Frequently Asked Questions

Send in up to 2,500 of your Magic cards. We'll catalog and assess the value for each card, provide a full report of our work, and send payment to you. Our fee for this service is 10% of the total value we assess for your cards, plus $0.03 per card. We recommend filtering out bulk commons and basic lands in advance, as they are routinely not worth the cost to ship/process and removing them is a net benefit.

Send in up to 40,000 of your Magic cards. Our machines will separate cards with $0.50+ retail value for assessment, and those cards will be itemized in our report to you. The remaining cards will be paid at a flat bulk rate of $3/1000, regardless of rarity or finish. Our fee for this service is 5% of the total value we assess for your cards. You must separate your cards by finish (foil/nonfoil), remove any card sleeves, orient them to face the same direction, and pack them into individually rowed boxes. Note that there is a minimum quantity of 1,000 cards.

Only valuable cards ($0.50+ buylist) are eligible for our Curated Service. We'll catalog and assess the value for each card, provide a full report of our work, and send payment to you. Our fee is only 5% of the total value we assess for your cards. Refer to our price checker or our collection estimate tool to confirm your cards meet our $0.50+ buylist value requirement.

List and sort your cards in advance. We'll assess the condition and value, and provide a full report of our work. Our fee for this service is 2% of the total value we assess for your cards, with no per card fee. You can send up to 500 cards per shipment. After you create a Sorted Service shipment, you can use our selection tool to add eligible cards to your list.

We may expand to other card games in the future, but for now we only accept Magic cards.

Our service provides buylist (wholesale) value for your cards. We issue payment to you within days of completing our value assessment -- unlike consignment, where you would wait weeks or months for your items to sell at retail price.

Our total payout, even after subtracting our fee, has been an average of 19% better than what you would get from a single major retailer buylist. Vendors differ in the prices and cards they are interested in buying, and we are able to optimize for the best price while also saving you from the effort of checking prices, sorting cards, and submitting to multiple buylists. [based on an analysis of customer shipments against major retail buylists we work with, Sept 2021 - Jan 2022]

If your shipment has not yet been received, or has been received but we have not begun processing it, you can pay the shipping cost + insurance to have your shipment returned.

Our Auto-Sifted Service requires cards to be separated by finish (foil/nonfoil), unsleeved, oriented to face the same direction, and packed into row boxes. Failure to meet these requirements will make processing more difficult, and may result in a penalized bulk rate and a longer processing time. In some cases (e.g., where substances on the cards may damage our machines), we may return the shipment unprocessed.

90% of the cards in your Curated Service shipment should be at least $0.50 buylist value. If there are a significant number of cards falling short of our value criteria, we will need to apply the higher fees of our Standard Service when processing your shipment.

We recommend using our price checker or our collection estimate tool to verify the value of your cards.

After you select the cards you'd like to send to our Sorted Service, we will provide a list that indicates how the cards should be sorted (by set code, then name). Your cards should form a face-up stack where the top card is the top item in the list, and so on.

Once you have finalized the cards in your Sorted Shipment, we will provide a list for sorting purposes and you will be expected to organize your cards accordingly. If we find a few cards have been incorrectly sorted -- it's fine, mistakes happen! -- but if the sorting is seriously off we will need to apply the rates of our Curated Service instead.

Any differences between the cards you submitted and the cards we received will be detailed on your shipment report.

Our Estimate Tool will indicate whether your entire collection is eligible to send to our Curated Service. This is the easiest way to know for sure that your cards will meet our value criteria. In the event that your entire collection is not eligible for our Curated Service, our estimate tool report will also show the individual cards that are eligible so you have the option of separating them from the rest of your collection. Or you can spot check individual cards with our price checker.

Our Estimate Tool will indicate if your entire collection is eligible for our Curated Service. In some cases, your collection may be eligible even when there are several bulk/valueless cards. While normally we do not permit any low value cards in our Curated Service, our Estimate Tool has a tolerance for low value cards as long as the overall value of your collection meets our requirements.

