Chase Sets vs TCGplayer for selling trading cards
At a glance
| What to compare | Chase Sets | TCGplayer |
|---|---|---|
| Seller fees | 5% of the item price plus $0.00, never more than $25.00 per item — locked when you list. Loaded live from the published schedule. | 10.75% marketplace commission, capped at $75.00 per item, for standard marketplace sellers, per TCGplayer's published fee schedule as of July 12, 2026. |
| Payment processing | No separate seller payment-processing fee. Card processing is buyer-side at checkout and $0 when buyers pay with Chase Sets balance. | Sellers pay 2.5% + $0.30 payment processing per order on top of the commission. |
| Fee lock | Every listing locks its fee the moment you create it. Later schedule changes never raise the fee on an existing listing. | Fees are charged at sale time at the rate then in effect. TCGplayer does not publish a listing-time fee lock. |
| Order protection | Order Protection is included on every order. It's never itemized as a separate buyer fee. | TCGplayer's Buyer Safeguard policy covers eligible orders. The policy is published by TCGplayer. |
| Payout timing | Sale proceeds stay pending until delivery, risk, support, and aging rules clear, then become Chase Sets balance you can spend on cards or pay out. | Seller payouts follow TCGplayer's published payment schedule. |
| Catalog coverage | Five games at launch: Magic: The Gathering, Pokemon (English and Japanese), Yu-Gi-Oh!, Disney Lorcana, and One Piece. Curated catalogs cover raw and graded cards. | A long-established marketplace focused on trading card games, covering more game lines than Chase Sets offers at launch. |
| Availability | Prelaunch. Beta invite waves begin late July 2026; signup opens to everyone on September 1, 2026. | Live today, with a large existing trading-card buyer base. |
Why sellers join Chase Sets anyway
The fee lock is a platform primitive: every listing keeps the fee captured when it was created. There is no separate seller payment-processing line, Order Protection is included on every order, and listings created during a founder's 60-day window lock 0% seller fees until they sell.
Where TCGplayer is ahead today
TCGplayer is live today with a large active trading-card buyer base, more supported game lines, and years of seller tooling. Chase Sets is prelaunch — until invite waves begin, listing on Chase Sets is a bet on the economics on this page, not on existing traffic.
What you actually keep
| Selling $50.00 | Chase Sets | TCGplayer | eBay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marketplace fee | $2.50 | $5.37 | $6.62 |
| Payment processing | None — buyer-side at checkout | $1.55 | $0.40 |
| You keep | $47.50 | $43.08 | $42.98 |
Founders lock a 0% seller fee on every listing created during their 60-day window. The comparison above uses the standard schedule that applies outside that window.
TCGplayer figures: 10.75% marketplace commission (capped at $75 per item) plus 2.5% + $0.30 payment processing, from TCGplayer's published fee schedule as of July 12, 2026. eBay figures: 13.25% trading-cards final value fee on the portion up to $7,500 and 2.35% above it (payment processing included), plus a $0.30 per-order fee ($0.40 on orders over $10), non-store rate, from eBay's published fee schedule as of July 12, 2026. Competitor fees are rounded down in their favor and exclude shipping, tax, store subscriptions, and promotions. All three columns compare the item price before shipping or tax. Chase Sets values load live from the published fee schedule.
Questions sellers ask
Chase Sets is prelaunch — join the waitlist for a beta invite wave, start your founders window, and help shape what ships first.
Protection, payout, and catalog descriptions for TCGplayer summarize TCGplayer's own published policies as of July 12, 2026. Fee figures and the competitor-favor rounding posture are described under the calculator above. Chase Sets statements describe the published policies on this site.