How our card prices work
Every Pokémon card price on Rip.fan comes from one weekly price check. This page explains where the figures come from, what they mean and what they are not.
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Where the prices come from
Every week Rip.fan reads the NM market price of every English Pokémon card from Scrydex, a card data service, and keeps its own record of each check. The card pages, the card price lookup and the card tools all read the same check.
What an NM market price is
NM is the best raw condition: a card that is not graded and shows next to no wear. The NM market price is the market price Scrydex lists for an NM copy of the card, one figure in US dollars for one condition and one printing.
Many cards come in more than one printing, such as a holo and a reverse holo. Each card is priced from the first printing in a fixed order that has an NM price, and the pages name that printing.
How often the prices update
Once a week. Every page shows the day its prices were checked. When that day is more than 9 days old, the page says its prices are late. A set that could not be read in a week keeps its last prices, and its pages show that older day.
Why a card can show no price
A card shows "No NM price yet" when Scrydex lists no NM market price for any printing of it at our latest check. The card stays listed, and its price appears once a check finds one.
What the price changes measure
A price change compares a card's NM market price with its price at our previous check, for the same printing. A set page counts a card as moving when it was priced at $2 or more at both checks and moved by at least $0.50 and 10%.
The price changes page uses a higher floor: a card counts when it was priced at $5 or more at both checks and moved by at least $1 and 10%, and each list shows up to the 25 largest moves by percent. Its longer list compares two of our checks at least 28 days apart, and every heading names the two checks it compares.
What the prices are not
They are not an offer. Nobody buys or sells at these prices on Rip.fan, and a shop or a marketplace sets its own.
They are not a prediction. These are past market prices. They say nothing about where prices go next.
They are not adjusted for grade or wear. Every figure is for an NM raw copy, and graded cards or cards with wear sell for different prices.
Where these prices are used
- Card price lookup: The NM market price of any English Pokémon card, from our weekly price check.
- Collection tracker: List the Pokémon cards you own and see each card's NM market price and your collection's total, from our weekly price check.
- Set checklist: Tick off the Pokémon cards you own in a set and see how close the set is to complete.
- Trade checker: Price both sides of a trade by printing and condition, add cash or your own prices, and share the whole trade as a link.
- Card finder: Filter English Pokémon cards by set, rarity, NM market price range and recent price change, from our weekly price check.
Every Pokémon set has its own table on our Pokémon card price pages, and the cards that moved the most are on the price changes page.
Prices and images from Scrydex. Prices checked .