One of the reasons I don't bust wax as much... I could rationalize it when I would get 35-50% of my $$ back on secondary re-sale after busting... Then you start opening packs of some of the lemon products UD puts out and realize you may only get 15% back... you say enough is enough.... I don't ever expect to get even close to my $$ back... I feel like I'm paying some sunk costs for the thrill of busting the wax and the lottery type odds of hitting that one super rare card. I always have found in most years the Cup and likely NT this year... will probably easily return most people this year close to 50% or more of their original purchase price...My opinion only.
I have watched countless cases and opened up half a dozen packs, and I wish I never bought any. Also spent about $400 in Team Select spots and pulled 2 Trouba Jerseys, 1 Zach Redmond /499 and 2 base cards. Utter disappointment in the product!
Busted 9 total packs and did okay, not great but okay. Local owner just called to tell me he got in another case of Ultimate. He asked how many I wanted and I told him zero for the exact same reason you listed. Way to many "bad" packs for the price.
Yikes!! Looks like the box of Totally Certified I recently bought (at least it was under $60). I think most of it went right to the trash and the rookie auto redemption is almost not even worth my time to redeem....but this is why I hardly buy boxes anymore. At least PRIZM soccer was fun regardless of what you did or didn't hit.