Trustworthy Europe Middleman for Cardmarket

[shadowless]

@fizzyadrenaline

@shadowless

To add on to @quuador ´s experience: I bought sealed product very regularly during 2016-2019 on cardmarket (wotc-ex) and never had a single issue, sellers are usually very helpful in the process and you can get additional pictures/information easily. Now, the product pretty much dried up completely though.
From time to time I also buy graded cards there but those are far in between as there is sadly no specific feature to list graded cards seperately - they get mixed into raws and sometimes you can get a deal as you can´t search for them specifically.

I feel like a lot has dried up? I don’t know what stock used to look before on cardmarket but I searched for skyridge and there are 0 cards available. Just some packs (which would guaranteed be weighed). But 0 cards is something lol

www.cardmarket.com/de/Pokemon/Products/Singles/Skyridge

The search engine is very weird, you will not come up with singles if you put the set name in the search bar, you will have to go to the left and search for single cards → skyridge to get a list of them.

[fizzyadrenaline]

@shadowless

@fizzyadrenaline

I feel like a lot has dried up? I don’t know what stock used to look before on cardmarket but I searched for skyridge and there are 0 cards available. Just some packs (which would guaranteed be weighed). But 0 cards is something lol

www.cardmarket.com/de/Pokemon/Products/Singles/Skyridge

The search engine is very weird, you will not come up with singles if you put the set name in the search bar, you will have to go to the left and search for single cards → skyridge to get a list of them.

omg! That is so weird. Thanks for letting me know! I would have never realized and probably never used the website since I would have thought they barely have anything lol. Life saver! Thanks again!

Edit: Any ways to search PSA slabs? I get 0 results again if I put it in the search bar

[shadowless]

@fizzyadrenaline Unfortunately no way of directly searching for graded cards as this site was (and still mainly is) orientated towards raw cards. You have to click through individually, but sometimes (very rarely!) you can get a nice deal on there if you´re lucky to find it.

[fizzyadrenaline]

@shadowless

@fizzyadrenaline Unfortunately no way of directly searching for graded cards as this site was (and still mainly is) orientated towards raw cards. You have to click through individually, but sometimes (very rarely!) you can get a nice deal on there if you´re lucky to find it.

Got it. Thanks a ton once again!

[Berndos]

One aspect when selling on Cardmarket is that the site/the support does not know their own rules or site structure apart from MTG. You can’t expect any more help as a seller than having a dispute with eBay, don’t expect any knowledge about cards on their part. Additionally, their grading standards are vastly different to any grading company, since “nm” cards may not have a single scratch. Any nm card with a scratch is a valid return case.
I also had around half of the few sealed items I sold over Cardmarket (to new to the hobby-buyers) in the past few months returned because of factory damage (air holes, dirt under the foil, scratches etc) that the support agreed to be valid return cases.
Then there’s also the issue regarding Japanese Cards: www.elitefourum.com/t/update-selling-most-japan-cards-on-cardmarket-is-forbidden/28591/1
Anyway I think those are two helpful things to know when engaging with Cardmarket. Buying PSA cards is the easiest thing on there btw in my experience, since the grading isn’t subjective to seller and buyer anymore.

[rainbowgym]

@fizzyadrenaline

@shadowless

www.cardmarket.com/de/Pokemon/Products/Singles/Skyridge

The search engine is very weird, you will not come up with singles if you put the set name in the search bar, you will have to go to the left and search for single cards → skyridge to get a list of them.

omg! That is so weird. Thanks for letting me know! I would have never realized and probably never used the website since I would have thought they barely have anything lol. Life saver! Thanks again!

Edit: Any ways to search PSA slabs? I get 0 results again if I put it in the search bar

Best way to find PSA graded cards is navigate to the card itself and scroll down. Most times the graded cards are the last ones because they are the most expensive ones.
I sold a few of my PSA graded boxtoppers recently but I agree there are not many of them on cardmarket.
Perhaps because Ebay has more viewers?
However I prefer cardmarket when I want to sell something.

Adding pictures to a listing is a time consuming action, that’s why a lot of sellers don’t add them.

As for the prices, keep in mind collecting in Europe is in most countries way more expensive as in the USA.
Product is more expensive and the grading process due to taxes and shipping also.

[fizzyadrenaline]

@rainbowgym

@fizzyadrenaline

omg! That is so weird. Thanks for letting me know! I would have never realized and probably never used the website since I would have thought they barely have anything lol. Life saver! Thanks again!

Edit: Any ways to search PSA slabs? I get 0 results again if I put it in the search bar

Best way to find PSA graded cards is navigate to the card itself and scroll down. Most times the graded cards are the last ones because they are the most expensive ones.
I sold a few of my PSA graded boxtoppers recently but I agree there are not many of them on cardmarket.
Perhaps because Ebay has more viewers?
However I prefer cardmarket when I want to sell something.

Adding pictures to a listing is a time consuming action, that’s why a lot of sellers don’t add them.

As for the prices, keep in mind collecting in Europe is in most countries way more expensive as in the USA.
Product is more expensive and the grading process due to taxes and shipping also.

Thanks for the detailed response. And yeah I have seen the prices in Europe. It’s definitely a much more expensive hobby being there. And with today’s prices it’s an even harder game.