Use the game’s card-selling interaction to offer a card and set its price. Before confirming, match its series, finish and grade, reserve the copies you need, and distinguish market value from your asking price. A price graph or a card placed for display is not proof that a customer completed a purchase.
A practical first sale
- Choose a card you are comfortable parting with. Reserve any copies you need for a deck or personal collection first.
- Check the exact card version and its current in-game value. For a graded card, select that grade in the price graph.
- Use the card-selling furniture and its pricing interaction in your installed game. Confirm that the card is being offered for sale rather than merely stored or displayed; read the object’s description and the prompts available.
- Enter and confirm your asking price. Reopen the price interaction to check the amount was accepted, especially after controller or keyboard input.
- Observe the shop session and record the completed sale amount when a customer actually buys it. Until then, treat it as an unsold listing.
This is a conservative checking workflow, not a promise of an instant buyer. The original pricing guide covers the broader shop routine; this page focuses on individual cards and graded-card decisions.
Market value, asking price and proceeds
| Amount | What it tells you | What it does not prove |
|---|---|---|
| In-game market value | The value shown for the selected card version and grade. | That your next visitor will buy it at that amount. |
| Asking price | The amount you entered for the sale. | That the transaction has happened. |
| Completed-sale proceeds | The amount received when a purchase completes. | Your total profit after acquisition, grading and shop costs. |
These are fictional in-game cards and shop-currency amounts. A real-world Pokémon price, a Steam Community Market item or a different TCG Simulator game is not a substitute for the price shown in your shop.
Expensive cards that do not sell
Work through these checks in order. They narrow down the situation; they do not identify a confirmed bug.
- Correct item: match the name, set, finish and grading state. An ungraded counterpart is not the same price comparison.
- Correct interaction: confirm there is an active card sale with an accepted asking price. A collection/display interaction and a sales interaction are not interchangeable.
- Actual opportunity: record whether customers visit that part of the shop during an open session and whether an interaction occurs. Check obvious access problems without rebuilding the whole shop.
- One change at a time: try a deliberately chosen different asking price while keeping other conditions stable. Write down what you changed and the observed result, rather than concluding from one visitor.
- Clear symptom: an unsold card, a missing card, an unresponsive price control and a frozen game are separate reports. Record your platform, build and mod status if you need help.
We have not verified a universal customer wallet formula, a guaranteed buyer every few days or a single markup that sells every rare card. A displayed high value alone is not evidence that the game owes you a scheduled purchase. For a frozen interaction or crash, use the technical-report builder.
Keep, grade or sell?
Keep: reserve cards needed for your chosen deck, collection or display. Sell ungraded: compare the amount you could actually accept without paying an extra grading fee. Grade: first read the selected service’s quote and consider what sale amount would be needed to recover those extra costs.
Open the grade-versus-sell worksheet for that comparison. It deliberately does not fill in a predicted grade or a sale probability. You can enter your own conservative and optimistic scenarios, with all amounts covering the same card or batch.
Neither the worksheet nor the deck planner reserves cards inside your save. Recheck the selection before an in-game submission or sale.
Bulk Workbench pricing is a different setting
The developer’s historical 0.63 notes raised the Workbench maximum price setting from 5 to 20, added direct keyboard or gamepad-keyboard price entry and introduced UG Bulk Box. This is context for the Workbench interface; it is not a 20-unit ceiling on a rare single card’s sale price, and it is not a grading-service quote.
The brief announcement does not define every range/filter edge case. Inspect the selection and resulting box in your installed build before confirming a bulk action. Do not run a bulk workflow over the copies you intended to keep. See the Workbench guide for its separate deck-editing and rules functions.
Use a small selling log, not a supposed universal strategy
For a valuable card, note the build, exact variant, grade, displayed value, your asking price, relevant fees and whether a sale completed. If you change the price, keep the earlier observation rather than overwriting it. That lets you compare your own shop without borrowing another player’s unexplained screenshot.
Keep collecting and dueling goals separate from cash decisions. The five-goal achievement notebook is manual; it does not verify that selling or grading a card will preserve or advance a particular game counter. We have not independently tested every collection-count edge case.
Good questions. Clear answers.
Why will nobody buy my expensive graded card?
First check the exact grade, active selling interaction, accepted asking price and observed customer interaction. This page does not establish a universal wallet cap or a guaranteed buyer schedule.
Is the market value a guaranteed sale price?
No sale is recorded merely by viewing a graph. Keep the in-game displayed value, your asking price and the amount from a completed sale separate.
Does the Workbench 20 setting cap all card prices?
The historical 0.63 note changes a Workbench setting. It is not a published universal price ceiling for rare individual cards.
Should I grade every valuable card before selling?
Compare your selected service’s full costs against a possible ungraded sale and your own graded-sale scenarios. The wiki does not provide a guaranteed grade or buyer, so a higher hypothetical value alone is not a complete decision.
Source-reviewed . Recommendations are editorial guidance, not in-game benchmark results.
TCG Card Shop Simulator — official Steam listing Game identity, management features, single-player classification and PC requirements.
OPNeon Games — Early access build 0.60: Card Grading Historical developer announcement, reopened September 23, 2026. Documents the phone app, up to eight cards per package, service-dependent cost/time, the Graded album and grade-specific price graph. It does not list a fee table, grade probabilities or a guaranteed resale result. Grading was not newly introduced in September 2026.
OPNeon Games — Early access build 0.63: Workbench changes Historical 0.63 announcement reread September 23, 2026, not a new patch today. Raises the Workbench maximum price setting from 5 to 20, adds keyboard/gamepad entry and UG Bulk Box, and changes restocking selection. That Workbench setting is not a maximum sale price for a rare individual card or a grading fee.
OPNeon Games — 1.0 and the graded-card opening changes in 1.01 Launch announcement and official listing checked September 23, 2026. The visible addenda still end at 1.02. Build 1.01 adds right-mouse skipping of the graded-card opening sequence and holding all returned graded cards afterward. It does not promise that every high-value card will sell. Review date is not an addendum release date.