Haha, don't put it up for auction yet, I'm not ready
. Very nice card.
The TLDR answer is I won it on Goldin.
If you want to read the theatric response:
I’ve been a Sho collector since his season 2017 but did not have the resources to buy high-end cards. I was able to pickup a few BCA/ROAs in 2018, but nothing extravagant. Even through a bad 2020 season, I kept buying and grading. reaching over 1,000 PSA 10 slabs. When the 2021 breakout happened, I unloaded from lowest to highest value and consolidated upward into higher value cards. I repeated this process 3-4 times through 2024. Fast forward to Feb-25, I saw the listing for the HMT32 super from Josh Luber (startup guy/influencer) and consigned by Goldin. With the help of a couple members in this thread, we modeled the predicted hammer price and I decided to go for it on the condition of raising ~70% of the cash up front. For those that paid attention, they saw a SHARP increase in my listings in Feb. These were the BO members that I had to explain that I wasn’t leaving Sho
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Fast forwarding, the auction ended at the low-end of our calculation. One thing I want to stress is that I’m not a dude that effortlessly pulls money out of his pocket to buy big-ass cards. It has been a product of consolidation. If you keep at it, good things can happen.
Key cards consolidated (sold): BCA Pitching PSA 10, Heritage ROA PSA 10 (x2), HMT32 Red /25 PSA 10 (x2), Transcendent TCASO PSA 10, HMT32 1/1 plate, Bowman #49 Blue /150 PSA 10, US285 Blue /50 PSA 10, various #150 parallels.