How we check card-rip sites

What we measure

We answer one question for every card-rip site: if you sell a pulled card back, how much real cash can you get out?

To answer it we record, for each operator:

Buyback rate: the percentage of a card's value the operator offers to buy it back for.
What the rate applies to: usually the operator's own valuation of the card, not a price you could get elsewhere.
How buyback is paid: in cash you can withdraw, or in site credit (coins, gems, balance) that may only be spent on more packs.
Withdrawal rules: fees, minimum amounts, payment methods and how long payouts take.
Shipping: what it costs to have the physical card sent to you instead.
Eligibility: minimum age and the places the operator says it does not serve.
Odds: whether the operator publishes the chances of each outcome before you buy.

Where the numbers come from

Every figure on RipReceipts comes from a page the operator publishes: its terms of service, FAQ, help centre or pack pages. Next to each figure we show:

a short quoteof the operator's own words,
a link to the page it came from,
the date we saw it.

When the operator doesn't state something, we say "Not stated". We never fill a gap with an estimate. When an operator's pages contradict each other, we say so and quote both.

We do not buy packs, and we don't publish other people's pull results as if they were our own.

How we turn terms into a cash figure

For a card worth a given amount (we use $100 as the example):

Buyback offer = card value × buyback rate.
If buyback is paid in cash, or in credit that the terms say can be withdrawn, the withdrawable amount is the offer minus any stated percentage withdrawal fee.
If buyback is paid in credit that cannot be withdrawn, the withdrawable cash is $0, however large the offer looks.
Fixed fees per withdrawal and minimum withdrawal amounts are listed separately. They depend on how much you withdraw at once, so we don't spread them across a single card.

The pack value calculator applies the same steps to a whole pack using the operator's published odds. If the published odds don't add up to 100%, or a tier has no stated value, we show no result rather than a misleading one.

Monitoring

Operators change their terms without notice. Our monitor, which identifies itself as RipReceiptsBot, re-reads each public terms, FAQ and buyback page regularly. It:

only reads public pages: no logins, no purchases, no account areas,
respects robots.txt; pages we may not crawl are checked by hand instead,
waits several seconds between requests to the same site.

When a page changes, an editor reviews the change. If it affects what you can get back (a lower buyback rate, a new fee, a change from cash to credit), we update the figures, keep the old value in the page's history, and publish the change in our change log.

Operators who want us to stop crawling a page can block RipReceiptsBot in robots.txt or contact us through the corrections page.

What we don't do

We don't rate, score or rank operators with stars or "best" badges. We show what the terms say and let you compare.
We don't call operators names. We describe what their terms say.
We don't give legal advice. "Available in your state" means the operator says it serves your state, not that we have confirmed it is legal there.

Corrections

If anything on this site is wrong or out of date, tell us on the corrections page. We review every report, and if we change a figure the old value stays in the history.