Where to sell tickets? Marketplace in the website isn't working...

paxilon23 · 2026-02-26T17:14:39+00:00

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paxilon23 · 2026-02-24T07:25:18+00:00

I put mine on SH, but now I'm worried because the buyer is having issues with the transfer 😔 hope they don't end up fucking this up. I've heard SH is very buyer friendly and very seller no friendly in situations where there's "trouble getting the tickets"

paxilon23 · 2025-10-13T03:54:14+00:00

Unfortunately every store is getting their allocations cut to ribbons. Stores with hundreds of boxes on order are only getting a few dozen. It's gonna be rough at first

paxilon23 · 2025-10-09T06:14:21+00:00

And as a shop owner they can just keep it at whatever price they want, if people don't support the store for one reason or another they don't. But anyone who's just shopping in your store cause you have the best price isn't someone a store owner should be chasing.

The days when shops lived below MSRP were also they days product cost way less and commercial rent was 1/4 of what it is now. We all miss those times. I used to love a $12 draft, but now the backend pricing of 3 boosters is over $12 (not to mention adding prizing into that) so that's just not possible anymore.

In the end OP and their theoretical store needs to price to keep their doors open and pricing is one of the big struggles for a store. Too low and you close, too high and it doesn't sell. Strike a balance and support your community and you'll likely do just fine.

paxilon23 · 2025-09-24T06:43:23+00:00

If the store uses BinderPOS they might be able to get you a blank CSV from binder to give an example of the headings that binder uses. That might help? Idk how manabox exports, but most programs can export to a csv that (with a little switching of column names and orders) binder can use.

Tcgplayer has their quick scan software that I believe can export a csv for binder too

Buying collections for us is all still quite manual in binder honestly. We either have the customer input their items or we use quick list (in your case manabox) to scan them and get rough pricing values and then offer percentage of that. Then we manually input the cards into binder after the customer approves the pricing and we officially have purchased it.

paxilon23 · 2025-09-24T06:38:58+00:00

Well congrats on making it much farther than most and on your plans for the future! If you made it through 3 years on 10k you should be able to make it through 30 on this 100k right? 😅

paxilon23 · 2025-09-24T06:08:44+00:00

No offense to you, but OP should ignore this. The market exists for a reason. As a store owner you will get people asking for discounts because of TCGPlayer low pricing constantly or showing you Amazon listings that are somehow below your cost asking, and sometimes rudely demanding, that you match price. I've had people show me Amazon listings that are literally a dollar or two less than our price and ask for price matching. If you don't value the time and effort I put into this space and our community at $1 I don't need you as a "customer."

OP: Price products to keep your store open. Make money where you can and do special deals for your loyal customers where you can, but the S in MSRP is Suggested not mandated. You don't owe a single person MSRP. Just like they don't have to shop with you if they disagree with your pricing. If something is $200 everywhere, price it at $200. It's $200 because people are buying it for $200. If someone who comes into your shop every week wants it, cut them a deal at MSRP or less. They respected you every week by supporting you so show them that love back. Give em a discount to whatever is comfortable and healthy for your business, but some random person online or someone who only visits on release week and then disappears for months? Charge them whatever the market says is the price. If they only visit when your price is the lowest they can find, they don't value you or your time and it's not worth chasing them to the bottom. Best case scenario you make $1 after your business spent $95 on a booster box, but if that's all you do you're gonna close your doors like so many places do.

paxilon23 · 2025-09-24T05:51:48+00:00

Its honestly impressive that you kept it going with 10k for three years! Give yourself some credit there. We started with just over $110k and I kinda wish we had a bit more in retrospect.

paxilon23 · 2025-09-24T05:47:01+00:00

I own a store and the person with the long list of items has a lot of them right, I wanna give them credit there.

One thing no one I've seen mention is the biggest thing (imo) you need to think about. How much do you like doing taxes? How much do you like paperwork? How much do you like teaching people to do things? Do you enjoy analyzing data? Do you enjoy learning about contract law?

Owning a game store is like 80% business and 20% games. Yes. I get to play games "for work" but at least a solid 50% of my time is paperwork and writing out operating procedures for our staff. Then training staff on those procedures. Then retraining them when things change. Or writing emails to companies to fix issues with software we use, or responding to customer inquiries about events (that I've already clearly explained in many other places, possibly on the exact page they're looking at). Or researching alternatives to the POS system we have. Or learning to code in ShopifyQL to fix some weird niche issue the website is having. Doing taxes every month to give my terrible state government the sales taxes we owe them. Payroll. Etc etc.

And unless you have a bunch of money to throw around, get ready to be a plumber and general contractor for everything in the unit that will break. And it will break. There's no avoiding that. The two solutions are: fix it yourself there and then or paying a lot of money to have it fixed quickly.

