ripdotfun seems so obvious, surprised nobody has done this before? real physical collectibles, but the trading is digital - most collectible owners whose primary purpose is trading/investing don't care for storing physical inventory on their own anyway. 

main risk i guess is you're trusting the team for safe storage. i remember stockX was planning to do this with sneakers but didn't go through with it.

But actually.. if you look below the surface Courtyard is low key crushing. Revenue numbers to back it. They found a really elegant way to do the digital pack rips too that’s not obvious until you really give it thought

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how to they make money ? just on sales fees ?

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They sell graded Pokemon and sports cards as single card “packs”. Essentially bundled graded cards where you can be lucky and pull something worth more than you paid for or unlucky and pull something less valuable

The elegant thing is they give you an out to get a 90% refund by giving the card back to Courtyard

Elegant because it derisks it for the end consumer to just purchase the packs AND gives you a way to upsell less valuable graded cards in the category