Guide

Using grading without wasting cards

How to use card grading in TCG Card Shop Simulator deliberately, instead of sending cards off and losing track of what it cost you.

Applies to

no version stated by this build (see the sources page)

Before you start

• Cards that are worth grading
• Money for the service and the delivery fee
• A shop that can trade without those cards

Steps

1. Read the whole cost on the submit screen rather than only the price per card.
   the screen shows the per-card cost, the delivery fee and the total separately
2. Choose the service by its days as well as its price.
   each grading service carries its own days and its own cost per card
3. Only send cards you can do without while they are away.
   a submission holds your cards until it comes back
4. Check the status screen instead of wondering whether it has finished.
   there is a status screen with days left and a progress bar
5. Open the returns deliberately, because the reveal is its own sequence.
   graded cards come back through an opening sequence

Common mistakes

• Reading only the per-card price and forgetting the delivery fee.
• Grading cards you needed on the shelf that week.
• Sending a set off and then never looking at its status.

Related entries

Cards and raritySending cards to be gradedGrading is run through a website of the game's own.Cards and rarityCards and rarityA card is a physical object with its own display settings.

Sources

A local copy of the game, read only. Grounding for each step is on the technical reference pages; no number is estimated.