A long-standing practice in the collectibles industry is facing scrutiny amid legal challenges levied at two live shopping platforms. Two separate legal claims say that "breaking," a practice in which ...
A New York Comic Con attendee spins a Whatnot prize wheel in 2021. Bryan Bedder / Getty Images for ReedPop Whatnot, one of the sports card industry’s largest online sales platforms, is being accused ...
A box break is a live-streamed event where an online host or ‘breaker’ breaks open a case of sports cards or reveals other memorabilia live online. Before a conversation with Ryan Hockensmith at ESPN, ...
Dan Hajducky is a staff writer for ESPN. He has an MFA in creative writing from Fairfield University and played on the men's soccer teams at Fordham and Southern Connecticut State universities. A long ...