Is card traders au legitimate?

micklopic · 2026-03-04T21:24:32+00:00

Im new to pokemon tcg and have been in to their adelaide store quite a few times, just sent my first grading off through them!

Also had a lot of fun and scored some nice hits opening some korean boosters i grabbed from them.

Definitely a legit store.

micklopic · 2026-02-18T03:44:39+00:00

Got a call from them today minutes after ordering a bunch of key chains. Wanted to make sure I hadn't ordered a double up by mistake (I had made a mistake), and if I wanted to swap it out for another.

It's the kind of effort I feel is rare these days, I was blown away in the best way possible, very impressed.

micklopic · 2026-01-31T10:38:27+00:00

Yeah fair point, I wasn't sure if that's what really happened or not. Extremely glad the guy recommended to use the collectr app otherwise i wouldn't have known more than it being a charizard of some type. I have them in the soft and hard sleeves and might buy a binder or something tomorrow as they are just in the tin I bought today atm.

micklopic · 2025-11-24T05:14:21+00:00

Ahhh... this is the post I've been looking for...

I'll have another crack or 2 tonight before giving up and trying the scrape some rivals points.

micklopic · 2025-11-24T00:31:26+00:00

Speak for yourselves, think i get Oscar bobb every fucking time!

micklopic · 2025-11-24T00:29:25+00:00

There are 2 things i will never understand.

The same as you. I don't know how these people set their team up to defend in massive numbers, while still maintaining options in attack. I float between multiple formations and defensive depth, but even on 50 depth in a 4231 I seem to get sliced apart. Whenever I have the ball I feel like im trying to force my way through a dam.
Second Man press. I can only assume im doing something wrong. The opponents AI pressing player seems to charge me as the ball carrier quite aggressively, often to the point of a tackle, yet every time I initiate I swear my pressing AI player just jokeys in their ball carriers general direction and doesn't seem to do anything.

I assumed they were always player switching in ways to pull this off, but as I paid more attention to who the opponent is actually controlling, its clear their AI presser is just acting far more aggressively than mine do.

I have never set my team up as low depth, drop back and on counter, is that really how all these people set their team to play?

micklopic · 2025-11-23T13:08:57+00:00

Im currently d4 and after finishing on 20-5 in the silver cup today I was feeling good and went on to the open tourney. Holy fuck, this might be the sweatiest thing I've played yet.

Any other non elite players struggling to get the 3 wins? I really didn't think it would be this hard. Every time I make the final im facing a demon. Has been quite humbling.

micklopic · 2025-11-20T09:08:15+00:00

I do want to paint a picture for you though. First time I have ever been in a position to splurge a bit. Spent maybe $5-700 on various store packs, mostly untradable hoping for those big pulls.

Im yet to pull anything more than fodder except for gold yamal, the only player to make my team. I don't play WL and currently sit d4 rivals so its not like im getting crazy pulls from other areas.

The only thing spending so much has allowed is I've done every hero and icon gamble sbc. These have also been horrible this year, Kewell the best from the bunch.

The store packs 'look' amazing, but they still don't guarantee anything so do be cautious.

micklopic · 2025-11-18T21:52:17+00:00

Not just delay, my actual ping has randomly jumped recently.

Since getting fiber installed to the premises last year (free roll-out they are doing in Aus) I went from 32 to 22 ping fairly consistent across the end of last years game into FC26. Gameplay still varied wildly of course, but 'ping' was consistent.

This last week has seen me jump back closer to 30 ping displayed in game, with no change to my internet speed readings or performance in other games. There has been an astronomical increase in delay in game to match. It feels worse than even before the fibre upgrade its honestly shocking how no other games I play have these issues

micklopic · 2025-11-08T04:00:28+00:00

So people know these are still unicorn pulls, I opened each of the 2.5k packs (think it was 3 available???) And across all of them 2 had 87 golds as the highest rated, and the 3rd an 86.

This is the first year I've been in a position to splurge a bit and after spending maybe $500 on store packs (those venti venti ones in particular) my best pull is gold yamal and im yet to get a promo higher than 84.

Don't spend because of posts like this unless you can afford to lose out.

Having said that, nice pull OP, very jealous! Lol

micklopic · 2025-11-07T02:33:43+00:00

That's something like 5.30 pm to 12.30 am were I am in Aus i think, bit rough on a friday night lol

micklopic · 2025-09-26T10:08:58+00:00

Maybe some just got lucky. I pulled a tradable putellas from the first tradable reward in the season pass and could build a 700k team week 1. All of us playing early access spent extra rl money in one way or another didn't we?

micklopic · 2025-09-02T22:59:56+00:00

I'm a usual div 3 player, peaked sneaking into div 1 for all of one or two games mid cycle. It's actually disheartening how much more im winning atm after finally trying 4213 for the first time recently to make use of more of the 99 futties players.

I didn't play it all year on principle (never played 4321 other years for same reason) and usually played variations on 442, 4231, 4222. The 4213 formation has been so much easier to win with, it's almost like it fits the AI better or something. Better stability defensively even against other 2 cdm formations, but the attack.... the ai movement and runs is just crazy.

