>>469683621. A large majority of sales on ebay and tcgplayer are singles. Singles sales are the foundation of the hobby you are either new or have other outside beliefs blinding you.
2. Any individual can and will buy whatever they please. If people are overextend themselves buying pokemon cards and get into financial trouble there are massive outside problems.
>Handful of people are clearing them out>Scalpers figured out that if they hoard product people will buy>You think collectors will buy that much3. No budget collector that has been in the hobby for more than a few months is actively paying these higher sealed product prices to crack open, they buy singles. Moreover the sealed product sales going on are people who see the current value of said set and are more than likely higher income earners and are likely keeping them sealed. Single purchases are king in every single card market. You are just wrong.
Now can you please answer my questions from my first post since you in bad faith dodged them?
-Why do you NEED to open sealed product?
-Why are you not buying the majority of cheap singles I'm recent sets instead of huperfixating on the 'chase cards'.
Additional
- What is you fundamental belief with money?
You seem to view it as an evil that cannot be interwoven with hobbyism, which may or may not stem from a fundamental understanding of how you see the world vs how the world actually functions.
