For 70 Cents a Day: An AI Assistant That Finds and Bids on Sports Cards For You
A step-by-step tutorial for collectors who’ve never used AI before.
You collect sports cards. You’re good at it. You know your players, your sets, your years.
What you don’t know is how to use AI. That’s fine. This guide will fix that.
The promise is simple: tell the AI what you want, walk away, come back to a list of cards to bid on. No code. No magic. Just talking to a helper that’s better at boring research than you are.
(One quick shortcut, by the way: if you don’t feel like reading the whole guide, copy it and paste it into any AI assistant. Ask: “Give me the one-minute summary.” You’ll get the key ideas in about thirty seconds. That’s also a useful test of whether your AI can do this kind of work — if it can’t summarize a long guide cleanly, it probably can’t sweep eBay cleanly either.)
The Old Way Versus The New Way
The real old way of buying on eBay — be honest with yourself:
You open eBay. You search for a player. You scroll for a while. A card catches your eye. You click into it. You squint at the image to check the grade. You try to remember what these usually go for. Maybe you google “[card name] price” and get back a confusing mix of asking prices, old auction results, and forum posts from three years ago. You shrug and decide on a number that feels right.
Then you try to bid manually. You refresh the page at 6:58 PM. The price has moved. You panic-bid five dollars more. The page refreshes again. The auction is over and someone else won. Or maybe you won — and you have no idea if you paid a fair price.
No notebook. No comp math. No Gixen. Just gut feel under time pressure.
A few disciplined collectors do better with systems and sniping tools, but even those still eat three or four hours a night. There’s a more efficient way.
That’s the gap this guide closes.
The new way:
You open an AI assistant. You type: “Find me Will Grier cards closing tonight on PSA’s eBay store. Show me the ones with bids already and what they’re worth.”
Twenty seconds later, you have a list. Each card has the comp data already done. Each card has a max bid suggested. You glance at the list, approve the ones you want, and the helper sets up the bids.
That’s fifteen minutes for fifty cards. With more confidence in every single one than gut-feel buying gives you in three hours.
This guide will show you exactly how to do that.
What An AI Assistant Actually Is
Forget what you’ve heard about AI. For our purposes, it’s a helper you talk to.
You can think of it like texting with a research assistant. You type what you want. It types back. You type follow-up questions. It answers.
The differences from texting a person:
- It works instantly, 24 hours a day
- It can look at websites for you
- It can read and write files for you
- It can do math fast
- It never forgets the conversation
- It costs a few cents an hour, not the price of a human
You don’t need to learn any special words. You just talk to it like a person.
Bad: “execute search query against eBay seller=psa…”
Good: “look on PSA’s eBay store for Aaron Judge cards under twenty dollars closing tonight”
Both work. The second one is how you’d actually talk to a friend.
What You Need To Start
Three things:
- A computer or tablet with a web browser
- An AI assistant subscription (the right kind — see below)
- Your sports card knowledge. The AI does the research. You still make the calls. Honestly, with web access the AI can probably look most things up — a player’s injury, a new Charizard set drop, even some seller reputations. But you still bring the judgment: when to skip a card it loved, when to take a flyer on one it warned against, which sellers you’ve learned to trust. The strategic decisions stay with you.
That’s it. No special apps. No software to install. No code to write.
Which AI Assistant?
The three big options today are Claude (from Anthropic), ChatGPT (from OpenAI), and Gemini (from Google). All three have a free tier with limits and a paid tier in the twenty-dollars-a-month range. Heavier plans go up to one hundred or two hundred dollars a month for power users.
What to look for, in order of importance:
1. Can it browse the web on your behalf?
This is the dealbreaker feature. Some AIs only answer questions from what they already know. Others can actually open eBay, click into a listing, and read the data back. You want the second kind. The whole pipeline in this guide depends on the AI reaching live websites. Without it, the AI is a fancy chatbot that can guess at prices but can’t pull real comp data.
Look for these product features:
- “Browser use” or “computer use”
- “Research mode” or “deep research”
- “Agents”
- “Operator” (that’s ChatGPT’s version)
A paid Claude plan (the Pro tier and above) includes a feature called Computer Use — the AI can actually drive a browser on your behalf. Open tabs, click listings, scroll a results page, fill out forms. That’s the level you want for serious card buying. ChatGPT has a comparable feature called Operator on its higher tiers. If a plan doesn’t mention any of these, skip it. Try a different service or upgrade.
