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I don’t think that it would help that much. Merchants don’t grade the cards so what a seller could consider lp/mp troll could say NM.
the merchants don’t grade their own cards?
The merchants do grade their own cards. But, according to Troll and Toad, they make sure the cards the merchants send to them are in line with their own condition standards.
I have never graded a single card that I have sent in. It only allows you to mark them as near mint when you ship and they adjust them as they see fit.
Don’t you get 2 days to return the cards if you’re not satisfied? I’ve sent back cards before.
Weird; I recalled reading on their website that the merchant grades the cards, and T&T just checks condition. Interesting. I haven’t noticed basically any difference between EVO sellers and T&T cards, so I guess that explains that.
But, then again, they only have two different conditions (NM and Played) so I guess by allowing you to mark cards NM they are effectively letting you grade the cards.
yeah I have sent some back but they have a few I might want if I could trust some of these random merchants quality report. It is a lot more diverse than the ones from TT them self
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Are you sending cards to sell to TT and for them to consign?
I’m listed as a EVO Merchant on the site. I am a small time seller there, only around 30k cards listed at any time.
When I registered I sent them a list of questions and this was the response from the customer service.
- How do I list light play/played cards? All I see are near mint.
Thank you for joining our EVO Merchant program! All items are graded once they are received at our warehouse. So when you make a shipment all items are listed as near-mint condition and then adjusted by us later once they are processed.
@modestmudkip , I used them once and my experience was generally ok. However one of the card on my cart was base set Nidoking as Near-Mint from Bill&Ogre Evo merchant and I got the card with a little crease in the middle. That card should have been Moderately Played at best. So there are mistakes here and there I guess.
Hey can anyone tell me why they don’t show pictures of the actual card? I noticed a few sites do this. But I’ve had to send back a few cards that had huge crease’s thru different sites but this wouldn’t happen if it had a picture
@mcorey777, I’ve been wondering this as well. I think these large sites avoid pictures so they’re able to sell as much product as quickly as possible. Of course there are going to be instances where a buyer is unhappy with the card received and wants to send it back, but these sites are probably thinking, “I’d rather post without pictures and sell 100 cards and run the risk that 15-20 of those cards come back as returns than list cards with pictures and sell only 30-40 cards but have only 1-2 returns.” As you alluded to in your post, you wouldn’t have bought that card had you looked at a picture of it and noticed the creases. But for every 1 person returning a card for a refund, there’s a greater number of people out there who decide not to return it, whether that’s because they’re satisfied enough with the value of the card they received, or the time and hassle of sending the card back to get a refund is just not worth it to them. Both these instances of course depend on the price paid. Also, it would take a lot of time to upload pictures of every card in their inventory front and back only to open themselves up to buyers scrutinizing their cards more, which is the last thing they want because they won’t sell as much.
This is just my opinion however so I’m curious to read what others think! I know it may come off rather cynical but looking at it from the perspective of one of these sites that sells thousands of cards weekly, maybe even daily, this makes sense to me. Anyway, I decided to buy some cards a few days ago from T&T to see for myself if these near mint cards are truly near mint. Fingers crossed!
Also, I know, holy run-on sentences, Batman. It’s a bad habit of mine. 
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