MrLoot review: Pokémon cards beside TVs and VR headsets

How we tested

We opened two boxes on our MrLoot account, a welcome box and then a Pokémon box, and both openings were free under the welcome offer. We also went through its box pages and categories, keeping notes and screenshots as we went.

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  The card our free Pokémon box gave.

This review is a human and AI collaboration: our own use of the site supplied the screenshots and notes, and AI wrote the review from them.

What stood out

MrLoot reaches well past cards. TVs and VR headsets share the menu with Pokémon, and the Pokémon side runs from single cards to sealed boxes. Box pages made it easy to see what we were opening, since both listed every item with how often it comes up before we pressed open. The open button wore a free tag on both of the boxes we opened.

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The welcome offer is the easy way in. New members get three free box openings for new members who sign up with code RIPFAN, and our account showed the same three free openings.

How it works

MrLoot sells boxes on its website, and each box gives one item.

1. Pick a category. A categories list in the menu sorts the boxes by what they hold, starting with Pokémon and going on to luxury, tech and fashion goods.
2. Open a box page. The price sits under the open button, and the box’s items are laid out as tiles, each with how often it comes up and its listed value.
3. Press the open button. The next screen shows the item you got.
4. Choose. The result screen has two buttons, one that adds the item to your account’s inventory and one that sells it back to the site.

Our free Pokémon box gave a Bulbasaur card from the 151 set. It is card 001 of the set’s 165, and our guide to the Pokémon 151 set explains where it comes from.

A box is bought by spending the site’s own credit from your account balance, and card payments show on your statement under the site’s own name. MrLoot is run by Millerdale & Kingston Ventures Ltd, a company registered in Cyprus.

Card rates and what a pack holds

The first tiles on the Pokémon box we opened held a graded card, single cards and sealed boxes, so one box can run from a single card to sealed product. Our guide to Pokémon sealed products explains the kinds of sealed boxes such a list can include, and before you trust a listed value, our guide to looking up a Pokémon card’s value shows where to check it against real sales.

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Every box page we saw carried the same layout, so you can read a box’s contents and the rate for each item before you spend anything. That holds for the tech boxes as much as for the Pokémon ones: a TV or a headset is listed with its own rate on the page for the box it sits in.

Trade-in offers and selling

Both of our result screens showed the item with its listed value and a Sell button, so the choice to sell comes the moment a box opens. Selling trades the item back for the site’s credit at the exchange value shown for it at that moment, which the site sets below the item’s assigned value in the way a trade-in price sits below a retail price. Hold that figure up against recent sales of the same card first, with the help of our guide to judging an instant trade-in offer.

Anything you keep sits in your inventory until you decide what to do with it. From there you can ask for it to be shipped, and unboxed items can also be swapped for something else or for store credit through the exchange option, which is how a clothing or footwear item in the wrong size gets sorted out.

Fees and shipping

The price you pay is the price on the box page, and shipping is the main cost after that. Shipping is free above an order minimum and a flat fee below it, with express delivery adding a fee based on the order’s value, shown before you confirm. Standard delivery runs 7 to 14 days and express is quicker, and you can ship up to five items in a single order.

Pokémon cards ship to the USA, Canada and Europe. The free-shipping rate covers a list of countries including the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom and much of western Europe, and a handful of northern and central European countries take extra shipping per order. For a few countries the site collects import fees at checkout and pays customs for you; elsewhere, duties and taxes are charged on delivery.

Support and track record

Support is by email at support@mrloot.com and by live chat, and the site answers refund requests within seven business days. Tracking arrives on your My Orders page once the shipping team processes an item, which takes about three business days.

The site says every branded item is checked for authenticity before it ships, and that electronics are always brand new. Damaged or faulty items can go back at the site’s expense, and an item lost in delivery is refunded or replaced once the carrier confirms it never arrived.

Who it suits

MrLoot suits someone who wants Pokémon and gadgets in one account and likes to see a box’s full contents before opening it. If you collect graded Pokémon cards and also keep an eye on tech, the two sit in the same menu, and the three free openings let you learn the site before you spend anything.