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How PokeBinder Prices Work

Where our Pokémon card and sealed-product prices come from, how often they update, and how they become Australian dollars.

Our pricing sources

Every price on PokeBinder is a market price — what cards actually change hands for — aggregated from the specialist sources below. We don't set prices or sell cards; we track them.

  • TCGplayer (via the Pokémon TCG API) — the primary market price for English cards, in USD.
  • Cardmarket (via TCGdex) — the European secondary market, in EUR, used for Japanese cards.
  • PokemonPriceTracker — supplementary market data used to keep newly released English sets current.
  • PriceCharting — the market price for sealed products (booster boxes, ETBs and the like).
  • eBay sold listings (Australia and the United States) — real recent sale prices shown as comparables on each card, so you can sanity-check the market price against what cards genuinely sold for.

How often prices update

Prices refresh every night. Each card page shows an "Updated {relative date}" stamp so you always know how fresh the number is. eBay sold comparables are collected on a rolling basis and shown newest-first.

Prices in Australian dollars

PokeBinder is built for the Australian collector, so prices are shown in AUD by default. Source prices in USD or EUR are converted using a daily foreign-exchange snapshot — the same rate is used for the number you see and the structured data search engines read, so they always agree. Signed-in members can switch their display currency in their profile.

Manual price overrides

Occasionally a source reports an obviously wrong figure — a fat-fingered listing, a mislabelled variant. Where we've verified a correction, an administrator can set a manual override, which takes precedence over the automated feed until the source recovers. Overrides are the exception, not the rule.

Spotted a price that looks wrong?

We'd like to know. Email [email protected] with the card and the price you're seeing, and we'll investigate the source and apply an override if it's warranted.