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Data-Driven Card Collecting
Data analysis that reveals new insights about the hobby we love. Hidden opportunities for safe sports card investing and dealing. Insight - free of hype - that takes the long view of building and growing your collection in a sustainable way.
Sports Card Vault Comparison (UPDATED)
For this initial review of the major vaulting services we’re focusing on the core use case of storing, buying, and selling graded cards on each vault’s marketplace. We use two categories: Vaulting and Selling to rate each service. Each category have a number of criteria rated 1 (poor) to 5 (excellent). The scores are averaged to provide an overall rating.
We also added up all fees to vault, sell, and receive cash back in your bank account - for a single card - to create and apples-to-apples comparison of selling costs.
2021 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire by the Numbers
We’ve tracked the first 111 boxes of the 2021 Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire set that have been opened on YouTube, Facebook, and eBay (sellers who listed 32 cards at one time). This has revealed some interesting insight that can help inform your decisions around buying, selling, trading, grading, and collecting this set.
Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Complete Set Price Tracker
This graph shows the eBay sale price for complete sets of 2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire (166 cards in total).
Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Star Cards Price Tracker
These graphs show the eBay sale price for the four “star” cards in the 2020 Topps Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire set:
8a - ADAM Bomb
8b - Blasted BILLY
1a - Nasty NICK
1b - Evil EDDIE
GPK Sapphire Object Detection Guide
This is for anyone adding images or video to Card Lens GPK Sapphire object detection model. Each card in the set is given a “class:. Each image that is added by the community helps the model learn and the app perform better at detecting GPK Sapphire cards.
Garbage Pail Kids Sapphire Price Tracker
History of all base and parallel GPK Sapphire cards sold on eBay. Charts of price movement for "star cards" (Adam Bomb, Nasty Nick, etc...), Character index which shows the most and least valuable characters, and more.
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Card Lens is a phone app that uses Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning to scan a collection of sports cards, identifies the most valuable cards, and tells you how much each is worth.