Slab Factory - Sports and Trading Cards

Slab Factory - Sports and Trading Cards is a card shop at 2527 E Clairemont Ave in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, with a second location in Madison. It is built around graded cards and singles, with sports cards, Pokémon and One Piece Card Game as the core, and the Pokémon side reaches well into high-end vintage slabs. It suits collectors hunting graded pieces and chase cards more than someone looking for a casual play night.

What's on the shelves

Sports cards are sold as slabs and raw singles across baseball, football, basketball and other sports. Recent stock includes modern Bowman Chrome and Panini Prizm, Select and similar releases, with serial-numbered parallels and autograph cards priced from about $150 into the thousands.

Pokémon is the deepest category. The Pokémon slabs and singles collection runs to 145 products, 109 of them in stock, and covers both PSA and CGC graded cards. The top end is serious: a PSA 7 Mew Gold Star Holo EX from Dragon Frontiers sits at $22,000, and Gold Star Gyarados cards from Holon Phantoms are priced in the five figures. Modern chase cards are here too, including Umbreon EX special illustration rares from Prismatic Evolutions in PSA 10 and TAG 10 slabs. A newer Pokémon singles section covers lower-priced cards.

One Piece Card Game has its own section for slabs and singles, though the slab collection was empty at last check. The shop also sells sealed Pokémon product, with Japanese booster boxes such as Shiny Treasure EX 1 at $69.99 and Mega Dream at $134.99. Magic: The Gathering is among the games the shop is associated with.

Supplies round out the stock: toploaders, BCW sleeves, magnetic holders, binders and cases. Gift cards are available, and the store takes offers on products. A breaks section exists but currently has nothing listed.

Store policies

Sealed and opened card products, including boxes and packs, cannot be returned. Supplies such as binders and toploaders can be returned in their original condition with proof of purchase, but a return has to be requested first, because items sent back without approval are not accepted. Approved refunds go back to the original payment method within 10 business days. Sale items and gift cards are not returnable.

Orders over $149.99 ship free. Customers can sign up for promotional text messages, which run up to four per month.

Getting there

The shop is at 2527 E Clairemont Ave in Eau Claire, on the city's Clairemont Avenue commercial strip. Video Game Star shares the same stretch, and Clairemont Comics is about 0.2 miles away, so a visit can easily double as a short crawl.

The local scene

Eau Claire has a handful of other game and card stores within a few miles. Coulee Cards & Gaming and Games by James are each about 1.7 miles away, with a second Games by James entry about 1.8 miles out. No weekly events or organized-play programs are confirmed for Slab Factory, so players looking for regular tournament nights will want to pair a visit here with one of those stores.