The board
The day’s proposed moves in one list — each with the card, the old and new price, the reason, and an Approve control. Approve one, a lane, or the lot.
A FULL-TIME STORE MANAGER FOR ONLINE CARD SELLERS
Meet Your New Store Manager.
Works Day and Night. Knows Cards. Never Breaks Your Rules.
One system for the whole store: pricing, offers, relisting, bundles, consignment, inventory, live shows and market intelligence. It runs your listings the way you would run them, at the pace eBay rewards, and it writes down everything it does.
The Floor Guarantee. Set a price floor on your cards. Drop Zone structurally
cannot list, reprice, or negotiate below it — and if our automation ever
breaches your floor, we pay the difference.
When it applies
Included on Store Operator plans running fully automated; the free trial and Advisor do not run automation, so neither carries it. Switch off any automation lever — bundling, ad promotions, automatic offers — or pause writes, and the guarantee is off until you switch it back on: we indemnify what we run. It does not cover bundles, in any format — a lot is priced as a lot, so a per-card floor has no meaning against it — or Consignment & Clearance, where the floor is the one you agreed with your consignor. Settings you choose yourself (an auction, an explicit override) are outside it too. Read the full terms.
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No credit card. Your real store, your real listings. Nothing moves without your approval.
Optimized for sports cards; TCG-ready — Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece, Lorcana.
Enforced in code · 10 articles
Ten things it cannot do.
Handing an automated system your inventory is the hard part, and it should be. So the important promises are not promises. They are constraints compiled into the engine — clamps, caps and gates that sit below every feature, where no setting, no script and no future bug can route around them.
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It cannot price below your floor.
Every price the engine computes is clamped to the margin floor you set — on buyer-paid-shipping and free-shipping listings alike — before any call to eBay is made. This is a clamp in the pricing path, not a preference; there is no code path that lists, reprices, or marks down under your floor.
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It cannot negotiate below your floor.
Best-Offer auto-accept AND auto-decline thresholds are both clamped to your floor, and always ordered decline < accept < asking price. Zero negotiation under floor — an offer below it is auto-declined by eBay itself before we ever see it.
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It cannot mass-churn your listings.
End/Relist writes are hard-capped at 20 per day, enforced at the lowest API layer so no script, feature, or future bug can route around it. The cap fails CLOSED. This guardrail exists because mass relisting once cost the founder’s own store 38% of its search views in days — the cap makes that class of damage impossible.
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It cannot touch your Vault.
Cards you place in the PIN-protected Vault are excluded from ALL automation — no repricing, no offers, no refresh, no bundling, nothing. Removing a card from the Vault requires your PIN.
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It cannot overrule your approvals.
Once you approve a card or an action, that approval is authoritative. Downstream checks may HOLD an item and tell you why — they may never silently demote or reverse a decision you made.
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It cannot act in bursts that endanger your search ranking.
All writes flow through a pacing scheduler with per-action daily ceilings, human-like spacing, and quiet hours. Change arrives at seller speed, because burst activity is what search algorithms punish.
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It cannot guess when it isn’t sure.
If identification confidence falls short of the bar, the card is held for your review with the specific uncertainty named. A blank field beats a wrong one; an honest flag beats a confident mistake.
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It cannot hide what it did.
Every action is journaled — what, when, why, the before-state, and the rollback payload. Price changes are undoable. Your dashboard shows the actions taken AND the actions refused.
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It cannot keep running against your will.
One switch pauses ALL automation on your store, checked before every cycle. Your listings stay exactly as they are until you resume. Your data can be exported or erased on request.
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The AI assistant cannot execute anything.
The in-app assistant is text-only on every tier. It can explain, recommend, and answer — it has no ability to list, price, end, or modify anything on your store.
These ten articles are published in the product itself, at /constitution, and they are the same text the engine is built to. Nothing on this page is a claim we can quietly stop keeping.
THE PLATFORM
One system. Every surface of the store.
Most tools do one job: identify a card, or reprice a listing, or push a bundle. Drop Zone runs the store. Intake is one door into it — what happens over the next ninety days is the product.
Sell
Pricing, offers, relisting
Comps pulled per card, prices set inside your floor, Best Offer thresholds re-derived on every change, dead listings refreshed instead of churned.
Move
Bundles, live shows, consignment
Commons that cannot carry a listing roll into lots. Show planning for live selling. Consignor splits and payout statements when the cards are not yours.
Know
Inventory, market signal, reporting
Where every card physically is, what the market is doing to it, and a cost-basis P&L that tells you what to ride, take profit on, or cut.
