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Mark Cuban says his credit card once got declined while trying to buy a $140,000 bottle of champagne after the Dallas Mavericks won the 2011 NBA championship “Well, the first part was my card getting declined when we went to buy a big bottle of champagne. That was insane. I had changed my Amex card for whatever reason, right? And they came up to me like, ‘Mark, we’ve got this huge bottle of Ace of Spades,’ and it was like 140 grand.” “And they’re like, ‘Do you want it?’ And Dirk’s like, ‘Yes, he wants it.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, yeah, let’s get it.’ And then 10 minutes go by and there’s nothing, and Dirk’s like, ‘Where is this? Come on, come on, Cubes, where is this?’” “I’m like, ‘Let me find out.’ Then two minutes later, you know, it’s one of those, ‘Mr. Cuban,’ went from Mark to Mr. Cuban. ‘Can we see you back here for a minute? Your card was declined.’ I’m like, ‘What?’” “I’m like, ‘Let’s get American Express on the line.’ And we call American Express, and the lady said, ‘I’m sorry, I can’t approve it because you’re at a club, it’s $104,000, you’ve never bought anything like this, we just changed cards, and it’s fraud detection.’ I’m like, ‘Can I talk to your manager?’ And they’re like, ‘Yes, sir.’” “And he’s like, ‘How do I know this is Mark Cuban?’ And I’m like, ‘Were you just watching TV? Did you see that we just won a championship and I’m trying to buy a bottle of champagne?’ You know, just go on social, whatever it was, right? And so they finally approved it, and I got my $140,000 bottle of champagne. I wish I had kept it. We gave it to somebody that was there who kept it.”