+22%
Pilot Margin Lift
Placeholder benchmark from early operator pilots
About RetroSwap
Built to make high-volume retro retail predictable.
Stop making customers wait while your staff juggles PriceCharting tabs, messy spreadsheets, and texting the boss for a trade-in value.
RetroSwap turns high-pressure counter interactions into a consistent 90-second professional appraisal.
Consistent, transparent pricing earns repeat business in local communities and reduces counter haggling before it starts.
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7m -> 1m 50s
Trade-In Appraisal Time
Placeholder median workflow improvement
94%
Pricing Consistency
Placeholder internal consistency scoring
6 channels
Channel Sync Coverage
Inventory and pricing sync touchpoints
Operational Reality
Busy Saturdays expose every weak point in improvised pricing.
Stop making customers wait while staff juggle PriceCharting tabs, messy spreadsheets, and texting the boss for a trade-in value. RetroSwap turns a high-pressure counter interaction into a 90-second professional appraisal.
Counter Scenario
Consistency builds trust in your local community. When staff can show transparent, repeatable grading and pricing logic on-screen, haggling drops and close rates improve.
Faster line movement at the counter
Confident quotes from first-week hires
One policy across every shift
01
Slow intake and grading
PriceCharting tabs, manual lookups, and condition checks turn trade-ins into bottlenecks during busy Saturday rushes.
02
Inconsistent buy/sell decisions
Different staff make different calls for the same item, creating margin leakage and trust issues at the counter.
03
Fragmented operational stack
Pricing, inventory, and channel workflows live in separate tools, which causes stale data, duplicate work, and texting the boss for approvals.
How We Work
One operating loop: intake, value, operate.
RetroSwap centers workflows around what store teams actually do during intake, repricing, and cross-channel updates.
01
Intake
Guided intake catches every key variant and condition signal before the item reaches the quote stage.
Front-counter teams stop missing details like Greatest Hits distinctions, inserts, and manual completeness.
02
Value
Market-backed guardrails convert your margin targets into a consistent buy/sell spread for every appraisal.
Supervisors can set policy once and trust first-week hires to price like veteran staff.
03
Operate
Sync inventory and pricing updates through POS and connected channels.
Your catalog stays coherent across storefront and marketplaces.
Proof
Early results from operator pilot cohorts.
These are placeholder benchmarks from pilot environments and will be replaced with public case-study metrics, including named multi-location case studies.
Pilot placeholders: references below represent pilot-style examples, not public customer endorsements.
Consistent, explainable pricing logic builds loyalty in local markets by removing quote-to-quote uncertainty.
Trusted by operator teams at
Classic Quest Games
Replay Planet
8Bit Vault
Pixel Haven
Cartridge Corner
Save Point Exchange
3.4x
Repricing Throughput
Placeholder increase in weekly repricing capacity
+18%
Stock Accuracy Delta
Placeholder improvement after sync standardization
-61%
Manual Research Cut
Placeholder reduction in title-by-title lookup time
4.7/5
Counter Offer Confidence
Placeholder operator confidence rating
Placeholder: margin variance down 19%
"Before RetroSwap, our two locations were accidentally competing on price. Now, a price update at HQ reflects across every shelf and every Shopify listing instantly."
Leah P.
Operations Lead · Multi-location chain
Placeholder: appraisal cycle down 63%
"Trade-ins no longer stall our line. Staff have a repeatable flow and our pricing disputes dropped fast."
Marcus V.
Owner · Single-location retro shop
Team Principles
We build for real shift constraints, not ideal demos.
Product decisions are anchored in field feedback from owners, buyers, and front-counter operators.
Practical Over Flashy
We optimize for the next busy Saturday shift, not demo-only features.
Consistency Over Guesswork
You should not need a decade of gaming history to run the front counter. Workflows are built so first-week hires can execute with confidence.
Operator Feedback Loops
Store teams shape roadmap priorities through direct workflow feedback from owners, buyers, and rotating shift staff.
120+
Operator Interviews
300+
Workflow Iterations
10k+
Catalog Decisions/day
Live
AI-Assisted Triage
Unified
Inventory Touchpoints
Who We Serve
Focused on teams with meaningful SKU and trade-in complexity.
If your catalog changes often and pricing consistency matters every day, you are likely a strong fit.
Independent Retro Stores
Single-location teams that need tighter buy/sell discipline without adding overhead.
Best fit: Owner-operated shops handling frequent trade-ins.
Not ideal: You only sell sealed inventory with fixed-price sourcing.
Multi-Location Chains
Growing operators who need one operating model across stores and shared inventory decisions.
Best fit: Businesses with transfer and repricing coordination challenges.
Not ideal: Each location runs as a completely independent business unit.
Online-First Sellers
Catalog-heavy sellers balancing listing velocity, grading consistency, and margin protection.
Best fit: Teams managing frequent listing updates across channels.
Not ideal: You only run occasional hobby sales with low SKU volume.
Next Step
Make pricing policy executable across every shift.
Start with your current intake and repricing workflow, then standardize decisions without slowing down the floor.
Trusted by retro store operators, floor teams, and pricing leads.