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How our prices work

Every Australian price on SKWIZ comes from real cards that actually sold on eBay Australia, and we show you every sale behind it.

• Where prices come from
• The headline price
• Matching the exact card
• What we leave out
• Confidence labels
• US prices
• Played and graded
• How often prices update

Where prices come from

We read sold listings on eBay Australia (ebay.com.au), filtered to items located in Australia, with prices in Australian dollars. These are finished sales, not asking prices, and not overseas sellers shipping here.

Each card page lists the sales we used, with the date, the price, the listing title and a link to the sold listing on eBay, so you can check them yourself.

The headline price

The big number on a card page is the average of the latest 5 verified sales of that exact card, in Near Mint, ungraded condition, for the printing you've chosen (for example holo or reverse holo, which are priced separately).

We need at least 3 verified sales to show a price. With fewer, the card says "No verified AU price yet" and shows the sales we do have. We never fill the gap with a made-up or converted number.

One unusual sale can't drag the price around: a sale under 40% or over 250% of what the card typically sells for (judged against nearby sales, and at least A$5 away from that) is set aside and the next sale takes its place. At most one sale is set aside per price; if more than one looks odd, the card is flagged for a person to check instead.

Matching each sale to the exact card

A listing only counts if it is clearly the card being priced. We check the listing title against the card's name, its collector number (for example 199/165), its set, its language and its printing. Other cards that share a name or number, such as reprints in the Classic Collection or a Trainer Gallery version of the same Pokémon, are kept apart.

When a listing doesn't name a finish, it counts as the card's standard print. When the title is unclear, the sale isn't guessed at: it waits for a person to review it, and it stays out of the price until then.

As a final sanity check, a sale that is wildly different from the card's US market price (under about 45% or over 2.5 times it, with A$15 of leeway) is left out automatically, because that almost always means a different version, a fake or a damaged copy. If most recent Australian sales agree with each other but not with the US price, we trust the Australian sales. The US price is only used for this check; it is never averaged into the Australian price.

What we leave out of the headline price

• Graded slabs (PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, ACE and others). These have their own prices, below.
• Played or damaged copies: titles that say lightly, moderately or heavily played, damaged or creased.
• Lots and bundles: several cards sold together, "pick your card" listings, mystery packs and sets.
• Fakes, proxies and custom cards.
• Overseas sellers and anything not priced in Australian dollars.
• A different printing of the same card (for example a reverse holo when you're looking at the holo).

Sales we leave out are still saved. A person can mark a listing as correct or incorrect, and that decision always wins over the automatic rules.

Confidence labels

Under each price we say how much weight it can carry, from the number of sales, how recent they are, and how closely they agree:

• High confidence 5 sales, the latest within 60 days, and the highest no more than 1.6 times the lowest.
• Medium confidence Enough sales for a price, but not all of the High conditions are met.
• Low confidence Only 3 sales, or the latest sale was more than 180 days ago, or the sales are far apart (the highest over 2.5 times the lowest).
• Under review A card worth A$100 or more whose Australian price is under 65% or over 180% of the US market price. We check these by hand; the price shown is still the real average of its sales.

"Price checked by hand" means a person has looked at the sales behind that price. It keeps that label while the price stays within 25% of what was checked.

US market prices

Some cards also show a US market price, from TCGplayer data via Scrydex, converted to Australian dollars at the day's exchange rate. It is clearly labelled and shown for reference only. It is never mixed into the Australian price.

When a card has no Australian sales yet, search results and set pages may show its US price marked as an estimate, so you have a rough idea. In your portfolio, US-based estimates are shown apart from your verified value, never added to it. A set's total value uses Australian prices where a card has them and the US estimate where it doesn't, and is labelled when it includes US estimates.

Two places use US data to fill a gap, and say so: a played copy with no Australian sales in its condition is valued at the card's Australian Near Mint price, scaled by how that condition sells against Near Mint in the US; and a portfolio's value chart can use US price movements for days before a card's Australian sales began, scaled to the Australian level.

Played and graded prices

Sales of played copies (LP, MP, HP, damaged) and graded slabs (for example PSA 10 or CGC 9.5) go through the same card checks: right card, number, printing and language, an Australian seller, not a lot or a fake. They are then grouped by condition or by grading company and grade, and each group shows the average of its latest 5 sales (or fewer, with the count shown). The condition comes from the listing title, so these prices are a guide and can be less exact than the headline price.

How often prices update

When someone opens a card, we check eBay Australia for new sales of it, unless it was checked in the last 12 hours. In the background we also work through the catalogue at a steady, polite pace, newest sets and most valuable cards first, so cards nobody has opened lately may be checked less often. Every price shows the dates of the sales it's based on.

Spotted something wrong?

Tap Send feedback at the bottom of the card's page (it notes which card you were looking at), or use the feedback page. Every report about a price is read by a person.

Last updated 23 October 2026.