Online trade and memorabilia business makes Canton home to lone hobby shop
LiveCaseBreak, an online trading card case break company founded in 2011, broke its mold when it decided to open its lone brick and mortar shop at
"Right now, 65 percent of trading card sales are accounted for as online group breaks, whereas six, seven years ago, it was an unheard of thing, resisted by the manufacturers,"
Fast forward to today, and he says the trading card industry has more customers than product, meaning there is more demand than supply.
"So, the only way to get more allocation is to open up a brick and mortar store,"
The shop is decorated in a variety of movie and pop culture posters, autographed sports jerseys and memorabilia, limited edition toys and statues, and boxes upon boxes of trading cards ranging from sports to pop culture.
"Tim and I are like minded and whatever we are going to do we are doing 100 percent and it is going to look great and we are proud of what we created,"
A glass showcase is shelved with trading cards that range in price from hundreds to thousands of dollars in value, including a
This is the way of modern sports cards,
"It is kind of a blend of memorabilia, autographs and there are still the common base cards that came out back in the day,"
In addition to the hobby shop,
In describing case breaks,
Customers pay a flat price for either the whole case or in a "group break" where they pick a team in hopes of finding autographed and valuable player cards.
That's how the two men met.
"If someone pays, let's say,
After becoming
"I do that two nights a week, Tim does it two nights a week and we have a fella that works with us that does it two nights a week, probably a total of 25 or 30 hours a week live"
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