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Ordinary TCGplayer market price is a raw-card number, so a card priced automatically off it can end up badly mispriced once it’s graded. Hoard can price Pokemon graded cards off PriceCharting’s condition-to-grade sales data instead, so a card listed as Near Mint prices closer to what a PSA 9 actually sells for.

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What this covers

Grade-aware pricing is Pokemon-only right now. The condition-to-grade mapping and the underlying eBay sales data are calibrated to how Pokemon cards are graded and sold; other games use different grading vocabularies (CGC, BGS) that don’t map cleanly onto the same data yet.

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Step 1: Open Settings > Pricing

Go to Settings > Pricing and find the PriceCharting / grade pricing option.

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Step 2: Turn on grade-aware pricing

Enable the setting that replaces market price with PriceCharting’s grade price for Pokemon cards. This changes the base price Hoard prices from (Layer 1 of the pricing formula) — every other layer, including your multiplier, floor, and change caps, still applies on top of it as normal.

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Step 3: Understand the condition mapping

Your listing’s condition determines which grade’s price Hoard uses: Variant details like “1st Edition” or “Holofoil” in the condition string don’t affect the mapping — they’re stripped out before it’s applied.

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Step 4: Optionally set a per-rule PriceCharting floor

If you use the Rules wizard, you can additionally set “Never price below grade value” on a specific rule. That treats the PriceCharting grade price as a minimum floor for the cards that rule matches, independent of which price source the rule otherwise uses.

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Step 5: Confirm it took effect

Check the card detail panel for a “View on PriceCharting” link — it only appears when Hoard has matching grade data for that card. Run Update Prices or wait for the next sync, then use Test a card on Settings > Rules to see the pricing breakdown and confirm the PriceCharting price was used as the base.

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If a card isn’t picking up grade pricing

Confirm the card is Pokemon — other product lines are deliberately excluded from the override, even with the setting on. If it’s Pokemon and still not matching, PriceCharting’s catalog may not have that specific card yet; Hoard still imports the data it has for evidence display even when it can’t use it as the pricing base. See avoiding condition disputes on graded cards for how accurate grade-aware pricing also cuts down on buyer condition disputes, and Hoard’s Pokemon pricing engine for more on Pokemon-specific pricing.