The 1-of-1 Gold Jimothy Card Sells for $20,100 on eBay

A free piece of cardboard just outperformed most actual rookie cards on the market this year. The gold 1-of-1 Jimothy card finally closed its eBay auction Sunday evening after more than a week of increasingly wild bidding. What started as a keepsake from a good night at the ballpark turned into a five-figure payday with a surprising amount of attention from across the country.

We covered this auction last week when bidding was still sitting around $8,100. The card in question is the single gold parallel seeded into a run of 20,000 Jimothy rookie cards, handed out to fans at T-Mobile Park during the Mariners’ August 5 giveaway honoring the viral, short-spined raccoon who took over Seattle this summer. A 13 year old fan named Abby walked away with the gold card that night, and by all accounts had no idea what she was holding until nearby fans clued her in.

That’s when things got weird. Other attendees reportedly offered cash on the spot, and a Mariners staffer allegedly reached out on behalf of pitcher George Kirby to see if a deal could be worked out privately.

The family passed on both and put the card up for auction instead, letting the open market decide what a one-of-a-kind raccoon card was actually worth. Her mother later told the Seattle Times that the proceeds would go toward practical family needs, including Abby’s college fund.

The auction ran from a 99 cent opening bid all the way to $20,100, closing Sunday night. After eBay’s share of the sale, Abby was left with a net profit of roughly $18,810, an eye-watering return on a card she got for free just by showing up to a game.

The eventual winner is a fresh eBay account with zero feedback who placed nine bids over five days, starting just under $5,000 and steadily climbing all the way to the winning number. Whoever it is clearly wanted this card badly and had the budget to back it up.

Part of the demand traces back to a community that has nothing to do with baseball at all. The $JIMOTHY memecoin crowd had been circling this card since it first hit eBay, and that same energy likely fueled at least some of the late bidding.

Nobody in that community has publicly claimed the win yet, so there’s no way to confirm whether the buyer is a crypto trader chasing a flex, a longtime card collector with money to spend, or just someone who really loves a deformed raccoon. Given the account’s total lack of history, an outsider to the hobby feels like the safer bet.

Either way, the final price cleared the previous high mark for a stadium giveaway card, the $19,800 a Dodgers One Piece promo card fetched back in February. It’s also worlds above what standard Jimothy giveaway cards have sold for, generally in the $25 to $850 range depending on rarity.

This is about as good an outcome as a free giveaway card can produce. A 13 year old fan turned a stadium promo into nearly $19,000 after fees, and did it without needing a grading service, a hobby shop, or a single dollar of upfront investment. It’s a reminder that the most unpredictable flips sometimes require nothing more than showing up to a ballgame at the right moment.