Booster boxes are usually the first thing the investor heads sink their teeth into. 600 for a DR booster box is asinine though. That’d be 17 dollars per pack, right?
You can easily find DR sleeves/bundles/promos that have the packs averaging around 6-8 bucks, which isn’t great but it is 17 per lol.
The Mega Zard UPC is particular is really good value buy if you can find it at 120-140 dollars which I have been able to. It contains 18 packs, including a few DR, along with the beautiful orocorio ex promo and Mega Zard MUR.
well, another factor is that pokemon hasn’t reprinted booster boxes since sword/shield. I have some paldea evolved I was holding onto to compare with reprints which I “knew” were coming because I wanted to compare print quality(IR cards were absolute dog water quality) and potentially pull rates(I hoped they increase IR rates), I’m still waiting to do this experiment…
If they reprinted products people actually cared about instead of trying to sell boxes of air and plastic with a boring jumbo nobody wants, then I think it would look different. Just one of many reasons that all come together to create the absolute S-show we are seeing right now. And at this point, its pretty clear that it is on purpose. Its too profitable.