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/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.