How to Price Trading Cards: Sold Comps and Price Guides

The price of a trading card is what someone recently paid for the same card in the same condition, not what sellers are asking. This guide shows how to find those sold prices (comps) for Pokémon and sports cards, which tools show what, how condition and grade change the number, and how to turn a comp into a price you can list at after fees.

The tools change their features and plans often. Everything below is as listed on each tool's own pages on October 10, 2026.

Asking prices vs sold prices#

An active listing tells you what one seller hopes to get. Plenty of cards sit unsold for months at prices nobody will pay, so pricing from active listings tends to aim high.

A sold listing tells you what a buyer actually paid. That's the number to use. TCGplayer makes the same point about its own data: its Listed Median uses only current listings and can differ widely from what buyers pay, especially on older products with few listings.

Active listings still help in one way: they show your competition. If ten copies are listed below the last few sales, the next sale will probably land lower too.

Where to find sold prices#

eBay sold listings#

eBay is the usual starting point, since almost every kind of card sells there. Search for the card, then tick Sold Items under "Show only" in the filters. An eBay community mentor explains that this covers items sold in roughly the last 90 days. eBay's Advanced Search also has a Completed listings option you can sort by end date or price.

One catch: when a seller accepts a Best Offer, the listing can show the original asking price rather than what the buyer paid, according to hobbyDB's help center. Treat those results as a ceiling, not a sale price.

If you sell on eBay, its Product Research tool (in Seller Hub) covers three years of eBay sales, shows an average sold price and sell-through rate, and shows the actual sold price even when a Best Offer was accepted.

130point#

130point is a sales search that collectors use to see accepted Best Offer prices on US eBay sales, which hobbyDB's help center points to for exactly that reason. Its App Store listing says it also searches sold items from PWCC, Goldin, Heritage Auctions, MySlabs and Pristine Auctions, with paid app plans from $9.99 a month. We couldn't load 130point's own site when we checked, so confirm what it covers before relying on it.

TCGplayer Market Price#

For Pokémon and other trading card game singles, TCGplayer shows a Market Price on each product. TCGplayer says it's built from recent actual sales on TCGplayer, not listings, and ignores outliers. It's a good starting point for TCG singles, but it only reflects TCGplayer sales, so also check the Most Recent Sale, which you can filter by condition and version.

PriceCharting and SportsCardsPro#

PriceCharting (TCG) and its sister site SportsCardsPro (sports) build prices from eBay sold listings. Their methodology page says each card gets separate prices for ungraded, grades 7 to 9.5, PSA 10 and BGS 10, that items with condition problems such as off-center or stained cards are excluded, and that prices don't include shipping. That makes them handy for a quick raw-versus-graded comparison.

Card Ladder#

Card Ladder is a sales database with a free price guide and a paid Pro plan. It says it has added over 100 million sales to its Sales History, which is a Pro feature at $20 a month or $200 a year as listed in October 2026.

Market Movers and Collectr#

Two paid apps add tracking on top of sales data. Market Movers, from Sports Card Investor, says it pulls sales from marketplaces and auction houses daily and tracks your collection's value, with plans from $9.99 a month and a free trial. Collectr is aimed at trading card games: its site says it values raw, graded and sealed items from sales data across Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana and more, and is free to start, with a PRO plan from $4.99 a month billed annually. Both are as listed in October 2026.

PSA's price guide and auction prices#

PSA's Price Guide covers PSA-graded cards only, based on price histories, with no prices for ungraded cards. PSA also publishes auction prices by grade, but when we checked, those pages asked us to sign in to a Collectors account.

Match the comp to your card#

A comp only counts if it's the same card. Before you trust a number, check:

• Same version. Set, year, card number, language, parallel or variant, first edition, and any serial number. A holo, a reverse holo and a numbered parallel are different cards with different prices.
• Same condition or grade. A raw card with whitened edges isn't comparable to a clean one. PriceCharting excludes listings with condition problems for this reason.
• Same format. An auction that ended at 2 a.m. and a fixed-price sale can land far apart. Look at several sales, not one.
• Recent. Card prices move. A sale from six months ago is weaker evidence than one from last week.

When you have several clean comps, use the middle of the range rather than the highest sale. Many card sellers check two or three of the tools above for the same card rather than trusting one tool's estimated value.

Raw vs graded comps#

Graded and raw cards are priced in separate markets. A graded card's price depends on the grade and on which company graded it, so a PSA 10 sale tells you little about your raw copy.

Compare raw with raw. Graded prices matter only when you're deciding whether to grade, and then you have to be honest about the grade you're likely to get: most cards don't earn a 10. Our guide to card grading costs shows how to weigh a likely grade against the fee, and how to submit cards for grading covers the process.

Turn a comp into a listing price#

1. Find three to five recent sold comps for the same card in the same condition or grade.
2. Take the middle of that range, then check active listings to see whether you're competing with cheaper copies.
3. Work out what you'll keep. Marketplace fees, payment processing, shipping and supplies all come out of the sale price. Fees vary a lot by platform; our guide to where to sell trading cards compares them.
4. Run your numbers, including what you paid for the card, in the resale profit calculator.
5. Re-check before relisting. If a card hasn't sold in a few weeks, look at fresh comps rather than guessing.

Comps describe what has happened, not what will. Nobody can tell you where a card's price is going next, so price from recent sales, not predictions.

Pricing tools on OOSClub#

OOSClub lists marketplaces and tools for card sellers, with each one's stated features and plans. Browse them on the marketplaces hub, or start from the Pokémon & TCG and sports cards niches.