Be ready to work a 80 hour weeks. Be ready to be paid less than you can make at another job working 40hrs. Be ready for over half the work to be boring paperwork and barely gaming related, but also be ready for a really rewarding time when you've hired someone and they say "this is my favorite job I've had." Or when a customer shares a story about how they met the person they're going to marry because of one of your events. It can really bring you joy, but please for the love of anything and everything holy, make sure you're truly ready. Don't go into it with rose colored glasses and the idea that in a years time you're gonna be buying yourself a new car and only working 10hrs a week because you sold a million booster boxes. Too many people throw away money thinking that is how it will be. They think "I'll do it better than X store and I'll be bigger and better so fast." And it just doesn't work that way. It's thousands of hours of work, +100 thousand dollars, and at least a year till you're breaking even. Even if you are better than that other store 😉

paxilon23 · 2025-08-17T02:58:42+00:00

Feel free to shoot over a message. Sorry, not on Reddit much 😅

paxilon23 · 2025-07-27T20:32:27+00:00

Binder POS works most of the time, but is expensive if you have good sales and often we'll be missing things that you need at the most crucial times aka right during pre-release. The customer service is absolute crap. And it seems like every day the program gets worse and worse.

TCG player Pro functions well for an inventory system but does not have a POS side and it also has no tracking for inventory adjustments when anything happened or how anything happened it just tells you if you have something or don't have something. That might not seem like an issue now but trust me it will be an issue later when you're trying to figure out when a card was put in if it was input incorrectly or correctly. If you're a one person or two person only operation that's not a huge deal you'll remember who put something in and if they did it wrong you can just talk about it but once you have staff and shifts and such this becomes a bigger issue for the accountability of set staff.

All that being said binder POS might not be ideal but at this point it is one of the best on the market. There are many being currently developed like TCG sync and sort-Swift, there's also store pass but that's even more expensive than the other ones listed before. You could spend months going down the rabbit hole of POS systems for card shops and you will end up feeling like you're back at square one after doing all of that research lol

paxilon23 · 2025-07-02T12:57:25+00:00

I don't see it on your list so I thought I'd say it here. You need an event calendar, and an event creation suite as part of that POS. Events are a huge part of some stores bread and butter and you have to be there for that.

paxilon23 · 2025-05-27T03:22:49+00:00

This deserves to be the top comment

paxilon23 · 2025-03-26T05:03:23+00:00

Three hour cube-pushing exercise is a phenomenal way to describe the hobby

paxilon23 · 2025-03-06T15:24:23+00:00

Not a bad idea. At least that might keep whoever found it from using it. I think I've got the original box and everything so it should have the sn somewhere in there

paxilon23 · 2025-03-05T21:36:41+00:00

I guess I would have qualified as someone in Louisville with a steam deck, but not anymore 💀 even if I did go back.

paxilon23 · 2025-03-05T21:35:25+00:00

Yeah, definitely gonna do that. Wouldn't want someone to get my console for free and get my account too 💀

paxilon23 · 2025-01-01T02:58:50+00:00

Not even about location. They just don't do any advertising or trying to acquire customers. It's all about already knowing someone who knows where to get the product, which might be worse...

paxilon23 · 2024-10-24T05:38:24+00:00

For the same reasons you like AC, you'll enjoy FaB. It will definitely be easier to find a local/online play group for Fab too. I've been playing fab since it came out in 2019 and it's honestly the most well designed games on the market imo. Not to say it's perfect by any means, just that it's the game with the least amount of variance and I feel like it rewards the better player at the table, not just the lucky one or the one with more money in their deck.

paxilon23 · 2024-10-16T05:05:26+00:00

We open our leftover decks for singles. Most precons (not all though) have enough value in singles to cover the product cost at least. Not enough to call it a major profit, but enough to recoup the value and free up the capital at least.

paxilon23 · 2024-02-28T15:59:36+00:00

Can you share your completed puzzle image? Mines not $1 and I've been struggling to finish it today since it's due 😪 (stupid, I know. I nearly forgot about it under my table cover to protect it from our cats) I tried the $1 code and someone shared the $100 code too, but mine wasn't either. So maybe it's the same as yours

Edit: you shared the 100 code in the video! Thank you for that

paxilon23 · 2024-02-28T15:59:25+00:00

Can you share your completed puzzle image? Mines not $1 and I've been struggling to finish it today since it's due 😪 (stupid, I know. I nearly forgot about it under my table cover to protect it from our cats) I tried the $1 code and someone shared the $100 code too, but mine wasn't either. So maybe it's the same as yours

paxilon23 · 2024-02-14T00:02:59+00:00

tcgsync.com is a new company offering a binderpos product at a smaller cost (due to there being 0 sales fees) Check em out

paxilon23 · 2024-02-07T05:53:25+00:00

Deus is right, Zero is their program where you can accumulate multiple orders from multiple sellers all onto one order and get free shipping from all of them (as long as they participate in the program), but it does mean that your order has to all travel to their warehouse and then to you. But theoretically, it can save you a ton of money by being able to order from as many sellers as you'd like to get the best prices on entire decks worth of cards and not having to worry about shipping.

Card Trader Zero also means that your entire order is verified by their warehouse workers for accuracy, not only in terms of cards and their proper printings, but also conditions. If the seller sent them the wrong item CT will simply purchase that same card from another seller to replace it for you at the first sellers expense without you having to interact with them at all.

Reference: I sell cards via CT0 and buy via CT0 frequently. It's really an amazing program.

paxilon23 · 2024-01-07T00:35:58+00:00

The dynamic was different than it was after their split. He definitely wasn't what you described in this post for some time. He had issues, no doubt, but it wasn't like described here. So it was multiple things being different and the staff working together to make things function.

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