RipHQ answers
Questions aboutonline pack ripping.
What you buy, how allocation stays fair, how each pack is verified, and what happens to the physical cards after your reveal.
Questions and answers
Buying, revealing, and shipping
Direct answers about what you buy, what you own, and how physical delivery works.
What is online pack ripping?
Online pack ripping lets you buy a real trading card pack online, see its cards revealed digitally, and receive the physical cards. RipHQ records the physical opening and connects the resulting cards to your account.
Do I own the physical cards shown in my reveal?
Yes. After a valid allocation, you own every physical card assigned to your pack. RipHQ holds those cards as custodian until you request shipment.
What happens after I buy a pack?
Confirmed payment triggers a verifiable allocation from the eligible pack list. You can then reveal the cards online, and the physical cards are added to your RipHQ vault.
Can I keep cards in my RipHQ vault?
Yes. Free vault storage is included with every rip. Your pulls stay in the RipHQ vault for a 30-day hold after the reveal, and you can request shipment of any pack during that time. You can also sell any pack back from the vault for 5% of the pack price in RipCash. Packs that are still in the vault when the hold ends are sold back automatically on the same terms, and the RipCash is added to your account. RipHQ emails you before that happens. This RipCash never expires, and RipHQ never destroys your cards.
How do I get my cards shipped?
Request a shipment from your vault when you are ready. You pay shipping at request time by card only. RipCash cannot be used for shipping. Cancel the request before we start picking and you get a full shipping refund.
Where does RipHQ ship?
RipHQ currently ships only to valid addresses in the United States. Carrier, tracking, and any insurance or signature requirements are shown when you request a shipment.
Can I sell, trade, or cash out cards through RipHQ?
No. RipHQ is not a marketplace or cash-out service. You can keep eligible cards in the vault or request shipment of the physical cards you own.
Is RipHQ a live break?
No. RipHQ is designed for on-demand, individual reveals rather than a scheduled livestream. Your pack comes from registered inventory, is allocated with public randomness, and can be revealed at your pace.
Questions and answers
Fairness and verification
How RipHQ connects registered sealed inventory to each digital reveal.
How do I know you don't keep the high-value cards and never put the packs in the store?
We register every sealed unit before opening it, then publicly account for every pack that comes out. A registered unit that stops progressing stays flagged forever.
Do you sell loose packs from partially opened boxes?
No. Every pack on RipHQ comes from a sealed box or case that we open and register ourselves. We never cherry-pick a few packs or sell leftovers from a partially ripped box—every pack from every box is listed for sale on RipHQ and publicly accounted for.
How do I know which box a pack came from?
The public extraction video shows the pack leave its registered box and receive its label. The uncut rip of that box is one continuous recording. Its hash is committed before any pack is sold, and the full video is published after the final pack in the unit is revealed.
How do I know a pack wasn't tampered with before the recorded opening?
The uncut rip recording covers every pack from the registered box in one continuous video. Its hash is committed before sale, so replacing the file would produce a mismatch. The full recording is published after the final pack in the unit is revealed.
How do I know extraction happened after registration and the video wasn't replaced?
Extraction is recorded continuously with the unit's registration transaction hash in frame, proving the footage came after registration. We then publish a hash of the uploaded video, so replacing the file would produce a mismatch.
How is it decided which pack I get?
The eligible pack list is committed before the draw. Public drand randomness selects from that list, and the stored proof can be checked again later.
How do I know my digital reveal matches the physical cards?
Each pack has one uninterrupted proof clip cut from the committed rip recording. Your reveal uses the card images derived from that clip. The full recording is published after the final pack in the unit is revealed.
What's actually on the blockchain?
Only hashes of evidence, not card images, videos, or secret contents. A matching hash proves the file you see is exactly the file we committed to.
What if a recording cuts out or a box gets damaged?
We stop and mark the unit excluded with a written public reason. That exclusion cannot be silently deleted from our registry.
Couldn't you fake a damaged pack when it has a grail?
Exclusions remain public and our exclusion rate is displayed. If an extracted pack is excluded, its contents are photographed and published when the unit resolves. An excluded grail is documented, not hidden.
What happens to packs nobody buys?
They remain publicly accounted for. At the 90-day deadline, remaining packs are retired from sale so the sealed unit can reach a final state.
What can't you prove?
No system can prove that unregistered inventory never existed or defeat perfect physical forgery. Our system makes manipulation of registered inventory visible, permanent, and economically self-defeating.
Guides
PSA Vault
Where to find the ID used to send graded cards to your PSA Vault.