Selling & Buyback
Selling Cards for Cash: How Buyback Works
Most "we buy your cards" sites work the same way: you send photos, you wait, a human decides what they feel like paying, and you find out days later whether that number was fair. There is no way to check it against anything, because there is nothing published to check it against.
Ours works differently, and the difference is the whole point: the rate is a published percentage, not a person's mood.
The ladder, published, not implied
Sell a card back and we pay a straight percentage of its stated market value — the same number that was already listed on the card before you ever pulled it. That percentage runs on a five-step ladder, from 70% at the floor up to 90% at the top, based on how much you have bought from us before. We are not publishing the exact spend thresholds that move you between steps here — the honest reason is that this shop's own internal records currently disagree with each other about what they are, and printing an unverified number on a page about real money is exactly the kind of claim that should not ship. What is certain and worth knowing: the floor is 70%, the top is 90%, and where you land is a formula applied the same way to everyone, not a quote.
The other way to sell: list it yourself
You can also list a card instead of selling it back. The suggested price is 95% of market value — noticeably better than even the top of the buyback ladder — and you can ask whatever you like above or below it. There is no ceiling: it is your card, and the price is your call. A 0% fee comes out only if and when it actually sells.
On paper, that is a strictly better deal than buyback: more money, and you only pay the fee on a completed sale. Here is the number that has to sit next to that, honestly: our marketplace has had exactly one sale, ever (as of September 25, 2026). Listing is a real option with a real ceiling above buyback. It is not, so far, a proven one. Buyback is instant and it has been paying out the whole time; listing is a bet on a channel that has completed a single transaction.
Or keep it, or ship it
A card you pull does not have to become cash at all. You can hold it, or have it shipped to you physically — buyback and listing are the two paths for turning a pull into money, not the only two things you can do with one.
How to actually pick between them
- Want cash now, guaranteed? Sell it back. 70–90% of market value, paid immediately, no waiting on a listing to find a buyer that a marketplace with one sale to its name might never send you.
- Want to try for more, and you are fine if it takes a while — or never sells? List it at the suggested 95%, or higher if you genuinely think the market value understates it, and accept that the marketplace's own track record says "sold" is not the likely outcome yet.
- Not sure the card is worth what we say? That is a valuation question, not a selling-method question — here is how to actually check it before you pick either path.
- Think it might be worth more graded than raw? Check that first, too — the math on when grading actually pays for itself is a separate decision from how you would sell it after.
What this looks like on Waffles
The buyback rate you are offered is a formula, applied the same way to every account at your tier, computed against the card's real market value — not a counter-offer you have to negotiate. See the full ladder and every other number we publish about how this shop actually runs on the honesty page.