Awesome thread - I both love and hate it though. I love number crunching and group breaks and their respective value have always been interesting to think about. I'm a set builder so GBs make zero sense for me as a collector - but I still love to join them especially cheap spots in team buy mixers (shout out to out of the box breaks who I BY FAR prefer to any other breaker I've tried).

For me, breaks are just a fun gamble to get me access to products that I would otherwise never touch as I'm wayyyyyy too cheap to buy a hit-only product - but when I'm buying teams for $10-20 and just giving myself some incentive to watch the broadcast and hope for some cool stuff - it's just really entertaining and I love it. I buy such cheap teams that when i skunk I don't really feel too bad.

The part that I hate though (about this thread) is - and we all know this I would hope by now - our hobby is an absolute disaster when it comes to cost vs reward - like it's a catastrophe - but the numbers you showed are soooo illustrative of just HOW unbelievably bad of a deal hockey cards are to buy in any way other than purchasing singles. We all know that other than a very small handful of stars most cards that BV for x$ are lucky to sell for 0.2*x$

I don't think collectibles could ever truly be "worth it" from a pure financial perspective but I wish there was a bit more of a market out there to keep it from atrocity levels as it is kind of nice to enjoy the thrill of selling something you hit