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Two copies of the 1997-98 Metal Universe #23 Jordan closed Thursday at $2,362.89 and $521.00. Four more copies sold the same day.

A PSA 9 copy of the 1997-98 Skybox Metal Universe #23 Michael Jordan sold for $2,362.89 on Thursday, on 17 bids. An ungraded copy of the same card closed the same day for $521.00, on 14 bids.

Why it matters

Most of a 4.54x gap like this is the grade itself, which collectors already price in. The useful part is the rest of the cohort: six copies of this card traded Thursday, and once the grade was held fixed the market barely disagreed with itself. A second PSA 9 closed at $2,349.99, so the graded price was set by two sales rather than one.

By the numbers

$1,841.89 — the gap between the graded and the ungraded copy.
4.54x — the widest multiple among the day’s 8 publishable pairs.
26 pairs — same-card pairs found Thursday; 8 cleared the spread floors.

Every same-card pair RazMania tracked on Thursday, October 15, 2026. Both sides of each pair are confirmed paid prices that closed the same day. Bid counts in brackets.
Card	Dearer sale	Cheaper sale	Gap	Multiple
1997-98 Skybox Metal Universe #23 Michael Jordan	PSA 9 — $2,362.89 [17]	Ungraded — $521.00 [14]	$1,841.89	4.54x
1988-89 Fleer #120 Michael Jordan All-Star	PSA 9 — $1,392.22 [30]	Ungraded — $315.00 [18]	$1,077.22	4.42x
1995-96 Skybox Premium #278 Michael Jordan Electrified	PSA 9 — $1,060.91 [16]	Ungraded — $341.00 [25]	$719.91	3.11x
1992-93 Topps Stadium Club Beam Team #1 Michael Jordan	PSA 9 — $3,074.00 [20]	Ungraded — $1,405.00 [31]	$1,669.00	2.19x
1988-89 Fleer #17 Michael Jordan	PSA 9 — $899.99 [0]	Ungraded — $456.01 [21]	$443.98	1.97x
1992-93 Upper Deck #23 Michael Jordan	PSA 10 — $899.99 [0]	PSA 10 — $465.00 [22]	$434.99	1.94x
2003-04 Topps #221 LeBron James	PSA 9 — $1,749.00 [0]	Ungraded — $1,000.00 [0]	$749.00	1.75x
1994-95 Skybox E-Motion N-Tense #3 Michael Jordan	PSA 9 — $1,644.58 [37]	Ungraded — $945.00 [24]	$699.58	1.74x

Zoom in

The cohort under the lead runs six deep: PSA 9 at $2,362.89 and $2,349.99, a PSA 6 at $549.99, then ungraded copies at $521.00, $400.00 and $317.92. The cheapest copy of the six drew 35 bids, more than either PSA 9 attracted. A card can be the most contested listing in its own cohort and still settle at the bottom of it.

The intrigue

The day’s biggest dollar gap never reached the table. A PSA 7 1986 Fleer #57 Jordan rookie sold for $11,600.00 on 28 bids against a $4,494.00 copy on 16 bids — $7,106.00 apart at 2.58x. The cheaper listing’s title reads “PSA AA”, which is not a grade this engine can read, so the pair was refused rather than printed as graded against ungraded. It was one of 7 sales Thursday whose titles name a grading service in a form we cannot parse.

Reality check

Three of the 8 pairs rest on a dearer side that drew no bids, and one — the 2003-04 Topps #221 LeBron James rookie — had neither side contested. Those are asking prices somebody met, not auctions that found a price. For contrast, 5 pairs were refused for being too close together: same card, same grade, both sides contested, at 1.03x, 1.08x, 1.09x, 1.13x and 1.14x. That is what one card in one grade actually does in a single day, and it is the measure the wider gaps above should be read against.

Go deeper

More sports collectibles coverage, and Wednesday’s edition, which led on the same 1988-89 Fleer #120 that places second today.

Your call

At $2,362.89, would you buy this card?

1997-98 Skybox Metal Universe #23 Michael Jordan — PSA 9

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How we track this

RazMania compares completed eBay sales of the same card that closed on the same day. Two sales are treated as the same card only when the player, year, set, card number, parallel or photo variation, print-run serial, autograph status and altered status all match — so a Refractor is never compared against a base card. Best Offer sales are excluded entirely, because eBay publishes the seller’s asking price on those and never the settled figure; every price here is a confirmed paid price. Multi-card lots, reprints and customs are filtered out. We quote no comparable-sales median and no 90-day pool — both prices in every comparison closed on the same day. eBay reports sold date, not sold time.

Same Jordan Card, Same Day: $2,363 and $521