How Is Pokémon Card Centering Measured?
Centering is a ratio between opposite borders, it is the flaw sellers most often miss, and it is the one thing on a card that no amount of careful storage can fix.
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Grading
What Is a PSA Population Report?
It counts how many copies PSA has graded and at what grades. What that tells you about scarcity, and the four ways it misleads people who read it as a census.
How Do You Spot a Trimmed Pokémon Card?
Trimming shaves a card's edges to hide wear and chase a higher grade. What it looks like, why it is fraud, and how to check before you buy or sell.
Why Does the Same Pokémon Card Sell for Different Prices?
Two copies of one card can differ tenfold in price. Condition, print run, grading and where it sold explain almost all of the gap.
Is It a Print Error or Just Damage?
Most cards people think are valuable print errors are ordinary manufacturing variance or plain damage. Here is the test that tells the three apart.
Are Pokémon Cards a Good Investment? An Honest Look
The mechanics left out of the cards-went-up-10x stories: survivorship bias, the spread, eBay's 13.25% fee, grading costs and holding a thing that pays nothing.
Near Mint vs PSA 9: Why Condition Words Mislead
Marketplace condition words and numeric grades measure different things. Here is what Near Mint really permits, and why a clean card still grades a 7.
Is Grading Worth It? Run the Numbers on Your Card
Grading one card costs about $108 all in as of September 2026. Here is the arithmetic step by step, worked twice: once where it pays and once where it does not.
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.
What Are My Pokémon Cards Worth If They're Not Graded?
A raw card is worth what identical ungraded copies sold for. How to read eBay sold comps, which condition flaws move the number, and when raw beats grading.
What Grading Pokémon Cards Actually Costs in 2026
PSA Regular is $79.99 a card, CGC Economy is $20, and Beckett's two cheapest tiers are sold out. Add postage both ways and supplies and four cards through PSA works out at roughly $88 each.
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.