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<p>[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 7878155, member: 118780"]Yes, this is one method of breaking. He also buys a box say for $800 with 40 packs, and sells each pack off for $50. People buy numbered packs. </p><p><br /></p><p>The most expensive cards are in boxes $500-$5000 that contain one to seven cards. He'll sell off numbered slots. With the higher priced boxes (he hasn't gotten to the $5k ones yet), there could be a card worth > $1M. The odds are small and it's very much a lottery, but since his goal is to eventually open these boxes on a regular basis, the odds are that he'll someday pull one of these cards.</p><p><br /></p><p>To me, it sounds crazy. Let's see... I can either own a top quality silver Eid Mar coin that's directly from one of the most monumental episodes of world history, or I can own a sports card from someone no one will have heard of a few hundred years from now.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="kirispupis, post: 7878155, member: 118780"]Yes, this is one method of breaking. He also buys a box say for $800 with 40 packs, and sells each pack off for $50. People buy numbered packs. The most expensive cards are in boxes $500-$5000 that contain one to seven cards. He'll sell off numbered slots. With the higher priced boxes (he hasn't gotten to the $5k ones yet), there could be a card worth > $1M. The odds are small and it's very much a lottery, but since his goal is to eventually open these boxes on a regular basis, the odds are that he'll someday pull one of these cards. To me, it sounds crazy. Let's see... I can either own a top quality silver Eid Mar coin that's directly from one of the most monumental episodes of world history, or I can own a sports card from someone no one will have heard of a few hundred years from now.[/QUOTE]
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