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What is Grailfinder?

Grailfinder compares trading card prices across 74 independent card shops in Australia and New Zealand, so you can find what you are after and see who has it cheapest before you buy. Here is how it works, and why the store list looks the way it does.

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What is Grailfinder?

Grailfinder is a price comparison site for trading cards. It searches 74 independent card shops across Australia and New Zealand at once and shows you every store's price and stock status side by side.

We do not sell anything and we never handle your money. When you find what you want, you go straight to that shop and buy from them directly, at their price.

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How do the filters work?

Open the Filters button above the results. You can narrow by price, by store, and by condition — Raw for ungraded cards, Graded for slabs.

In stock only hides anything a shop has sold out of. Out of stock does the opposite, which is the quickest way to check whether something exists at all before you give up on it. The number on the Filters button tells you how many filters are currently applied, so nothing is ever narrowing your results invisibly.

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How current are the prices?

Every product page shows when we last checked that price. Prices are refreshed from each store regularly, but a shop can change a price or sell the last one at any moment, so always treat the store page as the truth.

We scrape from inside Australia deliberately. Some store platforms serve a different price depending on which country is asking, and a price no Australian customer would ever be shown is worse than no price at all.

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What do I get if I make an account?

A free account gets you a watchlist and saved searches, so you do not have to retype the same hunt every week.

A paid account adds price-drop and restock alerts by email — you set a target price, and we email you when any of our stores goes below it. That is the only thing we charge for, and it is what pays for the servers.

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Why only local card shops?

Because they are the ones holding this hobby up.

An independent shop takes a real risk on every allocation it orders. They run the prereleases, the locals, the draft nights and the trade tables. They are where most people got their first pack, and where you can actually ask someone a question and get an honest answer. When one of them closes, a local scene usually goes with it.

We also think how a retailer treats collectors matters. Charging people a recurring subscription just for the chance to buy a new set at release is not something we want to send traffic to — access to a hobby should not be a paid tier. The shops on Grailfinder sell to whoever walks in, at the price on the shelf.

So the roster is independents and small chains, and it will stay that way. Every click from here goes to a business run by people who actually collect.

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Which stores are included?

74 Australian and NZ shops, and the list grows. You can see exactly which stores matched your search in the Stores filter on any results page.

If you run a card shop and want to be listed, send us an email and let us know!

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Do you take a cut of what I spend?

No. We just point you to the shop, and you buy from them directly. Your money goes straight to the store — we never touch it.

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What if a price is wrong?

Tell us. We read every report, and a wrong price usually means we have misread how one shop lists something, which is worth fixing for everyone. Email grailfindertcg.com's support address from the footer.

The store page is always the authority. If our price and theirs disagree, theirs is the real one.

Still stuck, or spotted something wrong?

Email info.grailfindertcg@gmail.com. If you run a card shop and want to be listed, send us an email and let us know!