![]() This is some data that makes me think the fact that it’s in a precon is the reason the prices are flipped. It’s played nowhere near as much as Aesi, which explains why the price is so much lower, but we’re seeing the same disparity. Wyleth here helps us test our hypothesis. However, there is one thing we can check that could prove us wrong, and that is the price of Wyleth, Soul of Steel. I think this card may be underpriced on Card Kingdom, and with them only displaying 8 copies at a time, who knows if they have as many copies in stock as TCG Player does with their 77 listings. ![]() It’s not in boosters which means you have to bust precons to get one and it’s played more than Jeska’s Will and Keeper of the Accord, which is substantial to me. It’s secretly a top-10 card from Commander Legends. Is it too cheap on CK or too expensive on TCG Player? I think someone inclined to build around Aesi is more likely to buy it from Card Kingdom. But the fact that it’s higher on TCG Player means it’s selling there. An individual seller is going to have a harder time than a big store like Card Kingdom getting ahold of a single card like this unless they pay $30 for the precon that doesn’t have another card worth more than $5 in it. Meanwhile, people selling on TCG Player had to bust a precon to get them, which isn’t super easy. ![]() This is a precon card, and that may be one of the reasons that this seems reasonable.Ĭard Kingdom could have busted a bunch of the precons or may be getting a decent supply of them offering $4 credit. Here are 10 cards where I think the prices are either too high on TCG Player or too low on Card Kingdom. OK fine, you got me, it was Troll and Toad and Strike Zone. Could you compare any market and non-market site provided they were both sufficiently large? Maybe, but I think you’ll agree comparing TCG Player to Card Kingdom is more useful than… I had the name of two sites here but I don’t want anyone to think I’m denigrating those sites because I think they’re both great and buy cards from them all the time, so let’s just move on. I compare these two sites simply because those are the prices listed underneath every card on EDHREC and I see them all at a glance daily. TCG Player, on the other hand, is a marketplace site where competition among sellers drives the price down. Their SEO game is very good, which helps when someone who is new to the game just types in the name of a card to google and ends up on their site. They are also considered by many in the EDH community to be the go-to site. Card Kingdom gets a lot of brand loyalty, maybe because they’re in Seattle. If they coupled a high buylist with a low retail price, they’d squeeze their own margins too much, so they charge a little more, usually. Card Kingdom pays a lot for buylist cards, and offers even more in store credit. OK, fine, BRIEFLY, let’s talk about why Card Kingdom should never charge more than TCG Player. I am literally just doing leg-work for you and I think that’s plenty valuable. You’re all good at this, you don’t need me to tell you why that is a significant thing, or talk too much about what it means. I am going to find 5 instances of a card costing more on TCG Player than it does on Card Kingdom, I’m going to verify that Card Kingdom has the card in stock and that the prices listed are correct and I am going to talk about those cards.
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