About Us

About Us

In 2023, we started Nitro Cards LLC as a rip and ship stream on TikTok. While modern rips were fun in their own right, our true passion was in vintage breaks. Being able to open cards for customers that we never would have dreamed of opening was an honor.

For various reasons - the vintage singles market going cold, the downturn in Pokemon card popularity in 2024, and ultimately, the United States "banning" TikTok, we stopped the vintage rips, and applied to be retailers of Pokemon, buying directly from official Pokemon distributors.

After a prolonged break, waiting out the uncertainty with TikTok, building up an allocation with distributors, and filing the correct paperwork, Nitro Cards is back! We now have two separate businesses; this sealed shop, and the stream on TikTok!

Our Pricing Policy

For new releases, all products will be below market price. For very popular new products (see Prismatic SPC), distribution assumes that we will sell at market price, so they charge us more. These prices will be as low as we can make them.

On reprints, the distributor sells to us around market price. This is how some items are closer to market and some aren't.

Since we buy directly from the wholesale level, there is an inherent margin that we enjoy. No booster box should cost $250 on release, especially if a shop gets it for half that. One day, the market will cool off again, and this won't be an issue. In the meantime, join the mailing list to be notified when we drop new products!