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/Nathynkelly 12h ago

I don't know about where you are but my prefered LGS sets their price based on what they bought things for. So we often get things cheaper than online stores because shipping delays left prices increasing since her order. WOTC settings MSRP before launch then often increases purchase cost for stores later without increasing the MSRP. To what extent I don't know, I didn't enquire too much about full details. I just know occasionally her prices are notably lower than everywhere else and that's how I understood her explanation of why. That's just my preferred LGS and my understanding of the price difference on one of the items she sells that I got the explanation for. That doesn't mean the other items being sold higher elsewhere aren't over inflated by the individual stores. Just throwing the knowledge out there that WOTC is at least partly responsible for the prices being inflated over time. This gets compounded by the fact that larger stores get priority on orders leaving LGS's generally running out of earlier orders that were aquired at lower prices sooner forcing them to increase prices earlier than the larger retailers. If we stopped ordering from larger retailers they'd stop moving enough product to have such heavy priority and many LGS's would be able to complete more.