It was in the middle of 96-97 and 97-98 season of basketball, when skybox was having this 'complete set of Autographics redemption' contest. All you have to do was collect all 50 of redemption cards from 96-97 Zforce boxes. First, I thought it would be easy, as I had several already from few packs. So, I've spent nearly $1000 buying those zforce boxes, and I've realized only one of that #50 redemption card was made and I had to give up on my journey to the complete set of Autographics.
All I had left from those boxes were nearly nothing.. I had a few autographics I pulled out of those boxes, including Steve Nash. By that time, I didn't even know if there was a player named Steve Nash.. and it was booked for only around $15 ish... Even the card shop owner that I used to go refused to take this Steve Nash card for a couple pack of Zforce..
So.. I decided to put all the effort to trade this away.. and then I met this one guy online,who was from Canada and he was trying to get all the Nash cards in the world. He said he has a lot of customers trying to buy Nash cards as Nash was originated from Canada. So, I was happy enough to give this card + several steve nash finest rc + some other cards for a Shaquille O'neal Upper Deck RC card.. I believe the shaq was booked for around $60
And then.. I was happy until last year.. I've discovered the Nash card that nobody wanted was Soooo Hot... it was selling on eBay for around $200.. And for $200, 30x Shaq UD RC was easy...
So.. this is my worst trade ever. Spent $1000 to get a Nash 9697 autographics, and ended up with a Shaq UD RC.
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