2. Does it remember conversations?
Yes, basically. All three majors remember your roster and preferences across sessions once you ask them to save it. The depth varies but it’s good enough for our purposes. You won’t have to re-teach your roster every morning.
3. Can it see screenshots?
You’ll often want to point at a specific eBay listing and say “what do you think of this one?” The AI should be able to read the cert number, grade, current bid, bid count, and seller name straight off the image. Every paid tier of the three majors does this. It’s table stakes.
4. Can it handle files?
You’ll be having the AI build CSV files for Gixen and saving notes about your buying history. All three majors do this fine.
5. Mobile or desktop?
You’ll be at a desktop for the morning sweep but on your phone in the late afternoon when you want a quick price check. All three majors have apps. Make sure the one you pick has a mobile experience you actually like — that’s where you’ll spend the second half of each buying day.
How To Choose, Practically
Start with the free tier of whichever you’ve heard of most. Try it for a week. Push it: ask it to browse a real eBay listing, pull comp data from PSA, build you a CSV. If it can do all three smoothly, upgrade to the basic paid tier. If it can’t, try another one.
If your friends already use a specific service, start there. The biggest hidden cost of using AI isn’t the subscription — it’s the time you spend learning how to talk to it. A friend who already knows the quirks shortens that learning curve from weeks to hours.
Don’t agonize. Your roster and conversation notes are transferable — they’re just words. If you start with one and decide six months in you prefer another, you copy-paste your setup over and continue. Switching costs are basically zero.
Start With The Free Tier
Every major AI has a free tier with limits. Use it. Even if you’re sure you’ll upgrade, spend a few days on free first. You’ll learn how the AI talks, what it does well, what it stumbles on. You’ll find out whether it has the features you need before you pay for them.
The free tier of most paid services will let you run a small daily sweep. Maybe a roster of five players instead of thirty-six. Maybe you can only do one comp lookup per conversation instead of fifty. That’s plenty to evaluate the tool.
Upgrade only when you hit a wall — when you genuinely want to do more than the free tier allows. By then, you’ll know exactly which paid plan to pick.
The Field Is Moving Fast
This whole space is changing every few months. New features, new tiers, new players. Don’t try to make a five-year decision today. Make a thirty-day decision. Evaluate again in a month.
What’s true today: a basic paid plan of any of the three majors can do everything in this guide. The differences are around the edges. Pick one, get started. The buying gains from running this process will swamp the small differences between tools.
Step 1: Tell The Helper What You Collect
The first conversation sets up everything that follows.
Most serious collectors track somewhere between thirty and forty names — players, Pokemon characters, specific sets. That sounds like a lot, but you don’t have to start there. Start with whoever you actually open eBay to search for in a normal week. Add more as you go.
The first message to your helper might look like this:
“I track around 36 names — a mix of modern basketball stars, baseball stars, football quarterbacks, a couple of hockey rookies, and a handful of Pokemon characters. I’ll send you the full list in a second. I buy on eBay from PSA’s store and from dcsports87. I want to focus on cards under fifty dollars. Save this so we don’t have to redo it every time.”
Then paste your list of names. The helper saves the roster. Every future conversation can just refer to “my roster” without you typing all thirty-six names again.
You can change it anytime. “Add Brock Purdy to my roster.” “Drop Curry, he’s not who I’m focused on anymore.” “Bump my budget to a hundred.” Just talk.
Thirty-six names sounds like a lot to track manually. That’s exactly why having a helper matters. The AI can sweep through your whole roster across multiple eBay sellers in about thirty seconds. By hand, you’d need most of an evening to do the same search and you’d still miss cards.
Scaling Up: Track The Entire Market
The thirty-six-name roster is a starting point, not a ceiling.
If you’re willing to pay for more compute — a higher AI tier, more time per query, more parallel work — you can have the AI watch the entire market for you. Not just your favorite players. Every PSA-graded card from a list of trusted sellers, every day, scored by edge.
A power-user setup might look like this:
“Don’t limit me to my roster. Pull every PSA-graded auction from PSA’s store and dcsports87 closing in the next 24 hours. Comp them all. Show me the top fifty by edge. Highlight any that match my roster.”
The AI sifts through thousands of cards. You see only the ones with the best deals — whether or not they happened to be in your collection plan. Sometimes you’ll spot players or sets you’d never have searched for that show up as ridiculous bargains. Those become roster additions.
