Yes.
This is the premium lane PULLED. should cover: a globally followed young star, a recognizable art SSP, five exact raw sales inside 90 days and a fresh $2,995 completed sale on Aug. 25.
CASE 002 · BASKETBALL · INVESTMENT CASE
Victor Wembanyama
UV-8
CURRENT VERDICTOFFERPARTIAL EVIDENCE · CHECKED 2026-08-27
The money and interest are real, but the $2,285 ask is not the recommendation. PULLED.'s conditional OFFER ceiling is $1,375 after exit friction; the listing, condition and buyer-specific landed cost must be rechecked before action.
CONDITIONAL OFFER · RECHECK · AFFILIATERECHECK EXACT EBAY LISTING · OFFER↗IDENTITY + RAW SALESOPEN CARD + COMPS↗
The eBay link may earn PULLED. a commission. That relationship has zero weight in the verdict.
Offer ≤ $1,375.
The money and interest are real, but the $2,285 ask is not the recommendation. PULLED.'s conditional OFFER ceiling is $1,375 after exit friction; the listing, condition and buyer-specific landed cost must be rechecked before action.
01 · THE ECONOMICS
Attention is not margin.
USD display · U.S.-local scenario · buyer-specific taxes excluded02 · WHY IT COULD WORK
The collectible case.
A $2,995 exact raw sale on Aug. 25 provides a fresh executed-price signal, not an asking-price story.
Five exact raw sales inside 90 days put the card well above PULLED.'s three-sale evidence floor.
The latest indexed eBay page showed 20 watchers at $2,285 or Best Offer—meaningful marketplace attention, clearly labeled stale until rechecked.
03 · WHY THE ASK FAILS
The listing case.
The exact listing and watcher count could not be freshly reverified, so PULLED. will not call the supply live.
Five sales against five indexed active listings model only a 46% probability of sale inside 60 days.
After a 13% selling fee and explicit shipping, return, carrying and uncertainty reserves, expected profit is about -$349 at the indexed ask.
04 · EXACT TRANSACTIONS
5 sales. No borrowed comps.
Active asks and watcher counts stay outside the valuation distribution.05 · MARKET COVERAGE
What we know—and what we do not.
A missing market is a stored result, not a silent assumption.Topps checklist
Official 2025/26 Topps Chrome Basketball checklist identifies Victor Wembanyama as Ultra Violet All-Stars UV-8.
INSPECT SOURCE ↗eBay
Latest indexed exact raw listing showed 20 watchers at $2,285 or Best Offer. The index was roughly three weeks old, so the attention count is stale and cannot be presented as live.
INSPECT SOURCE ↗eBay
Five exact-card fixed-price results were present on the latest indexed category page, but a fresh live listing check was blocked. Exact item 366571382577 must be reverified before action.
INSPECT SOURCE ↗SportsCardsPro · underlying eBay titles
Five dated exact raw sales inside 90 days were visible, including $2,995 on Aug. 25. Transaction photos and independent source breadth remain incomplete.
INSPECT SOURCE ↗eBay Europe / Vinted
No Europe-located exact raw listing was attached to this case.
NO SOURCE ATTACHEDeBay Europe
No Europe-specific executed-price row was verified.
NO SOURCE ATTACHEDIndependent auction archive
No second completed-result source was added.
NO SOURCE ATTACHEDEuropean Central Bank
EUR 1 = USD 1.1645 reference rate used for calculator normalization.
INSPECT SOURCE ↗THE INVALIDATION
What changes the call.
Do not offer until the exact listing, watcher count and raw condition are freshly verified. Hard ceiling: $1,375 including item price only; reduce it for buyer tax or new condition risk. A seller counter above the ceiling remains a pass.
USD display. The exact-listing calculator was run in EUR using the ECB 27 Aug 2026 reference rate of EUR 1 = USD 1.1645, then converted back for display. The $1,375 ceiling uses a 40% thin-market target return, 13% selling fee and explicit shipping, return, carrying and uncertainty reserves. The board uses a 12–24 month collector horizon; the current $2,285 ask still fails. Attention never enters fair value.
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