$8,700: Genius or Idiot?

A PSA 10 Championship Zoro drew 44 bids and still settled $1,150 under the median of 23 matched sales of the same card.

Someone paid $8,700 for a PSA 10 2025 One Piece EN Championship 25-26 Top 16 #076 Roronoa Zoro on October 6, after 44 bids. That is 0.88x the $9,850 median of 23 matched sales of the same card at the same grade.

Why it matters

A discount is only worth quoting if the baseline is real. This one is: an interquartile spread of 1.27, running $8,200 to $10,400. The buyer filled inside that band, below its middle — which is why this leads our collectibles coverage today.

By the numbers

• 0.88x — paid against the $9,850 matched-comp median, or $1,150 under it.
• 44 bids — open price discovery, not one person’s fill.
• -17.3% — the 30-day median against the 90-day, across the 10 most recent matched sales.

The intrigue

Deviation from the comp median outweighs anything else scored here, and $8,700 against $9,850 is a gap measured off 23 matched sales rather than a hunch. The auction half is stronger: 44 bidders competed and stopped under the median anyway.

Reality check

A discount against a sliding market is not a bargain. The 30-day median sits -17.3% under the 90-day median across the 10 most recent matched sales, and the trend input took the only zero on the board. On that reading the discount is the new level rather than a steal, and the 90-day median is the stale number. Scarcity is thin too — no serial numbering — and this column holds no population report, no sell-through data and no card-level search volume.

What's next

The score is 64 of 100 and the verdict is FAIR BUY, with no cap applied: comp deviation 36 of 40, trend 0 of 15, liquidity 9 of 15, price discovery 15 of 15, scarcity 4 of 15. The gap to a stronger verdict sits entirely in inputs unrelated to the price paid. Watch the next copies of #076 at this grade, as the previous edition did: clear above $8,700 and this fill was early; land under it and the baseline was wrong.

Between the lines

This pull is a sample, not a census — the browse came back at its full row cap, so every count here is a floor. The biggest sale we tracked that day was $119,999 for a PSA 10 Shining Magikarp Holo Pokémon Neo Revelation 1.Edition 66/64. The 56 sales we tracked above $8,700 could not be priced either: 27 for too few matched sales, 4 for pools that mixed different cards, 5 that could not be pinned to one card, 11 rejected free of charge as current-season product, and 9 already covered here.

How we track this

RazMania monitors completed eBay sales daily and drops multi-card lots, reprints, altered slabs and Best Offer rows, where eBay publishes the seller’s asking price rather than what was paid. The verdict rests on 23 matched sales of the same card at the same grade, pulled by a separate query; the engine requests a 90-day window and does not record the span it received, so no window is claimed here. This column holds no population report, no sell-through data and no card-level search volume, and scores none of them. eBay reports sold date, not sold time.