PROTOTYPE · All consignments, prices and ranges are SAMPLE / ILLUSTRATIVE, not appraisals or market data.

Card desk for estate auctions · Built for the Prairies

Every estate has a box of old cards.
Don't sell it as one.

Paste the clerk's intake notes. RookieLot pulls the keys, keeps sealed product sealed, writes titles collectors actually search, and shows what the plan is worth to the family and the house.

1 Intake

Commission schedule used

Sample, modelled on a published Saskatchewan online-auction consignor schedule (2S Auctioneers).

    How the estimate works (prototype)

    1. Parse: reads year/season, brand, sport, counts, sealed, graded (PSA/BGS/SGC/CGC), signed, and named players from each line.
    2. Match: checks a small sample list of 13 key rookie cards (e.g. 1979-80 O-Pee-Chee #18 Gretzky). A real version would use a full checklist plus recent sold comps.
    3. Route: send-out (est. high ≥ $2,500), feature lot, keep sealed, sorted group lot, bulk (sized to stay above the $6 floor), or a separate category.
    4. As-is baseline (assumption): one vague lot per box. Loose cards sell at era bulk rates. Keys buried in a box realise 25–35% of their sample value because bidders can't see them. Sealed items get 70%.
    5. Commission: each lot runs through the tiered schedule, so you can see both the family's net and the house's take.

    Every dollar figure on this page is sample data for demonstration. It is not an appraisal, not a price guide, and not financial advice.