Add a Live Value Badge to Your Card Listings and Posts

Every card page on SplitShot has a free embeddable value badge — a small image showing the card's name and its current market value, updated automatically. Sellers use it as social proof ("this price is fair, check it"), collectors use it to show off a grail without typing numbers that go stale. Here's how to put it everywhere, properly.

What it looks like and where to get it

Open any card on SplitShot — say a card you're selling — and scroll to </> Embed this card. You'll find three ready-to-copy snippets: a badge for HTML pages, a badge for Markdown (Reddit, GitHub, many forums), and a full iframe widget with buy/sell guidance. The badge is a live image: when the market moves, the number on it moves, wherever you pasted it.

Forums, blogs, and Discord — use the linked badge

On forums that allow images in signatures (collector boards are full of them), paste the HTML or Markdown snippet as-is. The badge links back to the card's live page so anyone can verify the number and see the full buy/sell breakdown. For a blog or COMC/eBay store about page, the iframe widget shows the fuller picture: fair value plus the optimal buy and sell prices.

Discord — use the app instead

Badges work in Discord (paste the image URL and it unfurls), but there's now a better option: add the SplitShot app and type /value charizard in any channel. You get the live fair value, buy and sell prices, confidence score and 30-day trend, for any card across every game we cover — no badge to paste and nothing to keep updated. It requests zero permissions, so it can't read your messages and only responds when someone calls it.

eBay listings — use the image only, not the link

One honest warning that protects your account: eBay prohibits links to outside websites inside listings (their "active content" and external-link policies). So in an eBay description, don't paste the linked snippet. Use the badge image alone — eBay allows images in descriptions — by inserting the badge URL (https://splitshot.co/badge/<card-id>.svg) through the listing editor's image tool or HTML view with a plain <img> tag, no <a> around it. Buyers still see a current, third-party market value next to your asking price, which is exactly the trust signal that closes sales; they just can't click out, which keeps you inside eBay's rules.

Why sellers bother

A listing that shows a current market value answers the buyer's first silent question — "is this price fair?" — before they ask it. You're not claiming the value yourself; an independent tool is. That's the same reason dealers sticker cards with price-guide values at shows. And because the badge updates itself, your six-month-old listing never advertises a stale number.

The fine print

The badge shows our standard fair-value estimate — a consensus of real marketplace data, computed transparently — and it's free to use anywhere, no permission needed. It is an estimate for guidance, not an appraisal, and it never inflates: if your card's market dips, so does the badge. We think that honesty is precisely what makes it persuasive.