Guide for suitcase sellers
How to price your cards before a card show
Buyers at a show will ask what your price is based on. Having current market numbers on your phone, and a record of what you actually sold for, makes those conversations short.
1. Check the market for each card
Open a card in FTH and look up its market price. Prices come from SportsCardsPro and cover raw cards and PSA grades 1 through 10, so you can compare what your card is against what it would be graded. Save the match to the card and you can check it again in one tap.
You can use any pricing app or method you like to set your prices. Card Ladder (cardladder.com) is a popular option with many collectors and sellers for sold prices.
Free or Pro? The free plan includes 25 price lookups a month. Pro has unlimited lookups, which helps when you're pricing a whole case.
2. Set an asking price you can explain
- Start from the market number, not from what you paid. Buyers will check the market, so your price should make sense next to it.
- Decide your floor ahead of time. Know the lowest price you'd take before someone asks, so you aren't working it out under pressure.
- Price graded cards by their grade. Use the matching PSA grade's number rather than the raw price.
Mark each card For Sale with its asking price. That's the number buyers see in Show Mode.
3. Record what each card actually sold for
When a card sells, mark it sold with the real sale price, even if it's below your asking price. FTH keeps the sale price next to what you paid, grading fees, and shipping, and works out the profit or loss on each card. Over a few shows, that history is the best guide to your next prices.
4. Pricing a bundle
When several cards sell together for one price, mark them sold as a group and FTH splits the price across the cards. With Pro you can split it in proportion to each card's value or set each card's share yourself.
