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Buy graded cards next time
I’ve consistently had the opposite experience. I’ve sent hundreds of buylists to T&T (both Pokemon and MTG) and they basically never ding me on condition. The worst I’ve ever been dinged is like 15%.
But I’m also very careful not to send in non-NM cards, for precisely this reason. They offer zero transparency for how much their condition downgrades are. Sometimes they offer like 5% of NM value for a played card and sometimes they offer like 90% of NM value. I just don’t even bother buylisting them non-NM cards.
Thats not too bad, they do all the work, listing, storing, shipping, customer service. I would have taken the $100 lost
Just sell yourself instead of buylisting
T&T is complete trash. Some years ago (probably 2015ish) I got into it with them over a Crystal Kingdra that they sold to me as NM that had a big ass crease on it. Never used them again.
Yeah I’d recommend selling yourself elsewhere I refuse to use a service like T&T personally
Ya I could show pictures of the messages or screen shots. When I sent in modern mint cards I got full payment. When I sent a mixture of moderate to near mint cards it looks like i was paid for damaged prices. I recieved about 1/4th my original offer. I was expecting some deductions but 25 percent was rough! Money was put to good use but I regret it. Im thinking it would have been smarter to send in all the same condition cards vs a range of conditions
I have nothing but bad experience with Troll and Toad. All the NM cards are LP. The “lottery” is not worth it.
I’m confused, you trash them for sometimes having lp cards in the near mint cards and refer to it as “troll and toad near mint” and you send them “ All were absolutely “Troll and Toad near mint” or better.” So your definition of lp or better and expect them to pay near mint? By your own statement 80% of the stuff you buy is near mint so they do know condition but they probably just aren’t 100% accurate with everything they go through.
That’s exactly my point. You say 20% of the cards they send you were not near mint so you buylist the same condition cards and they classify some as non near mint. I don’t think you should be surprised…if it was 1 card maybe it would have passed but if multiple aren’t near mint they will probably catch it. I know recently they stopped taking non near mint cards for evo unless they’re high end so it looks like they’re trying to make changes
Either you got extremely unlucky or I’ve been extremely lucky (over the course of literally hundreds of buylists with tens of thousands of cards, all of them pre-2010). Or the cards you sent them just weren’t NM. If you think a company the size of T&T was trying scamming you out of $100, then I’m not sure what to say lol.