You can bring your Pokémon cards to us for appraisal, sale, or trade. We want to keep the process as clear, fair, and safe as possible.

For cards we buy, we pay at least 70% of the current market price in cash to the customer’s account.

If you’d rather trade your cards for cards from our store, we give you 80% of the market price as store credit on your customer account.

In practice this means that if your card’s market value is €10, you get:

€7 in cash if you sell the card to us
or
€8 in store credit if you trade it for cards from our store.

Credit can be used to pick up new cards for your own collection — for example a chase card you’ve been hunting, your favourite character, or something completely new.

A Pokémon card’s value is usually set by what the same card has actually sold for recently — not just by what someone is asking for it.

In Europe we check Cardmarket.com listings for cheaper cards, searching by card name and number. For the most expensive cards we look at completed sales on eBay.

Value is influenced by, among other things, the card’s condition, rarity, language, set, demand, character, print run, grading score, and whether the card is raw or graded.

A card in good condition is one with only minor visible flaws.

Important things to look at:

• corners
• edges
• surface
• scratches
• dents
• whitening
• centering
• back condition

If a card looks tidy at a quick glance but has small edge marks or light scratches, it can still be in good condition — just not perfect.

It’s worth grading a card if you enjoy grading and graded cards. Many people also grade because the card’s value can rise once professionals have assessed its authenticity and condition.

Grading is especially worthwhile when a card is valuable, in demand, rare, or in excellent condition. With modern cards, a real bump in value usually requires a high grade — for example a 9 or a 10.

With vintage cards the picture can be different. Rare and sought-after old cards can be valuable even at lower grades such as PSA 5, 6 or 7, because well-preserved copies are rarer on the market.

If you’re new to this, be patient and study the card’s condition carefully before grading. Grading costs money, takes time, and a high grade is never guaranteed.

Before submitting, compare the raw card’s price to actual sold prices for graded copies of the same card at different grades. That makes it much easier to see whether grading makes financial sense for that specific card.

If it were up to us, Pokémon cards would never have to be sold. Cards often carry far more value than their market price alone: the memories, nostalgia, wins, chase cards you hunted down, and moments shared with friends or family.

For many collectors, a card collection is something they’d love to keep for a long time — maybe even show one day to their own children or grandchildren. That joy and those stories travelling from one generation to the next are a big part of the magic of collecting.

Life situations change, though. Sometimes you need to free up part of a collection to pick up a card you’ve been chasing for a long time, buy a gift for a partner, fund a family trip, or take care of something else important in everyday life.

That’s where we can help.

Our approach isn’t to pressure anyone into selling at the right moment or to guess the market peak. Nobody can know for sure when the perfect time to sell is. Our job is to appraise the cards fairly, share their current market value as openly as we can, and give you space to make the call yourself.

The best time to buy cards is usually when they feel meaningful to you. You don’t have to collect everything just because of rising values or market trends — the best collections often come together around cards their owner genuinely loves.

Someone collects Pikachu because it’s cute and iconic. Someone else loves Charizard because it’s powerful and striking. A food-loving collector might be a fan of Snorlax, while pranksters can find their favourite in Gengar.

The beauty of Pokémon cards is that everyone has their own way to collect. You can focus on a specific Pokémon, a specific set, an artist, childhood memories, alternate art cards, promos, graded cards, or simply cards that look amazing to you.

In our view, cards are worth buying mostly because they give you a good feeling. Value can go up or down, but a good collection always says something about its collector.

We want to help you find exactly the cards that fit your collection — whether it’s a long-chased chase card, a childhood favourite, or a brand-new crush.

The biggest factors influencing a card’s price are:

• card condition
• rarity
• character popularity
• set and release year
• language
• print run and quantity printed
• whether the card is raw or graded
• grading score
• market demand
• most recent realised sale prices
• whether the product has been reprinted
• the card’s visual impact

In short: the more wanted, rarer, and better-conditioned a card is, the more valuable it usually is.