SHOP: CHECKING

Graded Slabs

One card, one holder, one cert number you can check yourself. Every slab on this shelf is one of one, so when it sells it is gone.

A Dragonite flying over mountains carrying a mail bag

15 of 15 slabs

Why the cert number leads every listing

A graded card is worth what it is worth because a third party put its name on the grade. That claim is checkable, so there is no honest reason to hide the number that lets you check it. Every slab here shows the grader, the grade and the cert exactly as they read on the label, and links the grading company’s own lookup so you can confirm the card in your cart is the card on their database before you spend anything.

The rest of the shop runs the same way. The singles shelf shows its real stock count and the whole price break table before the cart does, so you can see the per card rate fall as you add copies instead of discovering it at checkout. Browse every card, or stack copies of one of them.

Questions collectors ask

How do I know the grade is real?

Every listing prints the grader, the grade and the cert number off the label, and links that cert to the grading company’s own lookup. Check it before you buy, not after. A graded listing that will not show you its cert number is asking you to take its word for it, and there is no reason to.

How do I buy a slab, and why is there no price shown?

Every slab sells by email. Open the listing and press Buy this slab: it shows the address to write to and an estimated purchase value based on the PriceCharting sales record for that card at that grading company and grade. We confirm the card is still on the shelf and agree the final price with you directly, which is why no fixed price is printed on the shelf.

Can I pay with store credit?

If you already hold a store credit balance, yes. It sits on your account and does not expire. Slabs sell by email now, so mention the balance when you write to us and we will set it against the agreed price. We are not issuing new credit at the moment, because credit came from buylist payouts and we have stopped buying bulk by mail.

Where do the slabs come from?

From cards we picked out and sent for grading ourselves. Each one comes back in a holder with a cert number, and nothing is listed here until it does. That is why this shelf fills a few at a time rather than all at once.