01 · INIntakePhotograph a card; it is identified, priced against comps, and queued. One feature among many — the door, not the house.
02 · CHECKReviewAnything the engine is not certain about stops here with the uncertainty named. Certain rows flow through.
03 · RUNOperateList, reprice, negotiate, refresh, bundle — paced, floored, journaled, every day, without you at the desk.
04 · READReportWhat sold, what it cost you, what was refused and why, and where next week’s money is.
INSIDE THE APP
Thirteen screens, one store.
Each surface answers one question, and they share one set of rules. Nothing here is a separate tool you have to reconcile at the end of the month.
Intake
Photograph front and back; the card is identified, its parallel and serial read, and comps pulled. One feature slot, the same size as the rest.
Review
Everything the engine is not sure about, with the specific doubt named — not a generic error. You confirm, correct, or reject, and it learns the correction.
Drip
Approved cards go live on a schedule, not in a dump. A hundred listings posted at once buries every one of them; the drip keeps each one visible.
Inventory and location
Every card, live or held, with cost basis and physical location — box, row, slot. When an order lands you get a pick list, not a scavenger hunt.
Strategy and autonomy
Set your floors, offer bands, daily ceilings and quiet hours. Promote a lane from approve-everything to hands-off only when its receipts convince you.
Show planner
Build a run of show from your own inventory: what to open with, what to hold back, what each lot is worth, and what to do with whatever does not sell.
Bundles
Cards worth less than the fees to list them are routed into lots automatically and priced as a group. Aged bundles convert to auctions that actually close.
Consignment
Track whose cards are whose, apply the agreed split per sale, and produce a payout statement your consignor can read without asking you a question.
The Vault
PIN-protected, and excluded from every automated path — no repricing, no offers, no bundling, no refresh. The cards you are not willing to risk go here.
Player heat
Demand signal scored against the players you actually hold, so a breakout is a note about your inventory rather than a headline about someone else’s.
Trends
Set, sport and category movement over time, drawn from comps rather than opinion — the context behind a price change, before you approve it.
Moves
The cards in your own store whose market moved this week, ranked by what the move is worth to you. A short list, not a feed.
Price changes
Every price the store has moved, with the before-state, the evidence behind it and an undo. If there was no market evidence, the price does not move at all.
The Desk
Cost-basis profit and loss on every live card, sorted into ride, take profit, or cut. A ten-minute weekly decision instead of a night with a spreadsheet.
SAFETY & CONTROL
You stay the operator.
Autonomy is something you grant, one lane at a time, after you have watched the receipts. It is not the default, and it is never irreversible.
Human in the loop by default
New accounts start on approve-everything. Nothing lists, reprices or negotiates until you tap it. You promote a lane to hands-off when you are ready, and demote it in one click.
One switch stops everything
Pause halts all automation on your store and is checked before every cycle — not queued, not "after the current batch". Your listings stay exactly as they are until you resume.
Undo on price changes
Every price change is journaled with the before-state and a rollback payload, so putting a card back is a button rather than a memory test.
A journal that shows refusals too
What was done, when, why, and what it looked like before. It also records what the engine declined to do and the rule that stopped it — a log that only shows successes is not a log.
The Vault, off limits
PIN-protected and excluded from every automated path. Not "deprioritised" — excluded. Taking a card out requires the PIN, and the automation never has it.
Quiet hours and pacing
Per-action daily ceilings, human-like spacing between writes, and hours when the store simply does not act. Change arrives at seller speed, because bursts are what search ranking punishes.
THE APP
Built to be looked at every morning.
Dense where it should be dense, quiet everywhere else. The same interface on a laptop at the desk and a phone at the card table.
PRICING
Priced by store size.
Every number shown before you pay. Start on the free 7-day trial; no credit card to begin.
Option A · Market insights
Store Advisor
$12 / month
For sellers who want AI market comps and price flags but prefer to approve every move manually.
- Daily comp and pricing alerts
- Player heat index and demand signals
- Lowball offer warnings
- You approve every move before it runs
- No Floor Guarantee — it applies to breaches our automation causes, and on this plan nothing runs without your approval. Included on every Store Operator tier.
Option B · Full automation
Store Operator
Hands-free store operations: 24/7 offer negotiation, relisting, listing refreshes, live-show advisory and Shopify sync.
- Up to 150 listings$19/mo
- Up to 500 listings Popular$39/mo
- Up to 1,500 listings$69/mo
- Up to 4,000 listings$149/mo
- Up to 10,000 listings$299/mo
Includes matching monthly AI intake reads. Add 500 reads for $9 at any time — they never expire.
