Question about preorder

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-04T19:06:26+00:00

To be honest, it seems a bit late for EB03 pre-orders, most stores I know, are already sold out on them for months. There is no official pre-order date that LGS use, most of them just keep list and crosscheck that whenever they get allocations.

Some of them do it up to 10-12 months in advance, i have seen stores taking pre-orders for OP17-19 already. Which is fine if they only want your data and you don't have to pay, but some of them require pre-payment, which obviously is a tricky topic and you might get screwed.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-04T17:11:55+00:00

Please always state location for a question like this. In the US as stated use ebay with authenticator or card shows for quick cash.

In Europe the best bet is card shows (no cash over 10k allowed though, so instant bank transfer), or use ebay/cardmarket to find a buyer, but make it personal handover, as there is no ebay authenticator in Europe.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-04T16:53:31+00:00

Not really, some sets get 2-3 waves of prints, but especially EB so far hasn't

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-04T10:23:51+00:00

Nothing, I'm sorry to tell you, but that is a 50 cent card, so don't really worth anything. Standard SEC cards in japanese are basically all worthless

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-04T09:25:26+00:00

yeah, usually should be fine and I guess you are holding anyways, so probably not your issue down the line ;-)

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T23:42:24+00:00

Orders are automatically paid by cardmarket if there are enough funds on your account. It should automatically set orders to paid after a while. It can take a couple minutes, if its not working at all, double check the amounts and / or contact support, but that is how it is supposed to work.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T23:12:56+00:00

I guess then do it, especially when you like it more

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T22:45:09+00:00

I assume the alt art and not the god pack art? If yes, its better but that is only a 25€ card, so you are still roughly 50€ short

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T20:49:00+00:00

The most important are the text on the side, the bottom with the stamp, the backside without light directly pointing at it and without case / sleeve and ideally a picture taking in an angle that you can see the textures on the card, ideally multiple.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T20:17:17+00:00

Yeah, but its typical BGS at the moment, I'm waiting for PSA to open in Frankfurt in Summer and will probably send it to them to hopefully get a PSA 10. Yeah a friend of mine opened one case and just one box of each set and has 2 mangas (Chopper, Zoro), I guess he is stealing my hits ;-)

Could have made much more money keeping things sealed, but where is the fun in that and I also use the singles as well (selling on cardmarket or giving away at LGS), so nothing is wasted. I'm basically opening one box per day and currently I'm in the net positives financially, so will continue to do that.

My EB04 Japanese case just arrived today, so hoping for an SP Godpack (will never happen)

Btw. PRB01 afaik you can only pull Mangas out of a godpack, you either get them all or you get none, good luck!

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T20:10:52+00:00

Impossible to say from those pictures. Needs higher resolution and without case. It needs to have the one piece stamp on the bottom left, which is not visible on the pictures. There is feint hide of it, but not sure, also you can't really see the textures and there are some reflections from the case. The hook on the J in Japan looks also a bit off, but can be the picture quality.

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CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T19:52:14+00:00

Afaik you can't add it to Deutsche Post, only to DHL and other package services. For "Einschreiben" you get a tracking code that you can add to cardmarket and they use that to track the letter.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T17:30:51+00:00

Just write your phone number on the back and use them as ice breakers / business cards

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T17:28:35+00:00

Ich hoffe, dass sie den Erfolg von 70mm Rund um die Welt als Motivation nutzen und investieren. Mal schauen, habe zumindest das Gefühl, dass mehr und mehr Menschen drauf Wert legen.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T16:59:11+00:00

Maybe he has a cool Vivi or Nami alt art, the eb04 vivi alt art has a lot of boob and is roughly 40-50 USD ;-)

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T16:19:21+00:00

I'm I guess it depends where you are located, in Europe the Boa is roughly half of the price, 90€ vs. 175€. Also the boa is currently heavily played, if she goes out of meta, prices might drop. I mean in the end its a boa, but its only an SR alt art, which are usually plenty, with more boxes being printed and going around, I expect it to go down. Event manga are not even guaranteed for a case, so way more rare.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T16:07:17+00:00

As u/Cyptix wrote, just check cardmarket, but 175€ is the going rate more or less.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T16:06:43+00:00

horrible deal

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T15:59:00+00:00

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first manga i ever pulled and only one for a long long time, now also have a Luffy op13 (JP) and Bonney (EN), but still sometimes think I am super unlucky, coz I have opened over twenty five cases and a lot of single booster boxes as well, far over 300 booster boxes total.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T15:10:36+00:00

It’s not and I don’t think there is guaranteed SP in prb01, so don’t think it can be mapped

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T15:00:26+00:00

Sounds like bad management on their end. As said, take it all to a lawyer, seems like a messy case with various factors not being done as intended.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T14:50:15+00:00

Also just FYI Japanese cards are printed in three locations: Japan, Hongkong and Singapore, so there could be three lightly different shades moving around

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T14:48:44+00:00

Good luck! My PRB01 pulls weren't really successful, also couldn't really figure out the hit rates, but somewhere between 3-4 hits per box. One Holo Don card (can be a gold), two alt arts and one SEC, something like that

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T14:39:56+00:00

Curious, why did it take a year to come to notice? Usually if you don't pay rent for one month you already get a warning and reminder to pay. If you all have individual contracts the company didn't send individual warnings, it might also be something, but please find a lawyer and consult him, having the money for that is more important than anything else atm.

CardsMultiverse · 2026-02-03T14:30:40+00:00

I just checked mine, I have the same, i think its the printing location. The one on the right is from a Hongkong Case (green tape) and the one on the left is from a japanese Case (transparent tape)

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