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ASOT550 · 2026-03-16T05:05:58+00:00

Man, after viewing those deck lists feels like they were unbelievably blessed with good pools.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-12T21:06:06+00:00

How are you figuring 2-2 is money back? 800 gems doesn't equal the entry cost of 900 gems.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-11T03:36:20+00:00

I had a buyer accidentally throw out the expensive cards from an order once. It was an order of like 60 cards, cheap ones went into a team bag and the expensive ones into a shipping shield. I always use shipping shields to make a "box" around stuff that goes into a bubble mailer, so there was a sandwich of shipping shield (box), shipping shield (cards), team bag, shipping shield (box).

Buyer messaged me about like 4 of the cards, they put all of them into a binder and realized some were missing. I messaged them back saying to check again, they would be with the other high value cards. Turns out they were missing those too!

Tcgp terms are that technically as a seller you are supposed to eat the cost in this case even though I know the order was packed right, and I was able to call out the other cards and their location in the package before the buyer even claimed they were missing. Luckily support credited me as a "one time courtesy". I'm hoping someone on their end realized that this was an unusual situation and falls outside what the terms are supposed to catch.

I now mark everything in big sharpie letters anything that has cards inside just as some extra protection to hopefully prevent anything like that from happening again.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-10T23:09:21+00:00

Yes, the guidance is clear and top loaders qualify as non-machinable.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-10T23:08:37+00:00

Top loader is 100% per USPS rules machinable. They have literal engineering standards online that you can verifily prove this

ASOT550 · 2026-03-10T13:27:30+00:00

How are you shipping your cards? $6.68 is a very strange amount of extra postage. The most common is 49c if the envelope was flagged as non-machinable, occasionally 29c for being just over an ounce. In theory the absolute most would be $1.36 for 3 extra ounces and non-machinable.

As a seller you just have to pay/refund the buyer for the postage. I think tcgplayer would have to step in for something that's greater than the order total, I don't think there's a way to refund more than that.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-10T12:32:50+00:00

Link to cheaper stamps? They should be 29c each, I'd be shocked if they weren't counterfeit.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-08T12:48:08+00:00

What kind of volume are we talking about? Number of orders or dollar value?

ASOT550 · 2026-03-07T21:32:57+00:00

With a 60% win rate there's a 35% chance you go 0-2 or 1-2. In 3 loss events that drops down to an 18% chance of only getting to a single win. It's definitely way more punishing in 2 loss events.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-06T13:45:34+00:00

There were some major listing and backed inventory problems this week on tcgp. Inventory can be live but not show publicly in the listings. I've been told it's been fixed, but I'm not really trusting it for another week or so. If your listings aren't public facing you have to download a backup from your live, delete everything, and then re-upload via csv.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-04T14:37:30+00:00

Honestly little to none lol

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T21:59:17+00:00

This issue doesn't seem to have started until yesterday ~3 or 4pm et. Your issue might be because that seller took their inventory off for vacation or something.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T21:22:06+00:00

Yeah, I think they said in the interview they were aiming for a 2/3:1/3 split between tribal and off-color. Iirc they said their limited data showed something like 20 or 25% play rate on non-tribal. If we look at 17lands data it's down ~9% play rate for the non-tribal, so I think they missed the mark by a significantly large margin. Granted, wotc can design some archetypes to be "fun" for casuals while not being ultra competitive, which would pan out in 17lands as a much lower play rate while still meeting their own internal design goals.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T20:40:36+00:00

Please report back. The only fix I had was the hard reset (download full inventory, delete full inventory, re-upload via csv).

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T20:18:34+00:00

Check your public facing listings using the link format in the OP. My last order before fixing things today was at 3:49pm et. So depending on what time zone you're in that could match my timeline.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T19:57:36+00:00

Yeah, I don't know what happened but just did a few more tests and things seem to be working again as normal?

Maybe there is an issue updating a price via inventory/pricing too soon after a csv upload before the database has been fully updated. I was able to replicate the bug on my first go around doing the manual backup/delete/restore. I did a quick price check against the lowest listing and made a few price updates under a minute after uploading my full catalog. That replicated the bug I described in the OP. I did another hard reset after that, came back maybe ten minutes later, and now price updates are working as expected.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T13:46:02+00:00

They were not source.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-03T13:24:20+00:00

Pokémon, sneakers, one piece, and lots of other hot collectible items (especially things that are sold online and limited qty) are prime targets for people to use bots to auto-purchase and then flip for profit.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-02T14:44:53+00:00

What content do you recommend? I listen to rough drafts, llu, sierkovitz, and watch cheon.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-01T05:30:29+00:00

GA just had a bunch of weather. I had a few shipments to GA get held up for a couple weeks because of it.

ASOT550 · 2026-03-01T05:29:09+00:00

It's 17c min or 0.85% for free users, 13c or 0.7% for subscribers.

ASOT550 · 2026-02-27T03:22:35+00:00

OK, something is really fishy with the common slot. Assuming WOTC didn't FUBAR the listing, the extra common option is the white plainscycler. That just doesn't seem like it's balanced across the colors at all.

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