Every price you see in Mintlytics is sourced from a real third party. We never fabricate prices.
Raw card prices
- TCGplayer Market Price — US retail, daily refresh
- Cardmarket 30d average — EU retail, daily refresh, EUR
- PokéWallet — additional vintage / Japanese pricing
Graded card prices
- TCGGOPRO eBay graded medians — per-grade medians of recent eBay sold listings (USD)
- eBay Finding API — individual sold rows (when we can fetch them; rate-limited)
Sealed product prices
- TCGGOPRO Cardmarket 30d average — EU sealed pricing (EUR)
- eBay sold listings for sealed products
- MSRP for the base reference line
Refresh cadence
- Card prices sync every 6 hours via the price cron
- eBay deals refresh every 30 minutes
- Sealed prices sync nightly + on cron tick
- Hot cards recalculated daily at 06:00 UTC
How conflicts are resolved
When multiple sources have a price for the same (card, grade), we prefer:
- Our own eBay Sold cache (when ≥ 8 rows in the last 90 days)
- TCGGOPRO median (when sample size ≥ 3)
- Estimated via grade multiplier × raw
The card detail page price table always shows the source for each row so you know what's behind the number.