A grade is centring, corners, edges and surface
Collectors know the difference a single grade point makes at the top of the ten-point scale, and they read the photograph of the slab and the certificate number before they read anything else.
Markets · Trading Cards, Games & Modern Collectibles
Slabs, sealed boxes and sets, sold under your own name
Card collectors bid on the grade, the population and the photograph of the slab. Auctionomy gives every card its own lot page and your house its own website, with no commission taken on the hammer price.
How your bidders buy
What your bidders read for
Sealed product is its own category
Factory-sealed boxes, packs and starter decks sell on the seal and the wrap. Bidders want to see the seams and any tears, and expect the lot to say whether the wrap is original.
Raw cards need careful description
Ungraded cards, sets and binders sell on an honest description of centring and wear and on clear photographs of front and back, so bidders can judge for themselves.
Catalogued your way
Every line of the entry has its place
Description, estimate, condition and provenance are separate parts of every lot on Auctionomy, and each one shows on the lot page. The entry shown here is an illustration, written the way the trade writes it.
Illustrative lot · fictional
Lot 312. 1979 hockey rookie card, fictional league issue, graded Near Mint-Mint 8
Card number 18 from the original wax-pack series, encapsulated by a third-party grading service. Certificate number recorded on the label.
Estimate C$1,500–2,500
- Condition
- Grade as stated on the label. Slab clean with light surface scuffs to the case only. Centring approximately 60/40 left to right.
- Provenance
- Consigned by the original owner, pulled from a pack in Ontario and submitted for grading in 2019.
Your sale on Auctionomy
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Front, back and label on every lot
Upload photographs of the slab front, back and certificate label, and write the grade and any qualifiers in the lot's condition note.
Timed sales that don't end on a snipe
Run weekly timed sales with your own increment table. A bid in the final moments extends the close, so the last bidder standing wins rather than the fastest connection.
Categories collectors browse by
Arrange your catalogue by game, set, era or graded and raw, and let bidders filter, search and follow cards on a watchlist.
Your bidders, registered with you
Bidders register with your house and you approve each registration. The list of collectors who buy from you is yours to keep.
Your trade, your house
Fluent in the trade, and unmistakably yours
Maple Quay Cards & Collectibles Auctioneers is a demonstration house: fictional, built on Auctionomy to show how a house specialising in trading cards, games & modern collectibles looks on the platform. Its name, colours, typeface and page layout are its own, assembled from the same components every house uses. Yours would carry your name, your logo and your look, on your own domain.
No commission on the hammer price
A flat subscription, agreed with your house. Your bidders register with you, and the buyer's premium you set is yours.