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Is this listing a fair price?

Paste an eBay listing UltraBall follows, or pick the card, its printing and the copy on offer, and type the asking price. It is set against what that exact copy has sold for recently: the median, the usual range and the sales behind them. The answer is one of three, well under, around or above, with the figures that gave it.

For an ungraded copy, say what condition the seller claims and the checker uses the sold median of copies sold as that where enough have, and says so when too few have. Then watch the card, and listings of it under the going rate reach you.

How the verdict is made

  1. The copy. A PSA 9 is compared with PSA 9 sales, a 1st Edition with 1st Edition sales, and an ungraded copy sold as light play with copies sold as light play, once at least 3 have sold in 90 days. Nothing is borrowed from a neighbouring grade or printing.
  2. The band. Inside the usual sold range is around the going rate; below it is well under; above it is above. Where only a median is held, the bands sit 15% either side of it, the same margin the price source puts on a single price.
  3. The shipping. Added up and shown as the total you would pay, beside the verdict rather than inside it, because sold figures are item prices.

The figures are the same ones every card page shows: the methodology says where they come from and how often they update. A verdict is a reading of recent sales, not a promise about this copy: nobody has seen it.

Common questions

How do I know if a Pokémon card listing is a fair price?

Set the asking price against what the same card, printing and grade has sold for recently, not against other asking prices. Where UltraBall holds a usual sold range for that copy, a price inside it is around the going rate, one below it is well under, and one above it is above. Where it holds only a median, the same three bands sit 15% either side of it.

Why is a listing well under the going rate?

Usually because it is not the same thing: a lower condition than the title suggests, a different printing of the same card number, a reprint, or a slab from a grader whose grades sell for less. Sometimes it is simply a seller who wants a quick sale. Check the photos against the printing cues shown, and read the condition as the seller’s word, not a fact.

Does the checker count shipping?

It adds the shipping up and shows the total you would pay, but the verdict is on the item price. Sold figures are item prices without shipping, the way eBay reports a sale, so comparing item to item is the like-for-like reading. The total is shown beside it so you can see what the shipping does to the deal.

Why won’t it read the eBay link I pasted?

UltraBall follows eBay listings of the cards it tracks, found by its own searches, and does not fetch a listing because it was pasted. If yours is not one it holds, or it could not verify it as one exact copy, pick the card by hand and type the asking price: the verdict is the same. The price checker has the full sales record for any card.