wowee, the price of this card has gotten out of hand fast. If you would consider buying raw and in Japan, there are 2 of this card on yahoo atm. One of those looks to be in mint condition.
For the time being I am going to keep trying to buy a graded one for a while. I unfortunately don’t have the best experiences buying raw, more often than not finding some defects on the cards which simply weren’t visible on the angles at which pictures were taken.
I got pretty close earlier this week! I found someone who approached me with a PSA 9 copy. Unfortunately, after receiving some videos of the card, we discovered the card has quite a nasty dent along one of the edges, which the grader(s) must have missed, so I passed on the copy. So close, yet so far away again, hehe. The journey continues!