Collecting trading cards used to be fun before it became a business. Searching pack after pack for that one player you were missing to complete your Miami Dolphins team set was like winning the lottery as a kid, once you found it.
Those are days that have long since gone. As an adult, we find other more important uses for our money. Prices on trading cards have gone up too. Call it inflation or whatever you want but the days of being a kid and picking up a stack of packs with dried powdered gum are gone. Now, a pack of cards costs more than a gallon of gasoline.