Good afternoon everyone, I found a card today on CardMarket that is a major collection goal of mine. However, I can’t purchase the card because it requires a EU address. Is there a way around this for a American? Maybe a shipping service that forwards package to the states? The card I’m looking to purchase is the French Birthday Pikachu Black Star. I guess the simplest thing would be to find a European middleman service. I’ve never had a reason to use one so I’m in the dark on options. Any suggestions and ideas would be great.
I’ve used mailboxde to get lots of things sent to me in the US from cardmarket and eBay DE before. They charge like $2 in fees + like $1 in customs paperworks and then shipping to wherever you are per package. You can pay for them to consolidate packages to save on shipping but there’s an additional charge.
However long cardmarket shipping is to their warehouse and then you pick the speed of shipping to you (scaling price). I believe they offer insurance up to $1k for an additional charge
Just so people are aware. I know you need an address in the U.K, but when I buy off of cardmarket Ive messaged the seller of a card if they can just ship to my U.S. address and they are usually fine as long as I can pay for the shipping, etc. Solution has been found, but its always nice to just send a message.
Just a headsup since you originally talked about EU, UK isn’t part of the EU anymore so if ordered from EU country some import fees are expected to be paid
yes, sorry I should have mentioned this is a possibility. Although, most cardmarket sellers typically mark things as a gift even without asking, based on my experience. Plus, cardmarket doesn’t collect import automatically so it’ll only matter if the card value is over £160, where it’ll be charged at entry to the country (no idea if this is the case here).