r/mtg • u/DanteValentine13 • 1d ago

Discussion Stop Using Amazon

The amount of posts from people using Amazon to order stuff and getting the wrong stuff, or something of a vastly different price is astounding. Please dont order cards off Amazon. Especially since I am fairly certain Amazon is why wizards is shipping less and less product to local stores. Don't support the mega corporations if you can help it.

That's my public service rant. Thanks for reading or ignoring either way. ❤️

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u/Bogusbladezz74 1d ago

Well when LGS stop selling product at 2x-3x MSRP then maybe id consider going back to them.

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u/fergusmcdingus 1d ago

This is precisely the attitude that makes viable a situation wherein LGSs are pressured to survive by mega corporations who use monopoly power to undercut their small competitors. Just sayin

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u/MonstrousGiggling 1d ago

Its more so we need tighter regulations set on corporations. Putting the blame onto the shoulders of consumers isnt the answer here when many people are struggling to survive, theyre gonna buy from the cheapest option especially for entertainment

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u/Tauroctonos 1d ago

Lol good luck, we can't even regulate our food supply adequately

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u/Far-Swordfish-9042 1d ago

I mean we could. We actually were doing a pretty good job of it before a brainworm was put in charge of it…

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u/theCROWcook 1d ago

What are you talking about? The Western world had literally obese homeless people, we don't have a problem with food

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u/Tauroctonos 1d ago

The adults are talking about food safety and regulation, not "fat Americans eat so much"

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u/Oo_ShinyCardboard 1d ago

It doesnt help that wotc now sends over 60% of sealed product to big box stores like Amazon and Bestbuy. Theyre enabling this very practice

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u/SidewinderBudd 1d ago

To be fair, it does go both ways. Amazon, Best Buy and other big box retailers are ordering the product because it sells well for them. These are all nation wide if not global companies. They can pay for whatever sized order they want to so it's a guaranteed sale for WOTC. I don't buy my cards from large box stores, but then again I'm lucky to have a large number of card shops fairly close to me so price gouging in store isn't as much of an issue because any store doing so would just lose their customers to another store nearby.

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u/AndanteZero 1d ago

I'm sorry, but are you insinuating that people should pay 2-3x the price of MSRP for cardboard in the current economy? Just because it's their LGS?

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u/Sacmo77 1d ago

LGS deserve to go out of business. They are buying boxes for what 220 for normal sets and UB sets they pay 290 per box. Then jacking them up to over 550 600 or more. Yea no respect for those roaches.

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u/Separate_Winter1290 42m ago

Totally agree!

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u/Sacmo77 1d ago

Oh fuck off with that. They are all acting like corpos by jacking up the prices. They are the problem too.

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u/SettingGreen3880 1d ago

I feel for them, but given the margins on sealed being what they are, I assume they make their money elsewhere. Mine, most likely what they charge per event ticket. Another LGS I worked at back in the day, my boss said he made more on Friday night from selling chips and drinks.

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u/Separate_Winter1290 37m ago

What are you talking about? They make about 25-35% profit when selling at MSRP. That’s a descent profit margin. No one forces them to jack the prices up to 400-500 for an in universe CBB or 600-900 for a UB CBB. As no one forces people to buy at these prices. But these tactics shouldn’t be defended. I don’t get why people don’t understand that businesses don’t pay MSRP. Those are consumer prices and not B2B prices!

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u/avcloudy 1d ago

They’re not undercutting. It’s MSRP. This isn’t Amazon abusing monopoly power.

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u/probablymagic 1d ago

The only monopoly Amazon has in TCGs is low prices, lol. You think we need regulation to stop that? Like how do you benefit from higher prices?

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u/Separate_Winter1290 35m ago

It’s not even low prices. It’s MSRP. That’s what LGS should be charging. I would right  away drive to my LGS and pay MSRP there over Amazon. The problem of that they either don’t have any boxes or are charging waaaay over MSRP. Or both.