Question 1

What counts as a grail?

Accepted Answer

For Grail Watch, a "grail" is any card with an estimated fair-market value of $1,000 or more. You can raise the bar with filter chips: $5K+, $10K+, or $50K+. Below $1K, events are filtered out entirely — this feed is curated to the high end of the hobby.

Question 2

What are the five context streams?

Accepted Answer

Every event on Grail Watch is tagged with one of five contexts. AUCTION HAMMER: a live-auction lot closes with a buyer premium. PRIVATE SALE: a dealer-to-collector or collector-to-collector deal closes off-market. TRADE PACKAGE: a peer-to-peer swap where the grail changes hands as part of a multi-card deal. BREAK PULL: a live group break produces a grail from sealed wax. MAILDAY RETURN: a graded gem returns from PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, or TAG. The context determines the card’s journey and price-discovery dynamics.

Question 3

Is this showing real sales?

Accepted Answer

No. Every event on Grail Watch is simulated using CardVault’s 10,000-card database with weighted selection toward value-tier membership. This is a live-feel demonstration of what a grail-aggregator ticker COULD look like if it were hooked to live data sources from Goldin, Heritage, PWCC, eBay Live, Whatnot, and grader APIs. Use it for entertainment and to learn what a grail moment looks like across contexts — not as a record of actual historical sales.

Question 4

How do the filters work?

Accepted Answer

The value-tier filter acts as a floor: selecting $5K+ hides $1K–$4.999K events, $10K+ hides $1K–$9.999K, $50K+ hides everything under $50K. The context filter is inclusive: toggling OFF a context removes only that stream. The sport filter is inclusive the same way. Pause halts the event timer while keeping the existing feed visible. All filter combinations can be stacked.

Question 5

Can I follow specific cards?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every event in the feed has a star button. Starring a card adds it to your Watchlist panel (persisted in localStorage). Future simulated events involving that exact card slug appear in the Watchlist stream separately from the main feed. Good for tracking when a specific grail reappears across contexts.

Question 6

How is Grail Watch different from Mailday Live, Pop Watch, or Listing Wire?

Accepted Answer

Mailday Live surfaces ALL arrivals (raw, penny breaks, junk wax included). Pop Watch tracks grading-population velocity across all price points. Listing Wire shows listing churn regardless of price. Grail Watch only surfaces the $1K+ end of the hobby, across all five transaction contexts at once. It is the one ticker a high-end collector or market-watcher can leave running for the day.

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