Signed Jordan card draws 40 bids to $14,880

A larger figure crossed eBay the same day, $57,750, but that listing accepted a best offer and eBay never publishes what was actually paid.

A Michael Jordan autograph from 2010 Upper Deck Ultimate Collection, graded PSA 10 and hand-numbered 19 of 23, sold Thursday for $14,880 after 40 bids. It was the largest confirmed price paid for any single Jordan card in our window that day.

Why it matters

The day’s biggest number was not this one. A 1986 Fleer #57 in PSA 9 showed $57,750 at 0 bids, but that listing accepted a best offer, so the figure on screen is the seller’s ask rather than the settled price. The largest figure of a day is not automatically the most informative one, which is the same reason a last trade tells you more than a quoted offer in the same evidence-led approach to stocks.

By the numbers

• $14,880 — the top confirmed price paid for a single Jordan card Thursday, reached across 40 bids in an open auction.
• 245 sales, $278,786.53 — the day’s confirmed paid volume, on a $597 median.
• 63 listings, $114,986.36 — accepted best offers, where only the ask is ever published.

Zoom in

Thursday’s Jordan market split three ways across 308 qualifying single-card sales: 161 auctions, 84 buy-it-now listings and 63 accepted best offers. The most contested card of the day was a cheap one — a 1989 Hoops #200 in PSA 10 took 91 bids and closed at $445.

Reality check

One auction is one auction, and this card is not a rookie. The 1986 Fleer #57 turned up in three states Thursday — that $57,750 ask on a PSA 9, $11,600 paid for a PSA 7 on 28 bids, and $6,999 for a copy graded authentic-altered — but only two of the three are prices anyone paid, so they do not make a clean grade ladder the way last weekend’s #57 run did.

What's next

No comparable-sales baseline was available here: the pipeline could not assemble a like-for-like pool for a 2010 Ultimate Collection signature numbered to 23, so no median and no multiple are quoted in this piece. Watch for a second copy. With a print run of 23, the next one to clear would be the first real comp this card has.

How we track this

RazMania monitors completed eBay sales daily, filtering out multi-card lots, reprints, cross-listed items and non-card merchandise to isolate genuine single-card sales. Thursday’s window held 308 qualifying single-card sales, 245 of them at confirmed paid prices. No comparable-sales pool could be built for this card, so no median or multiple is quoted. Our trailing context pull spanned 46 days, not 90. eBay reports sold date, not sold time, and on an accepted best offer it publishes the asking price, never the settled figure.