TCGBOLT

List once. Sell it whole.

Upload what is in it, set one price for the lot, and keep the cards where they are until somebody buys. No four hundred listings. No four hundred envelopes.

How it goes

  1. You build the listingOne row per card or sealed product, photographs of how it is stored, and one price for everything. Most collections take under an hour.
  2. We check itA person reads every listing against its photographs before buyers see it, usually within 24 hours. If something needs changing we say what, and you resubmit.
  3. Buyers browse and make offersThe whole lot or nothing. You take an offer or you do not — nothing obliges you to sell at a price you did not set.
  4. You ship once, and get paidOne box, one label, one tracking number — we buy the label, insured and tracked. The buyer pays for delivery, quoted at checkout from your address to theirs, so the postage comes out of what they paid for it rather than out of the sale. Funds release 3 to 5 business days after the buyer receives it.

On a $5,000 collection

Buyer pays$5,000
TCG Bolt fee, 11%− $550
Before the parcel insurance cost$4,450

One other thing comes out: what it costs to insure the parcel, a small percentage of what the collection is insured for. It is yours because the cover is yours — if the parcel is lost in transit, the buyer is refunded and your payment is reversed. You are told the exact figure when we buy the label. Fees and payouts has the detail.

Nothing is charged to list, and nothing is charged if it does not sell. The fee comes out of the sale or it does not exist. Listings are capped at $10,000 each while we build transaction history.

What to have ready

An address in a state we serve

We are opening state by state while a regulatory review finishes, so this is the one thing on this list you cannot go and fetch. Your collection ships from the address you give us, and right now that address has to be in one of these 26 states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin.

A list of what is in it

A spreadsheet, a CSV, or an export from whichever tracker you use — we read the columns by name, so there is no format to convert to. Tabs, commas and semicolons all work. One row per card — copies of the same card can share a row with a quantity, but every card in the lot has to be named. Sealed products go on the same list: add a Type column and write what it is, so a booster box is listed as a booster box rather than as a card.

Nothing to export? Download a blank manifest.

Photographs

Front and back of every card stated at or above $30, and one of every sealed product. Pages or shelves for the rest — buyers look at these more than they read the list.

One price for the lot

What you would take for all of it today. You can change it while the listing is a draft.

Somewhere to be paid

Bank details are collected once, when your first sale completes. Not needed to list.

Where your cards are, the whole time

With you. We never take possession, and nothing ships until the buyer’s payment is sitting in your account, locked until they have checked the collection. If a listing does not sell you have lost nothing but the hour it took to upload.

A collection at home on its owner's shelf — binders upright, a storage box, slabbed cards stacked on the desk — with a laptop and phone beside them showing the whole lot listed at one price.
The listing is live and nothing has been packed. That is the whole of it: the cards do not leave until somebody has bought them.