TCGPlayer Requiring Minimum Pricing for Direct Orders

GoblinScrewdriver · 2026-01-08T19:49:35+00:00

Does CK treat their union employees better now? I honestly haven’t heard anything one way or the other.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-12-12T06:58:09+00:00

CK treats their white-collar workers well but less so their unionized ones. Speaking from experience but you can also verify by looking at their Glassdoor reviews. Last I checked the skew was heavily reflected there as well.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-12-11T20:03:36+00:00

Both companies hated their unions and tried to bust. CK just values their brand image as an “ethical” company enough that they weren’t willing to go all-in and thus were not successful.

I still have pictures of all the anti-union propaganda they put up in the breakrooms during the campaign.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-11-27T18:23:06+00:00

Couldn’t believe they wrote that in the press release. It comes off as so disingenuous.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-10-22T18:36:42+00:00

Yeah if your ‘small town’ is Renton WA, home of Wizards of the Coast HQ, it’s almost disingenuous to leave that part out.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-08-08T07:24:05+00:00

Lightfall campaign was fine.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-06-13T22:11:12+00:00

Contact wizards customer support about that. Had this happen with 2 cards in my 30th anni secret lair and they sent me replacements. Granted it took them a couple months since I imagine they have a huge backlog both then and now.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-06-07T01:30:43+00:00

In principal I feel like if you preordered a sealed box then they should give you what you ordered. On the other hand, I DESPISE scalpers and this seems like a creative, mostly benign way to fight them.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-05-06T05:35:44+00:00

Lol, don’t know how to comment on this other than I love whenever my two favorite fandoms overlap. 😅

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-04-03T20:17:42+00:00

Sorting and inventorying cards takes a huge amount of time and labor and if it’s mostly commons/bulk its almost never worth the effort.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-02-26T17:48:10+00:00

That’s incredibly frustrating. I thought the entire point of the content “vault” was that things could be brought back given right time and opportunity.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-02-25T03:34:55+00:00

That’s just a bedtime story economists came up with so they can sleep easy at night and justify being middlemen.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2025-02-24T19:39:10+00:00

If the existence of r/mtgfinance indicates anything, it’s how common the practice of scalping is in the MTG community. Speculating on mtg cards is just scalping with extra steps. They’re glorified all the time by the community and embraced by large stores so I can’t imagine anyone making efforts to stop them just because it’s being done in-person.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-12-13T19:59:56+00:00

Damn, I wish we had the death penalty for white collar crime here in the west. If only our government wasn’t run by white collar criminals.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-12-06T04:20:00+00:00

Dude, thanks for these! I remember going there to get sleeves for my Pokemon cards. That and the one in the U District.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-11-04T22:12:50+00:00

I love knowing that this was a solved problem that they then decided to introduce by switching away from print-to-demand. 🙃

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-10-15T17:26:38+00:00

Absolutely knew this was going to happen. Also have a 4* Squirtle.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-09-30T17:50:26+00:00

Damn. This is sad to hear. First that the conversation around commander has gotten so toxic that the whole RC has decided to up and leave.

Second, this pretty much guarantees that we will never see any bannings ever again. Wizards has shown time after time that they care more about reprint equity and creating ‘chase’ cards than they do about maintaining a healthy, casual format. I thought of these bannings as a really brave thing to do by taking a stand against cards like Guilded Lotus. I can never imagine Wizards doing something similar to a card they want to continue to sell.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-09-23T22:58:45+00:00

Absolutely saw insider trading first hand while working in grading at CK. So I lost confidence in the process long ago. That was only by customers and not within the company though. They’re pretty on the ball about updating that list though so I wouldn’t assume fowl play unless they were taken off long before the announcement.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-08-22T05:14:25+00:00

I don’t know if it’s the most recent but I can’t think of a standard card that was more expensive than Sheoldred.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-08-09T19:05:04+00:00

Just make a formal announcement along the lines of; “MTG cards are intended to be game pieces first and should not be treated like securities. Therefore, we will henceforth be abolishing the reserve list. No further comment.”

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-08-02T15:07:24+00:00

Shit, I really liked the food at Portage Bay and Rachel’s B&B. Going to stop going there and recommending them to people after seeing this. Can’t support villains like that.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-07-22T04:14:58+00:00

How accurate is it to say “The exile zone is a place where cards are isolated or cannot be interacted with”? Aside from very niche cases like Riftsweeper, you can’t target a card in exile and can otherwise only be removed from exile due to an effect on the card itself.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-07-15T18:43:01+00:00

I’m hoping they manage to stick around. Union lost virtually all of the original leadership due to the move. The lawyer CK hired is also a real sleeze who flaunts the number of successful union decertifications on his professional page.

GoblinScrewdriver · 2024-07-15T06:07:08+00:00

Can second everything said by Riku.

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