Inspection tools for raw card buyers
Every listing for the card. The tools to find the gem yourself.
Name the card you're hunting and GemSnipe pulls every live listing for it on eBay, then hands you the seller's photo at full size with the magnification and the border measurement to work it over. We don't rank them and we don't pick for you — finding the gem is the skill, and it stays yours.
This is the tool itself, not a picture of it. The photo is the seller's own, off the Umbreon ex 161/131 Sv: Prismatic Evolutions Holo listing — the s-l1600 master, 1,926,400 pixels. Yellow sits on the four corners of the card, orange on the four corners of the printed border. Drag any handle and every number recomputes. Scroll on the photo to zoom in on a corner.
Yellow: the four corners of the card itself.
| Left | 2.36 mm | Right | 2.50 mm |
| Top | 2.65 mm | Bottom | 2.89 mm |
Tilt in this photo: 0.5% vertical, 0.1% horizontal.
Now at 1× of fit. Scroll on the photo to zoom, drag the photo to pan. Ceiling is 24× the master's own pixels — the same clamp the tool runs at.
eBay listing photo, item 366397580678. Nothing you do here is saved or sent anywhere — it runs in your browser.
Every live listing · 10.2× the pixels eBay shows you · zooms to 24×
How it works
- 01
Name the card
Say which card you are hunting. Not a listing — the card. You should not have to go dig the listings out of eBay search yourself.
- 02
We pull the listings
Every live raw listing for it, with the seller's own photo at full size — s-l1600, 10.2× the pixels eBay shows you.
- 03
You work them over
Zoom to 24× on any photo and measure the borders when you want a number. No score, no ranking, no verdict — your call, on better information.
You are not looking at the photo the seller uploaded.
eBay keeps one full-size master per photo and serves you a shrunk copy. The gallery you scroll on the listing page is s-l500. GemSnipe pulls the master — and that master is the ceiling: ask eBay for anything larger and it hands back the identical file.
| What you're looking at | Pixels | Approx. on the card | One pixel covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| eBay search thumbnail (s-l140) | 14,700 | ~40 PPI | 629 µm |
| eBay listing gallery (s-l500) | 188,000 | ~144 PPI | 176 µm |
| What GemSnipe pulls (s-l1600) | 1,926,400 | ~462 PPI | 55 µm |
Then the viewer zooms 24× past that, putting roughly 2.29 µm of cardboard under each screen pixel. That is the range where a soft corner, a nicked edge or a print line stops being a smudge in a thumbnail and becomes something you can just look at.
What it's for.
A raw Umbreon ex 161/131 Sv: Prismatic Evolutions Holo — one of several live listings at the time, worked over with these tools and chosen by eye. $2,206 committed on a photo. It graded PSA10 and sold. A raw card and a PSA10 are the same piece of cardboard; the whole spread is whether you could tell which listing you were buying. That is its photo up at the top of this page — the same one it was bought from.
- Paid raw
- $2,205.72
- Grading
- $165.72
- Graded
- PSA10
- Sold
- $5,532.57
- Profit
- $3,161.13
Real purchase and sale figures, not an illustration. Net of card and grading, before selling fees.