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What Is SportsCardsPro?

SportsCardsPro is a free sports card price guide launched in 2020 as a sister site to PriceCharting.com, the video-game price guide JJ Hendricks has run since 2007. It tracks historic sold prices by card and grade, offers a free collection tracker, and runs its own marketplace where buyers and sellers can transact without listing or selling fees.

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The short answer

SportsCardsPro pulls sold-listing data from eBay and its own marketplace, then runs it through a pricing algorithm that combines recent sale price, median price, average price, and an age-weighted average into a single current value for each card and condition — ungraded, PSA, BGS, and other graders. Unlike a paid price-tracking tool, the price guide itself is free to browse.

What SportsCardsPro actually offers

  • Free price guide— every tracked card gets a page with current values split out by grade, plus a historic price chart so you can see whether a card is trending up or down over time.
  • Collection tracker— add cards you own to a free portfolio and watch the total value move as the underlying prices update.
  • Its own marketplace— buyers and sellers can list and transact directly on SportsCardsPro. There are no listing or selling fees, but sales carry a standard payment-processing charge (roughly 2.9% + $0.30 per transaction) the same way most checkout providers do.
  • Lot value calculator and big-movers tool— utilities for pricing a group of cards at once and for spotting which cards are seeing the largest recent price swings.
  • Premium tier and CSV/API access— a paid plan adds extras like bulk price downloads for collectors and shops that want the raw data rather than browsing card by card.

Where the prices come from

SportsCardsPro's methodology blends sold listings scraped from eBay with sales that happen on its own marketplace, then applies an algorithm that weighs recency, volume, and outliers rather than just averaging every sale it sees. That's the same general approach eBay sold-listing searches and other aggregators use, but SportsCardsPro packages it as a browsable, free price guide rather than requiring you to build the search yourself.

What it isn't

SportsCardsPro isn't a grading company, an authenticator, or a vault — it doesn't touch your physical cards unless you choose to ship them to a marketplace buyer after a sale closes on its platform. Coverage and price accuracy depend on sale volume, so a thinly-traded card can show a stale or thin chart the same way any sold-comp tool struggles with low-volume cards.

How it differs from Card Ladder, 130Point, and eBay

  • vs. Card Ladder — Card Ladder is a paid, data-only tool with index charts and no marketplace attached. SportsCardsPro's price guide is free and pairs it with an actual place to buy and sell, at the cost of Card Ladder's broader index and portfolio features.
  • vs. 130Point — both are free. 130Point is purely a sold-comp search engine over eBay and a few other sources with no marketplace or algorithmic single-value price; SportsCardsPro adds a computed price-by-grade guide, a collection tracker, and its own marketplace on top of similar underlying sold data.
  • vs. eBay sold listings— eBay's sold history is the rawest source and free to search, but it's unfiltered by grade and takes manual digging to compare like cards. SportsCardsPro pre-sorts that same kind of data into a per-grade price guide, trading some transparency for convenience.

Related reading

Confirm the exact card with Identify & Research — free-path first (on-device OCR, catalog match, and fingerprints). For how sold-comp tools generally work and where they fall short see How Sports Card Price Guides Work, for building your own estimate from scratch see How Much Are My Sports Cards Worth?, for the paid index-and-portfolio alternative see What Is Card Ladder?, and for a free sold-comp search tool see What Is Mavin?.