Seller guidelines

Naming brands in your listings

You can say exactly what your card is. Upper Deck, Topps, Panini, PSA, BGS — name any of them, because that is the only way to describe what you are selling.

The one thing to get right: a brand name describes the card. It never describes you, your store, or Collectible Deck. That is the whole page. The rest is examples.

Version 1.0 · Published 21 August 2026 · Applies to every listing

Describe the card, not yourself

Put the year, brand, set, card number, player and grade in the title. That is a good listing title and it is also, conveniently, exactly what is allowed.

The test is grammatical, and you can run it yourself in about a second. Find the brand name in your title and ask what word it is attached to. If it is attached to a card, you are fine. If it is attached to a store, a page, a service, or a person, rewrite it.

Six words to leave out

These are fine words in ordinary life. Next to a brand name they say something specific: that the brand picked you. Keep them away from brand names entirely:

• authorized
• certified
• official
• dealer
• retailer
• partner

Same goes for approved, endorsed, sponsored, licensed and breaker when they land near a brand name.

The one exception: "certified"

Certified is genuinely useful here, because grading companies really do certify cards. Use it about what the grader did, never about you:

Photos and your store name

Photograph the actual card. If the slab is in the shot, the grading company's label and seal are in the shot too, and that is completely fine — it is a photograph of the thing you are selling.

What to avoid:

• Manufacturer or grader logos as your own branding. Do not use a company logo as your seller avatar, your banner, or a watermark on your photos.
• Logos added to a photo. Pasting a PSA seal or an Upper Deck logo onto your listing image is different from photographing a slab that has one.
• Store names built from a brand. "Upper Deck Depot" implies a connection that does not exist. Name your store after yourself.
• Backdrops that suggest a booth. A card photographed in front of a manufacturer banner reads like a licensed event, which is a claim your title never made.

Grades and graders

State the grade the card actually holds and the company that gave it. If the slab says PSA 9, list PSA 9. Do not translate a grade between companies, and do not describe an ungraded card with a number you think it would get.

Older labels are welcome. CSG stopped issuing labels when it merged into CGC in 2023, and those slabs are perfectly listable — describe what the label in your hand says, not what the company is called today.

The most we can carry

We do not carry sales above $5,000.00. That is the price on the listing. Price one above it and it will not publish, and the message you get back will say exactly that.

Nothing sits outside that figure. This marketplace collects the card price and nothing else — no shipping charge, no handling, no listing fee — so there is no second amount stacked on top of the number you set. You and your buyer arrange delivery between yourselves, as you do with everything else here. Send a shipping amount to the listing API and it will be refused by name rather than quietly ignored, because a charge we accepted and did not record would be worse than one we declined.

This is a limit we chose, not a queue you are waiting in. There is no form to request an exception and no date when it lifts. If a card is worth more than this, sell it somewhere built to carry it. We would rather tell you that up front than take the listing and hope.

The reason is narrow enough to state plainly. A card payment can be disputed months after it settles, well after a seller has been paid out, and we are the party the money is taken back from. Carrier coverage for a lost package also stops around this figure, so above it a package that never arrives cannot be made whole. We can absorb that at this size. We could not absorb it at every size, and a marketplace that pretends otherwise is one bad week away from not paying anyone.

If a listing has a problem

Most of the time you will get a message that points at the phrase and suggests a rewrite, and nothing else happens. It is a wording fix, not a black mark, and it usually takes one edit.

Counterfeits and misrepresented grades are a different matter entirely. Those are not wording problems, and a listing can come down without a rewrite offered first.

Why we ask

Collectible Deck is independent. No manufacturer or grading company has authorized, sponsored, or endorsed this marketplace. None of us can afford to imply otherwise. A listing that suggests a partnership creates a problem for the seller who wrote it, and for everyone else on the site. Naming cards accurately is a long-settled right. Naming relationships that do not exist is not.