Selling a card straight from a rip site's vault
What it costs to sell a card without it leaving a rip site's vault: seller fees, auctions, when the money arrives and how it reaches your bank.
By the Rip.fan Editorial Team.
Published Updated 5 min read
Rip sites sell real physical cards that stay in the site’s vault until you keep them, ship them home or trade them in, and on several sites that vault is also where you can sell them. Selling in place skips the shipping fee and the wait for delivery: the card stays on the shelf and only its owner changes. You pay the site’s seller fee instead, where there is one. Gotya charges sellers nothing on its marketplace, and Shiny takes 4% of a sale.
Which vault marketplaces can you use?
| Site | What it charges | How it sells |
|---|---|---|
| Gotya | No seller fee; at auction the buyer adds a 10% premium to the final bid | Listings on its marketplace, and auctions |
| Shiny | Nothing to list and no buyer fee; a 4% seller fee on a sale | A marketplace of graded cards, newest first, where buyers can make offers |
| Packed | A fee on a live auction sale, shown before you list | Auctions among the viewers of its live shows |
Three more sites run marketplaces worth a look:
- TiltRips lets you list a vaulted card on its marketplace of single cards, priced in US dollars, with filters down to artist and edition.
- Phygitals runs a marketplace of graded cards by game and sport, with filters for grader, grade, set, year and language.
- Collector Crypt runs a very active marketplace of graded cards.
At Rips by Triumph the choice for each card is the app’s offer or shipping, within seven days. Our Rips by Triumph review sets out that offer.
How do you price a listing?
Start from what the same card has actually sold for. TiltRips shows every card’s live market value and price history, and its recent sales sit on the same page as its listings. Phygitals puts the site’s own market value beside each asking price. Both help, but a site’s own figure is not a sold price, so check recent sales of the same card, grader and grade with our guide to finding what a card sold for.
When does the money arrive?
A sale to another collector waits for a buyer, so the first part of the timing is up to you: the price you set decides how soon the card sells. After that, the money has to leave the site, and each one sets its own route.
- Gotya: to a PayPal account in your own verified name, from a $25 balance. Gotya reviews each request, and the whole process takes 4 to 5 business days.
- Packed: money from selling cards can go to a debit card, bank account, PayPal or Venmo, after an identity check. The minimum is $10, an instant withdrawal takes about 10 minutes on average, and a bank transfer up to 2 business days. Money you added cannot be withdrawn.
- TiltRips: the balance can be withdrawn in US dollars.
What does a $200 sale leave at each site?
The figures here are made up. The card sells for $200 wherever it is listed, which in practice it may not, and the sums are Rip.fan’s arithmetic. The last row shows what a trade-in would give instead, for a card the site values at $200.
| Where and how | What the seller receives |
|---|---|
| Gotya marketplace, no seller fee | $200 |
| Shiny marketplace, 4% seller fee | $192 |
| TiltRips trade-in, at 90% of live market value | $180, at once |
The table counts only the marketplace fee or the trade-in share. Each site prices cards for its own buyers, so the same card can sell for different amounts on each. Treat the table as a fee comparison only.
Should you ship the card home and sell it elsewhere?
Sometimes, but price the trip out first. Rips by Triumph charges a $6 flat fee to ship each card. Gotya charges one fee by the total value of the graded cards in a shipment, from $24.95 for up to $1,000 of value, so sending several cards together keeps the cost per card down.
Then add the costs on the other side: the new venue’s fees and the cost of mailing the card to your buyer. Our guides to where to sell cards online, how to ship a graded card and selling cards to a local shop cover that half. The vault exit itself is in what it costs to ship a graded card home.
Selling in place tends to make sense when buyers for that card already shop on that site. Shipping makes sense when you want the card in hand or a wider market for it.
What rules should you know before you list?
- Packed runs to a 24-hour clock. Its vault sells a card back for you once it has sat there for 24 hours, so decide the same day.
- Stay active at Gotya. After 180 days with no activity and at least two emails, Gotya can turn the cards still in its vault into account credit at that day’s trade-in rate, so log in now and then while a card is listed.
- A trade-in is a different route. TiltRips buys a card back at 90% of live market value whenever you choose. Slabz offers at least 85% of a card’s value for 72 hours after opening. How to judge an instant trade-in offer shows how to weigh an offer against a listing.
Fees and payment timing change, so read the listing screen and the withdrawal screen before you sell. For every charge in one place, see rip site fees explained, and for the bigger choice, see vault or ship it home?.
Frequently asked questions
Can buyers make offers on Phygitals?
Yes, even on a card that is not for sale. At Phygitals, a buyer can also place one offer across a whole collection, which any collector with a matching card can accept, and an accepted offer goes through at once and is final.
How does selling work on Gotya's marketplace?
At Gotya, you list a graded card at a fixed price or as an auction once you have added funds, and a listed card can't be shipped until you cancel the listing. A bid stands once placed, and an offer holds its amount for up to 48 hours.
What happens if a Packed auction gets no bids?
Packed buys the card at its fair market value and credits the seller. Once a Packed auction starts, the seller can't cancel it, sell the card back or ask for it to be shipped until it ends.
Can money you add at Rips by Triumph go back to your bank?
No. At Rips by Triumph, money you put in stays in the app for buying cards and packs.