High End Breaks

With the soon to be arrival of Topps Sterling Baseball for 2008, it's lead me to reflect back on high end breaks. My definition of high end breaks is anything that is $300 or more per box/tin. It fascinates me to no extent to watch people break high end products because of 1) the potential to see a really high end hit and 2) no financial investment of my own in case it's a bad break. Over the last year, I've done my first rounds of doing high end breaks. I've had my highs and lows but luckily mostly highs which could provde dangerous for my credit card later on if I feel cocky. I've never done a break of Topps Sterling but to me it seems to be a safer gamble than Upper Deck Exquisite. In Sterling you are guaranteed to have a memorabilia hit with the potential for a signature. The players are known and you will probably have some resale value of a little under half the cost of the break. While with Exquisite, you could hit it big or have a big loss based on breaks I've seen this year. With the economy in the crapper over the last few months and probably for another half year, I wonder if the card company's are taking this into account when they produce their product. I'd have to say that there seems to be more mid-high end products out but fewer people to break them compared to the past. I think it would be a great time for those with the funds to invest now but at the same time a bad time to gamble. Oh well, I'll rant some more depending on how I do on my one box break of Sterling.