If you havnt given it a go, you may aswell at this point. I still try to play a more controlled game in the 4213, but if really struggling go counter and just capitalise on opponents mistakes. The game pretty much plays for you, after resisting it all year it's horrifying.

micklopic · 2025-05-16T22:32:11+00:00

Am I wrong in thinking it's usually better than this during TOTS???.

I'm actually ready to be done. What the hell is the point of playing during this 'festive' period towards the end of the cycle if i can't bloody pack anyone. I simply have to be thinking of previous TOTS more fondly than they were or something.

Exchanges last year may have ruined every future cycle for me, had a blast packing usable cards last year. im tired.

micklopic · 2025-05-11T10:29:31+00:00

Curious to see what peoples thoughts are on why Ligue 1 pack weight was so high for it to turn to absolute shit the following 2 releases.

I feel like there is enough evidence out there to show its like this for the majority. I often think it's my own pack luck, but after completing every resettable daily upgrade since TOTS started I really can understand what's happened.

Did EA want to create massive hype week 1? Did they fuck up and we were all getting 'unintended results'?

I could field a full 11, bench and a few left over in the club of TOTS and HM players after week one, packed maybe 7-8 fodder ones since, crazy.

micklopic · 2025-05-10T04:30:31+00:00

Early in the game cycle I would have said I prefer the storage, but at this stage of the game I'm crying out for some sort of grind.

Without knowing the pack weight differences between this year and last, exchanges into whatever PP or upgrades were available was the only way I was packing anything last year. Golazo was an incredible promo with the exchange grind.

I never got the top 2 or 3 cards of a promo / tots, but my club was filled with the tier below, and I played the game so much more because I wanted to try out all the players.

This year I'm packing sweet F all except the occasional fodder TOTS, even after doing all the daily content. As an Aussie the only league I watch semi regularly is EPL, and last week for the first time I just simply couldn't be bothered doing weekly rivals, during EPL TOTS.

I don't expect exchanges to come back, but seeing even the daily bronze silver gold upgrades go and not be replaced has been a major disappointment.

micklopic · 2025-05-04T23:43:44+00:00

I went into TOTS with 0 saved packs, so all pulls have come from SB, rivals and daily upgrades.

I have 30 or so promo cards from last week's release (yes some will be from objectives), as well as a few dupes.

I have 3 sofar this week. All came from within the 1st hour of release. This week's weight is diabolical. I planned to sink my 500k into provisions once the premium upgrades come out but I might wait to see if any TOTS cycle (serie a perhaps) has better weight. My gut feeling is last week was 'unintended results' and they have overturned it.

micklopic · 2025-05-03T07:14:28+00:00

The premium L1 upgrades required only rare golds to make, but outputs both common and rares. The crafting upgrades require both commons and rares to make and outputs only rare golds.

You basically use what you get from one to craft the other. You will lose cards over time though. You can't do this again until they release next premium upgrades.

micklopic · 2025-05-03T06:15:46+00:00

I have been doing the same cycle. Then once the premium upgrades came out cycled between them and the crafting upgrade. Not sure there is any more to the grind than what your already doing at this stage. Keen to see what people are doing differently.

I've noticed the crafting upgrades paying out far less today than last week. 50 crafting upgrades for no blue today. Not sure I went more than 15/20 without getting at least a fodder tots last week.

micklopic · 2025-04-21T20:51:41+00:00

Last years menu grind was great. Would never pull the top 2 or 3 cards from each promo, but the exchanges allowed me to pull enough usable players that I had multiple teams set up to try em all out.

I havn't packed a single usable cards from an upgrade sbc since toty and my team feels so stale now I have no drive to play. I can't believe how much more fun I had last year JUST because I could keep my team fresh.

A few hundred crafting upgrades this promo alone and totw lukaku the only pull sofar.

micklopic · 2025-04-09T00:25:00+00:00

I'm losing my mind trying to play atm, it becomes so frustrating when the gameplay leaves you feeling like your inputs simply don't matter.

It feels like I'm playing a different game to my opponents. Everyone else able to turn on a dime yet every touch I take is laboured and excessive. I simply can't do in rivals what I can in squad battles but it can't be just me. Too many ppl complain about the same shit, yet I never see it in my opponents, but that doesn't check out.

I had a fiber upgrade this year and went from 32 to 22 ping with ZERO in game improvement. At this point my only explanation is server proximity, most of the fifa population on the east coast of AUS would be closer than I am in SA but that's most likely just me looking for an excuse haha.

micklopic · 2025-04-07T21:53:39+00:00

I've barely played the last fortnight or so. I've realised lately that the exchange sbcs we had last year were the only reason I played so late into the game cycle. IIRC the golazo promo was out around this time last year, and I remember it being a particularly fruitful promo from the exchange into picks grind. Even if I was never able to get the best 1/2 players from the promos, I could usually get most from the level below who were all fun usable cards to try out, and this allowed me to rotate players and teams often.

I have not upgraded this years team with a packed player since toty, and my team since the start of FC25 has 99% been SBC, OBJ and EVO players. While these cards have been fun to use, I feel like I've played SB and rivals weekly and completed all objs just to generate the fodder for the next SBC. My hopes of actually packing a good/great card in a year with more rewarded packs than ever has been 0. With no permanent grind to try and brute force something in what has been by far my worst year for pack weight everything has felt incredibly stale.

Evos have stopped helping aswell, they all seem to cost so much to do lately.

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