through, I thank you and hope you have a wonderful day. I love Pokémon, I love the community and I HATE scammers. Although I do not doubt the legitimacy of this store for all of their products, this experience left me with an extremely SOUR taste in my mouth. I will never come back. Please be vigilant and examine the packaging of all the product you buy. Happy collecting!