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$270,000 LeBron James
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I don't follow modern basketball cards, or any other modern cards, but that this was interesting.
https://goldinauctions.com/2003_04_UD__Exquisite_Collection__Patch_Parallel__-LOT54164.aspx
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Interesting. What will the value be 20 years from now?
Nailed it. I had "All depends on if it turns out to be trimmed and if he can keep his mouth shut on several fronts" saved in draft form. Didn't want to bring politics in the mix, but glad someone else was thinking the same.
$270k and all the guy gets is manufactured rarity card with the same picture on both the front and the back and a patch worn in a photo shoot. The emperor has no clothes.
I'm genuinely curious about this card. I don't collect modern, and no basketball at all, so this card is far from my area of interest...
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Cons (as I see them):
I ask honestly and out of personal ignorance in this area, what makes this card worth anywhere near $270,000?
Additional con:
Illegible signature
Nothing about this makes any sense. I don't get the pricing of Mantle cards, but I'd much rather have two 1951 Bowman PSA 8s of him than this card. BkB collectors are sometimes a crazy bunch, but this sale seems like HOF-level Linsanity.
Wow.. So many thoughts. At the end of the day, the "hobby" is a business.
270k better spent on buying a decent home...better long term value and rental income.
Btw...MJ is better
This is what a real $270,000 card looks like. This is the real McCoy. Without further ado....
Would spend that kind of $ on vintage only
Some people only learn the hard way.
Crazy, could buy a pretty nice house in most places. House or artificially scarce 2.5 x 3.5 piece of cardboard produced 10 years ago?
Wouldnt spend that kind of money on anything right now.
Your right, if I had to spend, it would be on vintage though
As are you. If I had to spend, it would definitely go towards vintage vs this.
Whoever it was, that 270k to them, may be equivalent to what $27 means to us.
It’s a nice way to launder $270k of ill gotten gains, which is what is happening with a ton of the high end new stuff. Welcome to the new economy.
Or, the buyer might be someone with lots of disposable income, and his budget is on a completely different scale from the budget you and I live by. I see no problem with it. After all, regardless of the budget you operate under, the ones complaining here are all spending time and money buying pieces of cardboard with photographs on them (including me).
If I had $270,000 I would buy all of the Joe Louis cards that I don't have, and then the rest of the money I would spend on fake beards. You can never have enough fake beards.
It's personally very hard to trust the patches in RPAs anymore with everything that has come to light. I think it would be very valuable for Panini to create a patch database viewable to the market for at least higher end stuff like NT. Many of them are sneaking through TPGs as it's virtually impossible to detect the swap out.
As far as the LBJ- 2003 Exquisite was the first of its kind and this was obviously the most important card in the set. Insane prices are being paid across the board in sports cards in general right now so this doesn't surprise me in the slightest. A Luka Doncic RPA just went for 30k last night.
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