At the table
Is this trade worth it?
Put both piles in and see what each side is actually worth before anybody hands anything over. Turn the phone around and the other person sees the same numbers you do, which is the point.
How it decides
- Even means within 5% or $5. Both, because neither works alone: a dollar on a twenty dollar trade is noise, and five percent of six thousand is three hundred dollars.
- It refuses to answer when the guessing is bigger than the gap. This app prices some cards from recorded sales and others from its own era arithmetic. If the estimated part of a trade is larger than the difference between the two sides, that difference could be the estimate being wrong, so there is no answer to give and it says so rather than guessing.
- A price you type in counts, and it says that it was typed. A card the app has never heard of can still go on the table: name it, price it, and it is treated as known, because you are asserting it to the person reading the same screen. It is never called a recorded sale, on the row or in the message this page sends.
- A slab is worth what its grade is worth, not what the raw card is worth. Mark a card as graded and it is valued at that grade: from recorded sales when the provider has them, otherwise from the same era curve the rest of the site prices with, and labelled as an estimate so the rule above can refuse to call it.
This is not an appraisal and it is not a guarantee. It is the same arithmetic on the same tables the rest of the site runs on, shown to both people at once.