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The Authority is the world's largest authenticated vaulted marketplace. Simply send us your graded or raw collectibles and we will identify, authenticate, image, and encapsulate them! Enhance the quality of your listings through additional services such as grading. Send us a box of random collectibles or import your collectibles from our channel retailer platforms at the press of a button. The collectible standard of the industry, we are growing to over 9 million channel retailer collectibles that can be imported from channel retailer platforms.
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May 25, 2026News
May 25, 2026News
Introducing Booklet Slabs!

The Authority™ is excited to introduce booklet slabs!

For the first time in the industry, trading card booklets can be authenticated and slabbed for a cost and for an addtional cost grades can be purchased instantly at any time with Reveal Grade™.

For the first time in the industry, slabbed booklets can also be transferred into The Authority from channel retailers and instantly slabbed with Reveal Grade.  Once you reveal the grade, you can scroll over the grade in the item page to see the item’s component grades!

Booklets have long challenged the hobby.  There are tens, if not hundreds, of different sizes and configurations of booklets.  Booklet card segments can have different thicknesses and card segment bindings can have different lengths.  One booklet may have card segments bound on their horizontal axis while another booklet may have card segments bound on their vertical axis while yet another may have them bound on both.  A booklet with 20pt card segments may have bindings that are 80pt long while another booklet with 20pt segments may have bindings that are 100pt long.

The universal booklet slab can fit most booklet sizes regardless of the thickness of the card segments or the length of the bindings!

Four Segment Booklet, Horizontally Bound

Two Segment Booklet, Horizontally Bound

Two Segment Booklet, Vertically Bound

Start submitting your booklets today!

May 25, 2026News
May 25, 2026News
Introducing Item Shipping Add-Ons with Trading Card Toploaders!

The Authority™ is excited to introduce item shipping add-ons! Starting today, you can upgrade particular items at shipping with add-ons! The first item add-on available in shipping is toploaders for trading cards and TCGs. For an extra $0.50, you can purchase a toploader to be added to a card for shipment.

We have also introduced a number of features for large, bulk shipments. 

You can select the “Add Toploader to All” button.  Selecting this option will add a top-loader to each raw, non-slabbed card in your shipment. 

You can also select “Remove all Add-Ons” to clear your shipment of all add-ons.

Top-loaders will not be added to slabbed cards or cards that are in the process of being slabbed.

May 25, 2026News
May 25, 2026News
Introducing Shipping Protection!

The Authority™ is excited to introduce shipping protection!

For each package you ship, you can now add both a declared value as well as a shipping protection amount.

To see the items in a particular shipment package, just click on the drop down arrow and the contents of the package will appear!

For more information on the shipping liability waiver, please visit our terms and conditions: https://www.theauthority.com/authdocs/terms.pdf

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To get more information about your collectible simply manually enter the 10-digit collectible code found the front of your collectible or scan your collectible’s QR code. If is located before your 10-digit code then your collectible is enabled with a security RFID chip.