When Madden Forrest (12 years) and his father, Steven Forrest, 35, began to break cards – buying and opening closed products to reveal their content – it was just for fun. Pokémon cards were the first, followed by football. Then Madden watched the creator of Tiktok, who acquired this process and sold cards to an interesting buyer.
Picture Credit: Current permission of breaks from Bull Island. Madden and Steven Forrest.
Madden asked his father if they could try it themselves, and in October 2024 the side noise was born.
“We didn’t know what we were doing,” Steven says Businessman. “We saw other people doing this. All of them were tearing this particular box – it was an exclusive Costco (football card). You could only get them from Costco; we didn’t even have Costco membership.
These 10 boxes cost about $ 1,000 and the investment paid off: Father’s side fraudsters sold them for one afternoon.
Soon after, Madden and Steven replicated success with the purchase of 500 $ $ Sam’s Club.
Beuse Tiktok prohibits minors in hosting live currents, Steven took the lead in front of the camera on the Breaks Breaks Breaks account (named for their city in Virginia) and he continues.
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Madden and Steven, powered by early success, held Hustle and broke the individual packages and hobby boxes that can sell for thousands of dollars.
“Most average people cannot afford to buy the entire box and risk it,” explains Steven, “So we are taking breaks. Everyone buys a NFL team, and then if their card hits, they get the card. If they don’t interfere, we’ll give them a free card. My collection since I was a child.
Picture Credit: Current permission of breaks from Bull Island. Madden Forrest.
Father-Syna entrepreneurs dubbed on the sale of baseball and basketball cards, but they continued to see the greatest success with football that attributed the fact that they “live and breathe” sport. We have a typical Sunday, Forrests will be tuned to football from 13:00 to 19:00, sometimes even earlier if there is an international game in the morning.
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From Octaber to December, Steven says they were “half” on the side traffic, they went to a lot of demand that came with the holiday season, wondering if it was just a happy lane. However, any questions about the potential of the Bull Island Breaks have been clarified on New Year’s Eve – partly thanks to less online sellers, the account poured the market and made more than $ 4,000 on sale.
“So far we’ve been doing about $ 2,000 every day.”
Madden and Steven decided to double the business in 2025. Bull Island breaks a march with a living stream every night at 7 pm
Forrests prefer to break values for the company. For example, they could invest about $ 120 per package, then charge about double, between $ 400 and $ 450, or sources of $ 1.25 pack from Dollar Tree and turn it surrounded by $ 6.99.
Bulls on the Bull Island Island were more than 7,000 orders and $ 180,000 between January and June. Business in January pulled about $ 28,000, in February $ 34,000, in March $ 36,000, $ 34,000 in April and $ 49,000 in May, which increased the annual profit to approximately $ 70,000, Steven. In June, the ambitious goal is to hit $ 65,000 in a monthly back.
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“August is when the training camp begins, so we project things that goes up (then),” says Steven, “because now we have a little the following.
All the money is for Madden, whose a look behind the scenes allows Bull Island breath, remarks Steven. Initially, it seemed that business would earn enough instructions for financing a future car, but if the current trajectory continues, it can even cover college and house. Madden, who turns 13 next month, also dreams of opening his own card store.
Picture Credit: Current permission of breaks from Bull Island. Madden Forrest.
Despite the fact that the company lies in success, there have been some challenges. Madden remembers the time when Tiktok has banned the Bull Island Breaks account after a simple misunderstanding.
“We are fans of great commanders, so our first mess bought commander (cards) in our shop and returned to return,” says Madden. “Tiktok really doesn’t like when you return people, so it’s better to remove (product) in stock. When we did it several times, they held our money for 60 days.”
“They thought we were buying them to look good and keep good reviews,” Steven adds. “Commanders are an end -dear team because they have Jayden Daniels, a newcomer, (a) basically, no one wants to buy a commander because a lot of money – talk about $ 100 every time.
Now the father-syn team will remove cards that take the shares to avoid the problem.
“You must continue (with) consistency.”
The expansion network Madden and Steven helps them maintain their shares and develop a project of passion. “I love meeting with some great people who buy from us, tearing cards and spending time with (my dad),” says Madden.
“A few years ago (meeting with friends online) it sounded strange, but now that we are immersed in it, we will look for shament shame in the card store and we will be like:” Oh, “Oh, how much do you want?” We are like, “Dude, we’ll send you it.
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Asy looks at the future of Bull Island, Madden and Steven are excited that they are still growing their audience, and they know that the stay consists of remaining the mystery of success.
“When everyone sees for the first time (this business), they think it’s really easy, but it requires determination and hard work,” Madden says. “You have to continue (with) consistency: broadcasting every day and living every day.”
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