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Originally Posted by baseballcarding
I have to say hearing breakers doing 10 case breaks today just irritates me how I couldn’t get a single box at msrp. I guess it just is what it is but how does this help the hobby long term? Or maybe this is the only way to help the hobby long term?
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Originally Posted by glorbgorb
I mean, this seems to be the collective sentiment as soon as we heard Topps was getting the license and UD was out.
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The group breaking model is how the card manufacturer squeezes the most value out of their products. Without it, trading card products would worth a fraction of their current values.
But average people don't want to gamble on trading cards. And they don't have the desire or ability to spend significant amounts of disposable income, or max out their credit cards, participating in breaks. So, it's not a way to sustainably grow the market size of the "hobby" -- it's just a way to squeeze addicts and suckers out of more money.