Brandon
Shady Site, Bad Value, Better Alternatives Exist
Packs is one of the bigger/well known of these TCG gambling sites. Its also from what I've seen probably the worst of the sites in this category. It is one of the only sites in this category that hides the ownership who in this case seems the owners do not want it to be known they own it or are affiliated. They offer no way to review the site on site or encourage users to review places like here. Their only "credibility" comes from social media accounts, specifically twitter/x and reddit where they claim to monitor feedback and provide support. If you look at their accounts its mostly people saying there were not helped and even when those accounts comment and claim to provide support. There are several instances of users returning to the posts later saying they never got the support that their social media claimed would be provided. Online the site has multiple allegations of not sending cards or taking several months to send cards out. The site itself has seemingly one of the lowest and worst values of these sites (The other one I would compare it to is Purple Mana, which previously was my lowest rated, id put both at similar levels for value, although the UI is better here). Almost all of these reputable sites have some sort of rewards program since it can be so lucrative as a gambling site to incentivize people to return, packs does not despite having some of the worst odds/value and likely has better margins than most of the other big sites at least in terms of user money spent gambling. Anecdotally when spinning about 90% of my spins were losses, only 1 decent spin out of 40 spins worth $220 total. Demo's interesting seemed to get a top hit within a few spins almost every single time, and out of curiosity recorded results, and demo spins for me were profitable about 80% of the time over 100+ spins. Support claims demo spins represent exact same odds as real spins, but say this cant be verified. Its possible but the fact the odds were so heavily stacked including a top hit within a few boxes almost every box i went to, makes me heavily question this. All in all, in my most recent and my previous experiences this seems like a terrible site, if you are checking reviews considering using it, there are several sites that do it better, treat customers better, and are more transparent. If you are going to go gamble on a site like this my personal recommendations would be for Pullbox, Lootcase, NeoVault (i have no affiliation to any). Other than NeoVaults lack of MTG, there is not a single thing packs does better or as well, than any of those 3 sites.