How Unripped works
Unripped tracks factory-sealed trading card product, in four parts:
- Catalog. What Target.com sells. Build a list of what you want to buy or track.
- Drops. What drops at Target.com next, with times and expected stock via Poke Snipes, and how past drops have done since.
- Market. Every sealed product, whether or not Target sells it, and what each one sells for.
- Portfolio. What you own, what you paid and what it’s worth today. Record sales to track realized and unrealized gains.
Catalog#
Every sealed trading card product Target.com sells itself, grouped by game and set, newest set first. Target.com prices are checked daily and market prices twice a day.
- Your list. Press + Add on a product, or paste Target item numbers (TCINs) from anywhere: a Discord message, a spreadsheet, a web page. Copy the list back out, or Send to Poke Snipes to paste it in their #item-requests. Pasting again adds to your list; Show only my list hides everything else.
- + ship. Target.com ships free at $35. A card says + ship when two of that product still come to less.
- Search matches each word on its own: 30th ETB finds 30th Celebration Elite Trainer Boxes, PKC finds Pokémon Center editions.
The multiple#
The sticker on a card is the market price divided by Target.com’s price: 2.5× means it sells for two and a half times what Target charges. Yellow stickers are double or more; the grey ones are under. Fees and shipping are not deducted.
A product with only presale or launch-week prices, or no market price at all, shows a dash instead. Some of the catalog sits at a dash right now.
Where the numbers come from#
- Target.com prices are read from Target's own product pages, daily. A blank is a page we could not read yet, and it is retried hourly.
- Market prices are TCGplayer's market price for the exact product. If a name could match more than one product, the card shows a dash. Prices from before release are presale prices: the chart draws them dashed and labels them presale, and they are left out of trends and multiples.
- Price history is one reading a day back to February 2024, from tcgcsv.com, a free mirror of TCGplayer's data. One price a day with no sales volume means small moves are noise.
Third-party sellers#
Target.com also hosts marketplace sellers, whose listings look like Target's own and often cost several times retail. Every product is checked against Target's “sold and shipped by” label. Marketplace listings never enter the catalog, the counts, or anything you copy out.
A TCIN nobody has pasted before goes on your list marked not checked yet. It is looked up within about fifteen minutes, then either joins the catalog or is flagged. Flagged listings stay out for good.
Spotted early#
Products sometimes appear in Target's systems weeks before they get a page. A reliable monitor reports one and it shows for a week under Spotted early with the source named. Name, price and date are as reported, not confirmed by Target, and it joins the catalog when the page appears. You can add one to your list meanwhile.
Market#
Market lists every sealed product in the sets we track, whether or not Target sells it, at its TCGplayer market price.
- The multiple on Market is market price divided by list price. A list price is the MSRP where one is known; where it is not and Target sells the product, Target's price stands in. No list price, no multiple.
- The set pill (“2.4× in month 7, typical 1.5×”) is the set's multiple, months since release, and what sets of that age usually trade at.
- Context chips name a recognizable situation: Launch window (first two months, prices usually fall), Reprint wave (down 15% in 30 days, near list price), Near 1-yr high, Recovering, In print, and Price stale (not refreshed in a week).
- Compare (⇄) puts up to three products on one chart, each starting at 100.
- The index lines compare every product in a game with only what Target.com stocks.
Signals#
A product with 90 days of history, past its launch window, gets one signal from its 30-day change and its 30- and 90-day averages.
- Heating up. Up 15% or more over 30 days, above both averages, still rising this week.
- Rising. Up 5% or more and above both averages.
- Steady. Within 5% of its 90-day average.
- Cooling. Down 5% or more and below its 30-day average.
- Falling. Down 15% or more and below both averages.
- Bouncing back / Rolling over. Down but back above its 30-day average, or up but below it.
We replayed these rules over 31,319 weekly readings of $20+ products, February 2024 to September 2026, and compared each with the price 30 and 90 days later (median change):
| Signal | Readings | 30 days later | Higher after 30 days | 90 days later |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All readings | 31,319 | +3.1% | 71% | +11.9% |
| Heating up | 2,930 | +7.4% | 80% | +17.2% |
| Rising | 8,542 | +5.3% | 83% | +16.4% |
| Bouncing back | 116 | +4.7% | 72% | +15.1% |
| Steady | 15,938 | +2.1% | 68% | +9.8% |
| Rolling over | 195 | +2.3% | 57% | +7.3% |
| Cooling | 1,922 | +0.3% | 51% | +7.4% |
| Falling | 477 | 0.0% | 50% | +7.4% |
| Too new to rate | 1,199 | −1.9% | 43% | −1.1% |
Most of that period was a rising market, and there is no sales volume behind it. A signal describes the market. It is not advice to buy or sell.
Portfolio#
Signed in with Discord, Portfolio values what you hold at today's market price. Only you can see it.
- One row per product. Several buys fold together with the average paid. Open N lots to edit a purchase or record a sale.
- Unripped / Trim / Sell is your plan. Sold records a sale and its gain. Ripped records what you opened: those units leave the sealed count, and the page keeps what they were worth sealed that day. Unripped is what you keep sealed. Ripped is what you opened.
- In your stack points out facts: what is up or under water, anything that is a large share of your value, and anything Target.com still sells near list price.
- Export downloads your lots and sales as a CSV.
Drops#
Drops is the next Target.com drop and every one before it. The note comes from Poke Snipes, usually the evening before.
- The time is yours. A drop shows when it goes live in your own time zone, with a countdown, and the same drop sits at the top of the Catalog until the day after.
- Expected stock (50k+, <1000) is Poke Snipes’ estimate, not Target.com’s.
- Past drops show each product’s Target.com price against what it sells for today, and the average multiple for the drop.
- + Add puts a product on your list; Add all takes the whole drop.
Notifications#
Signed in, Notifications lets you choose what the site tells you: a drop being posted, a reminder 15 minutes before it goes live, a Portfolio price target reached, a Portfolio summary, and changes to products on your list. Everything is off until you turn it on.
- The bell at the top of every page keeps them, whether or not a device is on.
- On a device, the browser asks once. On an iPhone or iPad this works from the Home Screen app: in Safari, Share, then Add to Home Screen, and turn it on from there.
Your data#
- No account needed for the catalog, drops and your list, which is saved in this browser only. The last 90 days of any price chart are free to everyone; a year of history, the signals, Pulse and Portfolio need a free sign-in with Discord.
- Signing in with Discord shares your ID, name and avatar — never your email, password, servers or messages. Your account keeps your list, your Portfolio and the date you last visited.
- We count which buttons get pressed, as daily totals with nothing that identifies you. No ads, no tracking cookies — the only cookie keeps you signed in.
- TCINs you paste that we don’t know are looked up, and Most watched is drawn from saved lists — only ever as totals.
- Notifications are off until you turn them on. What you chose, what we sent you and the devices you switched on are kept on your account — a device only as the address its browser gives us to reach it.
- Delete your account any time from your name at the top of the page; everything goes with it.
Sending a list to Poke Snipes#
One click copies your list as a /submit command and opens Poke Snipes'
#item-requests channel. Poke Snipes is a Discord community that posts Target drop times and runs a checkout bot; the
channel is members-only, so
join on Discord first.