The rules, in plain English.

1. What Cards Go is

Two things. The first is an index: we read the public Collector Crypt marketplace live and let you search it — mostly Pokémon, plus One Piece, comics and sports cards — at whatever the listing costs right now.

The second is a drop game, and section 2 says how much of it is running. The design: we fund a specific card, place it at a real public location, and whoever gets there and passes the presence check claims it. We then buy that card from the marketplace and have it redeemed out of the vault and shipped to the person who claimed it. You never pay the card price. The drop budget does.

We hold no inventory. Every card in the index sits physically in a third-party vault — PWCC in Tigard, Oregon; PSA Vault in New Castle, Delaware; or OmniVault. The map shows drop locations, never where a card is stored.

2. What is actually running today

3. Listings and prices belong to someone else

Everything in the index is read live from the public Collector Crypt API. We do not set the prices, hold the cards, run the auctions, or control whether a listing stays up. Data can be wrong, out of date, or gone by the time you click it, and we do not guarantee any of it.

Grades, certification numbers and authentication marks are the opinion of the company that issued them — PSA, CGC or Beckett. We pass those through as they appear in the source data. We do not inspect cards and we do not verify grades.

If you want to buy a card outright, you do that on Collector Crypt, under their terms, at their price. We are not a party to that transaction and we take nothing from it.

4. Nothing here is an offer to sell

Optional sign-in can display a non-custodial embedded wallet, but no payment is ever taken from you and no purchase happens on Cards Go. The treasury display is read-only: it can read a public token balance after a coin is linked, but it cannot sign or send a transaction.

There is a quote endpoint in the code, but no page on the site offers the form today, so there is nothing to submit. If it comes back: a quote is a request for an estimate and an invitation to a private checkout that does not exist yet. It captures no money, reserves no listing, and creates no contract. The figures expire ten minutes after they are issued, and the service fee shown in them is a proposal that is not being charged to anyone.

5. Drops are promotional, limited, and ours to cancel

A drop is a promotional giveaway that we fund. It is not a sale, a raffle or a paid entry. There is nothing to buy, no ticket, and no way to pay to improve your odds.

Community votes are free and advisory. Winning a ballot does not spend treasury funds, reserve or buy a card, create a live drop, guarantee a particular location, or improve any voter's odds of claiming it.

Every drop is capped at a set number of claims, and once they are taken it is over. We may change, move, delay, shorten or cancel any drop at any time — before it appears, while it is live, or after a pickup pass has been issued — including for reasons we do not publish. If a drop is cancelled you are owed nothing, because you paid nothing.

6. Who can claim, and how often

• A funded live claim needs a verified Privy sign-in and uses the email on that account for the pickup receipt. The practice drop may be used signed out. Until outbound email is configured, the private receipt is also kept on the claiming device.
• One claim per drop per verified account, per email address, and per device. The database enforces all three, so a second attempt is refused rather than queued.
• Outside the practice drop, one claim per device every two hours.
• A pickup pass expires fifteen minutes after it is issued and can be redeemed exactly once, in person, by a host who checks the eight-character receipt and the six-digit code together.
• You must be 18 or older to claim a funded drop, or have a parent or guardian claim on your behalf.
• You must be able to legally receive the item where you live. We cannot ship where the law or the carrier will not allow it.
• A won card is posted to an address you give after the claim, not during it. Nothing is posted until you give one — buying the card may happen sooner, since a listing someone else can buy is not held for us — and you can correct it, because every version is kept and a label printed from an older one can be caught. What happens to that address is set out on the privacy page.

The practice drop is a demo. It works anywhere, proves nothing about where you are, and carries no physical prize — it exists so you can see the claim flow before you walk to a real one.

7. Faked presence voids the claim

A live claim is judged on our server, not in your browser. It requires a GPS trace of at least four readings spanning at least eighteen seconds with a median accuracy of 65 metres or better; a device-motion signature; a device clock and timezone consistent with the region your connection came from; a travel speed from your previous claim that a human could actually manage; a card-knowledge question; and a fixed on-site code posted only at the drop itself.

Spoofing your location, using an emulator or a location-faking tool, running several identities or devices, or automating a claim voids that claim and any pass issued from it. We may refuse a claim, void a pass, or decline to ship, and we do not have to say which check failed.

8. Going to a drop is your call

Drops are placed at real public places we do not own or control. Get there safely, follow the venue rules and the law, be decent to the staff, and do not trespass, block anyone, or try to claim from somewhere it is unsafe to stand. If a venue asks you to leave, leave. What happens at the location is between you, the venue, and whoever else is there.

9. Using the index fairly

Search as much as you like. Do not scrape the index in bulk, hammer the API, or route automated traffic through it — the source marketplace is a third party and we would rather not be the reason it starts rate-limiting everyone. Do not attempt to bypass, reverse engineer or overload the claim checks.

10. No warranty

The site is provided as it is. We do not guarantee uptime, accuracy, that the source marketplace will stay available, or that any particular card, price or drop will still be there when you look. We may change or remove any part of the site at any time.

11. Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Cards Go is not liable for indirect or consequential loss, for the value of a card you did not receive, for a drop that was cancelled or a claim that was rejected, or for the acts of third parties — the marketplace, the vaults, the grading companies, carriers and venues among them.

Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot legally be limited, including for death or personal injury caused by negligence, or for fraud.

These terms still do not name a governing jurisdiction. We said one would be added before a drop went live, and the drops went live first — we would rather write that down than quietly move the promise. It will be named before any money changes hands in either direction.

12. Who we are not

Cards Go is an independent project. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Collector Crypt, Nintendo, Creatures, Game Freak, The Pokémon Company, PSA, CGC, Beckett, PWCC, OmniVault, or any other rights holder, grading company or vault named in the source data. Those names, marks and card images appear because they are part of the marketplace listings, and they belong to their owners.

13. Changes, and how to reach us

These terms will change as the product does — the drop mechanics most of all. The date at the top changes whenever the text does, and we will not backdate it. Questions or complaints go to hello@cardsgo.app.

What we collect and how long we keep it is set out on the privacy page. How the claim checks work in more detail is on the how it works page.