Jordan PSA 10 clears $41K on 72 bids

A 1997 Ultra Michael Jordan #1 in PSA 10 drew 72 bids and closed at $41,001.99 — the day's largest confirmed sale.

A 1997 Ultra Michael Jordan #1 graded PSA 10 sold Thursday for $41,001.99 after 72 bids. It was the largest confirmed price among the 393 qualifying single-card Jordan sales RazMania tracked that day.

Why it matters

72 bids is open price discovery, not a private negotiation. That makes $41,001.99 a figure the market set in public — unlike the 116 best-offer listings that closed the same day, where eBay publishes the seller’s asking price and never the figure actually paid.

By the numbers

• $41,001.99 — the day’s top confirmed paid sale, on 72 bids.
• 277 confirmed paid sales — worth $369,687.01, at a $525.00 median.
• 116 best-offer listings — carrying $149,489.31 in asking prices, excluded from every paid figure above.

Zoom in

Four of the day’s five most notable sales were 1986 Fleer Jordan rookie-year cards. Two PSA 6 copies of the #57 cleared at $10,458.00 on 29 bids and $10,201.00 on 27 bids. A PSA 5 copy took 50 bids to reach $9,363.16. Alongside them, a PSA 9 1986 Fleer sticker #8 sold buy-it-now at $10,500.00 on zero bids — a fixed price accepted without a contest, sitting in the same range as three cards that had to fight for theirs.

Reality check

We pulled 117 comparable 1997 Ultra Jordan #1 sales to price the lead card and threw the pool out. It ran from $15.58 to $7,500.00 against a $159.96 median, with the middle half alone spanning $102.50 to $420.00 — that is several different cards averaged together, not one card’s market. No multiple is quoted here. Valuing off the wrong peer group looks exactly as rigorous as valuing off the right one, which is the trap source-linked research on the stock side exists to avoid. And one sale is one sale — a single print is not a trend.

What's next

Attention and price parted ways Thursday: the day’s most-bid card was a 1998 Topps Stadium Club #62 in PSA 10 that took 133 bids to reach $614.68, while the $41,001.99 lead needed 72. Watch whether PSA 6 copies of the #57 keep clearing five figures — Wednesday’s column led on a best-offer ask instead, and the rest of the daily card-sales coverage is here.

How we track this

RazMania monitors completed eBay sales daily, filtering out multi-card lots, reprints, and cross-listed items to isolate genuine single-card sales. This edition covers 393 qualifying single-card Michael Jordan sales on September 17, 2026: 277 were confirmed paid prices and 116 were best-offer listings, where eBay shows the asking price rather than the settled figure — those are excluded from every paid total, median and superlative above. The comparable-sales pool for the lead card was pulled and rejected as too widely dispersed to quote, so no comparable median or multiple appears in this article. eBay reports sold date, not sold time.