Grading on Theo TCG

What happens to a collection after you sell it to us

Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:00:00 -0600

Short version: you send photos, we send a written offer priced from recent sold comps, you ship the cards at your own cost and insurance, we check every card against those photos, we pay after that review, and the collection is then split into singles worth listing, bulk, and grading candidates. Our offer is below what the same cards would gross sold one at a time. That gap is the business. This page explains what the gap buys you, and who should not take the trade at all.

What Are My Pokémon Cards Worth If They're Not Graded?

Sat, 29 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0600

Short version: an ungraded Pokémon card is worth whatever identical ungraded copies have actually sold for in the last month or two — not a price guide’s headline number, and not a graded price with a discount applied to it. Raw and graded are two separate markets with two separate sets of buyers, and the raw one is much larger.

What Grading Pokémon Cards Actually Costs in 2026

Fri, 28 Aug 2026 07:00:00 -0600

The sticker price on a grading company’s website is not what grading costs. It is the largest single line on the invoice, but it is usually somewhere between half and three-quarters of what you actually spend, and the rest arrives in pieces small enough to feel like rounding errors until you add them up.

You Inherited a Pokémon Collection. Here's the Order of Operations.

Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:00:00 -0600

Take a breath. Nothing here is urgent, and nothing is going to lose value in the next month. The one thing that genuinely matters in the first week is that nothing gets thrown out, cleaned, flattened, rubber-banded or split between people before anyone has looked at it properly. Everything else can wait.

I Found a Box of Pokémon Cards. What Do I Do First?

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Do four things, in this order, and you will not destroy any value in the first hour: photograph the box exactly as you found it, clean nothing, resist sorting by which cards look coolest, and separate pre-2000 cards from everything else.

How Much Is a Base Set Charizard Actually Worth?

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:00:00 -0600

Short version: a Base Set Charizard is worth somewhere between about $400 and about $343,000, and the spread is not a joke. Three separate printings share the same artwork and the same card number, and one printing detail moves the price by a factor of ten before condition enters the conversation.