How much can you make selling Pokémon cards? Real monthly numbers from a working seller
From September 2025 to September 2026, the founder's own Pokémon card business made between -$40 (December 2025) and $2,780 (August 2026) profit per month. I started in June 2025 with 50,000 bulk cards and publish the real numbers every month on YouTube. This page collects every month in one table with the source video for each number, plus a CSV download, so you can see what selling Pokémon cards looks like over time, not in a single hype video.
By NeoSatoshi
The real numbers, month by month
- Monthly profit ranged from -$40 (December 2025) to $2,780 (August 2026) across the 13 calendar months with figures.
- Best month: August 2026 with $9,000 revenue and $2,780 profit.
- Latest month: September 2026 with $3,000 revenue and $715 profit.
- First period (about 16 June to 13 July 2025): about $550 revenue and about $10 profit.
All amounts in USD, converted from CHF by the founder. Profit is after fixed costs. ~ means about, > means over, blank means not published.
| Period | Revenue USD | Profit USD | Cards | Orders |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| About 16 June to 13 July 2025 | ~550 | ~10 | ||
Challenge weeks 1 to 4, the first month of selling. Profit after $165 fixed costs; $177 before fixed costs. | ||||
| About 14 July to 31 August 2025 | ||||
Only weekly figures published (challenge weeks 5 to 11), so no monthly totals are listed. | ||||
| September 2025 | 1,750 | 680 | ||
Platforms: Ricardo $1,250; Cardmarket $235; CardTrader $130; direct sales $150; Shopify $20 (first Shopify sale) Videos: 11 Oct 2025 | ||||
| October 2025 | 925 | 385 | ||
Platforms: Ricardo $715; Cardmarket $135; CardTrader $50; Shopify $15 Videos: 1 Nov 2025 | ||||
| November 2025 | 960 | 320 | ||
Platforms: Ricardo $260; Cardmarket $210; CardTrader $45; Shopify $420 (5 orders, including Black Friday) The platform amounts add up to $935; the stated monthly total is $960. Videos: 17 Dec 2025 | ||||
| December 2025 | 660 | -40 | ||
Platforms: Ricardo $170; Cardmarket $53; CardTrader $7; Shopify $430 (including one bulk order) Only about one working week of selling (travel and holidays). Videos: 7 Jan 2026 | ||||
| January 2026 | ~2,000 | ~400 | 700 | 133 |
Platforms: Shopify and Ricardo about equal | ||||
| February 2026 | ~2,000 | ~500 | 672 | 90 |
Profit corrected later (first stated: over $700). | ||||
| March 2026 | ~2,000 | ~400 | 800 | 150 |
Platforms: Shopify about 5 orders Profit corrected later (first stated: $370). | ||||
| April 2026 | 1,600 | ~300 | 470 | 95 |
Platforms: Ricardo $800 (largest); Shopify second; Cardmarket third; CardTrader smallest Profit corrected later (first stated: $230). Fewer listings because of a holiday. | ||||
| May 2026 | 4,300 | 1,500 | 218 | |
Platforms: Ricardo about $2,000 (largest); Shopify second, ahead of Cardmarket Profit corrected later (first stated: about $1,300). Videos: 25 Jun 2026, 19 Oct 2026 | ||||
| June 2026 | >7,000 | 2,700 | ||
No separate monthly video; figures from the August and September 2026 recaps. Videos: 25 Sep 2026, 19 Oct 2026 | ||||
| July 2026 | 7,000 | 2,000 | ||
Platforms: Ricardo largest; Shopify about $2,000; Cardmarket $700 Includes sales of PSA graded cards. Revenue stated as 5,500 CHF. | ||||
| August 2026 | 9,000 | 2,780 | ~1,000 | |
Platforms: Ricardo strongest; Cardmarket and Shopify about equal Videos: 25 Sep 2026, 19 Oct 2026 | ||||
| September 2026 | 3,000 | 715 | >300 | |
Platforms: Ricardo $2,200 (about 75%); Shopify $420; Cardmarket $350 Videos: 19 Oct 2026 | ||||
How to cite: NeoSatoshi, “Real monthly revenue and profit of a Pokémon card business (2025 to 2026)”, neosatoshi.com/guides/pokemon-card-sales-real-numbers, updated 21 Oct 2026.
How the numbers were collected
- All amounts are in US dollars, converted from CHF by the founder. The business sells in Switzerland, and the founder states the USD figures in the videos.
- Every value was stated in a published recap video; each row lists its source videos. No estimates and no gap filling: unknown values are left blank.
