Don't take our word for it
Every claim on this page carries two things: the source you can check yourself, and the date we checked it. That's the rule this page was built under — a claim without a live source doesn't ship, and if a source ever stops backing a claim, the claim comes down. — Nickel 🪙
Our feedback is public — 98.2% positive
eBay keeps this score, not us. It counts the rated sales we've made as buckeyebinder — the good, the bad, all of it, where anyone can read it.
Source: our eBay seller profile ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
Best Offer is really on
Every single in the store carries Best Offer — open any listing and look under the price. Our Final Examiner opens new listings buyer-side to confirm it renders, because a setting nobody can see isn't a promise kept.
Source: the eBay store ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
Shipping, posted plain
$0.78 by eBay Standard Envelope on singles up to $20; $5.99 Ground Advantage above that. It's printed in every listing's shipping section before you check out — no surprises after.
Source: any listing in the store ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
Bulk rates, in the open
We buy bulk at $10 / $15 / $20 / $40 per 1,000 cards, posted on a public board with a working scale — the same rates whether you found us yesterday or a year ago.
Source: the bulk board ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
Set counts from our own tracker
1,618 singles catalogued across 77 sets — real records from the shop's own card tracker, counted October 23, 2026. Not a guess, not a rounded-up boast.
Source: the Card Index ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
No unsigned answers
Card answers post only after our Checking Office signs them. The archive can sit empty — it never sits fake.
Source: Ask the Office ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
No percentages, ever
Our verdicts are Likely Genuine, Likely Counterfeit, or Inconclusive. Anyone who gives you “87% real” from photos is making the number up — we won't.
Source: Is my card fake? Start here ↗ · Checked Oct 23, 2026
Keep exploring
Browse by Set
Every set in the Cauldron, A–Z — with the set symbol and how many singles we've catalogued in it.
Is my card fake? Start here.
The office's own checks, in the order we run them — back first, then the light test.
Ask the Office
A card question? The Checking Office answers — signed, or it doesn't post.