Customer Reviews
of our Magic collection selling service
Jason Coulson
Review left Oct 17 2024
Second time using, Not that great. Pricing is meh.
Review
Used this service once before had a good experience (only reason im giving 3 stars). Grading seemed on par with tcg at the time. This time around however, different story. Cards sold to me NM from TCGDirect, graded a MP? (that means i should take up issue with tcg about their quality they sent me?) Either way, the drastic drop in price for a MP vs NM is astounding (whats this pokemon?). Thought id be receiving around $50, (generously) would've been MP on everything according to their chart, yet somehow I came in even lower at $37. For $6 each on foil Crushing Brutality secret lair swamps ill buy them back. And any extras you have at that, ill even do better than your buylist, ill pay $8 (I mean I was only buying them at $20, ill buy them at less than half price all day). Could've fire sold everything for half price on facebook and made out better than this. This is a drastic difference in experiences using this service. To be transparent the other cards in this particular shipment were graded about right, mostly, even gave me a NM where I would've graded a LP. But $6 on those Foil Swamps is laughable.
Card Conduit Team
Replied Oct 17 2024
We understand the frustration associated with getting grades that you weren't expecting. If that happens, you should always reach out to us to discuss - we can provide additional support for the grades, and do our best to get on the same page. We want to assist you if your expectations have not been met.
To address the questions in the review:
- Yes, the issue could have been taken up with TCGPlayer. They frequently provide partial refunds for incorrectly graded items.
- Markdowns for foils tend to be more significant than for non-foils. In this case, the 25% markdown per condition is the resulting markdown, though it isn't always that severe. Buyers of foils tend to put more scrutiny on grades, and the price differences reflect the desirability lower condition foils have (which is typically true when the collectability matters - as seen in Pokemon).
To address the questions in the review:
- Yes, the issue could have been taken up with TCGPlayer. They frequently provide partial refunds for incorrectly graded items.
- Markdowns for foils tend to be more significant than for non-foils. In this case, the 25% markdown per condition is the resulting markdown, though it isn't always that severe. Buyers of foils tend to put more scrutiny on grades, and the price differences reflect the desirability lower condition foils have (which is typically true when the collectability matters - as seen in Pokemon).
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