It actually took about 7 hrs or so to sell. I know weāre used to that selling on eBay for that deal in what seconds? So I wouldnāt say instantly but yeah still quick for a high end card but clearly it was a steal lol
I hope Iām not asking a sensitive question, as Iām very new to the forum, and know very little about non-set cards, but could someone help me understand why the seller listed it for such a low price? Could they not have listed on Ebay to capture a larger market, or if they were wary of Ebay, they could have posted it on IG or anywhere more visible and scouted offers. I am sure within less than a week much higher offers would have emerged from reputable people willing to fly to pick up the card in person. It isnāt as if this card is an unknown quantity; some cursory googling would have revealed that on the global market it has fetched a price more than double their asking price. Again, apologies if this is an insensitive question to ask. I am just fascinated by this, the seller basically letting it go for a fraction of what they likely could have fetched. It seems to contradict principles of selling for such a large loss in potential money that I am fascinated.
This definitely makes a lot of sense, and I am surely very biased in my mindset as a collector now that I consider it in context. But if the seller didnāt know of the value of the card, and thought of it as just a card they got from a contest, why would they list it at a five-figure price (in USD, I mean)? I might be incorrect here, but I would think an ignorance of the open-market price of the card would lead the seller to post at maybe 100 dollars or 500 dollars or even a thousand dollars or two. But they clearly were asking a price that was larger than one I would think someone with a complete lack of knowledge of the previous sales of this card would ask, but not remotely close to the actual price one would ask if one was fully aware of that 200k+ sale.
Everyone has a range of knowledge. We can speculate all day on how much knowledge they had on the market, but only the owner can answer that question. Ultimately it boils down to, it was their card, and they decided to list at that price.
Maybe? If I werenāt married I would throw a $150k offer for a zard. But priorities mean I need to throw that into my mortgage. lol. Itās k, at least I have a roof going for me. i guess (crys in a corner with no zard)
One thing to note is that the cardās value is all over the place. Between 2008 and early 2017 the card frequently sold raw for between $8k and $12k, then there was a period where none appeared for several months and then suddenly out of the blue a Mandarake listing saw a raw Illustrator sell for $140k and a handful of other early trophy cards sell far higher than theyād ever sold before.
After that not many raw Illustrator cards have appeared. A couple did sell for $15k to $20k after that $140k sale, but other than that the only other sale of a raw card Iām aware of was Pkonnoās recent $210k copy. Whilst $86k may be low compared to the previous sale, itās still almost 9x higher than it was in early 2017.
Could the seller have made more from this? Very likely, but possibly not much more. Unlike the $210k copy this one was listed by a relative nobody (in eBay terms theyāre a user with 50 positive and 1 negative feedback). $86k is a lot of money to gamble with and the card appears to be in a worse condition than that the $210k copy as well. If a PSA 9 Illustrator is $225k, is a potential PSA 6 or lower copy worth $86k?
Iād say $86k was a very good amount for this to sell for and Iām sure both the buyer and seller are very happy.
As someone who wired 22,000,000 yen to zen market for a raw illustrator to only be told that I was second in line, and charged $8,000usd for trying and having to wait 2 weeks to get my money back
I can attest, buying in random marketplaces isā¦ not a goooooood time
