Last night we had an amazing turnout at our unofficial Pokémon trading meetup to celebrate Pokemon Day! A few highlights:
✅ 50+ trades completed 🔄
✅ Kids used my AI-powered Trading Analyzer for most of them!
✅ Increased trade fairness & confidence—no one left feeling like they got a bad deal!
How It Works: AI-Powered Trade Analysis
I built a Trading Analyzer AI that compares Pokémon card trades in real time, using:
📊 Market Data – Pulls live pricing from eBay Sold Listings, TCGPlayer, and Japanese marketplaces.
🛠 Trade Fairness Logic – Evaluates trades based on raw value, long-term collectibility, and PSA grading potential.
📈 AI-Driven Predictions – Identifies cards that gain or lose value over time, favoring high-demand Pokémon (Eeveelutions, Charizard, Pikachu, Mewtwo, etc.).
🔍 Accuracy Rate: 85-90% in matching fair trades (based on post-trade price checks)
Demo here:
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaynepimentel_ai-machinelearning-pokemontcg-activity-7301268324775010304-CcsA?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_ios&rcm=ACoAAAJ7ioABbWnik51g-zaLHsM3HvgS9_PbFoA

https://veriswap.com/discover
Personally, I have days when I love this app for what it provides and then I hate it for the same reasons.
Pros 👍
- Voting on all trades with the community
- Posting what you currently are trying to trade
- Telling others the type of trade you are looking for
- Trading Up or Down
- Trade feature is very fun and simple to use
Cons🙄
- Traders will show interest in a card, only to say they don’t believe in the value placed on the card and will refuse to trade until all inventory is up to their standards
- App updates constantly saying what products you can and can’t post
- Low pop cards that people don’t want to pay low pop price
- Fees are slightly excessive, even though there is no limit to how many cards to keep in your inventory and how many posts you can make in general, I try to only trade if I’m receiving bulk or something 500+
- Trades can be vetoed with rough interpretations
I’m sure there is much more to the app and I just haven’t adapted but this has been my experience. Simply fun to just scroll and vote on the trades if that’s all you do.
Here’s a rare time I got a baseball slab on Veriswap and scooped a boyhood legend, Big Papi Finest Intimidators PSA 10 Orange 🍊 Refractor. The design was from 1996 Topps Finest (the ones that stuck together) and I think those original 1996 cards are awesome as well as this Big Papi masterpiece. Da Jankees loooooose.
That is all, wanted to see what the rest of the community thinks of the app.
Have a nice day

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https://youtu.be/EORid9cKqCs?si=klbngNetk4EMwSUm

I have no data to back this up but I have a thesis that since everyone went all-in on collecting over the last 3+ years that we’ve (myself included) amassed a ton of cards that we don’t PC that we’re trying to move…in bulk?…and the quickest way to do so is to trade: 5 cards out (that you don’t PC) for one card (that you do).

Thus: trades have gone up up up.

Has anyone noticed trades are going UP in the hobby? Don’t get me wrong, I love trading - a lot. But I feel like more and more I’m getting messages for stuff I have for sale asking if I’ll accept trades instead.

Is it happening more and more? Just an observation, curious if anyone else is seeing it as well…