RipRip is winding down — cash out your balance by 30 November
The Pokémon rip site has replaced its pack shop with a single page asking players to withdraw their funds. Here's how to get yours out, and what 21,788 paid openings looked like while it ran.
RipRip is closing. The Pokémon rip site has taken down its packs and replaced its homepage with one message: your balance is still yours, and you can cash it out until 30 November 2026.
Sign in at riprip.io and withdraw your balance before 30 November 2026. If you signed in with Phantom, RipRip says your funds are already in your own wallet and there's nothing to do.
How to get your money out
- Go to riprip.io and sign in. The page shows your balance once you're in, with the cash-out button beside it.
- Signed in with Phantom? Then your funds already sit in your own wallet, according to RipRip, so there's nothing to withdraw.
- Waiting on a card, or stuck on a withdrawal? Email [email protected]. The notice only talks about balances, so if a card is still on its way to you, ask them about it directly.
- Don't leave it to the last week. RipRip's terms allow a payout to be held for manual review, and 30 November is the cut-off.
What RipRip was
A Pokémon-only rip site with its idea in the name: rip it and ship it. You bought a digital booster, it revealed one real card, and you either had the card posted to you or sold it straight back at 90% of RipRip's own valuation. Seven packs, from the $10 All-Stars to the $1,000 Celestial.
It was one of the more open sites we tracked. Every pack showed its odds as value buckets that added up to 100%, and its daily fairness proofs held up when we ran the check ourselves.
What we recorded
We followed RipRip's live feed from July until it went quiet in October, and pulled its history back to April. Across the 8,515 paid openings where we know the price, players put in $316,520 and pulled cards RipRip valued at $309,624 — an average return of 97.8%, close to the 100% target it published on every pack. Nearly one rip in three came back worth more than the pack it came out of.
| Pack | Price | Openings | Average return | Best card |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All-Stars | $10 | 4,942 | 100.6% | $148 |
| Holo Hunters | $25 | 1,710 | 99.6% | $579 |
| Elite Four | $50 | 903 | 100.8% | $1,999 |
| Champion | $100 | 662 | 97.4% | $468 |
| Legendary | $250 | 210 | 95.4% | $850 |
| Mythical | $500 | 55 | 96.9% | $1,595 |
| Celestial | $1,000 | 33 | 92.8% | $2,100 |
The hits worth remembering
- $1,999 from a $50 pack. A 1997 Japanese Topsun blue-back Machoke, PSA 10, out of an Elite Four on 30 August — forty times the pack price, the best multiple we saw there.
- The biggest card: $2,100. A 1999 Japanese movie-promo Ancient Mew with the 'Nintedo' misprint, CGC 10, from a $1,000 Celestial on 16 August.
- $579 from a $25 pack. A Detective Pikachu Black Star promo, PSA 10, from Holo Hunters on 17 July.
- $148 from a $10 pack. A 1st Edition Neo Genesis Kingdra holo, CGC 8, from All-Stars on 2 September.
How it wound down
| Month | Paid openings | Spent |
|---|---|---|
| July (from the 16th) | 2,465 | $87,510 |
| August | 2,973 | $122,110 |
| September | 1,733 | $60,435 |
| October (to the 19th) | 1,344 | $46,465 |
August was the busiest month we measured. Openings slowed through September and October, the last paid opening came through on 19 October, and by the start of November the pack shop had given way to the cash-out page.
We've taken RipRip off our boards. If you're looking for somewhere else to rip Pokémon, every pack we measure is ranked by what it actually returns — the links below go straight there.