Aren’t many of the 1/1 sports cards worthless? lol
Maybe worthless is an exaggeration, but I’ve read there are 1000s of 1/1s released every year or something.
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Some of the rookie ones made for guys who end up busting don’t hold value. But in general 1/1 cards are reserved for popular players or rookies and are highly sought after.
Another thing to keep in mind is that sports card packs tend to work different from TCG on the high end. A lot of the super big pulls will actually come from packs that have just a small number of cards and individual packs are super expensive. They still have the sets you find at your local retail stores but the hits in those don’t fetch these insane prices.
It’s actually similar to what Magic does with the collectors boxes for licensed sets but to an extreme.
That probably depends heavily on the context of what the cards are though.
If one of the 1/1 cards is “the one ring” and the other is a 1/1 of something like the Two trees of Vlainor, I doubt the condition of one over the other has any impact really. The one ring will still fetch more because it’s more iconic even if it’s a 9.
If you have a 1/1 kaboom card of Jalen Hurts that’s a PSA 10, it’s still not going to fetch the price of a 1/1 kaboom Patrick Mahomes.
The grade definitely does not matter to the market value for a single 1/1 card of something this iconic.
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The two different cards need to have the same desirability before grading. Once graded people would gravitate more to the 10 than the 9. You think they would auction the same fair enough.
Of course but that doesn’t really make the argument that the one ring in a 10 would sell for more than a 9. When you have two equally desirable cards people have options. With the one ring you don’t.
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If all variables of 2 things are the same you get the same result. If you change a variable on 1 you don’t get the same result anymore. Think of it like that.
I think of like this… let’s say all of the people in the world who are interested in buying the one ring head to an auction, and it ends up with the person willing to pay the most. In theory, whether the card is a 9 or a 10 should be null and void; everyone wants the card and it’s the only one right?
But psychologically, the card being a 10 makes it more desirable, and more worthy of a higher bid in the minds of many of the bidders, and I have no doubts that it would sell for a higher price. There’s no way to know this for sure, but market patterns pretty much across the board when it comes to evaluations of 9s vs 10s back this up.
Of course you can make the argument that this is completely illogical behaviour, but humans are incredibly illogical with most of our thoughts 
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If this was an auction of random stuff at an estate sale sure. That makes sense. But when you’re talking about a super high end collectible, I don’t agree. You will pay what you need to pay to acquire it.
Do a poll. If anyone says they would pay more then you’ll have your answer.
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Don’t know if this is true but it seem Post Malone bought the one ring
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that was awesome. seeing him tear up over life changing money 
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I would be happier selling it than buying it. Seriouso. 
Will we ever actually know the price?
US$2.6 million (commented by comments in video)
Obviously higher than $2 million, if not he would have sold to that game shop.
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Thanks but speculation needs to be confirmed. I’d be surprised it reached that high.
Then wait for Post to post a press release and arrange a press conference on this.
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I hope the price comes out that’s the interesting bit for me on this.
Thought the guy wanted to keep his identity secret?
Now his friends and family know he’s got money.
He is doing videoes of him giving the card to Post Malone, no more secret I guess
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I’m glad it ended up with Post knowing what a huge fan he is.
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