To be fair, while this looks like pretty great ROI on the surface, there is a lot more to consider.
Upon release, the ETBs were selling for well above MSRP. Here’s someone on E4 offering $75 per, a few months later $65 ish was the average eBay price, you get the point. I don’t recall the exact settling point, but to the best of my knowledge they eventually came down to maybe $55-60 per box. It was certainly possible to get at the $50 MSRP, but in very limited quantities absent distributor pricing.
Then, factor in eBay fees, shipping, taxes, and the hassle of dealing with sealed product that investobros will go over with a jewelers loupe and tell you it’s resealed if they spot a 1mm hole in the shrink wrap.
Let’s be generous and say someone buys at the $60 settling price and sells for $95 now. You lose $12.35 due to eBay fees, let’s say a standard $10 shipping charge, and we’ll not even consider possible losses due to modern sealed eBay buyers or capital gains taxes (because people flipping ETBs wouldn’t pay them anyways).
The actual ROI is closer to 6%–but when you consider that the annualized rate of inflation from 2020 to 2023 is 4.8%, you’re getting down to a 1% annualized ROI on your Champion’s Path ETB.