yes...you do have to view and spot check many of the cards or you're going to lose out big time if you buy the whole port. they can make the first few cards appetising, but increase some base cards a few dollars to make up for any loses. and if you buy a port like that with a base card of $5 when the same card is being sold by everyone else for .25cents, you just lost $4.75 on that card. unfort there's no way to get around it unless you check a few. like i said- i bought one port - and got lucky.. i was/am able to make profit on each card bought- probably someone who just wanted to dump off a bunch of cards.