Methodology
How Collectibles Price prices work
Same honesty contract as the app README. This is not financial advice. We do not sell cards.
eBay ask
Median of matched active listings after outlier drop. Published only with n ≥ 3. This is not a sold comp. Titles and meta say “asks” until a sold pipeline ships.
TCGPlayer market
Near Mint raw finishes only, from pokemontcg.io (and PokeWallet when that key is set). We label this NM raw market — not a sold print.
PriceCharting sold
Completed sales scraped from PriceCharting (TAG 10 market plus other grades we can map). Cached in Postgres. Grade rows may fall back to eBay asks when sold comps are missing — the page says so.
Affiliate hops go through /go/. Partner IDs are not live. See the disclosure.
Questions
- Are eBay prices sold comps?
- No. eBay figures on Collectibles Price are the median of matched active asking prices after outlier drop, published only when n ≥ 3. They are not sold comps.
- What does TCGPlayer market mean here?
- TCGPlayer market is Near Mint raw finishes only, cached from pokemontcg.io (and PokeWallet when configured).
- Where do graded prices come from?
- Graded sold comps (including TAG 10 and PSA 10) come from PriceCharting and are cached in our database. Grade rows may fall back to eBay asks when sold comps are missing.