Guides · Method · Updated 23 Oct 2026

Pulling a card on a rip or pack platform: what to record

On a digital pack platform the card you pull sits in a vault, and the platform’s own terms say what happens next: ship it, sell it back, or wait. The record is the pull, the value shown, the terms as they stood, and who held the card until it reached you.

The short answer

A pull on a pack or rip platform is a card you own on the platform’s terms before it is a card in your hand. Those terms set the sell-back window, who fixes the sell-back value and from what, what a reversed payment does to the card, and whether a vault is named at all. Read them before the first pack, and keep a dated copy. The record of the pull is the card, its cert number if graded, the value shown and the time, taken as a screenshot the moment it appears.

On platforms that write each pack to a public chain, the chain holds a dated entry for the pack, the token and any sell-back or burn for shipping. That entry proves the token: when it was made, who held it, when it was sold back, when it was burned. It does not prove the card on the shelf. For that, the card is matched to its cert record on arrival, as any slab would be.

Step by step

01Read the terms before the first pack. Find the sell-back window and what happens when it closes; who sets the sell-back value and from what; what a chargeback or reversed deposit does to a card already pulled; and whether the terms name the vault and the grading companies at all. Save the page with the date. One platform’s terms, effective 21 October 2026, give three days to elect shipment and treat an unshipped card as sold back; the same terms say a charged-back deposit can reverse the purchases it paid for.
02Record the pull as it happens. A screenshot of the pull screen with the card, the cert number if the card is graded, the value the platform shows and the time. If the platform writes the pack to a chain, copy the transaction link as well. This is the one record nobody else keeps for you.
03Record the sell-back offer and how it was set. The amount, the time it was fixed, and the platform’s own statement of its source. A platform may say its value comes from third-party services it does not name; write that down in those words.
04Choose, and date the choice. Shipped, sold back, or held, with the date and the window that applied. A card held past the window on some platforms is deemed sold back, so the date of the choice is part of the record.
05Record who held the card. Where the card sat between the pull and the shipment, in the platform’s own words, and who signed for it at each hand-off the platform discloses. If the terms name no vault, the record says so.
06Match on arrival. Before anything else happens to the card: look the cert up on the grader’s own site, compare the grader’s images to the slab, and check the holder and the label against the screenshot of the pull. One field that differs is enough to stop and ask the platform.
07Keep the payment record beside the card. The deposit, the line on the card statement, and the terms on reversals as they stood that day. If the card was sold back, the proceeds and the date they arrived go in the same folder.

What this check does not prove

That the card is on the shelf. A chain entry proves the token and its dates. It does not prove that a card matching the token sits in the vault the platform names, and this guide does not say it does.
What is in the next pack. Odds and contents are the platform’s own statements. Nothing in a record of past pulls says what the next one holds, and this guide makes no claim about it.
What the card is worth. A grade is not a price. The lookup says nothing about value, and neither does this guide.
Ownership. A matching record does not show who owns the card or whether the seller can pass title to it. That is a question for the seller, in writing.

Sources

PrizePicks, PrizePicks Packs terms of service (section 7.10, the three-day shipment election; section 9.2, charged-back deposits), effective 21 Oct 2026, read 22 Oct 2026.
PrizePicks, PrizePicks Packs help page (the sell-back offer and how its value is set), read 22 Oct 2026.
Brich House, The week on chain (packs, sell-backs, time to sell-back and what left the vault, read from public chains), read 23 Oct 2026.
Brich House, The week on chain: how each figure is read, what the chain proves and does not, read 23 Oct 2026.
Collector Crypt, gacha memo documentation (what each pack, sell-back and burn writes to the chain), read 18 Oct 2026.

The three-day election, the deemed sell-back and the chargeback clause are from one platform’s own published terms as read on 22 October 2026; other platforms’ terms differ, and each should be read on its own page. What a chain entry proves and does not is from Brich House’s own weekly reading method. No platform here is a client, and this guide says nothing about any platform’s conduct.

A guide to how records work, and not an authentication, grading, appraisal or valuation of any item. It describes patterns, never a particular cert, card or seller. Grader names belong to their owners, who do not endorse this page. Brich House verifies and records, and never buys, sells or holds.

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