The shiny stuff is enduring in the face of extreme cost.
A box of 2024 Topps Chrome at release time cost just under $2 **per card** in the pack. We know breaking modern stuff is gambling, but that is the current buy-in.
That said, there's no shortage of buyers and the post-COVID, enduring-inflation (though slowing), etc reality we're in hasn't killed the spending spirit even with the cost getting more and the odds for "hits" getting worse.
I would have thought that fan base would be one of the first to jump ship from the hobby once the world opened up again. I seem to be wrong.
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