- Profit is after fixed costs unless stated otherwise.
- In 2025, cards from the founder's own collection were counted at 70% of market value as purchase cost.
- ~ marks values stated as approximate ("about", "nearly"); > marks values stated as "over".
- Where a later video gave a different value for the same month, the value from the most recently published video is used, and the note keeps the first stated value.
- Rows are calendar months. The first row covers the first four challenge weeks (about 16 June to 13 July 2025). From mid July to the end of August 2025 only weekly figures were published, so that row is blank.
- December 2025 covers about one working week. July 2026 includes sales of PSA graded cards.
- Sales channels: Ricardo (Swiss marketplace), Shopify (own store), Cardmarket, and CardTrader until May 2026. No eBay sales are included.
Source videos and articles
- 19 Oct 2026: Building a (Pokemon) Disney Lorcana Card Business: Month 15 (article)
- 25 Sep 2026: How Much My Pokemon Card Business Made In Month 14 (article)
- 26 Aug 2026: How Does Profit Margin Impacts a Pokemon Business (article)
- 25 Jun 2026: Selling Pokemon Cards For A Year: The Real Profits (article)
- 1 May 2026: Pokémon Card Business: My Last Bulk Card Listings (article)
- 27 Apr 2026: Pokémon Card Business: 10 Months Selling Pokémon Cards (article)
- 18 Mar 2026: Selling Pokémon Cards: A Great Start to 2026 (article)
- 7 Jan 2026: Pokémon Card Business: December Hit Me Hard (article)
- 17 Dec 2025: My Pokémon Card Business After 6 Months (article)
- 1 Nov 2025: Pokémon Card Business: Profit After 5 Months (Real Numbers) (article)
- 11 Oct 2025: Pokémon Card Business: Profit After 4 Months (Real Numbers) (article)
- 4 Sep 2025: How much I make with Bulk Mastersets ($0 to $50K) (article)
- 29 Aug 2025: Trump's Tariffs affects my Pokémon card business... ($0 to 50$K challenge) (article)
- 21 Aug 2025: This Crazy Pokemon bulk sale changed my strategy! (article)
- 12 Aug 2025: How much I make after 2 months selling Pokémon cards (article)
- 6 Aug 2025: How much can I make on CardTrader? ($0 to $50K) (article)
- 29 Jul 2025: $0 to $50k Challenge: The Best Week! (article)
- 20 Jul 2025: Building a Pokemon Business: Insane Bulk Buy! ($0 to $50k Challenge) (article)
- 14 Jul 2025: $0 to $50,000 in one year: Can I reach profit yet? (article)
- 7 Jul 2025: $0 to $50k Challenge: Are 25,000 bulk cards enough to build sets? (article)
- 30 Jun 2025: $0 to $50k Challenge: My first employee, kind of… (Building a Pokémon Business) (article)
- 23 Jun 2025: Building a Pokemon Business: Starting From Scratch ($0 to $50k Challenge) (article)
Why I publish my real numbers
Most “make money selling Pokémon cards” content online is either pure hype or a single screenshot with no context. I run an actual Pokémon card business, started June 2025, bought 50,000 bulk cards to build inventory, sell singles and bulk on Ricardo, Shopify and Cardmarket (and on CardTrader until May 2026), and I publish the real numbers every month on YouTube so other sellers can see what the work actually looks like.
That includes the months where the numbers are flat. The whole point of showing both is so you can judge whether this is something you want to do. A single big-revenue video is misleading. More than a year of monthly numbers, flat months and a loss month included, is not.
What the platform mix looks like
The table has the totals. The platform mix behind them is what surprises most beginners. These are the average order values and fee shares from the January 2026 dashboard:
- Shopify. Average order value around $120. Highest per-order, lowest fees (~3%), but you have to drive your own traffic.
- Ricardo (Switzerland’s eBay equivalent), average order ~$18, fees ~8%, but the platform brings the audience.
- Cardmarket. Average order ~$12, fees ~4.5%, mostly TCG players buying bulk singles in volume.
- CardTrader. Fewer orders, fees ~16% (driven by tracked weekly Italy shipping), used via the CardTrader Zero program so I only shipped once a week. I stopped selling on CardTrader in May 2026.
Since April 2026, Ricardo has been the largest channel in every month where the split was stated. In September 2026 it brought about 75% of the revenue.
Different platforms, different buyer behavior, different unit economics. That’s why the dashboard exists, no single marketplace tells you the full story.
