A 12-week seller survival game, modeled on a real restart-era card business.
You've got $500, a phone, a ring light, and a stack of buying decisions. For the next 12 weeks you'll buy graded slabs and bulk boxes, set your prices, and sell on stream nights, fixed-price listings, and auctions — while the fee stack, the hype cycle, and the occasional chargeback try to eat you alive.
🎯 Goal: turn $500 into $1,500 cash by the end of week 12.
💀 Hit $0 at any point and you're busted — game over.
🏦 Only cash counts. Cardboard on the shelf is not rent money.
Fees and prices are modeled rates drawn from real seller research (see the fine print at the bottom) — a game model, not any platform's live terms.
Progress auto-saves on this device after each move. Export a save file to keep a backup or move to another device — some in-app browsers lose local saves, so an export is your insurance.
Modeled rates — fine print. Stream ≈ Whatnot's published TCG/sports structure (8% commission + 2.9% + $0.30; tiered since Sep 2026, top tier lower at volumes far above this shop). Listings ≈ regular eBay trading-card fees (13.25% + per-order fee). Auction ≈ Fanatics Collect, derived from a real seller history ($6,676.08 net on $6,871.00 hammer ≈ 3%). Slabs cost $10 because his real ones did; slab values center on the $14–32 comps those slabs actually carried, with a rare premium tail — iconic characters and high grades win. Bulk, supplies, events, and all customers are invented. This is a game model, never a quote of any platform's live terms.