What we have found, and when
A dated record of every platform we have collected, every figure we have published, and every change we have caught. Platforms revise their odds and terms without announcing it, so the date on a number matters as much as the number.
We date every dataset because this category changes underneath you. In one month, Arena Club's entire $25 Pokémon checklist rotated — not one card from September appeared in October, the common tier shrank from 50 cards to 24, and the displayed rates stopped adding up to 100%.
MintPull added
Terms cap withdrawals at $250 per seven days and credit returns as pack purchase credit, against a “100% FMV guarantee” on the homepage. Operated from Hong Kong under Hong Kong law.
Pickem added
Three-hour window from opening a pack before the card is sold automatically — the shortest in the category.
Packed added
§6.3 limits storage to one day. Terms require Value Band odds to be displayed, which no other platform contractually commits to.
Fast Rips added
Homepage advertises a 100% buyback paid to a bank account; §6.3 of its terms says Platform Credit has no cash value outside the platform.
Buyback comparison published
Five platforms advertise 90%. One pays 84.6% after fees and three pay credit that cannot be withdrawn.
Arena Club checklist rotated entirely in one month
Not one card from the September $25 Pokémon Bronze checklist appeared in the October one. The Lineup tier shrank from 50 cards to 24, and the displayed per-card rates then summed to 49.07% rather than 100%. Unresolved.
Clutch Packs observed results collected
158,556 verified on-chain pulls across 25 packs, averaging 1.01× the pack price — the only observed return data in the category.
Courtyard and Packz odds collected
All 92 Courtyard packs and all 14 Packz packs, collected first-hand and published as open data.
Open questions
Things we have published as unresolved rather than guessed at:
- Arena Club's October odds summing to 49.07%. Either the displayed per-card rates go stale as inventory sells out, or part of the checklist did not load. We are rechecking.
- Whether Clutch Packs has a buyback at all. No terms appear anywhere, which is the one gap in otherwise category-leading disclosure.
- Whether Fast Rips' advertised cash-out exists. Its homepage promises a bank payout; its terms say platform credit is not withdrawable.
- Whether any platform's valuations match real sold prices. Every expected value on this site still rests on the platform's own numbers.
Corrections
We publish these rather than quietly editing.
- Courtyard referral offer. Earlier research described a Courtyard referral guaranteeing a $25 buyback on a $25 starter pack. We could not substantiate it. Courtyard has no welcome offer; its referral pays the referrer in points of undisclosed value. Corrected on the bonus offers page.
Found something we have wrong? The methodology page explains how we handle corrections.