Run your TCGplayer store from an AI assistant

Once you’ve connected an assistant, the setup and safety pages tell you what it can do in general. These pages are the specific jobs sellers actually ask for, with the exact prompt to type and what comes back. For the reasoning behind the sequence, read how Christopher uses AI to run his TCGplayer store. He builds Hoard and operates a TCGplayer store; the article distinguishes assistant research from decisions and physical work he keeps for himself. If pricing rules are the job you would normally hand to a trusted employee, start with the seller’s framework for building pricing rules with AI. It begins with a rule audit and ends at a proposal you review, not a chat-driven price override. Every page here names the tool the assistant is using under the hood, so you know whether you’re looking at a free read or a metered write, and what to check when the answer looks off. Start with the safe reads: find a pricing gap, review the work Hoard has queued, or look at a week of price movement. A pricing-rule change is a separate, reviewed step. New to the connection itself? Use the store connection overview, then pick your assistant in Talk to your store.

​

A practical weekly pricing check

Run these three read-only questions in one conversation before you decide whether to change a rule:

1. “Which cards in my inventory are priced below market?”
2. “What suggestions should I review today?”
3. “What were my biggest price movers in the last 7 days?”

That gives you a current inventory gap, the actions Hoard has already flagged, and the recent price movement behind the decision. It does not change a listing. If a rule needs work after that review, use the pricing-rule matrix guide below; Hoard sends the change to a review page before it applies.

​

Discovery and daily checks

• Ask your AI assistant what to restock — pull your buy-back candidates
• Find underpriced cards with Claude or ChatGPT — surface cards priced below market
• Ask why a card has that price — inspect the rule, source, floor, and blockers before proposing a change
• Diagnose why cards did not reprice — check store-wide warnings before opening individual listings
• Run a weekly pricing check with your AI assistant — review suggestions, pricing gaps, and recent movers before changing a rule
• Track your biggest price movers with an AI assistant — this week’s gainers and losers
• Check where you’re priced too high or too low — the competitive position report, without the dashboard
• Find inventory that has not sold in 90 days — build a read-only review list, not an automatic discount

​

Inventory and shelf work

• Find shelf records that need a human count — inspect location drift and unshelved stock, then verify the physical shelf yourself

​

Orders and fulfillment

• Draft a pull sheet with your AI assistant — start today’s pull session
• Check your TCGplayer sync health from your AI assistant — is a sync running, when did it last finish
• Trigger a TCGplayer sync from Claude or ChatGPT — force a fresh pull

​

Sales, fees, and customers

• Summarize your TCGplayer sales with an AI assistant — a plain-English revenue recap
• Ask why TCGplayer sales changed — ranked hypotheses with report-coverage and causality limits
• Ask your AI assistant about TCGplayer fee changes — what a fee shift is costing your store specifically
• Find your repeat TCGplayer customers — identify repeat buyers, then review and privately rate them in Hoard

​

Pricing and lists

• Ask your AI assistant to build a full pricing rule matrix — prepare a strategy, then review and approve it in Hoard
• Create and manage card lists with your AI assistant — direct writes, no approval step
• Watch, dismiss, or snooze a restock candidate — act on what the buy list found
• Get accurate pricing help for Lorcana, One Piece, or Pokemon Japan — ground your assistant in your own data

​

Public prices without a store connection

• Price a TCG decklist with Claude, ChatGPT, or Cursor — use the free, read-only TCGMCP connection for a market estimate; it cannot see your seller inventory

​

Setup and safety, if you haven’t read these yet

• Talk to your store — connect an assistant and the first safe questions to ask
• Store connection overview — connect Claude, ChatGPT, or another MCP-capable client to your Hoard account
• What your assistant can do — the full honest map of reads and writes
• Agent permissions and safety — how Hoard gates a write before it touches your store
• AI assistant FAQ — cost, safety, and setup snags