Many of our retail buylisting partners limit the number of copies they will buy of any one card. And so, there can be diminishing returns when the best buylists have a quantity limit. In an effort to maintain price consistency, and to minimize such disappointment, we limit submissions to 40 copies of any single card.

Please limit Standard shipments to 2,500 cards (equivalent to 10lbs/4.5kg) and Auto-Sifted shipments to 40,000 cards. Do not register multiple shipments to work around this limitation. We can make exceptions: Please reach out to support@cardconduit.com to discuss your cards in more detail. In most cases, Standard shipments that exceed 2,500 cards will have better financial results as a Auto-Sifted shipment.

Sorted Shipments are limited to 500 cards, but you are welcome to submit multiple Sorted Shipments. Just be sure they are clearly separated, labeled, and independently sorted per our instructions.

Our services are geared towards paying a great buylist price for your Magic cards. We're unable to offer a cataloging-only service at this time.

Our customers are welcome to contribute a review once we have completed shipment processing and issued payment. We do not offer any incentives such as discounts for writing a review, and all reviews on our website were voluntarily contributed by customers who used our service. Customers choose what name appears on their review, and whether to include details like their total payout and fees, or a link to their shipment's stats page. We don't edit reviews, but we may have to remove one if it contains very offensive language.

Our service pays buylist (wholesale) value to our customers, and many of the cards we process are forwarded to our buylisting partners. In many cases, however, we opt to sell cards via our retail brand Spellfinder.

We provide our full shipping address and instructions during the shipment registration process.

Note that we changed our shipping address in December 2024. Our previous address in Salt Lake City is still being supported for customers who have shipments in transit.

Our shipping guide includes suggestions for packaging, shipping carriers, and other tips to ensure your cards reach us securely and without damage. We must receive cards in an orderly fashion, so please be sure to package them securely. Our Auto-Sifted service has specific shipment preparation required, including separating foil/non-foil cards, removing sleeves, orienting all cards in the same direction, and packing them in rowed boxes (see our Terms for full details).

There will be an additional fee of $20 if your shipment contains (100+) sleeved cards, and another $20 for each additional 500 sleeved cards within your shipment. This fee helps offset labor costs of de-sleeving cards, and we hope encourages customers to de-sleeve their cards before sending them. Sleeves do not provide additional protection to cards in transit, and in fact are more likely to cause card damage.

It's not uncommon for customers to send multiple shipments in one box (and to combine our different services at the same time). To do so, register separate shipments in our system, and be sure to clearly separate/label them with the appropriate Shipment ID in the box.

We accept shipments from outside the US, but you should expect little to no value for non-English cards. Any tariffs assessed must be paid directly by you.

Requiring signature on your shipment is not a problem.

Shipping is your responsibility and we recommend you get insurance.

Our hours to receive in-person drop-offs are between 12pm and 5pm Mon-Fri at the North entry door (left door when facing our building). Simply ring the bell and someone will accept the package from you. Dropoffs must be property sealed and include your name and shipment ID on the exterior of the package.

You will be prompted to select your payment method when registering a shipment. Our maximum Zelle payment is $3,000. Also be aware that PayPal transactions are in USD and have a fee (usually 3-4%).

The time necessary to complete processing and send your full report is up to 7 business days, depending on the service you choose.

If we are experiencing heavy volume, processing may take slightly longer, in which case we will contact you with an estimated timeframe.

Payment is issued within 3 business days, but may be delayed if your shipment has exceptionally valuable/unique cards, in which case you will be contacted directly about the reason for delay and the timeline for your payment.

Before issuing payment, we like to give customers an opportunity to review their results and communicate any questions or concerns.

If you've received your report and don't have any questions, you can choose to move into our payment queue, in which case we will issue payment on the next business day.

A searchable version of the report will be available via our website, as well as a CSV spreadsheet you can download. The report will include the condition of each non-bulk card.

