Legal & Rules

Prepare your submission

Select the exact card, set, number, language and finish. Catalog inclusion is not confirmation of authenticity, condition or eligibility. Unlisted cards can use our photo-review draft. Physical cards are checked at intake; altered, counterfeit, oversized or unsupported cards need a separate eligibility decision.

Draft orders contain 1–10 cards at one service level. Your Locker is a draft on this browser, not an accepted order or shipping authorization.

Prices are USD. Grading fees do not include shipping and handling. Shipping, handling and any additional declared-value coverage charges are being finalized and will be disclosed in your complete quote before you join a paid grading queue or make payment. You are responsible for shipping your cards to LORE. Applicable tax is additional. Founder pricing requires an active, eligible membership and remaining benefits verified by LORE.

Planned public queue: Sunday, 8 PM Eastern, with 500 cards in the first week. Express is planned for 200 cards weekly; Founder capacity is reserved separately. Preview counters are not live availability. No draft reserves a place.

Shipping, turnaround, refunds and your card

The turnaround clock starts at official Orlando check-in, not when a draft is created or a parcel is mailed. Carrier transit is separate. The advertised on-time promise refunds the grading fee for an eligible late card; it is not a guarantee of card value. See the turnaround guarantee.

Grading evaluates the card under LORE standards. A particular grade, resale price or investment return is never guaranteed. Read our grading standards.

Before paid intake opens, final terms must explain cancellation timing, ineligible-card fees, disputes and rechecks, insured shipping, loss or damage claims, liability limits and customer support. Those arrangements are not yet finalized; no card should be shipped until an order is accepted and official instructions are issued.

LORE Gold Club

One membership covers all realm lounges and the standard Gold Founder label identity. Apparel is sold separately and is not a membership benefit. An optional inaugural allocation of 10 eligible cards is available at $100 each ($1,000 total), scheduled before the public queue. This purchase is not required for membership and is separate from the regular $75 Founder rate.

500 lifetime memberships across the whole LORE platform. Releases of 10–20 at a time. Starting at $2,595 for one platform-wide membership. Pricing is subject to change for future releases. Admission is reviewed; an application is not membership. Activation requires acceptance, the formal agreement and payment.

The proposed $75 Founder grading rate runs for three years, with 2–4 business-day service and reserved capacity subject to the agreed allowance. The current application describes ten initial Founder-label cards per activated member, subject to reserved submission capacity; additional cards use standard labels unless a further edition is authorized.

The current application also specifies prior approval and a $10,000 transfer fee. These material conditions, lifetime benefits, termination rules and transfer enforceability require final agreement and legal review before activation. Read all application terms before applying.

The application prepares an email in your chosen email app. You must send it yourself; this site cannot confirm delivery or acceptance.

Saved drafts · Process 1

The My submissions area uses Sign in with ChatGPT. LORE uses your site-specific signed-in identity to separate your drafts; your email is displayed in your account area. Card details and the photos you choose to upload are stored online for draft preparation. Photos can include information embedded in the original file, so use card photos only.

Drafts and photos are accessible through your signed-in account, not through public catalog search. You can download draft details, open individual photos to save them or delete it from My submissions. Deletion removes it from the active draft database and photo storage; hosting logs or provider backups may have their own retention schedules. Drafts remain saved until you delete them; automatic expiry is not currently enabled.

Up to 20 drafts, ten cards per draft and one front and back photo per card; each photo may be up to 8 MB. Do not upload identity documents, payment details or other sensitive personal information. Saving a draft does not submit an order, create membership, reserve a grading slot or start a turnaround clock.

The legacy Locker and missing-card export remain device-local unless you explicitly import and save a Locker draft in My submissions. Sign out on shared devices. The operating-company contact and final commercial terms remain to be finalized before paid intake.

Founder applications & membership records

The signed-in online Founder application stores your name, account identity, verified sign-in email, contact email, phone number, industry, optional website, collecting experience, mailing address and application statement. Any legacy realm waiting-list records contain the same collector profile without a membership application statement. The current Gold Founders application is shared across all realms. These details support membership review and future apparel delivery; they are not displayed in public lounge pages. Authorized LORE reviewers can review these details and record decisions, Founder numbers and agreement/payment references. Payment references record a reviewer’s manual confirmation; the application does not collect or automatically verify payment.

Application and membership records remain available for membership administration; this release has no automatic expiry or self-service membership-record deletion. Review notes are visible only to authorized reviewers. An application alone grants no Founder benefits. Acceptance reserves one of 500 Gold Club places across the platform. Releases are shared across all realms.

Only active memberships with recorded agreement and payment confirmation unlock the member area. The $75 grading rate lasts three years from activation; rate expiry does not itself end active member access. Suspension blocks member access and Founder pricing while retaining the Founder number. The ten initial Founder-label cards are recorded as benefits; grading-capacity tracking is not yet connected.

No email or SMS is sent by this release. Check your membership page for status. Final commercial terms and the company privacy contact are still required before public paid launch.

