Valuation that respects how the market actually works: three condition tiers kept separate, a live read of open-market asking prices, and a clear line between what is tracked and what is estimated. No single inflated number, no appraisal theatre.
Every set is valued across three tiers — Sealed, Used-Complete, Used-Incomplete — because a sealed grail and a loose copy are different markets. The ladder reads each tier’s floor from live listings, so the number on the page is the market right now, not a stale guide price.
Your shelf aggregates the sealed-tier floor across everything you own, grouped into courses by theme, so you can see where your collection’s value concentrates. It is held in collecting language — tracked value, not a brokerage statement. On the Collector tier, valuation deepens into insurance-grade output: a documented value across your library, batch identification from photos, and a portfolio view you can act on.
Today’s figures are asking-derived — the lowest genuine listing per tier — and labelled as such; realised-sale comparables are the next layer. A tracked Ashlard floor is named as one; a broader-market estimate is framed as a range. The engine will not invent precision it does not have, and it is not an appraisal or financial advice. The full sourcing is documented in Sources & Methodology.