QA · Glossary

The card archive filters let you choose which figure prices use. The price cells on card pages, the card list, the minimum-price filter and price sorting all follow the same choice.

• Latest sale (default): the price of the most recent actual sale. See “Latest sale” below.
• Average: the average price over a period. See “Average” below.
• The card list, price sorting and the minimum-price filter use the very figure the card page's price cell shows (converted to your currency).
• With Grading set to All, price sorting and the minimum-price filter go by the Raw (ungraded) cell; cards with graded prices only come last.

A card that hasn't been graded or sealed in a grading slab. The Raw price cell shows Near Mint first; other conditions can be picked on the card page.

The price of the most recent actual sale of the same card and printing, in the same condition or grade.

• If there is only one sale, that sale is shown.
• An ungraded sale whose listing states no condition is filed as “Not stated”. It never counts as Near Mint, in prices or filters.
• A Raw cell shows an explicit Near Mint sale first (SNKRDUNK's Condition A ranks with Near Mint: with sales in both, the newer one is shown), then the source's Near Mint market price. Only without either does it use a sale in Not stated, LP, condition B, MP, condition C, HP, condition D, DMG, in that order, and finally the lowest ask, always labelled. Traditional Chinese cards have no public individual sales, so they usually show the average sale price (any condition). It isn't a Near Mint price: it ranks with Not stated, and a sale stated as Near Mint comes first.

• Ungraded: the market average the marketplace publishes.
• An ungraded card with individual sales but no market average shows the mean of its sales in that condition, with the same rules as graded cards below.
• Graded: the mean of that grade's sales over the last 90 days, leaving out sales above 3× the median or below 1/3 of it. With fewer than 3 sales in 90 days, the last 10 sales are used. The number of sales used is shown next to the price.

A “＊” with a percentage next to a price (for example “＊ +312%”) means the latest sale differs a lot from the median of the other recent sales at the same grade: at least 2× the median, or 1/2 of it or less. The percentage is the difference from the median.

• It is compared with the other sales of the last 12 months, and at least the last 10 of them. With fewer than 2 other sales there is no comparison.
• A ＊ doesn't mean the price is wrong. The market may really have moved, the item may be unusual, or the listing may be mislabeled. Open the source records on the card page to see every sale.
• Such a sale is checked against its original listing. Until the check is done, the sale is shown, marked “Awaiting check”; when the listing shows the same card, the same grade or condition and the same price, it stays the price, still marked ＊. When the listing doesn't match, the latest sale of the card at the same grade on the same marketplace is used instead, or the previous valid sale when there is none. When the listing is gone, no longer shows the sale, or the sale is more than 90 days old and can't be checked, the sale is still shown, marked “Unverifiable”. Sales taken straight from TCGplayer's own trade records have no listing to check and only keep their ＊. Sales from SNKRDUNK come from the marketplace's own record of trades (such as SNKRDUNK's 売買履歴), which lists only trades that happened, so they count as confirmed: used as the price as usual, never marked “Unverifiable”, and still marked ＊ when far from the recent sales. A sale that isn't used stays in the source records, marked “Not used” with the reason, and never counts toward a collection's value.

The sale shown is more than 365 days old. The price is still shown; it only means the card rarely trades, not that the price is wrong.

The source no longer lists this price, for example when the marketplace drops a product's market price. The history is kept, but it ranks after every current price and is marked “Withdrawn”.

The source hasn't been updated successfully for too long. Market reference prices, average sale prices and lowest asks count as current for 12 hours after the last successful read; after that, or when a read fails, the price is still shown, marked “Update delayed”.

• An individual sale has already happened, so it is never marked delayed; it is marked “Outdated” after 365 days. The card page and the card list judge this alike.

A single figure a marketplace computes from its own recent sales, such as its published market price or average sale price. It isn't one particular sale. This site never uses third-party price estimates, nor price charts or asking prices.

One completed transaction. The site names the marketplace it sold on and links to the original listing or product page.

A sale where the seller accepted the buyer's offer. The price shown is what was actually paid; the original asking price is in the tag's tooltip.

The price shown on a sold listing. If the sale was a best offer, that figure may be the original asking price rather than what was paid.

The price of an item that hasn't sold; not a sale price. The lowest ask is the cheapest current listing of the card, shown only when there are no sales and no market reference price. It is never used for price sorting or the minimum-price filter.

The source's price doesn't separate conditions; sales in every condition are counted together.

Price cells show the card's own printing first. Only when it has no price do they use another printing of the same card, labelled next to the price, e.g. “Reverse holo”, “1st Edition” or “Poké Ball”.

