Price lookup

Once a card is identified, the vault can fetch live market pricing so you can set asking by data, not gut. Two sources are queried in parallel — PriceCharting for the canonical price guide, and eBay's recent sold listings for what cards are actually closing at right now.

Triggering a lookup

Most users trigger price lookup automatically — when a card's workflow status hits identified, the vault queues a price fetch. You can also pull manually from the card detail page: the Pricing block has a Pull prices button.

PriceCharting

We query PriceCharting using set + number (preferred) or set + player + variant. The response includes:

• Loose / Ungraded price — the everyday market price for the card raw.
• Graded prices for PSA 7-10 and BGS equivalents (when the card has a graded population).
• Box / Sealed prices for sealed product.

These prices are sticky — PriceCharting updates them on a daily cadence. We cache the response for 24 hours per card to keep our quota healthy.

Recent eBay sold comps

In parallel, the vault searches eBay for recently sold listings that match the card. The result is up to 12 comps shown inline with sale price, sale date, and a link to the closed listing. Useful when:

• A new release has volatile pricing PriceCharting hasn't caught up to yet.
• You want to verify a specific grade is actually selling at PriceCharting's price.
• You're pricing an unusual variant the price guide doesn't list.

Sold comps come from eBay's Browse API (when connected) or our scraping backend (when you aren't). The Browse API is more reliable, so connect eBay if you haven't.

Suggested asking price

The vault doesn't auto-set your asking price — that's still a judgment call. But the Pricing block surfaces a Suggest value computed as roughly the median of the recent eBay sold comps, weighted toward sales in the last 14 days. Click it to populate the Asking price field, then adjust as needed.

What's coming

Wave 5 introduces cross-marketplace arbitrage signals: if PriceCharting says a card is selling for 10% more on Whatnot than eBay (using Whatnot's sold-history data), you'll see a small badge on the card.

For now, the inline PriceCharting + sold-comps view is the data feed dealers we work with rely on for 95%+ of pricing decisions.