Private investigators are fine. Private thugs you send to someone’s house for a shake down? Not fine. You think he stole those cards? Great, call the cops. Get a warrant.

That’s not the point. The guy supposedly had stolen property. Okay, so send ACTUAL, LEGAL POLICE to ACTUALLY, LEGALLY arrest him for theft. What you don’t do is send hired goons to intimidate him and his family for no good fucking reason. People over property still applies. It’s a fucking card game. Everyone take a…

A 3rd party who has not signed a non disclosure agreement cannot “break” a street date. They are under zero obligation to keep a corporations secrets for them.

If you legally own a product posting videos of said product cannot, barring certain exceptions not relevant here, be illegal. And since if you didn’t order a product but get it nonetheless means you own that product means he owns those cards and had every right to post them. That they fucked up WOTC IP doesn’t matter…

So his wife in tears isn’t harmful? So you’re find if I show up and reduce your loved ones to tears over nothing?

The YouTuber did nothing illegal. If you are mailed a product you did not order, you get to legally keep it, doesn’t matter if it was a mistake and it matters even less if it has a street date on it. Street dates are an agreement with a retailer and manufacturer and has no bearing upon a random person who gets it…

The YouTuber broke no laws. Sending thugs is a choice. They sent thugs not investigators. Investigators don’t leave your wife crying, thugs do. 

The YouTuber broke no laws. Street dates are a contract between a retailer and the company and cannot be enforced upon anybody else who, say, gets the product early by accident. 

I can guarantee Pinkerton agents weren’t nice. The WOTC rep on the phone was nice.

It’s not the YouTubers job to correct the mistakes of the seller or WOTC. He doesn’t work for either of them. If you get something you did not order you can legally keep that item even though the company made a mistake. It’s not your job to fix their mistakes. 

The only relevant part of your post is the first half of the first sentence of the second paragraph. People over property.

The Pinkertons have a reputation that precedes them. If WotC admits that they employed them to resolve this, then I’ve heard everything I need to know as far as I’m concerned.

That he didn’t do anything illegal seems to be lost on a few people here.

I see a few comments here about this YouTuber committing a crime and he very much did not. Buy something before a street date is not a crime. It’s breach of contract from the seller but that is a civil matter.

Exactly! If the guy got them by “accident” before street date, that is on the company that sold it to him & WOTC. He did nothing wrong (according to his retelling of things) & they should have never allowed the Pinkerton’s into his home, much less hand anything over. If WOTC is so upset over this, have one of their…

Having worked at places that have broken street dates. You can’t go to jail for that. However the store could face a penalty for breach of contract and could possibly lose all business with WotC

On one hand WotC is well within their rights to be annoyed that something fell through the cracks and revealed the BIG TWIST they were trying to keep under wraps.

Sounds like the pinkertons escalated what should have just been a routine investigation

Pinkertons - the fellas you call when you think regular cops are too nice.

Sounds like the pinkertons escalated what should have just been a routine investigation into how those products got there. Which is why you shouldn’t hire pinkertons.