List the same way I do
The reason these monthly numbers are even possible is the listing workflow behind them. Photo, AI detection, pricing, export to eBay, Shopify and Cardmarket all in one place, plus automatic Cardmarket- or TCGplayer-based price refreshes for eligible eBay and Shopify listings.
Try the listing dashboardHow the numbers are tracked
Every recap pulls from the same workflow:
- Sales data from Shopify, Cardmarket, CardTrader, and Ricardo is imported into one analytics dashboard.
- Multi-currency totals (CHF, EUR, USD) are normalized so platform comparison is honest.
- Revenue, profit, refunds, fees, and platform mix are tracked separately.
- Bulk-card sales and singles are split out so the picture is not distorted by one big lot.
That dashboard is the same one shown in every monthly video. Pulling everything into one place was the only way I could produce these recaps consistently, collecting the numbers by hand from each marketplace dashboard would take a full weekend per month.
What the recaps cover
Each monthly video walks through:
- Gross revenue for the month, by platform.
- Net revenue after fees (Shopify, Cardmarket, CardTrader, Ricardo, payment processing).
- Profit after cost of goods and fixed costs. In 2025, cards from my own collection were counted at 70% of market value as purchase cost. Singles carry most of the margin, bulk is most of the volume.
- Singles vs bulk split, different margins, different time investment.
- What worked, what didn’t. Pricing changes, listing experiments, platform shifts.
Behind every recap: the listing workflow
The numbers above only exist because the listing side works. Photo → AI detection → priced cards → exported to eBay, Shopify and Cardmarket in one workflow. Without that, I don’t list 500 cards a month and the videos don’t happen.
If you’re trying to get to your own monthly numbers, the bottleneck is almost always the listing process, not finding cards or finding buyers. The listing software page walks through what that workflow looks like in practice.
Watch every monthly recap
The full playlist is embedded below, you can play through every recap in chronological order. Or pick a specific month from the thumbnails further down.
You can also open the playlist on YouTube and subscribe to get future recaps.
October 2026
Building a Pokemon & Disney Lorcana Card Business: Month 15 Update
September 2026
How Much My Pokemon Card Business Made In Month 14
August 2026
How Does Profit Margin Impacts a Pokemon Business
June 2026
Selling Pokemon Cards For A Year: The Real Profits
May 2026
A Seller's Best Week Ever Selling Pokemon Cards
May 2026
I'm Leaving Card Trader - Here's Why
May 2026
Pokémon Card Business: My Last Bulk Card Listings
April 2026
Pokémon Card Business: 10 Months Selling Pokémon Cards
March 2026
Selling Pokémon Cards: A Great Start to 2026
February 2026
My first year selling Pokémon Cards (2025 Recap)
January 2026
Building a Pokemon Card Business: The Flea-Market Disaster - Week 28
January 2026
Pokémon Card Business: December Hit Me Hard
December 2025
My Pokémon Card Business After 6 Months
November 2025
Pokémon Card Business: Profit After 5 Months (Real Numbers)
October 2025
Pokémon Card Business: Profit After 4 Months (Real Numbers)
September 2025
How I price and sell Pokémon TCG bulk master sets
August 2025
Trump's Tariffs affects my Pokémon card business... ($0 to 50$K challenge)
August 2025
A deep dive into a large bulk Pokémon card sale and its impact on business strategy
August 2025
How much I make after 2 months selling Pokémon cards
August 2025
How much can I make on CardTrader? ($0 to $50K)
July 2025
$0 to $50k Challenge: The Best Week!
July 2025
A Real-World Look at Processing a Bulk Pokémon Card Purchase
July 2025
Building a $50,000 Pokémon Card Business: Week 4 Update
July 2025
$0 to $50k Challenge: Are 25,000 bulk cards enough to build sets?
June 2025
Using a Card Sorter Machine for a Pokémon TCG Business
June 2025
Building a Pokemon Business: Starting From Scratch ($0 to $50k Challenge)
June 2025
Building a Pokemon Business: The Plan
If you want to track your own sales the same way
The dashboard in every recap is NeoSatoshi’s sales analytics. You connect or import your eBay, Shopify, Cardmarket, and CardTrader sales and you get the same multi-platform, multi-currency view. There is a free tier so you can try it before paying.
The point isn’t the dashboard, it’s having one honest view of your business so you can make decisions based on real numbers, not the marketplace dashboard that happens to look best this week.
Track your own Pokémon card sales
NeoSatoshi pulls your eBay, Shopify, Cardmarket, and CardTrader sales into one dashboard with multi-currency support, the same dashboard I use in my monthly recaps.