Prices are stored in the source's own currency (USD, JPY, TWD) and converted to the display currency you choose. Rates come from Coinbase; conversions are for reference, and the source records list the original amounts. Prices never include shipping.

“Data as of” is the time of the source data itself, such as a sale date. “Last checked” is when this site last checked the source. An unchanged price adds no new record; only the check time is updated.

• Ungraded cards use the Raw price.
• Graded cards use the price for the same company and grade; without one, the next lower grade, and failing that the Raw price. If the graded price is below Raw, Raw is used.
• The finish is only a label. When there is no price for that finish, the card's own main printing's price is used (a holo card's holo price), always with a note, e.g. “No reverse holo price; using the card's main printing (normal)”.
• A price the source withdrew still values a card, marked “Withdrawn”; a delayed one too, marked “Update delayed”; a ＊ sale awaiting its check too, marked “Awaiting check”. A sold listing without a sale date never counts.
• All cards add up to one total.

Looks nearly unplayed. Close up there may be a tiny edge nick, a light scuff or a small spot, but it looks close to perfect overall.

Minor border or corner wear, or slight scuffs and scratches. No major defects such as creases, bends or water damage.

Visible border and corner wear and scratches; there may be creases, whitening or light dirt.

Severe wear; there may be major creases, folds or damage that affects the card's structure.

Tears, water damage, writing or severe bends that compromise the card.

The sale record names no condition, e.g. a listing whose title and item specifics don't mention one. The site never treats it as Near Mint; it is its own category, marked “Not stated” next to the price.

SNKRDUNK's own condition scale for ungraded cards. The site shows it as stated, such as “Condition A (SNKRDUNK)”, and never converts it to Near Mint, LP and so on, since the two scales don't match exactly. For a Raw cell's price, Condition A ranks with Near Mint (the newer sale is shown); B to D keep their places after it.

• A: clean overall with no noticeable damage; very slight whitening, shallow dents and factory flaws are allowed. B: light damage or wear. C: damage or wear. D: heavy damage or wear.
• In a Raw cell, A ranks after Near Mint and before Not stated; B after LP, C after MP and D after HP.

Professional Sports Authenticator. Grades 1 to 10, with half grades from 1.5 to 8.5 and no 9.5. A 10 is Gem Mint. A PSA grade with a qualifier (OC, ST, PD, MC, MK, OF, e.g. OC for off-center) counts as the grade on the label.

Beckett Grading Services. Grades 1 to 10 in half steps, plus four subgrades: centering, corners, edges and surface. A 9.5 is Gem Mint and a 10 is Pristine; a 10 with all four subgrades at 10 is a Black Label, the rarest.

CGC Trading Cards. Grades 1 to 10 in half steps. A 10 is either Gem Mint 10 or the higher Pristine 10. The earlier Perfect 10 (all four subgrades at 10) was retired in 2023 but still trades.

Two 10s with different label designations (Gem Mint, Pristine, Perfect, Black Label) sell for different prices. The card page lets you pick a designation. A PSA 10 is one grade whether or not it says Gem Mint; a BGS 10 without Black Label counts as Pristine (gold label); a CGC 10 naming neither Pristine nor Perfect is a plain CGC 10.

No foil.

Foil inside the art box, or across the whole card.

Foil on the card body outside the art. Japanese cards call it “mirror” (ミラー).

A reverse holo with a printed pattern on the card body: Poké Ball, Master Ball, Love Ball, Friend Ball, Dusk Ball, Quick Ball, Energy symbol, Team Rocket and others.

Taiwanese collectors' names for some reverse-holo textures. 碎閃 (“shattered”) is a fine sparkle texture, such as the octagonal sparkles of S12a or the square fragments of SV4a; 方塊閃 (“block”) is a diamond grid, as in S8a.

1st Edition is the first print run, stamped “1st Edition”; Unlimited is any later run without the stamp. They often differ a lot in price, so they are recorded separately.

Special cards that print no rarity symbol: foil cards (full art, mirror and other foils), rule-box cards such as ex, V and GX, and special illustration cards (including cards numbered past their set's total). Often the special cards of decks and starter sets. Cards issued with a promo number (such as S-P), and event promos that print no number, are filed as PROMO instead.

Regular cards that print no rarity symbol (not foil, no rule box, no special illustration) are filed as C: the card list shows C, the C rarity filter finds them, and the card page notes "No mark printed on the card". Examples are the regular cards of Japanese high-class packs (S4a, S12a, SV4a) and of decks.

The card's rarity hasn't been found yet.

The exchange rates used for currency conversion.