Order requests, payment and capacity

My orders saves a snapshot of your catalog-verified card identities, declared values, return address and chosen service. Authorized LORE reviewers can inspect these order details and approve shipping, insurance and applicable tax amounts. Grading is $50 Standard, $75 for an eligible Founder or $125 Express per card. Grading fees do not include shipping and handling. Shipping, handling and any additional declared-value coverage charges are being finalized and will be disclosed in your complete quote before you join a paid grading queue or make payment. You are responsible for shipping your cards to LORE. There is no shipping-kit charge. Customer-paid inbound shipping is separate.

A request does not reserve capacity or accept your cards. You must review the complete approved quote before joining an enabled grading drop and paying. A drop has an explicit opening and closing time, a first-week public cap of 500 cards (later public drops also capped at 500), an Express cap of up to 200 and a separately configured Founder allocation. The owner specifies whether Express shares public capacity. There is no invented queue ETA.

When capacity is held, the payment window is 15 minutes. LORE releases that capacity only after the payment session is confirmed closed. An expired order can rejoin at the back using its still-valid quote. Late, mismatched or uncertain payments require review and do not create accepted orders. Do not pay after the displayed window ends.

Hosted checkout is prepared for Stripe. No payment-card number is stored by this app. Order acceptance requires verified provider confirmation; returning from checkout is not proof of payment. Test payments never create real accepted orders or shipping instructions. Authorized reviewers can issue a full refund; capacity is released after the refund is confirmed.

Order records and payment references remain available for order administration and audit. They are not removed when you delete a preparation draft. No automatic retention expiry or customer order-record deletion is enabled in this release. Card photos remain with their preparation draft; order requests currently snapshot card details and declared values, not photos. Final company/privacy contacts and commercial terms must be in place before public paid launch.

Real checkout is currently closed. The merchant connection, final terms, official receiving instructions and launch approval have not been supplied. The complete flow still requires payment-provider testing and an iPhone walkthrough. No email or SMS is sent by this release.

What happens to your information

The current Locker stores draft information in this browser. The review screen uses browser session storage. Clearing browser data can remove these drafts; shared devices may expose them to other users.

The missing-card photo tool reads your selected images locally and prepares a downloadable JSON draft. It does not submit that draft to LORE. The file contains your supplied details and photos: keep it private and share it only with a verified recipient.

The current online Founder application stores submitted details with your signed-in account for review by authorized LORE reviewers, as described in the application privacy section above. Hosting providers may process technical request data under their own terms.

A final privacy notice must identify the operating company and privacy contact, collected data, service providers, retention periods, access/deletion requests and any applicable regional rights before full commercial launch. Do not enter payment details or sensitive identity documents into preview forms.

Security you can verify

Black-light label effects, fingerprint marks and digital-twin demonstrations currently show the proposed experience. They are not proof that physical security features, cloning detection or live certificate verification have been validated. Production security claims must match tested capabilities.

Live intake requires authenticated accounts, private uploads, verified Founder eligibility, server-controlled prices and capacity, payment confirmation, custody records and an auditable grading workflow. Process 1 connects signed-in draft saving and private photos. Process 2 adds server-verified membership status and manually reviewed activation. Process 3 adds order quotes, capacity controls and a payment adapter; real checkout is still disabled pending merchant and launch setup. Custody services remain Process 4.

Built for collectors

We treat your cards like the treasures they are. Clear terms and reliable records belong beside a premium label.

Queue allocation and 15-minute payment requirement

Policy version: queue-payment-2026-09-24

Queue entry is a request for capacity, not a confirmed grading order. When LORE allocates capacity and makes checkout available in your account, you have 15 minutes to complete payment of the full quoted total. Your individual deadline is displayed in your account. It does not start when the overall queue closes.

If payment is not completed by that deadline, the unpaid allocation expires. LORE may offer the capacity to the next eligible collector without further notice once any open payment session is confirmed closed. Starting checkout or submitting a declined payment does not secure a reservation. Expired allocations do not retain queue priority.

Order acceptance requires verified payment-provider confirmation. Late, duplicate, mismatched or uncertain payments are reviewed rather than automatically accepted. If a payment is collected but LORE cannot confirm the reservation, it will be refunded.

If a verified LORE or payment-provider outage prevents checkout, LORE will provide an appropriate extension or another reasonable opportunity to pay. Contact LORE promptly through your account if checkout fails.

Payment reserves grading capacity; it does not guarantee a grade or establish receipt of your cards. Follow the shipping instructions and applicable service terms supplied with your confirmed order. These terms do not limit rights that cannot lawfully be excluded.

Shipping and handling

Grading fees do not include shipping and handling. Shipping, handling and any additional declared-value coverage charges are being finalized and will be disclosed in your complete quote before you join a paid grading queue or make payment. You are responsible for shipping your cards to LORE.

No final return-shipping price or insurance allowance has been announced. Coverage, limits and any additional charges will be stated in the approved quote.

Contact LORE

Questions about these terms or your service? Email info@loregraded.com.