Put in what the card costs, what grading costs, and what it sells for at each grade. See your profit, your ROI, and the price a 10 has to hit to break even.
Expected profit
$10.27
Worth grading at these numbers.
| If it… | You net | Profit | ROI |
|---|---|---|---|
| gets a 10 | $130.13 | $70.13 | 117% |
| gets a 9 | $52.05 | −$7.95 | −13% |
| lower | $26.03 | −$33.98 | −57% |
What you'd pay for the card raw, the grading fee, and shipping both ways.
What it sells for as a 10 and a 9, and your odds of each. Use recent sold prices.
Profit and ROI at each grade, your expected profit, and the break-even price.
The guide
Grading a card costs more than the grading fee. There's what you paid for the card, shipping to the grader and back, insurance, and the selling fee when it sells. On eBay, the final value fee on most trading cards is about 13%.
A flip only works if the graded sale price beats all of that. The calculator adds it up so you can see what's left.
Most cards don't come back a 10. Look at the card closely, centering, corners, edges, and surface, and be honest about your odds. Then check the 9: if the math still works at a 9, it's a much safer submission.
Expected profit weighs each grade by its chance. If expected profit is negative, the card is a gamble, not a flip.
Asking prices tell you what sellers hope to get. Sold prices tell you what buyers paid. Use recent sold sales for each grade, and look at more than one.
Slabfy's Flip Finder does this for you on every card: it pulls the sold sales at each PSA, BGS, SGC, and CGC grade and shows the flips that make money.
It's worth grading when what it sells for graded, after the selling fee, is more than what you paid plus grading and shipping, at the grade you're likely to get. Put your numbers in the calculator to see the profit at a 10, a 9, and lower.
Profit is the graded sale price, minus the selling fee, minus what you paid for the card, the grading fee, and shipping. ROI is that profit divided by everything you put in.
The price the card has to sell for at the top grade, after the selling fee, to get back exactly what you put in. Anything above it is profit.
Yes. It runs in your browser on the numbers you enter, with no sign-up. For real sold prices at every grade, use Flip Finder in the Slabfy app.
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