The short version
When you follow a “Buy on eBay” button and buy something, we may receive a small commission through the eBay Partner Network. You pay the same price either way. That is the whole business model — no paid listings, no sponsored cards, no “featured” slots for sale.
The price we show comes from a different place than the button: it is the TCGplayer market price, and TCGplayer pays us nothing. So the number on the page and the money we might earn have no connection to each other — which is the point.
What the commission does not touch
This matters more than the disclosure itself, so it is spelled out:
- Prices. Every number comes from the source data. Nothing is marked up, rounded in our favour or adjusted.
- Rankings. Lists are sorted by price, by movement or by date — never by what pays. No card is placed higher because it earns more.
- What gets tracked. We add games and sets because they exist, not because they have an affiliate programme.
- Our calls. The track record page scores our own predictions against the index afterwards, whether they were right or wrong.
How to spot the links
The “Buy on eBay” buttons — one under the card image, one on the price line — are the affiliate
links, and they carry rel="sponsored nofollow" in the page source, as search engines
require. The store names in the “Where to buy” table are ordinary links: they credit the source of a
price, they carry no tracking code, and nobody pays us for them. Internal links — the ones that keep
you on tcgrate — earn us nothing either.
Why say it at all
Because the US Federal Trade Commission requires it, and because a price site that hides how it is paid has no business asking you to trust its prices.
What we do not do
- No display advertising.
- No paid placement of cards, sets or games.
- No selling of visitor data.
- No newsletter you did not ask for.
Questions
Write to [email protected]. If you think something on the site is tilted by money, say so — it is a bug worth fixing.