Bring the box. Leave with a number.
A shoebox, a binder, a garage. Every card is priced against recent sales, line by line, on a sheet you keep whether or not you sell. The rate is printed, not negotiated: 55% of market in cash, 70% in store credit, bulk by the thousand.
Three steps, honestly timed
- Send a photo, or bring it in.A phone picture of the stack is enough for us to tell you whether it's worth the drive and roughly what it's worth. Nothing gets a number until it's in front of us — and in front of you.
- We price it, line by line, against what's actually sold.Recent real sales, not asking prices. Market price sits beside our offer on the same row. Under two hundred cards is priced while you wait; a real collection is back to you within 48 hours, and we'll say which before we start.
- 55% in cash today, or 70% in credit.Same sheet, two totals, your choice. Take the cash, take the credit toward anything on the shelf, or take the sheet home — it's good for seven days.
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Why credit pays more, and why we print the number
Most shops quote a cash rate somewhere around half of market and won't put it in writing. The big online buylists pay a 30% bonus for credit. We publish both rates because credit comes back through the door — it's worth more to us, so it's worth more to you — and because a rate you can read before you drive over is the fastest way to be trusted.
Graded on the card, and what it does to the number
Corners, edges, surface, centering — in that order, under a loupe, in front of you. We'll show you the exact spot that moved a grade. The rate applies to the market price for that condition; the percentages below are what each tier pays relative to the same card in Near Mint.
| Condition | Looks like | Pays |
|---|---|---|
| Near Mint NM | Pack-fresh or close to it. Clean corners, edges and surface; centering within reason. | 100% |
| Lightly Played LP | A soft corner or two, faint edge wear, light surface marks you have to look for. | 85% |
| Moderately Played MP | Visible wear on more than one edge or corner, some scuffing or a light scratch. Still sleeve-playable. | 65% |
| Heavily Played HP | Creases, heavy edge wear, whitening, dirt. Complete and legal in a sleeve. | 40% |
| Damaged DMG | Bends, tears, water, writing, missing ink. | bulk only |
Foils: a curl under 5 mm is fine; clouding or scratches drop a tier. Non-English cards are priced against their own market, which on most games runs lower. Same five tiers on every game, every visit.
Bulk rates, in numbers
Bulk is everything that isn't worth pricing as a line: commons, uncommons, and the rares that trade for pennies. It's counted in front of you and paid by the thousand. Sort it by game and face it the same way and it's done while you wait; unsorted is fine, it just takes longer.
| What | Cash | Credit | Unit |
|---|---|---|---|
| Magic commons & uncommons | $5 | $6.50 | per 1,000 |
| Magic bulk rares & mythics | 8¢ | 10¢ | each |
| Pokémon commons & uncommons | $8 | $10 | per 1,000 |
| Pokémon reverse holos & holo rares | $15 | $20 | per 100 |
| Yu-Gi-Oh! commons & rares | $5 | $6.50 | per 1,000 |
| Lorcana commons & uncommons | $10 | $13 | per 1,000 |
| One Piece commons & uncommons | $10 | $13 | per 1,000 |
| Digimon · Union Arena · Gundam · Riftbound bulk | $8 | $10 | per 1,000 |
- English cards, unsleeved, complete, sleeve-playable.
- Commons and uncommons of any set; rares and holos under about a dollar.
- Tokens, energy and basic lands only when they come with the rest.
- Anything that prices as a line — we pull those out as we count and put them on the sheet.
- Damaged, water-marked or written-on cards.
- Non-English bulk, which we take at half the printed rate.
Ten lines, four formats
- Sealed — booster boxes, cases, ETBs, starter decks. Bring it unopened; One Piece, Lorcana and older Magic and Pokémon sealed are where this pays.
- Singles — from a single chase card to a binder. Priced by set against recent sales, condition marked on the card.
- Graded — PSA, BGS, CGC, TAG. The slab stays sealed; priced by grade and population.
- Bulk — counted in front of you, at the rates above.
Across all ten games: Pokémon, Magic, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcana, Digimon, Union Arena, Gundam, Dragon Ball and Riftbound.
Saving you a trip
- Games outside the ten. We'll point you somewhere that does.
- Damaged sealed — resealed, crushed, water-marked. We can't sell it, so we can't buy it.
