Method

How pickthetcg prices Vibes cards

Every price here is the middle of real eBay sales, read one listing at a time. The same method prices video games on our sister site gamepricefeed.

Where the sales come from

We look up recent eBay sold listings (eBay.com, US dollars) for every card: once by name and once more for graded copies, 18,766 listings this month. The sales counted here run from Jul 2026 to 23 Oct 2026.

What counts

A sale counts for a card only when its title names that card and no other. Lots and bundles (two or three copies in one listing too), code cards, proxies and customs, signed copies, accessories, listings for other card games and titles eBay cuts off are left out, and sealed product (boxes, packs, decks) is priced on its own sealed page, never as a card: 18,217 this month. Prices far from the rest of their group are set aside too (2).

Every version on its own

Each sale is sorted by finish (base, holo foil, Arctic foil, gold foil, event promo, Sketch) and by grade (PSA, CGC, BGS with their grade). A blended number would put a raw card and an Arctic foil slab on one price that fits neither, so every version gets its own.

How sure we are

Every price says how many sales stand behind it: solid is 8 or more, good sample is 3 or more, and best guess is one or two. We never show a sale one by one.

Vintage Pokémon: more rules

Vintage Pokémon cards (Base Set to Skyridge) are priced the same way, with rules of their own. Reprints are left out: the 2021 Celebrations and 2026 30th Anniversary cards carry the old number, "4/102". Each printing is priced on its own: Unlimited, 1st Edition, Base Set's Shadowless, and played copies apart from the rest. And fakes sell as the real thing at the top end, so a premium printing is never priced below the everyday copy, and a grade never below the sales of the lower grades: a version that breaks either waits for more sales. A graded card relisted under the same title, after an unpaid auction say, counts once. And "up to" prices and rankings need three or more sales that sit within ten times of each other. 117,475 vintage listings read so far, 110,587 counted.

Check them yourself

Every card page has a "See these sales on eBay" link: it opens eBay.com's own sold listings with the same search we use, so you see the sales we read. eBay keeps sold listings for about 90 days and may ask you to sign in to see them. We keep our own record of every sale we count, with its eBay link, so a price can be traced back after eBay lets the listing go.

Offers

Many eBay listings take offers. When a seller accepts one, eBay's own page says "Best offer accepted", and newer pages show the price paid next to the crossed-out asking price. The sales data we read only has the asking price, so we open the eBay page of every Vibes sale from a listing that takes offers. Where it shows the price paid, that is the price we count (109 this month). Where eBay hides it, the page is gone, or the listing sold several copies so one buyer's price can't be seen, the sale is left out (88). The other 125 sold at the price shown.

Vintage Pokémon has far more of them: 49,894 of its counted sales come from listings that take offers, most of them older than eBay's 90 days, so their pages are gone and they count at the price shown. Measured on our vintage sales, these read about 3% higher than auctions and fixed-price sales of the same version for raw cards, and about 9% higher for graded ones, so a vintage price can run a little high. Where we did open a vintage sale's page, the price paid counts when eBay shows it, and the sale is left out when eBay hides it (so far 1 at the price paid).

Sales more than a year old are left out.

What links earn

"Shop on eBay", "Cheapest first" and the other eBay links go to your own country's eBay (eBay.com for sold listings), and eBay may pay us a commission when you buy. That never changes a price: prices are worked out before any link exists.

Updated 24 October 2026. Questions or a wrong price: contact@goldcote.com.