Source-based platform report checked October 7, 2026. Matching, paid-sale status and refresh claims are attributed to the operator; no account integration or independent transaction audit was performed.
WHY IT MATTERS
Check the marketplace, exact card and auction price basis behind a graded price; a blended sample is not proof of a market trend.
The change is the data behind the number
PokePriceTracker announced on October 6 that its graded Pokémon prices now combine Fanatics Collect sales with eBay sold listings. The operator says it matches weekly-auction, Premier-auction and buy-now results to the card and grade. It describes support for PSA, CGC, BGS and SGC grades on English and Japanese cards, with daily refreshes. These are the service’s stated capabilities; we have not independently audited its matching, coverage or refresh process.
For a collector already using the service, the useful question is whether a displayed grade-level price now represents the same sample as an earlier reading. A change in the contributing marketplaces can change the mix of observations. It does not, by itself, establish that a card has risen in value or that the new average is a better estimate for your copy.
Follow the result back to its marketplace
The announcement says the card-level sold-listings table now identifies the marketplace in a Sold On column and links each sale to its original listing. Use that provenance to check the exact issue, language, variant, grade and transaction date before treating a result as a comparable. A chart label alone cannot resolve whether two examples are equivalent.
PokePriceTracker says it counts only completed, paid sales. That remains an operator claim rather than an independent confirmation of each settlement. A result that cannot be reopened or adequately identified deserves a clear limitation in your own research notes.
Existing integrations need a provenance check
Developers face a particularly easy naming trap: the announcement says the combined graded-sales data still arrives under the API’s ebay field when includeEbay=true is requested. It adds per-grade counts by marketplace, and a listing-level source field on the Business plan. An existing integration should therefore not describe every observation in that field as an eBay sale merely because its field name remains unchanged.
The practical update is to preserve source identity beside a price. Whether you use the website or an integration, inspect the underlying sale before drawing a conclusion about an exact card. This is a data-composition announcement, not evidence of a broad Pokémon price trend.