This costs more — both in subscription tier and in the time the AI spends running the sweep. But for serious buyers, it’s the difference between “see what’s on my list” and “see what’s actually mispriced today across the whole market.” Those are very different games.
Most collectors don’t need this. The roster approach covers 95% of the value. But know the option exists when you’re ready to scale.
Step 2: Ask For Today’s Listings
Once your roster is set, the daily ask is short:
“Show me cards from my roster closing today on eBay. Just the ones with bids already. Under twenty dollars.”
In about twenty seconds, the helper sweeps every player across each of your trusted sellers, filters to today’s closings with bids in your price range, and hands back a list.
Sweep Earlier — Up To Seven Days Out
Most PSA-graded auctions close between 5 PM and 7 PM Pacific. Start your research then and you’re rushing.
The bigger unlock: eBay lets you filter for auctions closing today, tomorrow, or up to seven days from now. Instead of one panic-sweep at 5 PM, tell the helper:
“Show me cards from my roster closing in the next seven days with bids already on them.”
Now you have a working list that matures over the week. Cards you tag as “good edge” on Monday will close on Wednesday. By close time, you’ve already done the math, set your cap, and built the snipe. There’s no scrambling, because you were never working on today’s auctions today.
Let The AI Run On A Schedule
Most AI subscriptions support scheduled tasks. Set one up once:
“Every morning at 8 AM, pull cards from my roster closing in the next seven days with bids, comp them, and send me the top fifteen by edge.”
You wake up to a fresh bid sheet in your chat. Never run the sweep manually again. The whole pipeline turns into “check the morning summary, confirm what to bid on, walk away.”
Step 3: Ask For The Comp Data
Now you want to know what each card is worth.
The simple ask:
“Comp these cards for me. Tell me the median recent sale and the max I should bid at 80% of comp.”
The helper looks up each card, finds recent sales, calculates the median, multiplies by 0.80, and hands you back the list with new columns:
You Don’t Even Have To Ask
Steps 2 and 3 can be combined into a single standing instruction. Tell the helper once:
“Every time you pull listings, automatically comp them and apply the 80% cap. I never want to see a list of cards without the comp data already done.”
Now your morning prompt becomes one line: “Show me today’s listings.” The helper handles both the search and the comp without you having to ask twice. The list comes back with edge already calculated, ready for your decisions.
This is also what gets paired with the scheduled morning task we mentioned earlier. The AI runs the sweep at 8 AM, comps everything by 8:01 AM, and the unified bid sheet is sitting in your chat when you wake up. You walk straight to Step 4 — picking which cards to bid on — without spending a single keystroke on the research.
How The Helper Actually Finds Sales Data
Here’s something most people don’t realize: there’s no single “official” source for what a card is worth. There are several. Smart buyers use whichever one gives the best answer for the specific card they’re looking at.
The helper knows all of them. You don’t have to. But it’s worth understanding what they are, because some are better for some cards than others.
One quick technical note: some of these sources are accessed by the AI reading a website like you would — opening the page, scrolling, copying data. Others are accessed through what’s called an API, which is a direct data feed. APIs are way faster and more reliable. The AI can hit an API and get back a structured list of two hundred sales records in under a second. Scraping the same data off a website takes ten times longer and breaks more often. Whenever an API exists, the AI uses it. You don’t have to know which it’s using under the hood — but it’s why some lookups feel instant and others take a few seconds.
1. PSA Auction Prices Realized (PSA APR) — by cert number
If the card has a PSA cert number visible on its eBay listing, the helper can look up that exact card on PSA’s website. PSA tracks every time that specific cert (and others just like it) has sold.
This is the most precise method. You’re literally seeing what the same card sold for last week, last month, last year.
Best for: any modern card with a PSA cert that’s been sold a few times.
2. PSA APR — by spec search
What if you don’t have the cert number? Or the card hasn’t been sold often enough to have its own history? The helper can still search PSA’s database by year, brand, player, and grade. This pulls up the general sales history for cards like yours.
Best for: vintage cards or cards with not many recorded sales.
3. eBay Sold Listings
eBay keeps a record of every card that’s actually changed hands on the site. The helper can search this directly. You see what someone actually paid, not what someone is asking.
Best for: cards PSA doesn’t have data on. Or cards in odd grades. Or as a second opinion when PSA’s data looks thin.
4. eBay’s Built-In “See Insights” Widget
Many eBay listings now have a little box that shows recent sales right on the page. The helper can read this instantly without going anywhere else.
Best for: a quick gut check. The data is shallow but it’s already on the page.
