Glossary

Buyer protection

A stated refund or replacement promise when a code fails to work, and what it excludes.

Buylist

A buylist is a store service that buys trading cards from customers, which can turn spare cards in a collection into cash.

Card games

Card games lists every trading card game a shop sells, taken from its shop menu.

Checkout fee

A checkout fee is an extra service or payment charge added on top of the item price at the last step of paying.

Cross play

Cross play means you and a friend on different platforms can join the same match or party.

Founded

The year a company was set up, a rough guide to how much trading history it has behind it.

Franchises

The property groups a shop's figures and goods are drawn from, which tells you what a collector can actually find there.

Free delivery threshold

The free delivery threshold is the basket value at which standard delivery stops costing you anything.

Free tier

A free tier is a plan you can use without paying, usually with adverts in place of the paid extras.

Free trial length

A free trial length is how long a new subscriber can use a paid service before paying, and it varies widely across the services …

Games count

A games count is how many titles sit in a service's library as the service states it, and the libraries compared run from a …

Genres

The kinds of game a publisher or host works in, which predict the servers and titles a player will find.

Headquarters

The country where a seller's head office sits, which often decides the law and currency it trades under.

Instant delivery

Whether codes arrive straight after payment instead of waiting for a physical item.

Legal entity

The registered company name behind a shop, the exact party your money and your rights are tied to.

Made to measure

Made to measure means a costume is cut to the buyer's own body measurements, and among the cosplay shops compared only some offer it.

Markets

The countries a seller ships to, which sets how many players can actually buy from it.

Officially licensed

Officially licensed records whether a store states that it sells only products the publisher or rights holder authorised.

Payment methods

The ways a store takes payment, which decides whether a local wallet or bank transfer is a problem at checkout.

Plan price month

The plan price is what a premium membership or subscription costs each month in the local currency of your market.

Platforms

The devices a key, card or credit pack actually redeems on once you own it.

Preorders

Whether the brand takes advance orders for figures that have not shipped yet.

Price from

The lowest price at which a store sells an item, before shipping, and the floor for any budget check.

Price model

How payment works for a flagship game, whether it is a subscription, a free-to-play title or a one-off purchase.

Processing days

Processing days are the time a shop needs before an order leaves, added on top of any delivery time.

Product types

The kinds of items a shop actually sells, which tell you if it suits your kind of shopping.

Region shown

Region shown records whether a product page states the region a key or code activates in, so you can tell before paying whether it …

Return days

How long you hold an unopened item before you can send it back, from the seller's own returns page.

Service types

Service types lists everything a subscription actually gives you, from a game library to cloud gaming or online multiplayer.

Store categories

The departments a shop sells, which set the range you can browse and the kinds of collector it serves.

Store or brand

Whether a shop designs its own products or resells figures other makers produced.

Store type

How a shop gets its keys, whether it is the publisher itself, an approved reseller or a credit top-up seller.

Stream max resolution

Stream max resolution is the sharpest picture a cloud gaming plan can send, and the services compared separate the top tier from full HD.

Support channels

How a store answers questions after you buy, and whether you can reach a person, a form or a phone line.