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$600, willing to listen to offers

Okay Sting fans… I have a beauty I’m selling. It’s pop 7 with only 2 higher.

A little background on the set:

Sting’s rookie year!! This super rare card is part of a limited run test market set, making it highly sought after by collectors.

Licensed by Jim Crockett Promotions and printed by Sheriar Press Inc. on brown back "Kraft stock" cards, the NWA Test Market Run was released in single packs that included seven cards in each pack. Made up of a 49-card base set, a checklist card and a header pack card, the 51-card series was distributed by Wonderama International one year before a wider 343-card release on white card stock. The much rarer Test Market Run set was only sold at convenience stores in and around Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in 1987.

The #17 Sting card from the test set is widely considered his “true rookie.” This #41 is a nice action shot of him v Eddie Gilbert and also highly sought after.

I do have other graded sting, flairs, road warriors, logo cards, etc. Also have raw, unsigned cards from both the 1987 test set and the full 1988 set. Let me know if you’re looking for anything in particular and I’ll see if I can help.

Pulisic: $200
Cafu: $125

Shipping bubble mailer with tracking included in the states.

Price has dropped pretty dramatically so completely fine holding. May grade the estevao, but the Haaland has a bit of a small ding on one edge next to a corner unfortunately.

Also… why does Estevao have the rookie badge on every other recent set, but not this one?

Obviously this is not something we intended and don’t want to exclude anyone, much less blind people. Same thing happened to my buddies small business a couple months ago and thought it was a random one off thing. This morning my wife arrives at our physical retail location and had the suit taped to her door.

I did some quick research and it seems suits for lack of website accessibility is up 49% year over year for the past two years and the bulk of these are known as “sue and settle” cases.

I circled back to my buddy and he is trying to settle for $15k plus will have to pay for ongoing management of his website so it’s accessible.

We use Shopify and it seems they should have the tools in place to account for this. How is this even fair?? We don’t have the funds to cover a cost like that to settle although we would gladly do everything possible to make our site accessible.

We reached out to our attorney and they stated this is serious as it’s a federal case out of western NC. Zero clue how we even got on this federal suit. I’m planning on writing our state AG, congressman, etc. half of me wants to reach out to the law office that brought the suit and explain the situation (ironic enough their website talks about business litigation and wanting to help small businesses), but I’m sure this would not help in the slightest and potentially hurt our case.

We’re so distressed and torn up over this. Has anyone else experienced this? If so, was there anything you could do to not pay a 5 figure settlement?

Edit to add this new article I quickly found so people are aware what’s going on: https://www.boston25news.com/news/local/25-investigates-small-businesses-caught-surge-ada-website-lawsuits/WC3WIUKYVVG3NBNSZZEPUGDNJI/

Driving northbound with the family. Made me smile and feel a bit better in a world that seems filled with such hate towards us. Thanks Jewbelong, keep it up.

155 watchers
$3,600 with about 6.5 hours left
PSA 10
First public auction

I know a few people asked for updates so sending this out with the clock winding down.

For those just seeing this.. my buddies and I rip packs while hanging out and watching games. We hit a Mahomes Tecmo SP out of Topps Chrome, our biggest pull ever, and immediately sent it off to grade at the super express level. It got a 10 so we sent straight from PSA to their vault and had them put it up for auction. We were on the fence on whether to list it at BIN with offers or to go auction. We decided auction with the hype of the set and these specific cards being a new SP that people our age (40+) love, figured we’d let the market tell us the value.

As of right now, from just this card, we are about even with the cost of the boxes, grading, fees, etc combined.

We’re nervous! How much more do yall think it could go? Lots of action in the last hour/10 min??

Since people seemed interested when I posted the pull/grade process, here’s where the auction sits now:

PSA 10
First public auction
138 watchers
$2,750 with a little over 2 days left

First big hit like this we’re excited about (also nervous!), honestly didn’t expect this kind of traction so wanted to continue to share.

Curious where people think this ends?

Pulled this over beers with the boys. And we’re all 80’s kids who played Tecmo Bowl growing up… Only regret is we never got to hold the slab in our hands!

***edit*** Someone mentioned whitening on the corners in the scan. There is no whitening on the corners, I didn’t see any when it was pulled and even inspected under a mag. Our LCS also looked at it before we sent and agreed. I would’ve never sent it if there was. We sent directly from PSA to their vault I’m assuming PSA just doesn’t look at the quality of their scans and some light from the scanners catches the corners of an all black back like that.

Cafu White Sparkle PSA 10: $150

Christian Pulisic White Sparkle PSA 10: $350

Pau Cubarsi White Sparkle PSA 10: $250

Víktor Roque Rookie /49 PSA 9: $55

Luis Díaz /5 PSA 9: $250

Erling Haaland PSA 10: $60

Lamine Yamal Rookie PSA 9: $80

Rafael Laeo /50 PSA 9: $60

Vini Jr Hero PSA 9: $50

Vini White Sparkle PSA 9: $35

PP G&S, shipped bubble mailer w/tracking $5. Happy to work deals for multiple cards.

I’m pumped about these… The Sting is his true rookie card!! Just got these back from grading and have them listed. Some are from the 1987 Wonderama test set (very rare) and others from the 1988 full production run. The company shut down after the ‘88 set when Ted Turner bought the NWA and wanted millions just for the rights to manufacture.

I have more that came back including a PSA 9 and 8 in the Sting, a 10 in the Road Warriors and a 10 Flair logo card. Many will stay in my PC. I also have some sting autographed cards coming back probably in a couple weeks.