5. Card Ladder and Market Movers (If You Subscribe)
If you pay for Card Ladder or Market Movers, the helper can use those too. You just give it permission once.
These are subscription tools built for serious collectors. They aggregate sales from eBay, Goldin, PWCC, Heritage, Fanatics, and more — then chart it over time so you can see whether a card is heating up or cooling off. They also adjust for population (how many of each grade exist), which matters more than people realize.
The helper can log into your subscription (with your permission), pull the price chart for the exact card you’re looking at, and tell you not just the current median but the trend. A card that sold for $80 last month might be on a $100 trajectory this month — or the other way around. The chart tells you.
This is the gold standard for serious buyers because:
- The data is cleaner than scraping individual platforms
- Trend information protects you from buying into a top
- Population data helps you understand scarcity
- One source for everything = fewer judgment calls
Best for: anyone serious about cards as both a hobby and an investment. If you’re spending more than a few thousand a year on cards, the subscription pays for itself in better decisions.
You don’t need a subscription to use AI for card research. Free sources (PSA APR and eBay sold listings) give you 80% of the value. But if you already pay for Card Ladder or Market Movers, the helper plugs into them and uses them automatically.
Just tell the helper once:
“I have a Card Ladder subscription. Use their data when you can. I’ll log you in when needed.”
After that, the helper will treat Card Ladder as the primary source for any card it tracks, and fall back to the free sources for cards Card Ladder doesn’t cover.
How The Helper Picks Which Method To Use
You don’t have to tell it. The helper picks automatically based on what’s available.
The order it tries (if you have no subscriptions): cert lookup first (most precise), then spec search if no cert, then eBay sold if PSA is thin, then the insights widget as a quick backup.
If you have a Card Ladder or Market Movers subscription, those move to the top of the order. The helper uses those first and falls back to free sources for cards they don’t cover.
If you want to override, just ask:
“Compare the PSA comp to the eBay sold comp for this card.”
Or:
“Use only eBay sold listings for this comp. I want recent real-money sales, not PSA’s older data.”
Or:
“Show me what Card Ladder says about this card and how it compares to PSA APR.”
The helper will switch sources or run multiple in parallel and tell you both numbers.
Why More Than One Method Matters
Different methods can give different numbers. That’s not a bug — it’s a feature. A few examples:
- PSA APR shows $80 median. eBay sold shows $95 median. That gap tells you PSA’s data is older or thinner. Trust the eBay number, but use $80–90 as your range.
- PSA APR shows $200 from one sale six months ago. eBay sold shows ten recent sales averaging $130. The PSA number is stale. Trust the eBay number and treat $130 as the working comp.
- No PSA cert visible. Spec search returns 3 results in the last year. Thin data. The helper will warn you and suggest cross-checking with eBay sold.
You don’t have to do this analysis yourself. The helper presents the picture and flags when data is iffy. You just need to know that “the comp” isn’t always one number — it’s a range, and the range tells you something.
The lazy way: trust the helper’s single number, bid your cap, walk away. That works fine for most cards.
The smarter way: glance at the source it used and the sample size. If the helper used three sales from one source, ask for a second opinion. If it used twelve sales from two sources that agree within 10%, you’re solid.
Step 4: Make Your Final Call
The AI presents the list. You decide what to bid on.
You don’t have to bid on everything. Most of the time you’ll pick three to ten cards from a list of twenty.
Just tell the helper which ones:
“Bid on the Kobe Hoops, the Kobe Metal, and the Clark Record Breaker. Skip the rest.”
Or maybe:
“Show me only cards with edge over $50.”
Or maybe:
“What are the cards with the best edge for under $20 max bid? Just give me the top five.”
The helper filters and reorders for you. You don’t need to learn any spreadsheet tricks. Just ask.
Step 5: Set Up The Bids
Once you’ve picked your cards, the helper sets up the bids.
For eBay cards, my personal pick is a sniping tool called Gixen. Gixen is a paid service — about eleven dollars a year — that places bids in the last few seconds of an auction, way after most people stop watching. This is called “sniping.” Gixen isn’t the only option. BidNapper and AuctionStealer do similar things at similar prices. eBay also has built-in proxy bidding, but it shows your hand early and isn’t really sniping. Pick the tool you trust. The principle matters more than the brand: place your max bid in the last few seconds, not the first few minutes.
