Trade binders, the Trade table, recording a trade and trader tiers.
Your trade binder is the part of your collection you have up for trade. Anyone can see it, signed in or not (your public profile links to it), and it shows only the copies you put in it, under your trade name. Nothing else in your collection is shown, and neither is what you paid. You can hide the whole binder at any time from the trade binder settings on your profile.
When you're signed in and open someone's binder, Gradely compares it with your wishlist. They have lists the cards in their binder you want. You have lists the cards in your binder they want, if they have chosen to share their wants. Yours stay private unless you switch on Let traders see which of their cards I want in your trade binder settings, after which anyone signed in can see which of their cards you want.
In your collection, tap the binder icon on the copy, or choose Edit binder to add or remove many copies at once. The In my trade binder filter shows only the copies that are in it. A copy you take out stays in your collection.
The Trade table is a trade calculator for trading in real life, at the table you're sitting at: what you give, what you get, and the difference. Add cards by scanning, by search, or from a binder. The trading can start before you get there: browse trade binders from home or on the way, and pick up where you left off after the event. Once you record a trade, your collection and portfolio are up to date without typing anything in twice.
Yes. Open the Trade table and scan or search the cards on the fly, for both sides: the prices and the difference work without signing in, and so does browsing trade binders. You only need a free account to record the trade in your collection or to have a binder of your own, and signing up from the table brings you straight back to the same trade.
We collect prices from retailers and other external sources. Each line shows the market price for that card, finish and condition, in your currency. When we have no price for the exact condition, the line uses the nearest one we have and says so, for example Priced at Near Mint on a Lightly Played copy: allow for the condition when you agree a value. Graded cards are never priced as raw copies, so type the value you agree.
Each side is valued at a percentage of market, 100% unless you change it, and any single card can have its own percentage or a value you type. When the two sides don't match, Call it even lowers the percentage of the side worth more until they do, and Add cash puts the difference on the side that owes it. You can also type a cash amount on either side.
The copies you gave are marked as sold, as a trade, at the value you agreed, so the gain or loss against what you paid moves into your realised gains. The cards you got are added to your collection with the agreed value as what you paid. Your portfolio picks up both straight away.
Every card in the trade is tagged with the trade date, such as trade_280926. Search tag:trade_280926 in your collection, or in Sold, to see both sides again. Your recorded trades are listed under History on the Trade page. If you gave a card you own more than once, see which copy leaves.
Yes. After you record, the trade shows a QR code. The other person scans it and sees the trade from their side, with what they gave and what they got. Signing up free from there adds the cards they got to their new collection. If they already use Gradely, one tap records it in theirs. A trade you start from someone's binder also appears under Active on their Trade page, ready to record or dismiss.
Yes, for 24 hours after you record it: open the trade on the Trade table and choose Undo. The copies you gave come back and the cards you got are removed. Undoing changes only your own collection, never the other person's. After 24 hours, edit the copies, or mark them unsold from Sold in your collection.
The oldest one. When you record your side of a trade, you choose the condition you gave (for example Near Mint), and Gradely marks your oldest copy in that condition as traded: first in, first out, the usual way to count what you sold. The same goes for the cards you pick on your own trade binder. A copy in a deck is never taken.
It matters because each copy keeps the price you paid for it. If you bought the same card years apart at very different prices, which copy leaves changes your realised gain and your portfolio value. To let a different copy go, choose Choose a specific copy and pick it by the date you bought it and what you paid.
Your trader plate starts at Common and moves up to Uncommon and then Rare as you trade with more people. What counts is the number of different people you have traded with where both of you recorded the trade: you on your Trade table, they from your QR code or their own Trade table. A trade only one side records never counts, and trading again with the same person doesn't count twice. Once you reach a tier you keep it.
No. A trader tier counts activity: how many different people someone has traded with. It says nothing about how those trades went. Always use your own judgement when trading.