What happens to a collection after you sell it to us
Stage by stage: written offer from sold comps, shipping, check-in against photos, payment after review, sorting and grading, and where our margin comes from.
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Selling
How to Photograph Pokémon Cards for an Accurate Offer
Bad photos cost sellers money because a buyer prices in whatever the photo hides. The lighting, angles and framing that make an offer hold up on arrival.
Local card shop or eBay: what each route actually nets
A mid-size collection worth $2,400 on eBay nets about $1,640 after fees, postage and supplies, across roughly 37 hours of work. Here is the full arithmetic.
You Inherited a Pokémon Collection. Here's the Order of Operations.
A calm, practical order of operations for someone who has just inherited Pokémon cards and has no interest in the hobby: what not to throw away, what actually carries the value, and the two ways families end up underpaid.
I Found a Box of Pokémon Cards. What Do I Do First?
The first hour matters more than the next ten. Photograph the box before you touch it, clean nothing, ignore which cards look coolest, and split pre-2000 from everything else.
How to Sell a Pokémon Collection Without Losing Money
eBay and TCGplayer take almost the same cut. The real cost of selling a collection yourself is the transaction count — here is the arithmetic.