Heloise Auction Final Numbers

I have written about the HTH auction, here and here. From the very beginning I felt an attachment to this card, which I have described here. Just to remind people, this was the initial reaction when the auction was announced:

• There won't be any demand for this card
• Price of this card will be low as no one will want them
• No one in their right mind will pay $1000 for a card

I took a lot of that personally, as I typically do. Because this game is a personal quest for me. I decided to support the price of the regular foil card, because I know GF will be highly well subscribed.

Source: Bravetofu's post: Created by Mid-Journey AI, Brave, this is my fav among the five.

Here is the final result. The average price of 95 RF cards is 988,736. I say that is fairly close to 1M DEC. That was my initial expected goal. I bought 10 cards in total. My personal average is 1,077,444. It is slightly higher than the global average, but I do not mind. I am glad it was a successful auction.

This was the 5 Gold Foil cards. Average is about 9.8M DEC. So GF went for about 10X the regular foil, which again beat the expectation to the upside (@vugtis lost the bet, no, he just made a comment, didn't bet). Overall, the auction returned 142,825,900 DEC to the SPS DAO.

Here is the 'abacus chart' that people like, which shows all 95 accounts.

Now, that its over. I am planning to taking the free delegations away from the current users. I don't know what I will do with 10 of those. Maybe I will rotate them through players I like and enjoy talking to :) Or, perhaps, I will give a few free delegations to people who are doing significant community service to the Splinterlands community. I will have to think about it how I use this. Here is the fact, I own 10% of the supply of the first auction card of Splinterlands, and YES, this is a flex :) Yes, I could have gotten a GF with this much money, but I would still have to purchase a few for my scholars. So, for me, this ended up to be the best alternative. I also supported the price in the process. I can guaruntee that during the middle dog days, the price would have dipped 500K DEC if no support were given. Now, you can argue about if that is a good thing or a bad thing at your leisure, but I am reasonably happy about it.