Sunday, August 21, 2016

A Ghost Adventurer Super Pull

There is a show on the Travel Channel called Ghost Adventures. It is a paranormal investigation show created by Zak Bagans and Nick Groff originally as a documentary in 2004 when they investigated the activity in Virginia City, Nevada. The documentary was shown in 2007 on Syfy Channel and the following year Travel Channel picked it up as a regular show and they are about to enter their 13th season next month (They sometimes release more than one season in a year.).

I really enjoy the show and in 2013 I designed a Ghost Adventures set for my annual Halloween cards. Aaron Goodwin, who began as the groups cameraman before becoming an investigator, is my favorite. He just has a way about him that makes him an “every man” type of guy.

I follow him on Instagram and I know he is a Star Wars fan but I never knew he is a collector too. Two days ago he posted up this picture of his recent pickup, which appears to be about three cases of 2016 Topps Star Wars Chrome The Force Awakens.

 
He follows that up by posting this last night. He pulled what is easily the best card of the set, the Harrison Ford Superfractor #1/1 autograph. Which he immediately put up for auction and sold it within an hour.
 
He didn’t say how much he sold it for only that he plans on buying more Star Wars cards with the money, in true collector form. I checked recent sales and found his card, he sold it for $4,500. Insane.

 

Question, would you have sold this card?
 
 
 
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  1. TwitchAugust 21, 2016 at 3:42 PM

    I wouldn't want to, but I'd probably have no choice. $4500 is probably enough for me to buy all the various things I need before I start to seriously look into moving out.

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  2. JediJeffAugust 21, 2016 at 5:04 PM

    I would, and use the money to pick up another Ford on card auto and then use the rest for whatever.

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    1. CorkyAugust 22, 2016 at 1:58 PM

      That is an excellent idea, you can pick up a Harrison Ford signed 8x10 for under $100. I know some people would rather have his signature on a card but one of his signed cards run around $1,000 and up so I would be plenty happy for the photo.

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  3. FujiAugust 21, 2016 at 9:12 PM

    Man... that's a sweet card. But that's a lot of cash... so I'd have no choice but to sell it. I'd probably put three grand into savings... then go out and add a few more HOF autographs to my collection.

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    1. CorkyAugust 22, 2016 at 1:59 PM

      That is what I would probably do too, use $1,000 or so on some white whales and the rest in to savings.

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  4. CaptKirk42August 21, 2016 at 10:03 PM

    I'm torn. As a casual Star Wars fan (I'm not one of those Must have everything Star Wars fans) I'd love to have the card since it is a 1/1. However I'm not a fan of the chrome refractor type sparkly razzle dazzle it looks like this card has so I probably would sell it at some point.

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  5. J. MeeksAugust 22, 2016 at 12:20 AM

    I like Star Wars, but not enough to buy cards.

    Ghost Adventures is one if my favorite shows. They visited my hometown and investigated the Baker Hotel. I actually got to hang out with them for a couple nights and went to walk through a local cemetery with Aaron. Nick was cool but Zach was kind of a jerk.

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    1. CorkyAugust 22, 2016 at 2:01 PM

      I bet that was so fun, Aaron seems like such a cool dude. They were in a nearby area when I was living in Arizona, about 20 miles away, but I didn't find out until they had already finished filming.

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  6. RAZAugust 22, 2016 at 9:56 AM

    I would have sold it. With the money from the sale I could probably get a different Ford autograph and also buy everything on my eBay Watch List. Or pay bills, I guess. Either way, it's a card that would be worth more to someone else than it would be worth to me.

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