Card Shop
Security Assessments
Five Phoenix-area card shops have been burglarized since last October. At one north Phoenix store a rock came through a corner window at 1:50 a.m. and the entire Pokémon inventory was gone in under five minutes. Sealed product carries no serial numbers, sells instantly, and stacks five figures into a backpack, which is why these shops keep getting picked. We assess your store the way somebody selecting a target would, then rank the fixes by what changes their math. We sell no hardware.
What We Test
Untraceable Sealed Inventory
Sealed booster boxes have no serial numbers and no registry, so stolen product is indistinguishable from legitimate stock the moment it leaves. That is the property making you a target.
Storefront Sightlines
A wall of sealed product visible through the glass after hours advertises the payout to anyone walking past. We assess what your window shows at night.
Smash and Grab Speed
These are sub-minute crimes against glass doors. We measure how much value a thief clears per second on your floor and what moves that number.
Camera Placement vs Coverage
Most shops aim everything at the entrance and capture excellent footage of a masked person. We assess whether your angles produce anything investigable.
Overnight Storage
The highest-value change in this category is where the sealed product sleeps. We assess safes, interior rooms, and the closing routine that has to survive a busy Friday.
Events & Open Floor Days
Tournament nights put strangers, backpacks, and distracted staff in the same room as the inventory. We assess crowd days separately from retail hours.
How We Approach It
A card shop audit starts outside on the sidewalk, because target selection happens days before the door breaks. We look at what your storefront advertises after close, where the sealed product sits overnight, whether your cameras produce evidence a detective can actually work, and how long a smash and grab would take to pay off. Then we rank the findings by time-to-defeat and cost, so the cheap changes that break the economics come first and the capital spend comes last, if at all.
Structured walk-through assessment against the full control framework, exterior and interior, plus an external network vulnerability scan. The baseline every facility should have on file.
Full adversarial engagement: unannounced physical penetration attempts, social entry testing, and converged penetration testing of the network. You learn what a real adversary learns, before one does.
Conflict-free by design: we sell no hardware and no software, so every finding is unbiased. Compare all assessment tiers.
Common Questions
Is this only about burglary?
No. Burglary is the headline because four Valley shops have been hit since October, but we also assess theft during tournament and open-play days, backroom access, and the closing routine, which is where most shrinkage actually happens.
Do I need to buy a safe or new cameras?
Maybe, and we will tell you honestly if you do not. We sell no hardware and take no vendor commissions, so the recommendation is ranked by what changes an adversary behavior for the least money. Moving inventory off the sales floor overnight usually beats a capital purchase.
My shop is small. Is an assessment worth it?
The Tempe shop lost about $7,000 in one night, and sealed inventory appreciates while a policy written at opening often does not. An assessment costs a fraction of a single incident and usually surfaces changes you can make the same week at no cost.
Who is this for?
Trading card shops, comic and collectibles retailers, coin and bullion dealers, sports memorabilia stores, and hobby shops across the Phoenix metro holding high-value, low-traceability inventory.
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