Michael Jordan One of Ones, 1/1′s, Masterpieces WANTED!

Have you got a Michael Jordan One of One, 1/1,  Masterpiece from the 90′s?  I’m talking Flair Showcase, Metal Universe, Upper Deck, Ultra Masterpiece and any other ones that were produced in the mid to late-nineties. Well, if you have one and you’re looking to sell, I have been contacted by a Michael Jordan collector who is looking to throw down…

$50,000 CASH.

This collector is pretty serious and if you’ve got the cards, I can get you in touch with someone who would like to get a hold of one of these super cards.  Please email Mike at huperoyalty@gmail.com and I can disclose further information about the buyer and put you guys in communication to hammer out  the details.

January 2012 note:  the image above, a 1998 Metal Gem Master Michael Jordan,  was sold for $2,508.23 on 4/15/07.

RECORD HIGH: 1999 HoloGrfx Ausome Gold

I have tracked 12 sales of Michael Jordan’s 1999 HologGrfx Ausome Gold.  This most recent sale at over $100 easily outpaced any previous sale I recorded.  Ungraded copies have usually sold in the $60 range, with the previous high being $79 from a June sale last year from seller, arram1818.

See all recorded sales that I’ve tracked here.

Analysis: 1996 Bowman’s Best Atomic Refractor

Michael Jordan’s 1996 Bowman’s Best Atomic Refractor was part of an 80-card parallel set, seeded at 1:24.   I have tracked 18 sales of this card since last June, where 18 different sellers have offered this card.  There have been three BGS 9.5 sales, four BGS 9 sales and one each of a PSA 8 and 9.  Nine ungraded sales have occurred during that span.  Two to three copies have sold per month, although none sold in September 2011.

The highest graded sale came from rare23air83, who owned a BGS 9.5 that sold for $575 a few days ago.  The highest ungraded sale came from emoncards, with his $300 sale in late November last year.  Click here to see screen caps of all 18 auctions.

Michael Jordan 1991 Fleer Acrylic Wrapper Redemptions

In 1991, Fleer allowed collectors to purchase acrylic 3-D versions of cards from their base set. These cards were redeemable through a wrapper exchange program where collectors had to submit $4.99 and three wrappers (plus $0.50 tax) for any player of their liking.

These cards rarely appear on ebay and when they do, they tend to sell pretty well.  Michael Jordan has four variations (base card, all-star card, team leaders card, league leaders card) that usually sell in the thousands. I’ve seen sales anywhere from $1,000-$3,000+ depending on the grade and card.

Thanks to Michael Jordan collector Stan (ebayID: stacik1313), who submitted this picture to me to verify the story on how these cards were distributed. I can only assume that there weren’t many collectors who participated in this redemption process, as you only see these cards pop up a handful of times a year on ebay.

Finally, Home.

The first month of 2012 came and went in a blink of an eye. I spent the first two weeks traveling from California to Atlanta and back, only to come home for two nights to do laundry and see friends/family before I took off again for New York. After four weeks on the road, I finally came back two nights ago to the Bay Area for much needed rest.

My stay in New York was definitely not long enough.  Although I didn’t pick up any New York Knicks gear, I did grab this shirt from the Champs located in Times Square.

Next month: A trip to the Windy City and (hopefully) a chance to visit the United Center to watch the Bulls in person!
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Random thoughts:

Some big sales and noteworthy sales surely has transpired in the last few weeks. Ebay consigner Prewarcardcollector recently auctioned off a ton of rare and BGS 9.5 graded cards that went for absurd money. Yes, there are people on Blow Out Cards and Hobby Kings who think he may have suspicious auctions, and whether they are right or wrong, the numbers ended at some pretty astonishing levels.

I plan on spending Sunday watching the Super Bowl, and capturing all the significant sales on ebay completed auctions from the past 30 days, so look out for some posts by me tomorrow, as there are a bunch of sales and info that I’d like to highlight.

I’m off to San Diego on Tuesday, so hopefully I’ll get a chance to catch some Lakers and/or Clippers games on TV while I’m down there. I still can’t get over this play. Dunk of the Year so far, easily.

