Hey guys, I am looking to order some cards online for states this weekend and was wondering where you guys buy your standard cards from? I personally try to stay away from SCG and I was going to order from TCG player but the shipping costs were kind of crazy.
So I guess the question is if I need to buy a deck worth of standard cards whats the best site to do it from in your opinion?
TCGPlayer is the best if you live in the US, you just have to centralize your orders to one or two stores. Shipping was like $1 for me when I got some cards shipped to a friend.
If you have the time (1-2 hours spread across 3-5 days), ebay is still the best option. You can check what completed listings are going for, get a feel for what a bargain price would be, and get something that is 10-15% below retail.
With that said, TCGplayer is getting quite good at keeping the variance from ebay at a minimum. There are even some cards that are worth buying on TCGplayer over ebay if you plan on hoarding before a price spike, i.e. Jace AoT a couple months ago, or deathrite shaman right now.
I'm surprised you're complaining about shipping at tcg. Are you ordering from a bunch if different vendors? If so see if you can buy everything from one or two vendors; it should lower your overall costs depending on how comparably cards are priced, and sometimes vendors give you free shipping when you spend a certain amount.
Usually if you buy stuff over 50 bucks the shipping is free. I think it is called SUPER SAVINGS offer. I can see it be a problem if a certain company doesn't have a card you need.
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ChannelFireball.com is where I usually buy from. I used to buy from CardKingdom.com, but I've noticed a lot of the prices are cheaper on ChannelFireball. Just my two cents.
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Hey guys, I am looking to order some cards online for states this weekend and was wondering where you guys buy your standard cards from? I personally try to stay away from SCG and I was going to order from TCG player but the shipping costs were kind of crazy.
So I guess the question is if I need to buy a deck worth of standard cards whats the best site to do it from in your opinion?
While usually more expensive, when they have sales or for certain MP or old cards, SCG are often cheaper than elsewhere and sometimes by a significant amount.
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So I guess the question is if I need to buy a deck worth of standard cards whats the best site to do it from in your opinion?
So I just get all my friends to make 1 huge order so that we spread out the shipping costs.
unfortunately it is not me that makes the order so I don't know where we get it from.
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With that said, TCGplayer is getting quite good at keeping the variance from ebay at a minimum. There are even some cards that are worth buying on TCGplayer over ebay if you plan on hoarding before a price spike, i.e. Jace AoT a couple months ago, or deathrite shaman right now.
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While usually more expensive, when they have sales or for certain MP or old cards, SCG are often cheaper than elsewhere and sometimes by a significant amount.