Eleven dollars a year works out to about a dollar a month. That covers unlimited snipes. For anyone bidding on more than one or two cards a month, it pays for itself the first time you win something at the floor instead of being outbid because you forgot to refresh the page.
Why sniping? Because if you bid early, other people see your bid and start bidding too. The price goes up. If you bid in the last three seconds, nobody has time to react. You win at the lowest price possible, or you walk away.
Here’s the part that makes the helper especially useful: Gixen accepts a CSV file (basically a spreadsheet) listing all your snipes at once. Without help, you’d type each one in manually — auction ID, max bid, quantity — which is slow and error-prone. With help, you say:
“Build me the Gixen CSV for the cards we just talked about.”
The helper assembles it in seconds. You upload the file to Gixen and click save. Ten or twenty snipes set up in under a minute.
Going Fully Hands-Off
If your AI has Computer Use or a similar browser-driving feature, you don’t even have to upload the file yourself. The AI can open Gixen, log in (you stay in control of the login), navigate to the import page, upload the CSV, and click save — all without you touching anything.
Tell the helper:
“Open Gixen, sign in, upload the snipe CSV we just built, and save it. Confirm when done.”
The AI takes a screenshot at each step so you can see what’s happening. If it looks right, you let it proceed. If something looks off — wrong account, wrong file, an unexpected error — you say “stop” and take over.
The helper still never clicks “confirm” on a live bid placement without you. That’s a safety feature. The Gixen save is the equivalent of putting your max bids in a queue — the actual bids still happen at the auction’s end, and Gixen has its own confirmations. So you’re not delegating any irreversible action. You’re just delegating the file upload and the save click.
On a typical morning, you can run the whole process — sweep, comp, decide, snipe — without ever touching the keyboard for the mechanical steps. Your only real work is the strategic decisions: which cards to bid on, what to skip, when to adjust your cap.
Step 6: Walk Away
That’s the whole point.
You’ve told the helper what you want. The helper found the cards. The helper did the math. The helper set up the bids. You confirmed.
Now go do something else. Take a walk. Eat dinner. Play with your kids.
The auctions will close on their own. Gixen will place your bids in the last three seconds. You’ll get email notifications when you win.
In the morning, you check your wins. Most days you’ll win one or two cards out of ten you bid on. Some days you’ll win nothing — that’s fine, it means your caps were tight enough that other people overpaid. Some days you’ll win a screaming deal — like the Kobe Hoops PSA 10 you got for $42 against a comp of $85.
A Real Walkthrough
Let me show you exactly what a real conversation looks like.
You type: “Good morning. Show me cards from my roster closing today on PSA’s eBay store. Sub $20 only. Need bids on them.”
Helper responds: [After about 30 seconds] “Found 14 cards. The top edges are: Kobe Hoops #297 PSA 10 ($18 / cap $68 / edge +$50), Caitlin Clark Record Breaker PSA 10 ($12 / cap $37 / edge +$25), Pikachu Surfing VMAX PSA 9 ($13 / cap $24 / edge +$11). Want me to pull the rest?”
You type: “Show me all 14.”
Helper responds: [Sends the full list, sorted by edge]
You type: “Set up snipes on the top eight. Skip Pikachu Surfing — I already have one.”
Helper responds: “Done. Snipes ready in Gixen. Open Gixen, log in, you’ll see eight new snipes pending. Click ‘save all’ to confirm them.”
You: [Open Gixen on your phone, see the snipes, click save all]
You type back to the helper: “Confirmed. Good morning to me. What’s for the rest of the day?”
Helper responds: “I’ll check at 4 PM for any price changes and ping you if anything got pushed above your cap. Otherwise, see you tomorrow.”
That whole conversation took five minutes. You bought eight potential cards worth a total of maybe $400 if you win them all.
What The Helper Can And Can’t Do
Things the helper can do for you:
- Search eBay across multiple trusted sellers (PSA, dcsports87, others you specify)
- Filter by player, price, condition, ending time, bid count
- Read cert numbers off eBay listing pages
- Pull PSA APR sales history for every cert
- Pull eBay sold listings as a cross-check
- Calculate comps, caps, edges using the 80% rule
- Build Gixen CSV files for last-second sniping
- Track your wins and losses over time
- Remember your roster and preferences across sessions
Things the helper won’t do:
- Actually pull the trigger on a bid. You always confirm
- Move money on your behalf
- Sign up for accounts as you
- Pretend to be you
- Bid past your cap because “the card is hot”
The helper is your research assistant, not your replacement.
