The issues have been somewhat mitigated in recent years by several factors. A second is the move by many major stores to move their trading card section to the area near checkouts, as opposed to in a back aisle. This makes it harder for weighers to weigh packs in-store.
Two immediate cases of clearly unethical pack-weighing come to mind. The first is the store weigher, which as a result of the countermeasures employed by stores and Pokemon has become less common.
This exploit leaves only non-holo packs on the shelves, and scams everyone else out of a fair chance at cards. The second is the person who buys a large number of packs, whether they be loose or from a box, weighs out the holographic ones, and then sells the remaining light packs without disclosing that they have been weighed.
Similarly to the store weigher, this person scams others out of the chance that they are paying for when they buy a pack.
These cases are so clearly unethical because the connection between pack weigher and scammed individual is direct. The misrepresentations and actions of the pack weigher directly result in an individual being scammed. However, what happens when there is less of a clear directional action? This is where we get into the murkier cases, with conditions and hypotheticals and less clarity than the cases we have here.
One example of a murkier case is purchasing and weighing packs, and then selling the lighter packs while disclosing that they are weighed. Nobody is making any misrepresentations as to what is being sold or bought, and each participant in the transaction is willing. However, there are still strong arguments as to why this is unethical.
By weighing the packs to begin with, the original seller is making it much easier for anyone down the road to turn the packs into the situation previously explained: selling packs the seller knows are weighed as unweighed, thereby scamming the individual who purchases them.
People who scam love buying weighed lots of packs, as it is incredibly easy to flip the packs and make money simply by listing them individually and not disclosing that they are weighed. Additionally, this ease of scamming is made possible by the direct actions of the original pack-weigher.
Despite their original listing of the packs as weighed, the purchaser does little to no work, as the unethical act of weighing has already been done. But again, this is murky, as there are legitimate reasons beyond just scamming that someone may want to buy a weighed pack.
Many people enjoy having sealed pack collections, or grading packs with PSA. Additionally, the weighed packs can be obtained at a lower price than unweighed packs. While I view weighing as inherently unethical, there are occasional cases where I believe the ethical issues are mostly minimized.
For example, selling a weighed pack privately to someone you know is purchasing it for a sealed collection or for professional grading.
Additionally, if you wish to open a box but keep the packs sealed or professionally grade them for your personal collection, this has limited to no issues because you are not transacting with the packs in any way.
A cursory search of eBay for WOTC-era packs will quickly turn up a significant number that have been weighed, and others confidently proclaiming that they have not been weighed.
This is not limited to the bottom-of-the-barrel of eBay sellers either; major, reputable Pokemon sellers have taken to selling packs either as heavy, light, or unweighed although this must be taken with some skepticism. This brings us to the major question: why is something that was in the past so universally rejected becoming normalized?
The first is fairly clear: money. Although through the years it has been getting increasingly more difficult to weigh packs accurately with new holo commons as well as weighted code cards, it can still be done. You used to need a scale that would weight to. Modern Japanese packs in which not every pack contains a holo can easily be weighted to at least reduce pull rates. These rare booster packs get their name for containing only rare cards inside the wrapping.
Weighing packs removes that chance that people are paying for, and therefore fits the textbook definition of scamming. SuMo era packs are not weighable. So getting two of two green cards in a row is highly likely.
Some booster boxes contain booster packs alone. The things separating EX cards and normal cards are that EX cards are usually more powerful than normal cards. GX cards are like EX cards in many regards. Theya re usually more powerful due to them being more fitted to the present meta as well as being newer in general.
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