RANKINGS 03A · EXACT LISTINGS · COMPLETED SALES · ENTRY DISCIPLINE
PULLED. Weekly Selection.
Up to ten active premium listings. Every slot must clear exact identity, same-format completed sales, current supply and a positive delivered-price gap.THE TEN-SLOT RULE
Ten is a ceiling.
Never a quota.
Live supply can disappear or reprice at any time. PULLED. publishes fewer than ten whenever identity, condition, comparable sales or delivered economics do not clear the standard.EDITION WITHHELD · QUALITY GATE WORKING
No weak listing gets a rank.
Seven cards were checked across seven distinct premium insert families. None qualified. Five lanes surfaced only graded, mismatched or insufficiently inspectable supply. Aaron Judge TM-1 was exact and raw at $325 plus $5.72 shipping, but newer exact raw sales ranged from $102.50 to $260. Kylian Mbappé Stained Glass #1 was exact and raw at $999.99 plus surfaced shipping, far above its $285–$399.99 raw comp set. No ranking or Selection Score was published because no listing cleared every gate.The Sep 30 rendered audit found no new identity or photo defect in the first 20 visible premium rows. Each exposed the subject, release, insert, code, exact-photo state, evidence provenance and premium filters. Seven insert families retained a verified exact photo, three or more raw sales inside 180 days and at least one raw sale inside 90 days.
Seven exact acquisition lanes were screened across seven premium insert families. Helix, Ultra Violet, Manga, Kaboom! and Vegas at Night surfaced graded or otherwise mismatched supply; Judge TM-1 and Mbappé Stained Glass #1 had exact raw fixed-price pages but no positive delivered-price gap. Search coverage was not exhaustive.
The canonical database supplied the dated same-format prefilter. The live Judge TM-1 comp page exposed newer exact raw sales from $102.50 to $260, confirming that the $330.72 delivered ask was not an entry. Equivalent current transaction-photo and second-source coverage could not be completed across all seven families, so no Selection Score was calculated.
No non-eBay listing was eligible for ranking because its exact destination, listing state and affiliate or tracking status were not independently verified.
THE MODEL
Eligibility first.
Score second.
Selection Score only ranks a listing after all hard gates pass. It cannot repair a failed identity, photo, listing-state, comp-depth or delivered-price gate.Entry value
Delivered Buy It Now price versus a conservative exact-card comp level.
Exact-card evidence
Identity, photo, guide, three-plus exact sales and freshness.
Category heat
PULLED. insert liquidity, depth, momentum, breadth and freshness.
Card momentum
Same-card movement only; no athlete or nearby-card substitutes.
Listing quality
Clear front and back, condition certainty, seller terms and usable photography.
SELECTION = .35 ENTRY + .20 EVIDENCE + .20 HEAT + .15 MOMENTUM + .10 LISTING QUALITYAffiliate availability and commission carry zero weight. Active asks never enter the completed-sale distribution.PUBLICATION GATES
Every slot must pass all five.
- 01Exact identity and exact PULLED. photo
- 02Active fixed-price listing checked at publication
- 03At least three exact completed sales in the same format
- 04Delivered price below a conservative comp level
- 05No affiliate or sponsor input in ranking
EDITION LEDGER
Nothing disappears.
Prior outcomes remain visible so a withheld edition cannot be rewritten as a successful pick later.- ISSUE 02 · SEP 01WITHHELD · 0 PUBLISHED
Superseded by the Sep 29 catch-up edition on Sep 30. No listing had been ranked; seven exact acquisition lanes were screened and none cleared the identity, same-format evidence, delivered-price and listing-photo gates.
- ISSUE 01 · AUG 25WITHHELD · 0 PUBLISHED
Superseded on Sep 1. No listing was ranked. The next full scan again found no fixed-price purchase that met the requirements for card identity, comparable sales in the same format, delivered price and listing photos.
- LAUNCH PREVIEWWITHHELD · 0 PUBLISHED
Superseded on Aug 25. No listing was ranked because the blocked eBay session prevented checks of active listings and their photos.