I took a small risk on 2 breaks this past year. Both single player breaks and both I bought one name in. They were unlicensed baseball so not the most costly. I got neither of the players I bought in either break. Probably $50 straight into a black hole.
You can imagine a 100-200 card checklist for a premium product starts to stack up $ pretty fast. Usually $500ish for the box and then sold to people I would say at an average of $20-$50 per player. Lets say the low end for both. 100 player list and and $20 a card
=$2000 for a $500 box. For top tier products (modern football/basketball mainly) you can multiply that number many many times over. At the peak of the boom I have no doubt these “flawless” and “immaculate” breaks were making well over $10,000 a case for opening up 50 or so cards.
Anyway, The breaker sent me a message a few weeks later with a copy/paste style response saying something like “We see you bought into a few breaks and didn’t get anything! That is unfortunate, sorry it can happen. We hope to see your name in the future”
Never again. And it seems like many people are in the same boat as seemingly breaking loses popularity by the day.
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