- Every article of the constitution applies on every tier
- Floor Guarantee — we pay breaches caused by our automation (Operator plans only)
Option C · For card shops
Consignment & Clearance
Included on Pro & Business
Take cards on consignment, on a deadline. Track every consignor’s split and payout, and run a bounded clearance ladder that works your listings toward a date. No separate fee — it is part of the plan.
- You keep physical possession
- eBay pays you directly — we never touch sale proceeds
- Consignor splits and automatic payout statements
- Listings are revised, never ended — a run keeps their history
- You set the floor your consignor agreed to
- Every sale journaled and receipted
No Floor Guarantee on this lane. You set the floor from your own agreement with your consignor, and Drop Zone will not override it or hold up a sale to enforce a floor of ours — you have a contract to complete. The Floor Guarantee applies to ordinary automated selling on your own inventory.
The trial, plainly: 7 days, your real store, real fixes surfaced daily. Approve one and watch it run on eBay. Nothing moves without your tap, and no card is required to start.
QUESTIONS
The ones that actually stop people.
What if it prices something wrong?
Three things sit between a bad number and your store. It cannot go below your floor at all — that is a clamp in the pricing path, not a setting. It will not move a price without market evidence behind it; no comps means no change. And unless you have promoted that lane to hands-off, the change waits for your approval with its reasoning attached.
If one still gets through, the change is journaled with the before-state and a rollback payload, so undoing it is one button.
Can I undo what it did?
Price changes, yes — each one stores what the price was and how to put it back. Everything else is journaled with the same detail: what, when, why, and the state before it acted. You can see the full history of your store on the price-changes screen without asking anyone for it.
What can’t it do?
Ten things, listed in full above and published inside the product at /constitution. The short version: it cannot price or negotiate below your floor, mass-end or churn your listings, touch a card in your Vault, reverse an approval you made, act in bursts, guess when it is unsure, hide an action, or keep running after you pause it. The in-app assistant cannot execute anything at all — it is text-only on every tier.
What happens to my store if I cancel?
Your listings are yours and they stay live on eBay exactly as they are. Cancelling stops the automation; it does not end, revise or withdraw anything. Your data can be exported or erased on request.
Is connecting my eBay account safe?
You connect through eBay’s own OAuth screen. We never see or store your eBay password, and you can revoke the connection from your eBay account at any time without touching Drop Zone.
The token grants only what the platform needs to read your listings and make the writes you approve. All of it is metered, paced and journaled.
Does it work while I sleep?
That is the point of it. Offers get answered, listings get refreshed, comps get pulled and the next day’s board gets built overnight. It works inside quiet hours and daily ceilings you set, so the store moves at a human pace rather than in bursts — and you wake up to a list of what happened and what is proposed, not a surprise.
Do I have to let it act on its own?
No. Approve-everything is the starting state, and plenty of sellers stay there — the Store Advisor plan is built for exactly that. Autonomy is granted lane by lane, after you have seen that lane’s receipts, and demoting a lane is one click.
What does the Floor Guarantee cover, and which plans have it?
It comes with the Store Operator plans, and only while your store is running fully automated. The free trial and Store Advisor do not run automation — you approve every move yourself — so neither carries the guarantee, and we say so rather than let you assume it.
Fully automated means every lever on. If you switch off bundling, ad promotions, or automatic offers — any single one of them — or you pause writes, the guarantee is off the table for your whole store until you switch it back on. We can indemnify a store we are running; we cannot indemnify one we are only partly running. The setting page tells you your live status rather than making you work it out.
You set a price floor per listing. Drop Zone cannot list, reprice, mark down or negotiate below it — Best Offer auto-accept and auto-decline are both clamped to it, so an under-floor offer is declined by eBay before we ever see it. If a sale ever completes below your floor because of an action our automation took, we pay you the difference.
What it does not cover: breaches that follow from a setting you chose. You control real levers — running a card as an auction (where the market sets the price and the floor does not apply), releasing a card from protection, or using an explicit override. If your own choice puts a card under your floor, that is not a platform error and the guarantee does not apply. Every one of those choices says so at the moment you make it.
Give the store a manager.
Seven days on your real inventory, with every constraint already in force. If it does not earn the desk time back, close the tab — nothing on eBay changes.
Not ready to connect eBay? Get a free teardown of your store.
No credit card. Approve-everything by default. One switch pauses it all.