WHOA! Old Sales From The Past

A few months ago, Michael Jordan collector, Jan (who’s eBay name slips my mind at the moment) hooked me up with a ton of data on Jordan inserts that he had been tracking since 2006. I recently came across the data last night and wanted to share a few highlights:

1997 Upper Deck All Star Game Used Jersey card
$685, March 20, 2007.

1997 Upper Deck All Star Game Used Jersey card
$658, October 4, 2007.

1998 Metal Universe Precious Metal Gems 45/50
$428, December 14, 2007.

There are many other sales that I have yet to filter through, but these three definitely caught my eye. Four years later, these prices are laughable.

RECORD HIGH: 1997 Z-Force Rave /399 UNGRADED

This is the third different Z-Force insert that has reached for a Hupe Royalty JE record high price for the month of January.  Last month, seller 1_srekal sold one on December 1st for $400.  This sale represents a 7% increase over that previous high.  The December sale was won by redjersey23 (formerly known as lilys_cardworld)  who is also known as a Jordan insert seller.  Look for that card to possibly be re-sold sometime down the line.

This auction included 21 bids and was won by r***8, who also won the 1997 Z-Force Zuperman Rave /399 for a record high price of $440.98, as stated a few posts below.

RECORD HIGH: 1997 Z-Force Rave Review GRADED

January 2012 is turning out to be a dizzy month tracking high sales on Michael Jordan inserts.  This graded BGS 9.5 of Michael Jordan’s 1997 Z-Force Rave Review topples the July 5, 2011 sale by 88swagger88 (now known as jordan_gems) of $280 on a BGS 9.5.  I have not seen another BGS 9.5 offered since that July sale (five months have passed), so the high price may be a result of the scarcity on this unnumbered card.  The auction ended with 23 bids and the high bidder, 0***3 has a feedback score of 40.

RECORD HIGH: 1997 Z-Force Zuperman Rave /399 UNGRADED

The weekend has allowed me to slowly back track sales that have occurred over the last few weeks in January, and I am continuously discovering record high prices on various Michael Jordan inserts.  While I have yet to validate the winning bidder, this $440 sale  of this ungraded 1997 Z-Force Zuperman Rave /399 topps any previous high I had recorded in 2011.  There were 17 bids and the winning bidder r***8 has a feedback of over 6000.  Awaiting feedback.

Hey, That Looks Familiar!

UPDATED: February 3, 2012: The buyer left positive feedback, so it looks like I am completely wrong on my opinion. I apologize to the seller.
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I have learned to minimize my responses toward the Jordan naysayers and those who attack me because of their belief that I am part of some corrupt ring of people who are looking to take advantage of innocent collectors.  In most instances on message board now, I rarely post Jordan thoughts and limit my contributions to the stuff I post on Hobby Kings.

So, while they are (at least 2 years later…) still spreading false info that I do this and do that, I hope that the readers of my blog realize that I do this because I find it fun, and when I feel there is caution to be recognized, I will undoubtedly share  that as well.  I am not part of some ring to scam people, as Orangejello727, SportsItUpCards, Nissandriver7777 and others have accused.

The following auction immediately caught my eye on ebay because the image used by the seller looked mighty familiar.  Once I clicked on it, I knew that the auction was most likely not legit.  He grabbed the A Cut Above image from my blog, which of course, I grabbed from another auction so many months or years ago.  Once I clicked his auction link, it didn’t surprise me to see that seller 0381.adams has ZERO feedback.

Now, I could be entirely wrong, and this seller MAY have this card.  He may simply not have a scanner or digital camera and chose to use the image from the Hupe Royalty blog.  He may be selling a $500 card as his very first transaction on ebay.  Maybe I’m all wrong.  In this case though, I have a good feeling that I’m not.

HIGHEST JORDAN INSERT SALE OF THE LAST 12 MONTHS. INSANE.

Just SOLD for $18,250.00!!!

The current view count is 17,000+ with 635 replies.  EPIC. Who would have guessed that three words and one VERY large number could create quite the madness online?  Hupe Royalty friend, Jun, aka rare23air83 incited a near meltdown among all the lunatic naysayers of the Michael Jordan Insert Market when he shared his sale of a 1997 Finest Gold Embossed Refractor /74 BGS 9.5 for nearly 20K. The price easily is the top Jordan sale of the last 12 months, (not counting Jordan autograph/memorabilia sales) and the incredible sale surely brought out multiple opinions among card collectors.