The partner store
Becoming a partner of The Games Market is not about reselling an appraisal. It is about opening a business inside your business: a new revenue line, with the technical tools, the training and the experience of a network already at work.
"My customers ask for graded items and a grade the market actually recognizes. I cannot do the grading myself, but I want to be able to offer it in my store."
The partner store does not resell an appraisal: it opens a service inside its own walls, backed by an ISO 9001:2015 certified partner. The Games Market supplies the technical tools, the training for the people behind the counter and the network's case files: the partner does not start from scratch, it starts from where the other stores have already arrived.
What The Games Market brings to the partner
Technical tools
Access to TGM Nexus, the AI management platform, to the graded-only marketplace and to TGMGrading services. The technical infrastructure is the one The Games Market runs, ready and field tested.
Training
A program that starts with the grading scale and ends with the relationship with the collector. You learn how grading works and how to make it pay off on the shop floor.
Case studies from the network
What works at one partner becomes method for the others. Every store draws on a body of cases built across the TGM network, not on a theory manual.
Grading moves the numbers
What grading does to a store is not a theory. These are two concrete episodes told by The Games Market partners: what changes at a convention when the booth displays graded items, and what happens to a title that sat in the window for two years.
“Grading is not just a certification. It is marketing.”
Grading at a convention, according to NeoPlay
Partner NeoPlay shows up at the Montichiari convention with its usual booth: ungraded items, no display cases, no labels on show. The following week it brings the same booth to Como Fun, but with a section dedicated to TGM graded items. The gap between the two weekends says everything.
Grading does not act on the item, it acts on everything around it. The passerby stops, stays longer, trusts the catalog, and buys. Five multipliers working in a chain: attention, time, trust, conversion, revenue.
For the store it is one more business inside the business it already runs. For The Games Market it is a network growing store by store. An agreement where both sides grow.
A simple path, with support at every step
It starts with a conversation
We work out together what kind of store you are, what customers you have and what room there is for a graded line in your business. No abstract forms, a technical conversation with the people who run the network.
The tools go live
TGM Nexus, access to the graded marketplace and a direct channel with TGMGrading. The infrastructure moves into the store without rewriting what you already do.
The counter staff gets trained
Your people learn to read a label, to present a graded item, to handle a collector's request. It starts with the grading scale and ends with the sale.
You join the network
From that moment on, your store no longer works alone. It draws on the network's case files and helps build them, one case at a time.
The partner store does not start over: it starts from where the TGM network has already arrived. Tools, training and real cases, so that every counter works like an experienced partner from day one.
Bring your store into the TGM network
Technical tools, training and the case files of a network at work every day. Open a business inside the business you already have.