Along with the report, we will provide a summary of the total amounts and our fees. Sometimes there are non-card items we could not process normally -- such as sealed booster packs -- and these will be listed separately as "miscellaneous items".

We use a 3rd-Party check issuing company and 7 business days is the standard delivery estimate within the continental US. There is limited tracking via USPS business class mail scans, but we're unable to provide tracking information to customers directly at this time. If you have been waiting over 8 days since payment was issued, you can contact support@cardconduit.com and we'll be happy to investigate for you.

We realize many customers would like an opportunity to review how we've assessed and graded their cards. All shipments will be "held for review" so you can look over the results once processed. Once your report is received, we ask that you either move the shipment to the payment queue (no issues), reach out to our team (to discuss issues), or request that your shipment be returned to you without further processing. We request that you review our report promptly (within a couple days).

When you request a shipment be returned, we will cover the cost to ship the items back to you. All returns will be sent with a signature required, and you accept any risk of loss/damage during transit.

Processing cards is labor intensive, and returning them means we are unable to recoup our costs. If you are unhappy with the results of your shipment, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us so we can provide evidence supporting our decisions, and hopefully reach an agreeable solution. Return of your cards should be your last resort. Significant use of the option to return cards may result in us requiring that you cover the cost of returned shipments. Excessive use of the option to return may result in our inability to accept future shipments from you.

Once you've indicated that you'd like to receive payment for your shipment, it is infeasible to request a return.

Because we are not a payment processor, we are not required to, nor do we report payments made to you via 1099. It is up to you to handle accounting and filing for any income you may have related to your sale.

Our Standard Service is for cards of any value, and fees are 10% of the total value we assess for your cards, plus $0.03 per card.

Our Curated Service is for valuable cards only ($0.50+ buylist), and fees are 5% of the total value we assess for your cards, with no per card fee.

Our Sorted Service is for valuable cards ($0.50+ buylist) you have selected and sorted in advance, and fees are 2% of the total value we assess for your cards, with no per card fee.

There will be an additional fee of $20 if your shipment contains (100+) sleeved cards, and another $20 for each additional 500 sleeved cards within your shipment. This fee helps offset labor costs of de-sleeving cards, and we hope encourages customers to de-sleeve their cards before sending them. Sleeves do not provide additional protection to cards in transit, and in fact are more likely to cause card damage.

You would not receive any payout from your collection, but you would also not owe us any additional fees to cover the deficit.

Our per-card fee applies to every card we process for your report, even the cards worth nothing. This fee is for the labor involved with processing your shipment. We recommend filtering out cards that are typically not worth the processing fees, such as nonfoil commons and basic lands, prior to sending in to our service.

This means that some bulk (such as bulk commons and uncommons) would have a net negative impact on your final payout for the cards you ship to us. You can find our bulk rates in our terms.

The best way to avoid needless processing fees is to filter out your nonfoil commons and basic lands prior to sending in to our service. These categories of cards are generally not worth the shipping cost, fees, or labor.

Card value is an optimized amount based on the prices being paid by our buylist partners, the card's condition, and other market factors. Buylist prices reflect the amount retailers are generally willing to pay at wholesale for the card. It differs from retail prices since it reflects the shipping and transaction costs, overhead and expected margin for a card. "Optimized buylist" means we are optimizing prices across multiple sources and market factors such that we're able to offer better average buylist pricing than any one retailer in the market. Prices are not locked in until the cards have been processed.

We utilize buylists from a variety of major vendors, as well as smaller buying partners, some of which are not publicly available. In many cases, we opt to sell cards outside a traditional buylist.

We apply the TCGplayer condition standards regarding wear, scratches, clouding, indentations, and various other criteria to assess the condition of your cards to one of: Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, Heavily Played, Damaged, or Rejected (no value/counterfeit). This condition assessment will appear on your itemized report (for non-bulk cards).

