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Our last one — found in the listing photo below, with the exact tool on this page. Yours is out there.
Drag the yellow handles onto the card's four corners — every number recomputes as you move them. Scroll on the photo to zoom.
Measurements & controls
| 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.
The tool itself, not a picture of it — live on the seller's own photo from the Umbreon ex 161/131 Sv: Prismatic Evolutions Holo listing (eBay item 366397580678, the s-l1600 master). Nothing you do here is saved or sent anywhere.
How it works
- 01
Pick the card
Say which card you are hunting. Not a listing — the card. You should not have to dig the listings out of eBay search yourself.
- 02
We pull its live 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 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.
