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  • Reading a PSA Slab

    What you’re actually looking at A PSA slab is a tamper-evident plastic holder, sealed at the factory by PSA after the card inside has been authenticated and graded. The label across the top is the important part. It carries every piece of information PSA has decided to put on the card’s permanent record. There are…


  • How We Collect

    The four rules. A lot of sports card content is about what to buy. Not enough of it is about how to think. The difference matters, especially if you’re teaching a kid. My three sons have been collecting with me long enough that we’ve landed on four rules. They’re not original to us. They’re the…


  • Why We Didn’t Build This on eBay

    Every time a card changes hands on a marketplace, somebody else takes a cut. That somebody is usually eBay. And the cut is not small. When I sat down with my sons to plan how this store would work, the first question wasn’t what cards do we list? It was where do we list them?…