Question 1

How our prices and ratings work

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We get this question a lot, so here's the honest short version. Prices. When you check a card's value, we look at recent real world sales of comparable cards and estimate what yours is worth today. We focus on sales that genuinely match your card (same player, set, parallel, serial number, and condition) and we show the sales behind the number so you can see our work. The more complete your card's details, the sharper the estimate. When prices update. A card is priced when you add it. After that, a price only changes when you ask for it: choose Check price on a card, or run a bulk price check

Question 2

How do you come up with a card's value?

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We analyze recent real world sales of comparable cards to estimate what yours is worth today. We focus on sales of cards that genuinely match yours: same player, set, parallel, serial number, and condition. The more specific your card's details (parallel, print run, autograph, grade), the sharper the estimate. A card is priced when you add it, and you can check its price again any time with Check price . Values don't change on their own in the background, so the date under the value tells you when it was last checked.

Question 3

Price scans, Check price, and Research Price: what's the difference?

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They all use the same pricing engine. What's different is where you start and which allowance they use. Price scan (Price in the mobile Scan tab, or Price on the main website's scanner): you photograph a card and we identify it and price it. It uses one Card scan and no Research credit . On mobile, you check the identified card first, then the price fills in. While it works, the screen says "Fetching recent sales. This can take a moment." The Price Estimate shows an estimated value, a range, and how many recent sales it is based on, with Add to Collection at the bottom. Check price (Collect on

Question 4

Running price research on cards already in your collection

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A card is priced once when you add it. To get a fresh value later, check its price yourself. In Collect on the web , open the card. The Value panel shows the current value and when it was last checked. Choose Check price again (or Check price if the card has no price yet). The line under the button shows the cost, for example "Uses 1 Research credit. You have 497 left." ![The Value panel on a card with the Check price again button and its Research credit cost](https://api.hobbymonitor.com/v3/images/articles/support pricing research research collection cards 01 check price.png) The card keeps i

Question 5

Bulk research: pricing many cards at once

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In Collect on the web you can check prices for many cards at once instead of one at a time. There are two ways to start: From a collection: open the collection's More actions menu and choose Check prices for cards without one (only cards with no value yet) or Refresh prices (only cards whose price is over 30 days old). From a selection: select cards, then choose Check prices from the selection actions. Before anything runs, you'll see how many cards will be checked and how many Research credits it uses. Each card keeps its current value until its new price arrives. ![The Refresh prices confirm

Question 6

Reading comps and comp tiers

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A value comes with its receipts. Comps are the recent comparable sales behind the estimate. You can see the individual sales that built the number. A comp tier (or confidence indicator) tells you how strong the match is: more, closer sales mean a more confident number; few or loose matches mean treat it as a ballpark. Open a priced card on the web or in the mobile app and you'll see the recent sales behind the estimate right under the value. When every sale is for your exact card, the list is called Recent sales ; when some are for close matches, it's called Comparable sales and those rows are

Question 7

Set checklists and matching your card

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You can link a collection to a set's checklist to track your completion progress: which cards you own and which you still need. When the system can match your card to a specific checklist entry, that exact identity helps pricing pull comps for precisely that card rather than a near match. The more complete your card's details (parallel, serial, autograph), the better the match and the sharper the value.

Question 8

Why is there no price or no comps for my card?

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A few things can cause this: It's a thin market. Some cards trade rarely, so there aren't enough recent sales to build a confident estimate. The card details aren't pinned down yet. Add the parallel, serial number, grade, or autograph info and check the price again. More detail means a better match. If a card needs more details, Collect shows an Edit details button. It's brand new. Very recent releases may not have enough sales history yet. When a price check finds no match, the card says so ("No recent sales found" in Collect, "No recent comparable sales found" on mobile) and offers an eBay l

Question 9

Why doesn't my graded card show a value below the raw price?

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By design. A graded copy of a card shouldn't be worth less than the same card raw, so when our estimate for a graded version would come out below the raw value, we hold off on showing it rather than display a number that doesn't make sense. As more graded sales come in, the value fills in.

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