- Counterfeits, proxies, or anything we can't verify. We check, and counterfeits don't leave with you.
- Cards from a set in its first fourteen days, for cash. Prices haven't settled; credit and trade, yes.
- Modern Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic booster boxes at a price that would insult you — the market clears them below wholesale, and we'll show you that rather than pretend otherwise.
Not sure which side of the line your cards fall on? That's what the photo is for.
Slabs stay sealed
A graded card is priced as what it is — a PSA 9, a CGC 10, a BGS 9.5 — against recent sales of that grade, with the population report open on the counter. We don't crack slabs to re-grade, and we don't price a 10 like a raw Near Mint. Graders we buy: PSA, BGS, CGC and TAG. Anything else is priced as the raw card inside it.
If a raw card is worth more graded than sold as-is, we'll say so. Grading submissions go out from the counter.
Four things collectors are warned about. Here's what we do instead.
Everything else you'd want to know before you drive
Selling from outside Miami
The mail-in lane opens the day our address is published. Here's how it will run, so you can decide now whether to wait for it.
- Photo first, always.Send the picture through the quote form. We reply with a range and, if it's worth shipping, the address and a reference number.
- Pack it the way we'd price it.Sorted by game, cards in the order of your list, sleeved in stacks, boxed, bubble-wrapped, insured for the range we quoted. You pay shipping in.
- Priced on camera, sheet emailed.Your sheet arrives within 48 hours of delivery, same two totals. Accept and we pay by transfer or credit that day. Decline any line and we ship it back at our cost inside the US.
What we're hunting right now
Bring any of these and skip the photo — the answer is yes.
- Sealed 151 and Evolving Skies
- Charizard ex special illustration rares
- Umbreon VMAX alternate art
- Base Set holos, 1st Edition and Shadowless
- Reserved List duals and Moxen
- Fetch lands, shock lands, Commander staples
- Sealed Collector boxes, any modern set
- Foil borderless and serialized cards
- OP-01 to OP-05 booster boxes, sealed
- Manga-art Luffy, Shanks and Nami
- Leader parallels and alternate arts
- Japanese sealed product
- 1st Edition LOB Blue-Eyes and Dark Magician
- Starlight and Quarter Century Secret rares
- Sealed vintage boxes and tins
- Tournament promos
- Enchanted rares, any set
- Sealed First Chapter and Rise of the Floodborn
- Promo and event cards
- Full playsets of Core-legal staples
Selling, answered
Where can I sell Pokémon cards in Miami?
At the counter here, by appointment until the shop opens and walk-in after. Send one photo through the form and we'll tell you whether it's worth the drive. You can also sell online to the big buylists — they pay a similar credit rate but you ship, wait, and accept whatever grades come back without seeing them decided.
How much will I get for my cards?
Fifty-five percent of market in cash, or seventy percent in store credit, on every card that isn't bulk. Market means recent real sales of that card in that condition — the number sits beside our offer on your sheet. Bulk is priced by the thousand at the rates on this page.
Do you buy bulk?
Yes, by count, at the printed rates. Sort it by game and face it the same way and it's priced while you wait. Unsorted is fine; it just takes longer, and we price it after sorting.
Do I need ID to sell?
Yes. Florida requires a government photo ID for anyone selling to a shop, and you need to be 18 or have a parent with you. We photograph the ID once and keep it on file with your sheet.
Can I sell if I'm not in Miami?
Soon. The mail-in lane opens the day the address is published. Until then, the photo quote works from anywhere and tells you what the collection is worth before you decide how to move it.
Is it better to sell to a shop or online?
Online marketplaces pay more per card if you're willing to list, ship, and eat fees and returns — realistically 85 to 90 percent of market after all that, over weeks. A shop pays less per card, today, for the whole box, with no listing and no risk. Most people do both: the top ten cards online, the rest across a counter.
Can I sell graded cards?
Yes — PSA, BGS, CGC and TAG. The slab stays sealed. It's priced by grade and population against recent sales of that exact grade, not against the raw card.
What if I don't like the offer?
Take the sheet home. It's yours either way, and it's valid for seven days. Nothing is held, nothing is signed, and you can come back for any subset of it.
Send a photo first
One clear picture of the stack, the binder, or the box. We'll reply with whether it's worth bringing in and a rough range. Big collections — estates, whole stores — skip the form and email us directly.