As someone who can honestly thank trollandtoad for a big portion of their collection and journey it’s incredibly sad to see what the site has become in just a few short months.
No pokemon banner ads at all, 0 cards or sealed in stock for destined rivals, dwindling supply for literally everything else Pokemon and still a turned off buylist for Pokemon. I’ve never seen the site so empty.
It’s like the new owners chose to stop doing Pokemon buying and selling during the biggest Pokemon boom. They should be making money hand over fist
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Troll and Toad was the only site out there that was able to sell 1 cent singles for 35 cents all day. It’s unbelievable they aren’t doing Pokémon during this time.
I remember all the orders I did through them in the 2017 timeframe to fill out the bulky cards in my binders. I didn’t know about TCGplayer at the time
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To add to my comment above, I just did a search of some popular Pokemon, and TnT literally has zero cards in stock for nearly 30 years of card releases. Not a single Umbreon card…what are they thinking?
Has to be they want to clear almost all of their inventory, I heard they are moving locations.
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I really bums me out. i would rely on them for my bulk binders and now I have to source them from ebay for $1 instead. Huge bummer
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Could you do tcgplayer using cart optimizer?
I dont think I have tried that. I tried looking for a couple common cards and they showed out of stock. I havent tried in probably 6 months though. I will take a look again next time I need to bulk buy.
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tnt would benefit from a facelift, but with tcgplayer being better in nearly every way and ebay being as strong as ever, what does tnt have at this point? Seems everyone wants to sell on any other platform
The nice thing about T&T was that you could occasionally actually get mint cards from them. The vast majority of cards from them weren’t mint, of course, but like 5-10% of the time you’d get lucky. Most vendors on TCGPlayer with significant older inventory grade all of their remotely valuable mint cards, so the chance of getting lucky is 0% (even though the mean/median condition might be higher).
With eBay, because there are pics and everyone is hyper-aware of grading, you can’t really get good deals on mint old cards anymore. When raw mint stuff actually gets listed, it sells for PSA 9 prices.
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