Learn the cross-border card game
Field notes on buying in Japan, selling in the US, grading decisions with the numbers in front of you, and reading real market-price data — the skills for reading the price difference between markets. Written for dealers and flippers: data-first, no filler.
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Three reads that cover the core of the business: the spread, the grade, and the number.
How cross-border card arbitrage actually works
The Japan-to-US spread, why it exists, a fully worked example, and the costs that quietly eat the gap.
Read → GradingPSA vs CGC vs Beckett vs SGC: which grade the data supports
The fee-versus-turnaround-versus-premium tradeoff, and the expected-value math that says grade or don't.
Read → Datamarket prices vs asking prices — and how we compute the number
Why asking prices mislead, how recency-weighted medians work, and why we show the dips too.
Read →More guides are on the way — marketplace deep-dives, grading workflows, and portfolio tactics.
Hoshino vs the alternatives
Honest, table-driven side-by-sides — where each tool genuinely wins, and which to pick for cross-border price differences.
The best Pokémon card price app in 2026
Hoshino, Collectr, Card Ladder and TCGplayer, head to head — what each is best at, and which to pick.
Read → ComparisonHoshino vs Collectr
A slick mobile collection app versus a cross-border arbitrage tool. Where each one wins, honestly.
Read → ComparisonHoshino vs Card Ladder
The clean US index and charts versus real Asian market prices and the buy-Japan-sell-US spread net of fees.
Read → ComparisonHoshino vs TCGplayer
The US price baseline and marketplace versus one card priced across markets, spread and all.
Read →Stop guessing. See the spread.
Scan a card, see daily market prices from every market on earth — and know the cross-border gap — net of fees, shipping and FX.