The sign's on — new stock weekly
High-grade slabs, vintage sealed and grail singles — every piece authenticated in hand, priced against real sold comps, and shipped like it's irreplaceable. Because to somebody, it is.
This week's pickups — in hand, photographed, ready to go.
Four ways in — same standard on every one of them. Colours borrowed from the sign above the door.
PSA, CGC & BGS — vintage WOTC to modern chase.
Browse slabsBoxes and packs with clean provenance, stored properly.
Browse sealedRaw NM chase cards — sold with our own grade notes.
Browse singlesPromos and sets that never made it west — imported by us.
Browse JapanNew to graded cards? This is the whole game in one card. Take the most famous Pokémon card in the world — a 1999 Base Set Charizard holo — and watch what the number on the slab does to the price.
It's why we photograph every raw card's corners, edges and surface before you buy — and why a slab from us is checked against its cert number, every time. The grade is the price. So we treat it that way.
≈ £280
Ungraded, near mint to the naked eye
The honest bit: "near mint" means nothing until a grader agrees. Half the raw Charizards we're offered have print lines or whitening their owners never spotted. We list ours with corner-by-corner photos so you know exactly what you're grading.
≈ £850
PSA 7 — Near Mint
The collector's entry point. A 7 looks superb in hand — the flaws are grader-level, not display-level. Triple the raw price, but it's authenticated, encased and liquid.
≈ £1,450
PSA 8 — Near Mint–Mint
The sweet spot, if you ask us. Strong eye appeal, a fraction of the 9's price, and the grade most likely to hold its relative value. This is the copy in our cabinet right now.
≈ £4,200
PSA 9 — Mint
Here's where population matters. Thousands of 9s exist, but demand is deeper still. The jump from 8 to 9 is the steepest £-per-point climb most collectors will actually buy.
£20,000+
PSA 10 — Gem Mint
The unicorn. A tiny fraction of all copies ever graded. At this level you're not buying a card, you're buying its census position — and we'd insist on a call before you spend this kind of money. Yes, really.
Prices are indicative, based on recent sold comps at the time this demo was built — the live site keeps them current. Grading fees, turnaround and risk are real: we'll always tell you when a card isn't worth grading.
The unglamorous stuff that makes the difference between a shop and a seller.
New pickups, live breaks of nothing (we don't do breaks), and the occasional grail reveal — first on Instagram.
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