What is a sports cards box breaker?
What if you could fire up your laptop or mobile phone, launch an app like YouTube or Facebook or Instagram Live and watch a person peddle their goods live? Now what if those goods were sports cards and the person selling those cases and boxes of cards is really organized, well-spoken and very entertaining to watch while you pay money to have them to break open a hobby box of 2022 Panini Football or break a 2022 Leaf Decadence Multi-Sport Box?
Luckily for you, there’s such as thing as situation that I just described. It’s been here for quite some time, where people acquire cases and boxes of sports cards and break them open on a live broadcast. And thousands (maybe millions) of people love it!
While there’s no official title, these sellers of box breaks refer to themselves as Sports Card Box Breakers, and there’s thousands of them all over the Internet, and it’s up to you find out who your favorite one is.
Mark at Paradise Card Breaks of Las Vegas, Nevada is ripping open a 2021-22 Topps UEFA Champions League Merlin Chrome Soccer Hobby Box. Paradise Card Breaks is one of the best sports card breakers with thousands of customers around the USA. Check them out at Town Square - Las Vegas when you’re in town.
How do you become a Sports Card Box Breaker?
Before Becoming a baseball card box breaker, or football card box breaker, basketball card box breaker or an non-sport (like Pokemon) box breaker is not hard. Becoming a box breaker is rather easy:
A desire and a passion to provide a service to tens, hundreds or maybe thousands of buyers. If you aren’t up to breaking open hockey blaster boxes or a case of soccer mega boxex, sorting them out and packing the cards carefully, then STOP NOW! Do not proceed or you’ll make a lot of people upset and you may find yourself as a but of jokes on Instagram’s @cardporn.
Get a camera for a 1-camera setup or 3 cameras for a 3-camera setup to make sure you broadcast the most important parts of your sports card box breaking studio. So what’s the best camera for you - the sports card case breaker? (Hint: We love Nikon cameras like the Nikon Z9 and for those that are budget conscious, use the current iPhone in your pocket.)
Get the other required equipment. Luckily we already made a list of all the equipment you need to run a successful card breaking company from your home. This may take some money to buy a camera for your card breaks and other accessories, but you may have some stuff for your live broadcast already sitting around the house like box cutter to rip open packs or a box of disposable gloves to keep your dirty and oily fingers off the precious pieces of cardboard.
Purchase a box or case to break. We suggest using our free online wax box price tracker - Waxstat. Easily find the cheapest prices for your next sports card box break or next sports card case break. Don’t forget that as you continue to grow your card breaking business, you’ll be able to build a relationship with an online retailer like Blowout Cards, HitKings and Grand Slam Collectibles. Start becoming friends with them, and you’ll be able to get a better discount than using a traditional online coupon (like a Diamond Card promo code) with that vendor.
Bottom line that it just takes some time, organization, some capital (aka money) and a great personality that loves to chat with people to become a great and successful sports card box breaker.
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What makes a great Sports Card Box Breaker?
We may sound like a broken record, but there’s nothing hard to become the best baseball card case breaker or be the luckiest football card box breaker. But there are a few things that can separate you from just the normal everyday run of the mill card breaker. Here are a few tips that we thing you should incorporate your card breaking business:
Be extremely organized. When you think you’re organized make sure you go the extra mile and dot those i’s and cross those t’s. The last thing you want to do is send that one-of-one rookie QB from a 2022 Panini Certified Football Hobby Box or a 2022 Panini Donruss Football Factory Set - 8 Set Case and send it to the wrong person.
Be meticulously clean. Use
Disclose, disclose, disclose by having as many cameras in your studio. We love the traditional 3-camera setup where you have one camera behind your back looking at the prized trading cards, one camera looking at you - the best card breaker in the world, and the last camera overhead to show the entire breaking studio with card breaking mat and all the cards that you have pulled and top-loaded and sleeved.
Know your stuff. You don’t have to know every sport. You may only be a baseball card case breaker or a football card box breaker, and you may not know anything about mixed martial arts trading cards like a 2022 Panini Chronicles UFC Hobby Box. That’s okay to specialize in one or two sports. If basketball is your sports, then go a mile deep into the NBA products like a 2021-22 Panini Donruss Optic Basketball H2 Hobby Hybrid 20-Box Case rather than spreading yourself too thin. If you try to please every customer, then you won’t please any customer. Specialize! Specialize! Specialize!
Be charismatic, lovable and funny. This is our opinion, but your customers are spend their hard earned money in your professional service to break open a hobby box of 2021-22 Upper Deck Ice Hockey, so you need to give them the best performance. Keep in mind that your customers aren’t there for the product because they can easily pick up a box or case for their own breaking, but they choose to spend a few hours hanging out with you over a live broadcast. This usually happens because they really enjoy your personality and who you are. So keep it up! Be that great performing and provide your card breaking buyers the best service experience they ever had. If they love you, you’ll be sure to retain the, for a long long time.
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Who are the best sports card box breakers?
There’s so many sports card box breakers and sports card case breakers to list. Each has their own niche or favorite sport so you will want to select your card breaking service provide based on what they know best. Here’s a few of our favorites:
Kim at RunningTheBreaks @runningthebreaks (basketball & football)
Mark at ParadiseBreaks @paradisemark (baseball, football, soccer)
Yen Tran @yentran (football, basketball)
Johnny Lee at eLCS @jlee (football, basketball)
PokerNightBreaks @pokernightbreaks (baseball, football)
Shane @shanester528 (football, basketball)
We know there’s a lot more card breakers from around the world, and they’re all getting bigger and better with more wax boxes and cases, so let us know if you have any favorite card breakers that you want us to feature.