We recommend customers review the TCGplayer Condition Guide for a detailed breakdown of the various criteria when grading cards. When appraising your own cards, we recommend using a bright white LED light, and be sure to remove cards from sleeves, remember to inspect the back, and check the card at various angles to discover wear that may be harder to see. Feel free to reach out to our support team for more information, or for explanations of condition grading once you've received your report.

Usually cards that are in very high supply, or with little or no demand. These cards will still have a retail value, but they are not being purchased in the wholesale market and have no buylist value.

In the vast majority of cases sending a shipment of pure bulk won't be worth the shipping fees (or our labor fees) to process.

If you have a fair amount of bulk in your collection, we recommend filtering out the nonfoil commons and basic lands prior to sending to our Standard Service. In the vast majority of cases, commons and basic lands are not worth the cost of shipping and are not worth our labor/fees to process. If there are specific commons you are sure have buylist market value, those are fine to send.

Bulk rates (moderately played condition or better):

Bulk cards in heavily played or worse condition are assessed at $0.

We do not purchase non-English cards, except when the card's original version was non-English (e.g., Strixhaven Mystical Archive cards were printed in Japanese). Unfortunately, non-English cards in the US have very few outlets when buylisting. Rather than shipping non-English cards to us, we recommend the Foreign High-End Foil MTG and the Non-English MTG Facebook groups for selling your high value non-English cards.

Most vendors consider artist-signed cards to be Heavily Played or Damaged condition (regardless of actual wear and tear) and will not purchase them. The vendors who do purchase signed cards will only buy them if in Near Mint condition, and even then they will downgrade their buy price (typically applying their Lightly Played or Moderately Played price). Typically we don't recommend sending them in to our service, as there is a risk they will not return much value, but we will of course process them to the best of our ability if you choose to include them in your shipment.

Unfortunately, most US vendors do not purchase Altered Art cards. The ones that do tend to grade them as "Damaged" (Even if they're otherwise in pristine condition) and so at best we'll see is 25% of Near Mint value given. So while, yes, we can accept them, in most cases you'll get better value soliciting offers from some of the various Facebook groups that deal with Altered Art cards such as the High End MTG Alters group. There are numerous others, so your best bet would be to solicit multiple or find one the fits the niche your Altered Art cards belong.

We do not process tokens, and those items will not appear in your itemized report.

Unfortunately, cards with strong or unusually heavy smells permeating them such as smoke, mold, or mildew, are unable to be liquidated/sold wholesale and in extreme cases will be returned to you. In some of these situations there are remedies available around the web, however, they can be time consuming and so are not a service we're able to provide here.

Some of our buying partners have limitations on the quantity they'll accept of a specific card. If you send several copies of the same card, we may need to sell copies to more than one partner at different prices.

Our business is set up to maximize the value of your cards by utilizing large, reliable buylist vendors and understanding the grading condition we apply. If you feel the consistency of our grading is off, please reach out to us to request we give it a second look. Additionally, we are always willing to review specific items of concern to further explain our valuation/grading process, and provide any additional details we can to help you understand the basis for our conclusions.

If you feel the assessed value of an item is incorrect, please let us know and we will ensure our system has assigned an appropriate price for your item(s).

Whatever condition we assess in our customer report is the same condition we use when reselling the cards.

We are always on the lookout for reliable, responsive vendors with extensive buylists to add to our sales outlet options. Reach out to us at support@cardconduit.com to discuss being included.

We do have a limited affiliate program. If you're interested in becoming an affiliate, please reach out to us at support@cardconduit.com

We'd like to work with any charity or organization that can put Magic cards to a positive non-commercial use. Please reach out to us at support@cardconduit.com.

We have special handling for cards deemed culturally insensitive or otherwise problematic by WoTC. Our customers will receive buylist value for such cards, just like any other card they send to us. On our side, however, any proceeds generated through the subsequent sale of these cards will be donated to charity. For 2024 we donated $4800 to support The College Settlement of Philadelphia.