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How SportsCard works
South Africa's sports card trading marketplace — every rule, fee and protection on one page. No surprises, ever.
🤝 How a deal works
Connect directly — secure checkout launching soon
While we finish setting up licensed escrow checkout, buyers and sellers deal directly. Find a card, hit Contact seller, and the two of you arrange payment and delivery between you. Sellers can also share a collection link so buyers can browse everything they have in one place.
Trade-safely tip: check the front and back photos and the seller's profile, use a tracked courier, and confirm the card matches before you pay. When secure checkout goes live, payments will be protected in escrow.
🛡️ Escrow-protected checkout
Find a card and hit Buy now (or make an offer). Your payment is held safely in licensed escrow by TradeSafe — the seller only gets paid once you’ve received the card and confirmed it’s as described. The seller posts it to you with tracking, and the funds release to their bank when you’re happy.
Buyer protection: if the card never arrives or isn’t as described, you can raise a dispute and TradeSafe mediates — your money stays protected in escrow until it’s resolved.
💰 Fees — all of them
- Seller pays
- Nothing — sellers keep 100% of their price. No listing fee, no commission; the buyer's delivery fee is paid out to you to cover posting the card.
- Buyer pays
- The card price + delivery (PUDO locker R60 or door R75, once per order) + a buyer protection fee of ±7% (platform share capped at R300) + TradeSafe's R5.75 bank payout fee — itemised in full before you pay. It covers TradeSafe escrow and paying the seller out: your money is held until the card is in your hands, and the seller receives their full price.
- Founding members
- Buy at cost, for life — the platform share is waived; founders pay only TradeSafe's escrow fee (2.875%).
- Escrow checkout
- Your payment is held by TradeSafe and released when you confirm delivery — every fee itemised before you pay.
🃏 Listings, lots & collections
- Contact the seller. Found a card you want? Hit Contact seller and arrange the deal directly — for now, payment and delivery are between you and the seller.
- Buy with protection. Found a card you want? Hit Buy now (or make an offer) and pay through escrow-protected checkout — your money is held safely until you confirm the card arrived.
- Lots. Sellers can list a bundle of cards as one listing, so a whole lot can change hands in one go.
- Share your collection. Every member gets a shareable collection link — post it anywhere and buyers can browse all your cards in one place.
- Your listing, your call. Remove a listing any time, and put it back up later. Secure checkout with offers and buyer protection is launching soon.
💎 Collector subscriptions
Want to know what a card is worth before you buy or sell it? Collector members photograph the front and back and get an AI-estimated value range in Rand, with the reasoning spelled out.
Rookie
R149/mo
20 valuations
Pro
R249/mo
50 valuations
Legend
R349/mo
Unlimited
❓ Quick answers
How do payments work right now?
For now buyers and sellers arrange payment directly between themselves — SportsCard doesn't hold any money. Secure in-app checkout, where funds are protected in escrow, is launching soon.
How do payments work?
When you buy, your payment is held in licensed escrow by TradeSafe and only released to the seller once you’ve received the card and confirmed it’s as described. Subscription payments run securely through PayFast.
What can I sell here?
Sports trading cards — rugby, soccer, F1, cricket and more. Singles, graded slabs, or whole lots.
How does delivery work?
The buyer and seller arrange it directly for now — we recommend a tracked courier and rigid protective packaging. Checkout with delivery built in is coming soon.You choose at checkout: collect from a PUDO locker (R60) or delivery to your door (R75) — one fee per order, the same on every listing, no matter how many of a seller's cards you add. Once payment clears into escrow, the seller posts the card with tracking; when it arrives and you confirm it’s as described, the funds release to the seller.
I'm a seller — how does posting a parcel work?
You post it yourself via PUDO — and it costs you nothing: the buyer pays the delivery fee at checkout (locker R60 / door R75) and that amount is paid out to you with the sale to cover booking the parcel. Price your cards at their true value; never build postage in. The moment a buyer pays, you're told exactly where to send it — their chosen PUDO locker or their address; post the card, add the tracking number to the order, and your full amount plus the delivery fee is paid into your bank once the buyer confirms. Full guide: how to ship trading cards in SA.
Is it safe to trade?
Deals are arranged directly between members right now, so trade carefully: check the photos and the seller's profile, use a tracked courier, and confirm the card before you pay. Licensed escrow checkout is launching soon. Subscription payments run securely through PayFast.Yes — purchases are protected by licensed escrow through TradeSafe: your payment is held safely and only released once you’ve received the card and confirmed it’s as described. If something’s wrong, you can raise a dispute and TradeSafe mediates. Subscription payments run securely through PayFast.
New to collecting?
Start with Cards for Beginners — refractors, parallels and grading explained in ten minutes.