RipsCompare is an independent Australian guide to Pokémon cards, graded slabs and online pack rips. We answer the questions Australians actually search for, with dated facts from official sources, and we are open about what we could not confirm.
The team
Writer
Oliver Brown
Oliver Brown writes RipsCompare's guides to Pokémon cards, graded slabs and online pack-opening platforms for Australian collectors. Facts about a platform come from its own terms, help pages and app-store listings; facts about sets and products come from The Pokémon Company, the grading companies and Australian retailers. Every page is fact-checked before it goes up.
Fact-checker
Henry Wilson
Henry Wilson fact-checks every RipsCompare page before it is published or updated. Each date, price and claim is matched against its source, and anything that cannot be confirmed is shown as reported by a named source, not stated as fact.
How we work
We start from what Australians search. Topics are chosen from Google Trends for Australia and from the questions that come up in search results, then refreshed as interest moves.
Official sources first. Set dates and contents come from The Pokémon Company. Grading prices come from the grading companies. Platform facts come from each platform's own terms, help pages and app-store listings. Every page lists its sources with the date we checked them.
Nothing invented. If something is only reported by a third party, we say who reported it. If we cannot confirm it, we do not state it as fact. Prices change daily, so we date them.
Fact-checked before publishing. Every page is checked by Henry Wilson before it goes up and again when it is updated.
Honest dates. The "Updated" date on a page changes only when its content really changes: new facts, new prices, rewritten sections. It never changes for a typo fix or a redesign.
How the site is funded
RipsCompare does not link to online pack-opening or mystery-box platforms and does not take payment from them. Platform pages exist to explain how these services work and what the risks are, because Australians search for them. If that ever changes, this section and every affected page will say so clearly, next to the link.
Corrections and contact
Spotted a mistake, a price that has moved or a platform rule that has changed? Email [email protected]. We check it against the source and update the page, with a new date if the content changed.