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How TCIN Manager works

A place to build and manage a TCIN list, with current Target and resale prices next to every item while you work.

The loop

The whole tool is three steps, and you're never more than a paste away from an updated list.

01 Paste anything A plain list, a copied web page, a Discord message. Set names and stray text are ignored — it pulls out the TCINs.
02 See what you have Every match comes back with its set, current Target price, and what it's reselling for.
03 Copy it back out One click for the plain list, or one click to send it straight to TargetDoge.

What the tiers mean

A tier is worked out purely from what an item resells for versus what Target charges, after fees and shipping. It's context while you build a list, not a verdict on what to buy.

Ssells for 3× or more of what you pay
A2× or more
B1.5× or more
C1.15× or more
Dunder 1.15× — little or no margin
no resale data yet, so no tier
No data means no tier. If there's no real resale price for something it gets a dash and says so, rather than a confident-looking letter guessed from the product type. Roughly a third of the catalog sits at a dash right now, and that's the honest answer for those items.

Where the numbers come from

Resale values are real sold prices from TCGplayer, matched to the exact product — not an estimate from the category or a guess from the name. When a product name is ambiguous enough that it could match more than one thing, the lookup refuses rather than picking one, which is why some items show a dash instead of a number.

Target prices come from Target's own product pages and are re-checked daily. Resale values are re-checked twice a day, across the whole catalog. Tiers aren't stored — each one is recalculated from the current numbers every time you load the page, so a tier can't sit stale after the prices under it have moved.

How the catalog is organised

Grouped by game, then by set. Pokémon leads because it's the bulk of the catalog; sets run newest first by their original release date; and inside a set, items run most expensive first.

New items don't move their set. A set can be two years old and still get new products this month. Those items get a NEW sticker and their set heading is flagged, but the set stays where its release date puts it — the alternative would be claiming the set itself is new, and would shuffle the page around every time one item appeared.

Things that aren't in the catalog

Target lists products sold by third-party marketplace sellers alongside its own. Those are detected and kept out entirely — they never appear in the list, the filters, the counts, or anything you copy out. If you paste one that's already been checked, it's flagged straight away rather than silently dropped. Items Target itself doesn't file under trading cards are filtered the same way.

Paste a TCIN that simply isn't here yet and it doesn't vanish or throw an error: it shows up in your list as unresolved and is queued for a lookup in the background. If it's a real TCG product, it's in the catalog next time you come back. There's no button to press.

Your list stays yours

Sending a list to TargetDoge

Built a list? One click copies it as a ready-to-paste /submit command and opens the Poke Snipes #item-requests channel. Paste, send, done — quicker than stepping through the bot's own submit flow.