About CardTrack
CardTrack is an independent Pokémon card price guide. We track one honest market value for 20,797 Pokémon cards across 185 sets — raw and graded — and refresh every figure daily from real marketplace data. No affiliate-inflated prices, no black box.
What we do
Most price “guides” either copy a single source or quietly mark prices up. CardTrack does neither. We anchor raw values to the most liquid market collectors actually trade on, cross-check them against other markets and against each card's own completed sales where it has enough of them, and price graded cards from real completed sales — then show our working on every card so you can judge it for yourself. A sold price, an asking price, a market price and a blended estimate are four different things, and we say which one you are looking at: see the definitions.
Where the numbers come from
- eBay sold listings — Real completed sales — the source of truth for graded prices and our largest sold feed. We take the median at each grade and company, and show the sample size.
- Fanatics Collect — Auction hammer prices, matched to exact cards and shown beside eBay comps.
- Goldin — Auction results for high-end cards, with structured lot data rather than keyword matching.
- PSA cert-verified sales — Sales tied by PSA to a specific slab's cert number — immune to the title-matching errors that pollute keyword-matched comps.
- TCGplayer — Live near-mint and per-condition market prices — the primary anchor for raw values, because it's the most liquid market collectors actually trade on.
- Cardmarket — European market prices, used to cross-check and for regional context.
- PriceCharting — Historical depth and broad coverage, down-weighted for high-value vintage where it's less reliable.
Everything is reconciled, sanity-checked and re-blended once a day. The full method — including how we read confidence ratings and where we're honest about uncertainty — is on our methodology page.
Independent & honest
CardTrack is built and run independently by collectors, not by a marketplace or a grading company, so our prices have no reason to lean high or low. It was founded by Josh Lingenfelter. Our figures are aggregated market estimates for informational purposes — not appraisals, not PSA-official values, and not financial advice. When a market is thin and we can't price it precisely, we say so rather than guessing.
Who runs CardTrack
- Josh Lingenfelter — founder. Built CardTrack and runs its pricing, data and product.
- Hannah G — lead writer & collector. Lifelong Pokémon collector and CardTrack's lead writer, covering market trends, grading and the cards worth chasing.
Get in touch
Spotted a price that looks off, want a card or set added, or just want to talk Pokémon? Email us at jd@cardtrack.com — we read everything.