GrailGuard Escrow Beta

Escrow for high-value sales

Buying a card, watch or collectible from someone you don’t know? Your payment waits with a licensed escrow company until the item is accepted.

Licensed third-party escrow
Seller paid after acceptance
Buyer pays all fees

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How it works

You start the deal as the buyer — the seller’s email, the item and the agreed price.
The seller gets their own link to review and agree. GrailGuard then creates an escrow-company account for each of you at the deal emails (an existing escrow-company account at the same email is used) and sets up the escrow transaction.
You both verify on the escrow company’s secure site, and you pay the price into escrow.
The seller ships with tracking. You inspect and accept, and the escrow company pays the seller.

Start a deal

You’re the buyerEnter the seller’s email — they get their own private link to review and agree. Selling? Ask your buyer to start the deal.

Your full name

Your legal name, as on your ID (the escrow company verifies your identity). The seller sees it, and it is printed on the deal’s purchase agreement, emailed to you both with both parties’ names and full email addresses. The seller adds their own name when they agree. See our Privacy Policy.

Your email

Seller's email

Item Details (optional)

Agreed price (USD)

Was this sale made through a marketplace?

Yes No

Required. Choose Yes if you found each other or agreed the sale on an app or website; choose No for an in-person or direct sale. Your answer is recorded on the deal’s purchase agreement, which both parties receive and the escrow company may ask to see.

What the buyer pays

Enter a price to see the fees.

The escrow & service fees are the escrow company's fee (an estimate until the escrow company confirms it) plus GrailGuard's service fee, shown as one amount. The buyer pays all of these fees, so none of them comes out of the seller's price; the escrow company may deduct its own payout fee from the seller's payment, depending on how the seller chooses to be paid. If the item is rejected, GrailGuard does not keep its service fee. Both fees and their rates are set out in our Escrow Terms.

By continuing you also agree to the Escrow Terms. Nothing is charged by GrailGuard on this page.

Questions

Who holds the money?

A licensed third-party escrow company, named in our Escrow Terms. GrailGuard never touches it.

When does the seller get paid?

When the buyer accepts the item on the escrow company’s site. If the buyer neither accepts nor rejects, the escrow company finalizes acceptance after its inspection period (3 days) ends. With escrow protection on a Person ↔ Person GrailGuard booking, the buyer's "Intact" tap and signature at delivery is the acceptance.

What if the item is not as described?

The buyer rejects it on the escrow company’s site within the inspection period; the item goes back and the escrow company refunds the buyer under its escrow terms. GrailGuard does not keep its service fee.

I’m the seller — how do I start?

Ask your buyer to start the deal on this page with your email as the seller. You get your own private link to review the deal and agree.

Can GrailGuard deliver the item?

This page is for sales where the seller ships with tracking. For a GrailGuard hand-carry, book a Person ↔ Person delivery and add escrow protection at checkout (where offered); that booking follows our usual Terms and Coverage Policy.

Buy or sell a card, watch or collectible with the payment held by a licensed third-party escrow company (named in our Escrow Terms) until the item is accepted. GrailGuard LLC is the broker. GrailGuard never holds the money.

Escrow for high-value sales

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What the buyer pays

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Questions