Correct. So the other two tickets bought paid for your HyperCubes and you got your item back; you broke even. Rinse and repeat but hopefully the next time you don’t need to buy any tickets as that’s where the best results lie.
The point is that if you do the math you can’t really lose at selling…especially against items not brutally fought over.
Disclaimer: Maybe things have changed since launch as I only sold for the first few weeks…I accept I might be out of touch now…