$600K in deals at the biggest National ever — wire transfers on the floor, a $2,600 vintage steal, and a card that didn't leave a hand

King of the Kards just published his full run at the biggest National Sports Collectors Convention ever — a nearly hour-long look at how the top-tier vintage market actually clears when the biggest players are all in one room. The number he ends on: ~$600,000 in deals across the weekend, including a wire-transfer purchase that had a seller telling him "I've only told five people I have this."

The video is a live tape of how price discovery works in high-end vintage. There's a $1,600-vs-$1,750 back-and-forth on a card most collectors will never see, a $2,600 non-auto that briefly sounded like $26,000 (and the panic that followed), and a Heritage auction comp from last year that sold for around $40K anchoring the whole conversation. On one card, he tells the seller: "If I buy this from you, you have my word this does not leave my hands." That's the modern National in one sentence.

The bigger takeaway isn't about the specific cards — it's about speed. Deals that used to take days over DMs now close in minutes because both sides are standing there. Wire transfers happen at the table. The room is the exchange.

If you're building a vintage position or just trying to read the top of the market, this is the tape to study. What clears at the National sets the ceiling everywhere else moves toward.