Collector guides
Short, practical reads on the money side of collecting. Each one ends in a tool you can use straight away.
- Is it worth grading your card?The four numbers that decide it, and why the 10 isn’t the only grade that matters.
- Card centering, explainedWhat 55/45 means, how to measure it from a photo, and what each grade allows.
- How selling fees eat grading profitWhy a slab that “sells for $100” doesn’t put $100 in your pocket.
- Grading or selling raw?How to compare grading a card with simply selling it raw, using the same costs on both sides.
- Grade chances and uncertaintyHow to think about the chance of each grade, why a single expected number isn’t a promise, and how to test your assumptions.
- The full cost of a grading submissionEvery cost in a grading submission, from the grading fee to return shipping, and how to share the batch costs across cards.
- Matching the right price: condition and variantsWhy the same card name can have very different prices, and how to make sure a price matches your printing, variant and condition.
- How to compare a tradeComparing both sides of a card trade: where each value comes from, condition, cash, and what each side would bring if sold.
- Backing up and sharing your collectionKeep your Vault safe with backups and cloud save, and share it with read-only links that leave out what you paid.