Prices and value
Where prices come from and what they mean.
How to
How prices work
- A card’s price is what it recently sold for, for the condition or grade you choose.
- Tap the next to a price to see where it came from, the date and, if it was converted, the exchange rate.
- Tap More prices to see every market and the cheapest copy for sale now.
Good to know
- Prices update once a day, overnight.
- A thin or old figure says so under it: Based on few sales, or, for a sale over a year old, the date it last sold.
Your collection value
- On Collection, tap the big card count to switch to your collection value.
- Tap the beside it to see how it was worked out.
Good to know
- Each copy is priced at its own condition or grade, from its most recent market price. Copies with no price are left out, and the explanation tells you how many.
- It shows what your cards sell for today, not what you paid.
Your currency
- Tap Me, then Profile, then Show prices in, and choose a currency.
Good to know
- It starts from your phone’s region. Cardkept never asks for your location.
- Prices are converted from US dollars (euros, for a Cardmarket listing) at the European Central Bank’s rate for that day, so they’re a close guide, not what someone paid in your currency. The beside a price shows the original figure and the rate used.
Questions
Where do the prices come from?
From real sales in the US market (TCGplayer and eBay sold listings), collected by our price provider and updated once a day, overnight, for every International and Japanese card we can match exactly, raw and graded, so a price, and your collection value, hold still through the day. Where our price provider hasn’t got a card, we show TCGplayer’s own Near Mint market price instead, which doesn’t say how many sales it rests on. Every price shows where it came from and the date it was seen, behind the ⓘ beside it.
Which price does a card show when the markets disagree?
One price, chosen the way collectors price a card: a raw card’s from TCGplayer and a slab’s from eBay (where each mostly sells), unless the other market has at least twice the recent sales. Where neither has sold in the last 30 days, whichever sold most recently. On a card worth $100 or more where TCGplayer and eBay are three times apart, eBay’s, unless TCGplayer’s rests on at least 10 recent sales, or eBay’s is more than 30 days old while TCGplayer’s isn’t. Tap More prices to see every market, with its averages over the last day, week and month, and the cheapest copy for sale on each.
How are graded cards priced?
At their exact grade: a PSA 10 at what PSA 10s of that card sell for, from PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, TAG and ACE sales, and they count towards your collection value. If a grade has never been recorded selling (common for rarer slabs, like a BGS 10), the card says No price data rather than borrow another grade’s price, and it’s left out of your collection value.
What does “Listed from” mean?
The card hasn’t sold anywhere yet but is for sale, often a brand-new card. “Listed from …” with “No sales recorded yet” is the cheapest copy for sale right now on TCGplayer (any condition) or Cardmarket (in the card’s own language). It’s an asking price, not a sale, so it never counts towards your collection value, and a real sale price replaces it once one is recorded.
What does “Recent sales, edition not stated” mean?
Some older Japanese cards were printed as a 1st Edition and an Unlimited, and some of their sales don’t say which edition sold. Where a card has no sale of its own edition, it shows those sales instead: a guide that could be either edition, never counted in your collection value, and replaced by a sale of that edition once one is recorded.
Why does a price say “no Near Mint sale recorded”?
The card has never been recorded selling in Near Mint, but has sold in a worse condition. It shows that price named for its condition, like “Lightly Played · no Near Mint sale recorded”, never as a Near Mint price. Your own copy is always priced at its own condition.
Why does a card say “No price data”?
There’s no recorded sale and nothing listed for sale for that card, in that condition or grade. Cardkept says so rather than guess, and the card is left out of your collection value until a real price arrives.
Why doesn’t a card show a Cardmarket listing?
Where Cardmarket sells a card’s reverse holo as the same item, the card shows no Cardmarket listing, because the cheapest copy could be the reverse holo. Cardmarket also sells a card’s 1st Edition and Unlimited as one item, so on a card printed in both, its cheapest copy may be either edition, except Base Set, where Cardmarket sells the early shadowless print, 1st Editions included, apart from the later Unlimited print, so a Base Set 1st Edition’s cheapest copy may be a shadowless one but never a later Unlimited.
Is there a price chart?
Not at the moment. Each card shows its price for whichever condition or grade you pick, from recent sales, without a history.