About Hobby Mannor

Graded trading cards, reference wristwatches, and rare-release footwear. Three categories, because those are the ones we know well enough to price and to authenticate. We get asked about art, coins, and memorabilia regularly and we decline, because a dealer working outside their competence is how buyers get hurt.

We price per buyer rather than publishing a fixed list. Condition, provenance, and what a particular collector is trying to complete all move the number, and a single public price serves nobody well. Tell us what you are hunting and we will quote.

When you agree a price, we issue an allocation card — a printed card with a QR code that holds that specific lot at that specific price for you until a date we agree. Nobody else can buy it out from under you in the meantime.

We settle in cryptocurrency because it clears in minutes rather than days, without the reversals that make high-value distance selling hard for a small dealer. A card payment for a five-figure item can be pulled back months later with the item long gone; that risk gets priced into everyone's margins, ours included.

We will not pretend the trade-off is one-sided. You give up the chargeback protection a card would give you, and because all our sales are final, a completed purchase cannot be unwound. That is a real cost to you and you should weigh it.

What you get instead is the part we can actually stand behind: a lifetime authenticity guarantee with no expiry, full cover if an item is misdescribed or never arrives, and risk staying with us until the piece is in your hands. Those sit in the terms, not just on a page like this one. And because you cannot send it back, we would genuinely rather answer twenty questions first than make a sale someone regrets.

We are not an exchange and not an investment business. We sell physical objects and accept a particular form of payment for them.

Sell anything we cannot trace to a legitimate source. Under-declare a customs value. Ship to a mail drop. Describe a piece in a way that requires a footnote to stay true. Take payment from someone other than the buyer.

Each of those would win a sale occasionally and cost the business eventually.

There is a person at the other end of enquiries@hobbymannor.com and they answer. If you are considering a significant purchase and want to ask awkward questions about provenance first, that is exactly the right instinct — ask them.