Guide

What to do with a duplicate card

What to do with the second, third and fourth copy of a card in TCG Card Shop Simulator: keeping one in the album, selling or donating the rest, binning what will not move, and when grading is worth the wait.

Applies to

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

Before you start

• A card you already own a copy of
• The shop open, with the album or the counter within reach
• An idea of what the card sells for

Steps

1. Put the first copy in the album before deciding anything about the rest.
   cards are kept in an album whose binder pages track the index of the card they hold, and looking through the album is a mode you enter and leave
2. Price the spare from the game's own information rather than from memory.
   a card carries a price tag of its own and the price can be checked on a screen of its own
3. Sell the ordinary duplicates on a shelf rather than hoarding them in a box.
   what is on a shelf and what is in a box are tracked separately, so a spare is either display stock or storage
4. Use the donation box for the spares that are not worth pricing.
   there is a bulk donation box for cards, with a panel of its own
5. Bin what will not move instead of storing it forever.
   cards are also removed in the shop, with kinds of removal, a confirmation screen and a list of bins of its own
6. Check what grading would cost before you send anything.
   a grading service has a name, a number of days and a cost per card, and the submit screen breaks the total into per-card cost and a delivery fee
7. Only send cards you can afford to wait for.
   a submission holds the cards, the service level and the time that has passed, and can be checked while it is away
8. Expect graded cards back through a sequence of their own.
   graded cards come back through an opening sequence rather than straight onto the shelf
9. Keep the spares a deck needs before you sell the rest.
   the play table's items include the playmat, the deck box and the cards, so a spare can have a use that is not selling

Common mistakes

• Filing the spare in the album and the original in a box, the wrong way round.
• Sending a cheap card to grading because the service was already open.
• Binning cards the bulk donation box would have taken.
• Selling the copies a deck needs because they happened to be the ones in hand.

Related entries

Cards and rarityAlbums and binder pagesCards can be kept in an album with binder pages.Shop, shelves and fixturesMoving on old stockThere is a bulk donation box for cards, with its own panel.Cards and rarityDiscarding cards, at the table and in the shopA discarded card travels to a pile with a start position, an end position and a list of positions.Cards and raritySending cards to be gradedGrading is run through a website of the game's own.

Sources

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