Free playbook
Don't hand over money on a card you haven't checked.
formerly the Sharp Collector's Playbook
12 things to verify first — starting with why you should stop pricing cards off the asking price.
- What it's actually worth — and where to look it up
- How to not get lowballed by a dealer
- Grading, decoded (PSA / BGS / SGC / CGC), without the jargon
- How to tell a real deal from a fair-looking one
Get the Playbook — free
- The 12 checks, in order, before you pay
- The 6 value drivers + grading decoded (PSA / BGS / SGC / CGC)
- 8 copy-paste AI prompts to get you started
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You're in — here's your playbook.
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The Playbook is yours now. Over the next four days I'll send the rest of the kit — one tool a day, nothing else. Tomorrow: the Grading Cheat Sheet, the one-pager that tells you what a card's grade actually turns on before you pay for grading you don't need.
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