How it works
Four steps, and the price comes first.
Most places want the cards in their hands before they will tell you a number. That order is backwards, and it is the whole reason this business is run the way it is: you get the figure while you are still holding your own collection.
Call, or ask us to call you
A person picks up, and it is the person who actually buys the cards — not a switchboard, not a form that disappears into a queue. If you would rather we rang you, the callback form takes about twenty seconds and requests are answered within the hour.
Tell us what you have, and get the number on that call
Sets, rough counts, anything graded, anything you think is good. You do not need the vocabulary. If you can read us the set name and the little number at the bottom of a card, that is enough to identify almost anything; if you cannot, describe it and we will work it out together. The price is worked out while you are on the phone, so you hang up knowing the figure rather than waiting on an email.
If the number works, the shipping is ours
We send everything needed to get the cards to us safely, insured and tracked, at our cost. You pack the box; there is nothing to pay and nothing to arrange yourself.
As described means paid the number you were quoted
No renegotiation and no quiet deductions. Every offer is filmed as it is opened and gone through, so there is never an argument about what arrived. If something genuinely is not as described — a card that turns out creased, a slab whose label does not match what is inside — we show you on the video, re-quote it, and you decide. Say no and the whole lot goes back at our expense.
Before you ring
Four things worth having in front of you.
The cards themselves
- Being able to look at them while we talk is worth more than any list.
- The set name sits beside the little symbol; the number is at the bottom.
- If a card is in a plastic slab, the grading company and grade are printed on the label.
A rough sense of scale
- Roughly how many cards, and roughly which years.
- Whether anything is still sealed.
- Which ones you already suspect are the good ones — you are usually right.
I have no idea what any of it is. Is that a problem?
No, and it is the most common call we take. Describing what you can see is enough to start — the artwork, roughly how old it looks, whether the picture is shiny. Working out what a card is happens to be the easy half of this job.
Do I have to sell the whole collection?
Tell us on the call what you want to keep. The quote is for whatever you actually want to sell, and childhood favourites staying in the box is a normal thing to want.
What if I change my mind after the quote?
Then nothing happens. The quote is not a commitment, and if the cards are already with us when you decide against it, they go back at our expense rather than yours.