Pokecompare methodology

Pokecompare treats an offer as current when the vendor listing is marked available, has a valid price, includes the required product fields, and was updated within the freshness window used by the price table.

Current offers are grouped by expansion series, expansion name, and product type. That creates one comparable product group, such as a booster box for one specific expansion.

Vendor count is the number of deduplicated current offers behind a product group. Pokecompare deduplicates offers by vendor and price so one repeated listing does not make a product look more supported than it is.

A product with several current vendors is usually easier to trust than a product where the lowest price depends on one listing.

Price per booster is product price divided by known booster pack count. Pokecompare only shows this metric when the product type has a known pack count.

Products with variable contents, such as some collection boxes, may not receive a price-per-booster value because the pack count can change by release.

Price trends use daily lowest prices from recent price history. A product can trend up, down, or flat when enough recent daily data exists for a reliable comparison.

The market overview also tracks broader pack-value movement by looking at recent history for products with valid pack counts.

Pull-rate pages use published or community-sourced pull-rate estimates where available. Pull rates are estimates across many packs, not promises for one pack, one ETB, or one booster box.

Pokecompare combines pull-rate context with live pack prices so opening decisions are tied to both odds and current sealed product cost.