The House Always Wins With Wax
One of the hardest truths to sit with in modern collecting is this: the house always wins when it comes to wax. If ripping sealed product was consistently profitable, manufacturers, shops, and breakers would simply open it all themselves and sell the cards individually. The reason they don’t is simple. The math overwhelmingly favors selling sealed wax, and over time that advantage compounds into exponential profit. This isn’t an indictment of ripping sealed wax or joining breaks and