More than $2.6bn was spent on single trading cards on eBay in 2025, sports and game cards together

How it’s built

1. From GemRate, which tracks eBay sales, as reported in the press. Lots, sets, packs and sealed boxes are excluded.

What we assumed

Nothing. The figure is used as published.

Sanity check

GemRate's breakdown (42 million sports sales at about $39 each, 19.5 million game and other non-sport sales at about $43) implies game and non-sport cards were about $0.84bn of the total. Pokémon is a part of that, not all of it.

Where it comes from

The line in the source

More than $2.6 billion spent on trading card singles on eBay in 2025