We slab crap.
Price lookups for cards the market gave up on, and auctions for graded ones that were never worth the acrylic. Nothing here books over $25, and the plastic around it cost $80 — at least 3 times the card, and routinely a few hundred.
The tool
Prices for cards the market forgot.
Search any card in either game and get a live market price. Most tools stop caring somewhere around a dollar; this one does not have a floor. The badge on the right is the only entry rule there is.
Search any card.
Live market prices from Scryfall and pokemontcg.io, both TCGplayer-derived. No account, no minimum value, and no floor below which we stop caring.
What the token is for
Fees buy data and cardboard.
Sold-comps lookups are metered. The free tier is 100 a month, which is enough to prove the thing works and nothing like enough to run it. That ceiling is the clearest statement of what fees are for.
Sold-comps quota
Free tier100 / month
No fees have been collected, so no additional quota has been bought. The next tier is 2,000 a month for $9 — twenty times the capability for the price of a sandwich. When it is bought, this number goes up and the receipt gets posted.
Data
Sold-comps lookups are metered and the free tier runs out on the fourth of the month. Fees buy quota, which is the whole difference between a demo and a tool that answers every question put to it.
Cardboard
Graded cards pulled out of bulk lots and shop bins, chosen by the room, bought at the price the room saw, then auctioned back here.
These are intentions rather than a guaranteed allocation, and no percentage split of fees is promised.
How it works
Four steps, no catch.
Look it up
Market price for the card in your hand, and where the data exists, what graded copies have actually sold for. Free, no account, and no floor — most tools quietly stop caring somewhere around a dollar.
Watch the plastic outprice the card
Grading runs about $80. The card is a common with a bent-looking dragon on it. Seeing those two numbers stacked is the joke, and it is also the single most useful thing this site does.
Bid on the acrylic
Slabs come out of the vault and go up for auction, settled in the token. That is what the token is for. There is nothing else to do with it and nothing else is claimed.
Fees restock both
Trading fees pay the data bill and buy the next box of graded nothing. Both get posted with what they cost, so the spending is something you can check rather than something you are told.
Auctions
Acrylic, settled in $CRAP.
Graded cards come out of the vault and go up for auction, paid for in the token. That is the only thing the token does, and it is the only way a slab leaves the shelf.
The stage is live
Open the stageBidding works today: you sign with a Solana wallet, the server holds the clock, and the highest bid when it runs out takes the slab. Every lot shows what the card is worth next to what it sold for — the most interesting number this site is capable of producing.
What happens to every $CRAP bid
50%
Burned
Destroyed on chain. The supply is smaller afterwards and the transaction is public.
50%
Into liquidity
Added to the pool, which makes the next person’s trade cheaper rather than making anyone richer.
Neither half goes to the operator. Both land on chain, so you do not have to take that on trust — you can go and look.
What counts
If it books under $25, it qualifies.
That is the entire requirement. It does not have to be old, rare, or interesting to anybody but you. A few you will recognise on sight:
The junk rare
Gold border, holo dragon, the best card you owned in 1999. Books at ninety cents and has never once been played.
The bulk common
You own forty. Everyone owns forty. Dealers price them by the pound and they are not wrong to.
The one you pulled yourself
Worth nothing, and you can still describe the carpet you were sitting on when it came out of the wrapper.
The tenth reprint
Mechanically identical to the expensive one. Printed so many times that this particular copy will never be the expensive one.
The shoebox stratum
Four hundred cards compressed under their own weight since the Clinton administration, smelling faintly of cardboard and school.
The graded nothing
Somebody already paid $80 to seal a four-dollar common in acrylic forever. These are the ones we go looking for.
How to help
You already own everything you need.
Queries
Look things up. What people actually search for decides which data is worth paying to enrich, and it costs you nothing to vote that way.
Finds
Cheap slabs surface constantly in bulk listings and shop bins, and almost everyone scrolls past them. Post one, the room picks it, the treasury buys it, your name goes on the lot.
Donations
Post in graded cards you do not want. It costs you real postage, it stocks the auctions without spending a cent of fees, and it is the only contribution that leaves you with less than you started.
Bids
Auctions are the only sink the token has. A bid is the one contribution that directly pays for the next lot.
The vault
What we actually hold.
Seeded from a collection of graded low-value cards that already exists, which is why auctions can start immediately rather than after a grading queue. Counted, not estimated.
Slabs held
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Collection still being counted
Auctions settled
0
Cards posted out
0
$CRAP · Solana