It does, which is why I don’t want to vault anymore. I was vaulting and doing larger combined shipments, but I’d rather get the cards faster if shipping is gonna be this slow. Haven’t won anything in the past couple of auctions so maybe by the time I win something they’ll fix their shipping speeds, we’ll see.
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Retrieved one card from my vault that I sold on ebay. I placed the order on the 5th, it’s now the 17th with zero action. Every time something like this happens I think, why do I store my cards with these morons…
Fanatics Collect have recently changed sold item csv exports, less than a few months ago, to have reduced features such as seller net and sale date and appraisal %. I am uncertain why this has happened. I have emailed Fanatics Collect multiple times, including once having requested an ETA , with no ETA provided. Additionally, it appears paid items marked in green( at least regarding buynow ) are not immediately reflected in the Accounting section, nor reflected in wallet immediately.
I had asked if there were an alternative to get an export of seller net and date, which the response was that there wasn’t.
Here they responded with what caused the change but not why, as I had asked.
Despite email claiming priority as much as possible, it has been over 5 weeks since initial email I made notifying them of the issue, it has since not been fixed. This was a previous feature already available before the changes they made.
Before: CSV export includes seller net, and sale date and % of appraised value.
After: CSV export of sold items on buynow no longer includes seller net and only shows the sale price under “listing_price” (you cannot simply apply -12% or -6% obviously due to some being eligible and some not being eligible to the 6% fee.) Despite it not showing
Sale date is missing.
Edit: despite this csv saying “listing_price” only with no mention of sales, I assure that this actually the sold items export, not active listings.
If you are also affected by this, please could you email Fanatics Collect support to push the return of previous removed functionality:
cs@fanaticscollect.com.
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Anyone used this option when it comes to return cards from the Vault?
Will I get UK taxes on the value of the cards on return to UK, I had a lot of cards stored at the vault for several years, and the value is no double since I sent it, will I get tax on my today value when they arrive to UK?
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It’s easy to manipulate Fanatics BINs to create FOMO to trick people to buy at your listing price. I have seen several items where there is an offer 100 dollars less than the BIN, but the offer sits for 2 days to expire.
For example EX Dragon Dragonite PSA 10 had a 7.9k offer, listed at 8k, 7.9 offer expired. I suspect someone making a 7.9k offer on an 8k card wants the card and would just pay the 100 dollars rather than let someone snipe it.
Can’t say I am surprised Fanatics is doing something else that is anti-consumer. Even if this particular instance is a real offer the seller missed, it’s objectively abusable. (inb4 replies blaming buyers for falling for it instead of blaming the billion dollar company).
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How can you really blame anyone though? If there was blame to place, who would you pick?
Genuine question, I’m honestly curious because I see this situation from the perspective of “if I wanted the card and I could afford it then I’ll buy it no matter the cost”. That may not make sense to some but I also subscribe to “time in the market” vs. “timing the market”. You obviously cannot help to do that at some level, “time in” will also help you make sense of obvious listings priced with speculation in mind, but I don’t see the platform or the seller as the guilty party as anyone can theoretically shop anywhere to buy cards.
I don’t also think it is a situation of “seller’s card, seller’s rules”, if that makes it any more clear. I truly would not know who to blame there as Pokémon cards are inherently a consumer product, it’s “par for the course” as they say. I hope that makes sense.
i blame Fanatics for showing exact offer numbers. this doesn’t work the same way on ebay, since ebay doesnt show the exact #, just that there is another offer
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That makes total sense, you are very right, “active offers” on eBay are easy to ignore as a buyer since you have no idea what they are/if the seller would have even taken it at all. That clears it for me, I do sincerely appreciate that a lot.
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i hope ebay is paying you bro
the reality is there are 2 major competitors, so it makes sense to compare them to each other. Alt is better than fanatics here too but no one uses Alt BIN.
did you design the “transparency” feature on Fanatics? 
Why do you think someone offered 7.9k for it? I’d assume the 7.9k offer on a listed 8k card is the seller’s counter offer to a buyer.
The wording is vague - “X offer being considered, act fast”, but you’re right, it could be in the other direction.
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Making a CGC submission through Fanatics. It is going to be 7 cards. If I value them at $100 each, do I put $100 or $700 in the estimated value box? Also, will what I put in the value box help avoid the $3/per card fee for value under $50? They are error cards that have no sales history (1 of 1s really). I am doing the grade, vault, then list buy it now option.
It does say enter total value!
No it won’t make a difference, in theory that would be based on the Fanatics appraised value, but I’ve actually never been charged the fee as long as the cards are listed within 30 days.
Wow, I missed the grey text inside the box, I see it now. Thanks for the help
I graded a few hundred CGC and PSA through Fanatics last year. I was expecting to pay that extra $3/card on a few dozen cards that I ended up either never listing or had sent back to me. They never charged it on anything even though they certainly could have.
Thanks for the additional info! At $10 per card and priority grading without paying a membership fee feels like a steal.