Fun read! Congrats again, Scott. Glad I was able to have a role in this history-making transaction!
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Woow 315 offers haha thats amazing⌠I think Scott was good in marketing class 
jk
Really nice to see that a single pokemon card can attract so much attention!
This really helps the hobby and brings legitimacy to all of us who, in different ways, benefit from it.
So⌠A big âThank Youâ goes out to Scott from all of us:)
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This is amazing . Congrats!
Thanks Gary! I hope it legitimizes pokemon for the broader audience. Hopefully people will value pokemon as a serious hobby.
Not to mention the US economy is actually picking up a smidge.
I suspect incoming card value increases.
another nice article from the UK:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415853/Pokemon-collectible-card-rare-Illustrator-card-goes-Ebay-100-000.html
Iâll be honest. I didnât expect this kind of hubbub. Haha.
Scott you are now on IGN! Have you been getting solid offers? 
I have been getting offers I would accept, but since ebay does not hold buyers accountable if they donât pay, I donât accept anything without hearing back from the buyer. What made this worse is that ebay only allows a certain amount of personal messages, so I reached my limit because I had to contact each buyer because ebay does not hold them accountable if they donât pay. A good old ebay catch 22!
I had my local FOX news call me about bringing the card on tv for a 3 minute time slot, but figured that would be a gimmick and declined.
Anyway, I hope the attention is ultimately a good thing for the hobby. I want people to see that realistically, there is much more interest in pokemon than some of the sport hobbies that receive more publicity.
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Hey Scott, Iâll be your friend ;D lol jokes aside, congrats!
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You should see some of the messages I have received on ebay. I keep checking if I wrote somewhere in my auction to message me the dumbest idea you can possibly think of and I will sell you the card.
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SCOTT CALL ELLEN SHEâLL PUT YOU ON HER SHOW!!!
Seriously though, this is pretty cool. Take the card and get yourself on a talkshow or something and weâll all come and be fanboys
LOL Scott take it to Fox and asked to be on the simpsons, theyâll make you a character! and then homer will jack your pikachu illustrator card in the show to sell for donuts and duff beer!
Scott, you should start a thread to share those messages. Iâm sure it would be fun reading them.
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Does the guy who is selling the illustrator pikachu post on here (Noob poster alert)
*edit*
Didnât realise this was a 3 page thread haha!
If this wasnât graded, I would have legit been looking to offer in the region of what the 2009 card sold for.
$100,000, (ive read the seller - scott? - has rejected offers of $50,000) is just too much for me unfortunately.
Good goal to aim towards though⌠who needs a mortgage anyway 
Hey Scott, does that mean we are all friends with a celebrity now? 
We can go to tournaments and say⌠âYeah⌠I donât need to pay for anything, in fact YOU should be giving me extras⌠I know Scott. You know? The one with the $100k Illustrator?â
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I wonder if the other Illustrators will pop up for sale.
This is what Iâve been saying about my no stage, square cut Blastoise. I put it on eBay for 21,000.00 with a bounty offer that if anyone else in the world has another one I will buy it for $10,000.00 on the spot.
Nobody else has come forward.
I figured if there was another one, that would flush it out like the illustrator auction seems to be doing.
No ScottâŚI absolutely will not trade you brother;)