Our calls

A call is created automatically the first time a live listing clears one of our recommendation tiers during a scan. Nothing is hand-picked afterwards, and nothing is added retroactively — which is what stops a track record from becoming a highlight reel.

What freezes at call time. The listing, the delivered price, the fair value we held for that exact card, the score and the tier are all written once and never updated. If the same listing later clears a higher tier that is a new claim with its own record, not an edit to the old one.

How it is graded. At 30, 90, 180 and 365 days we compare the frozen fair value against confirmed sales of the same card that happened after the call. Sales from before the call set the starting number and can never grade it, and a listing that merely disappeared from the marketplace is not a sale and cannot grade anything. A call with no qualifying sales stays ungraded rather than being scored generously.

Why the percentages are sometimes missing. We refuse to publish a hit rate or a median move for a tier with fewer than five graded calls. Three good outcomes out of four is not a track record, and printing it as one would be the most flattering lie available to us.

Losers stay. The ledger is append-only: no row is ever edited or deleted, so a call that went badly is still here a year later next to the ones that worked. A record that forgets its misses is an advertisement, and this page exists precisely because we did not want one.