Scamming Alert
I won and they kept it
Great app
Need's work
They suck
Not good
Never got rewards that I paid for
Love this idea
Scammers here to.
Scammed me out of a PSA 10 Mega Dragonite
This is a rip off
Cool Concept, But the Fees Make It Feel Like You’re Set Up to Lose
The concept behind Drip is actually really cool, and I understand that mystery packs come with risk. The app does disclose that depending on the pack you choose, you can receive something worth significantly less than what you paid, sometimes around 50% of the purchase price. My issue is what happens after you pull the item.
For simple math, let’s say you buy a $20 pack and pull a card valued at $10. If you decide you don’t want it, you may have the option to sell it back to the vendor, but you could take another 20–30% loss. So that $10 card might only give you around $7 back.
Then there’s the vault system. You would think you could just keep your card there until you decide what you want to do with it, but lower-value cards can automatically be sold back after only a few days. So unless you act quickly, you can lose the actual card and be forced into taking the reduced value.
Okay, so why not just ship the cards to yourself?
That’s where it became ridiculous for me.
I had around 40 cards that were probably worth about $40 total. When I went to redeem them, I was shown approximately:
* $1.41 service fee
* $3.53 estimated taxes
* $60 redemption fee
A $60 redemption fee to receive roughly $40 worth of cards is absurd. The redemption fee alone was worth more than the cards I was trying to ship.
So you can lose money when you open the mystery pack, lose more money if you sell the card back, potentially have lower-value cards automatically sold from your vault, and then get hit with service fees, taxes, and a redemption fee if you actually want the physical cards.
I understand that businesses need to make money and that mystery products involve risk. But the way this system is structured makes it feel like there is a fee or loss at almost every step.
The concept is fun, but after seeing how much it would cost me just to redeem my cards, I personally would not recommend using Drip unless you fully understand all of the fees and vault rules before spending money.
