Exquisite auction $$$$$

[nman0808]

That was LeBron/Kobe that went for $100K last year...

P-C
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Ok, thanks. I knew one of those cards went huge last year.

[meuandthelot]

Ended at a mere $12.5K

[bl bassist]

Wow thats it.... I thought it was going to go 50k-70k...

-Mark

[JMoney82]

That James/Jordan 1/1 Logoman, as far as I know but I could be wrong, is still sitting in a safety deposit box unless the guy has sold it since he pulled it last year. Theres another member on here who lives in Santa Rosa about 1 mile from the guy, im about 5-10 miles from him. Heres the story:

These are complex and curious days for Orlando Macias, who may, or may not, be sitting on a gold mine.

The 26-year-old Macias, a Santa Rosa resident who works for the city of Novato as a recreation coordinator and director of after-school programming at the teen center, suddenly has become something of a sports trading card baron, at least for the moment.

In early July, Macias decided to take a pricey plunge into the card market, buying five packs of Upper Deck's new Exquisite basketball cards, which sell for a suggested retail price $500 per pack, by far the highest sum ever in the hobby, and lately have gone in the $700-each range.

On his way home from the Strike Zone in Novato, where he purchased the last two of his packs, Macias decided to see what he had and pulled off to the side of the road to take a look.

What he found stopped him cold. One of the cards was a one-of-a-kind combination featuring NBA logo patches from the jerseys of all-time great Michael Jordan and the latest pro basketball icon, LeBron James.

Macias knew he had found something special and wrestled, for a bit, over what to do with the card.

He decided to put it on EBay, and, the second day it was listed, it sold through the "Buy It Now" feature for an astounding $300,000.

"I thought I had it sold, anyway," Macias said. "The people who bought it fed me a really good story."

It turned out the "buyers" were scamming him, so Macias listed the card on EBay again, and it received bids of up to $150,000.

But there were more questions regarding the bidders' legitimacy, and other concerns, and Macias concedes that he made a mistake in the process this time.

"I didn't auction it the best way I could," he said. "I set my 'reserve' price at $300,000, just to put a safeguard on it. It was recommended that I put a lower reserve on it. But I'm not a business person. I work with kids."

So Macias, who is married but has no children of his own, is not quite sure what he's going to do next with the card, which he hasn't even seen for awhile because it's tucked away in a safe deposit box.

He's still negotiating with EBay, on another listing, and has been talking with the editors of Beckett Basketball Card magazine about other possible options, including, perhaps, some kind of promotion with the Warriors when James' Cleveland Cavaliers come to the Bay Area the season.

It's been suggested that James might even want to buy the card himself.

"He could easily afford it," Macias said, lapsing into a little levity.

No one seems to know what the card really is worth on the open market, or whether it will sustain its value -- always a risky proposition with specialty issues like this one -- although a James/Kobe Bryant card from the same Exquisite set has sold for just over $62,000.

Still, that's considerably short of the record for a modern-era card, a 1996 Tiger Woods that went for $125,000.

Whatever happens, Macias doesn't plan to simply pocket all the proceeds if he does sell the card.

"I'm going to give a portion to the teen center where I work," he said. "I've worked pretty much with at-risk kids my entire life. I can't think of a better investment for some of this money."

Later
JMoney

[nman0808]

I talked to him on a different website, shortly after he pulled the card. The website was www.sportscardsheriff.com, he made a one hour appearance on the site, and people got to ask him questiosn about his pull.

[Jepetto1872]

thats one of the sweetest lookinh cards i have ever seen

[meuandthelot]

I've got a question....Does anyone know if those logo's are from the jersey, or say the socks(Actually the only other place I've seen them) just wondered :)