Price Pokémon cards instantly, without selling them
You should not have to list a card, wait a week and watch an auction end to learn what it is worth. COMPED reads the sales that already happened and hands you the number in seconds.
Three seconds, not three days
- 01
Type the card and number
Name plus collector number is the fastest unambiguous identifier — "charizard 4/102", "crystal lugia 149", "pikachu 25/25". Set name works too.
- 02
Pick the printing
1st Edition, Shadowless, Unlimited, reverse holo, promo stamp, Japanese or Korean release. Each is priced as its own card, because each is its own market.
- 03
Read the comp and its evidence
You get the weighted figure, the number of completed sales behind it, and the condition it assumes — so you can judge the number instead of trusting it blind.
Why real time matters more than it used to
Pokémon prices move on hype cycles, print announcements, grading population reports and influencer attention. A monthly average is a photograph of a market that has already changed. COMPED prices from recent completed-sale windows and re-warms the most-searched printings continuously, so the figure you read is the one the market is currently paying.
- Popular cards refresh from a rolling recent sold window, not a static price list.
- Cached comps appear instantly, then the engine chases newer sold evidence in the background.
- The sale count travels with the price, so a spike backed by one sale is visibly a spike backed by one sale.
What you can price without owning or selling anything
| What you want to know | How to get it in seconds |
|---|---|
| What my card is worth right now | Search name + number, read the weighted comp |
| Whether a card is worth grading | Compare the raw comp against grade-specific slab comps |
| Whether a listing is a good buy | Comp the exact printing, then check the lowest live asks |
| What a sealed box trades at | Switch to sealed search and comp the product |
| What a trade is actually worth | Comp both sides in the same condition tier |
How COMPED builds a number
- UK sold data first. Completed eBay UK sales in GBP are the primary evidence. If a card is thinly traded, the search widens to global sold data rather than falling back to a guess.
- Exact printing only. Set, number, language, finish and edition must match — 1st Edition, Shadowless, 4th print and Unlimited are priced as separate cards, as are reverse holos and regional printings.
- Outliers scrubbed. Digby drops damaged copies, lots, proxies, mislabelled graded sales and single freak results before the weighted comp is calculated.
- Condition-anchored. Vintage raw cards are anchored to realistic played grades rather than pretending every copy is Near Mint; modern cards anchor to NM.
- Community-verified. Vendors and collectors confirm prices in the Price Trainer, and that consensus nudges the headline comp on cards where sales are sparse.
- Uncertainty is shown, not hidden. When there is not enough comparable evidence, COMPED says so and shows a range with the sale count behind it.
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Common questions
- How do I price Pokémon cards instantly?
- Type the card name and its collector number into COMPED — for example "lugia 105/147" — and pick the printing. The comp appears straight away from cached completed sales, then refreshes in the background if fresher sales exist. No account, no listing, no waiting.
- Can I check what my cards are worth without selling them?
- Yes. A comp is built from other people's completed sales, so you never have to list, ship or sell anything to find out what your card is currently trading for.
- How real-time are the prices?
- Comps are recalculated from recent completed-sale windows and the most-searched printings are re-warmed continuously, so a popular card reflects sales from days rather than months ago. Rarely traded cards move only when a new sale appears, which is the honest behaviour for a thin market.
- How many cards can I price at once?
- Searching and comping single cards is unlimited and free. Bulk workflows — scanning a pile, pricing a whole binder or a buy-in tray — live in the collector and vendor tools.
- Do I need to scan the card?
- No. Scanning is a speed shortcut for bulk piles. Typing the name and number is often faster for a single card and avoids scan ambiguity on cards that share artwork across printings.
- Why does a price sometimes change a few seconds after it appears?
- Because COMPED shows the cached comp instantly and then chases newer sold evidence in the background. If that chase finds fresher sales, the figure updates and the sale count moves with it.