📘 Collector guides

Plain-English help for buying, keeping and selling cards in the UK.

Spot a fake Pokémon card

Eight quick checks for fake Pokémon cards (card stock, text, holo, texture, the back) and the warning signs in a listing, so you can buy with confidence in the UK.

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Card conditions explained

What Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, Heavily Played and Damaged mean, how to check a card's corners, edges and surface, and how condition changes what a card is worth.

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Is it worth grading?

When sending a card to PSA, CGC, Beckett or a UK grader pays off: the maths, what decides the grade, how centering matters and how to check a card before you send it.

Handy tools: centering checker · what would I get selling? · card values in £