When Things Go Wrong
Sometimes the helper will pick the wrong card. The comp data might be for a different version of the card than what you’re actually bidding on. The 2024 Prizm WNBA #145 Caitlin Clark RC is a very different card from the 2025 Prizm WNBA Logo Prizm #22 Caitlin Clark.
Always check the title and year against what you’re bidding on. If the helper hands you a comp of $2,000 for a card you’re paying $13 for, something is mismatched.
You can correct it:
“That comp looks wrong. Show me what sales records it actually pulled.”
The helper will show you the underlying data. If the matching is off, just say:
“Filter to only 2025 cards. Filter to only #22. Recalculate.”
Five seconds later, you have a corrected comp.
How Much Time This Saves
Real numbers from collectors who’ve made the switch:
- Old way: 3–4 hours per evening of research, comping, bid placement
- New way: 15–20 minutes per evening for the same number of cards
Some collectors use the saved time to expand their roster. Some use it to actually live their lives.
Use Fewer Tokens And Get The AI To Do All The Work
After a couple weeks, two places to tighten: cut your token usage, and hand more of the mechanics to the AI.
Use Fewer Tokens
- Set standing rules once. “Always apply the 80% cap, skip BIN, require three or more bids.” Every future prompt becomes one line.
- Tier your roster. A daily, B every few days, C occasional. Same coverage, fraction of the compute.
- Reuse recent comps. “If I’ve comped it in the last seven days, don’t re-look-up.”
- One multi-day sweep, not seven daily ones. Ask for “the next seven days” once instead of running “what’s closing today?” every morning. Same auctions covered, roughly one-seventh the tokens, and you’ve already comped Wednesday’s auctions by Monday.
- “One line each, no commentary.” Cuts response tokens by more than half.
- Voice input. Naturally shorter than typing.
Get The AI To Do All The Work
- Schedule the morning sweep. “Every weekday at 8 AM, run my roster, comp, post the top fifteen by edge.” You wake up to the bid sheet.
- Schedule the mid-day refresh. Only ping you if a price jumps or a snipe is at risk.
- Computer Use for the Gixen upload. The AI opens Gixen, uploads the CSV, saves. You glance at the screenshot.
- AI maintains the rolling watchlist. Each morning, drops closed cards, adds new ones, re-comps stale ones.
- Weekly post-mortem on autopilot. Sunday morning summary of wins, losses, and edge realized.
After a month of tuning, the same process takes under five minutes a day.
What This Doesn’t Do
The helper does not promise you’ll win every auction. You won’t. The 80% cap rule means you walk away from auctions where someone else is willing to pay more.
The helper does not promise the comp data is always right. PSA’s database has edge cases, mislabeled cards, and gaps. You still need eyes and judgment.
The helper does not promise to make money for you. It promises to save you time and protect you from overpaying. The buying decisions are still yours.
What This Costs
Three line items:
- AI assistant: about $20/month for a basic plan. Enough for most collectors. Power users go up to $100/month.
- Gixen: $11/year, or about $1/month.
- Card Ladder or Market Movers (optional): about $30/month if you subscribe.
So the floor is about $21/month — seventy cents a day. A power-user setup with a heavier AI tier and one comp subscription runs about $130/month — four dollars a day. Most collectors land between $1 and $5 a day, all-in.
One prevented overpay covers that for months.
Getting Started Today
Here’s the core insight to start with: anything you currently do as a collector — watching cards, comping cards, researching sellers, checking pop reports, tracking auction histories, building watchlists, hunting for cert numbers — the AI can do too. Usually faster. Always without getting tired. Your job from here on is just to point it at the right cards and make the strategic calls.
If you’ve never used an AI assistant, here’s the smallest possible first step:
- Sign up for one of the major AI services
- Open the app
- Type: “I collect [your players]. Show me cards from my collection on PSA’s eBay store, closing today, under $30, with at least one bid already.”
- See what comes back
That’s it. You’re allowed to start that small.
If you like what you see, the next conversation is asking for comp data. The conversation after that is asking the helper to build the Gixen CSV.
Within a week, you’ll have a daily eBay routine that takes fifteen minutes and produces better buying decisions than four hours of solo research used to.
You don’t have to be a tech person. You don’t have to learn anything special. You just have to know what you want — and you already do, because you’ve been collecting cards your whole life.
The helper is good at the boring stuff. You’re good at the strategic stuff. Together, you’re better than either alone.
Good luck.
If you have questions, ask AI.
