FAQ

Card Pulse Beacon helps you find trading cards, follow TCGplayer prices and price history, and organize your watchlist. You can also browse active eBay listings and set listing alerts with your own target total.

You can search for cards, browse sets, view TCGplayer prices and price history, and see active eBay listings without signing in. You'll need an account to save cards to your watchlist, organize them into lists, create alerts, or receive push and Discord notifications.

Yes. There are no paid tiers or subscriptions. Each account has limits on watchlist size, daily additions, lists, and active alerts. You'll find those limits in the sections below.

Filters show options that match your current search and selections across all result pages. The options also depend on the game and the details available in the catalog. If an option is missing, try clearing another filter or broadening your search.

Lists organize your watchlist into groups such as Trade Binder, My Standard Deck, or For Sale. A card can belong to several lists. Use the star to mark a card as a favorite without assigning it to a list. Use a card's folder button to change its lists, or use Select mode to update several cards at once. Under Manage lists, you can create or delete lists, rename them, or change their colors. You can also filter your watchlist by list.

Yes. Each account can have up to 50 lists. If you reach the limit, delete a list you no longer need before creating another. Favorites don't count toward this limit.

Each account can save up to 5,000 different products, with up to 500 additions per day. The daily limit resets at midnight UTC. Extra copies of a saved product don't use more slots, and re-adding the same product on the same day doesn't use another daily addition. Creating an alert also adds the product to your watchlist if it isn't already there, so it counts toward these limits. If your watchlist is full, remove a product to make room. If you've reached the daily limit, wait until it resets. Products already saved to your watchlist stay there.

We update the supported TCGplayer catalog and prices daily using TCGCSV, and add available prices to each card's history for that printing. Watchlist prices refresh and alerts are checked after the import. Updates can take time to appear, so some cards may still show earlier prices if an update is delayed or incomplete.

We don't have recorded prices for that card and printing in the selected date range. Try another printing or a wider range. We record available prices daily, so a new card's history begins once a daily update includes its prices. Older history is available for some cards, but we can't fill in days we didn't record.

The trend compares the first and last recorded market prices in your selected chart range: 30 days, 90 days, or 1 year. If we have less history, it covers only the available dates. For example, if the first price is from Jan 17 and the latest is from Feb 2, the 30-day trend covers Jan 17 to Feb 2.

With less than 30 days of history, the trend covers the first recorded price (Jan 17) to the latest (Feb 2).

The lowest TCGplayer price excludes shipping and may be for a card in any condition. TCGCSV provides prices by product and printing, without a condition breakdown. Open the product on TCGplayer to check condition, availability, shipping, and the final total.

TCGplayer alerts are checked after daily price updates. Market price alerts notify you when the price crosses your target in the direction you chose. Reaching the target exactly also counts. Percentage alerts notify you at most once a day when the market price rises or falls by at least your chosen percentage compared with the previous day's recorded price. Both days need a recorded price. Lowest listing alerts notify you when the recorded lowest price changes and is at or below your target. Alerts use prices for the selected printing across all card conditions; you can't filter them by condition. Notifications appear in the app and in any digests you've enabled.

The standard limits are 200 active TCGplayer alerts and 20 active eBay alerts. The eBay limit can vary; check My Alerts for your current usage and limits. Inactive alerts don't count. If you reach a limit, turn off or delete an alert for that source before creating or reactivating another.

Saving an alert doesn't send an instant notification. TCGplayer alerts use daily price updates, and eBay alert checks run hourly. Each alert looks for a specific change, such as a price crossing your target or a listing being found for the first time. New eBay alerts also need to finish setup by recording the current listings. Data delays, queued checks, or service limits can slow things down, and push, Discord, and email follow their own digest schedules.

In-app notifications keep a record of triggered alerts in Card Pulse Beacon and are always available. Enable push notifications to receive digests on your browser or device, or connect Discord to receive them in a channel you follow or share with others.

Enable push in Notification Settings on each browser or device where you want notifications, then allow them when prompted. You'll receive an hourly digest of alert updates. Delivery depends on browser support, permissions, and device settings. Each account supports up to 10 browser or device subscriptions, separate from your active alert limits.

Email digests are available to accounts with email access enabled. If you see Email Alerts in Notification Settings, turn it on to receive a daily digest after the price update. If the option is missing, email alerts aren't currently available for your account.

In Discord, open the settings for a channel you control, then go to Integrations > Webhooks and create a webhook. Paste its URL into Notification Settings and enable Discord Alerts. You'll receive hourly digests in that channel. Webhooks can't send DMs, so choose a channel you check regularly and keep the webhook URL private.

This alert notifies you when a check finds a matching listing at or below your target total after the previous check found none. It saves your listing filters, including auction, graded, and ungraded options. Some trading-card categories also support condition, grader, and grade filters. The total is the item price plus available shipping costs; confirm the final total on eBay. Setup records the current matches without notifying you. If a match already meets your target, the alert waits until a check finds none and a later check finds a match again.

This alert notifies you when it finds a listing it hasn't seen before that matches your saved filters and is at or below your target total. The total is the item price plus available shipping costs. Setup records existing listings without notifying you; later checks look for new matches. A listing can be new to the alert even if it was posted earlier on eBay. Some trading-card categories also support condition, grader, and grade filters. Confirm shipping and the final total on eBay.

Choose "Matching listing total below" to be notified when your search goes from having no listings at or below your target to having a match. Choose "New listing total below" to hear about newly found matches after setup. For example, if a listing already met your target yesterday, another match found today can trigger the new-listing alert while the matching-listing alert stays quiet.

"NEW" means the listing was posted on eBay within the last 24 hours. "NEW TO YOU" means your active new-listing alert has not seen it yet, regardless of when it was posted. Opening the listing marks it as seen for that alert.

Yes. The standard limit is 20 active eBay alerts, separate from your 200 active TCGplayer alerts. Your eBay limit can vary, so check My Alerts for your current limit. Turn off or delete an eBay alert to make room for another. Inactive alerts don't count.

eBay alert checks run hourly, though setup, queued work, retries, or eBay service limits can delay an individual alert. When a check triggers an alert, its notification appears in the app. Push and Discord send hourly digests; email sends a daily digest for accounts with email access. An hourly schedule doesn't guarantee delivery within an hour.

We use details such as the card name and number to search eBay listing titles. Sellers may mislabel cards, use different names, bundle items, or leave out details, so some results may not match. Check the photos, condition, and listing details on eBay before buying.

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