If anyone's had experience with them, I'd appreciate any insight.

Cheers

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Originally posted by PriestsofGix:
Has anyone here had experience with selling cards to MTG Fanatic? They mention that they're quite picky on conditions so I'm concerned that they're one of those stores that will find minor, minor points of wear and use that as an excuse to mark down to played condition prices.

If anyone's had experience with them, I'd appreciate any insight.

Cheers

PoG

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I guess they are reputable just really picky. More picky than I.

I sell to MTGfanatic ALL the time without problem. Just don't try to pass off your almost mint cards as mint and you won't have a problem. I get cards returned to me from time to time, yes, and in almost every case I re-inspect the cards and notice something I looked over the first time. I can honestly say that when I get cards returned to me, it was my fault in the first place.

Does it have any flaws at all? Even tiny ones? Then to them it's played. If you are selling "played" cards, they generally won't accept anything lower than around EX+/NM-. Go in with that expectation and you will be happy.

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Originally posted by PortlisX:
The only thing that this thread proves is that many of you have terrible grading standards of your own cards.

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Way to add unncessary vehemence into this thread while just repeating was others have already stated.

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Originally posted by airwalk:
Way to add unncessary vehemence into this thread while just repeating was others have already stated.

Awesome post!

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The OP wanted people's experiences dealing with that particular website. My post was the longest, most detailed post and was based on first hand personal experience. I'd say I was being just as, if not more helpful to the OP than anyone else that had posted.

But you're going to give me grief for repeating bits and pieces of what others had said? So if someone asks for a review of ANYTHING in life, we should all just settle for a few responses at most and call it a day right? I mean, one person had a bad experience with something, so that's that! We'll all accept that as fact! It would clearly be impossible for multiple reviews to either strengthen or enhance an opinion that one may form if those reviews were similar too. Next time I shop at newegg, for example, I'll just read the first review and take that as the gospel of truth because clearly anything posted after that is useless and shouldn't have even been posted in the first place. I mean, what's the point in multiple people saying similar things about a business? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with proving consistency in the way they do business, right?

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Originally posted by PortlisX:
The OP wanted people's experiences dealing with that particular website. My post was the longest, most detailed post and was based on first hand personal experience. I'd say I was being just as, if not more helpful to the OP than anyone else that had posted.

But you're going to give me grief for repeating bits and pieces of what others had said? So if someone asks for a review of ANYTHING in life, we should all just settle for a few responses at most and call it a day right? I mean, one person had a bad experience with something, so that's that! We'll all accept that as fact! It would clearly be impossible for multiple reviews to either strengthen or enhance an opinion that one may form if those reviews were similar too. Next time I shop at newegg, for example, I'll just read the first review and take that as the gospel of truth because clearly anything posted after that is useless and shouldn't have even been posted in the first place. I mean, what's the point in multiple people saying similar things about a business? It couldn't possibly have anything to do with proving consistency in the way they do business, right?

REALLY? Some people's kids....

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Originally posted by PriestsofGix:
Has anyone here had experience with selling cards to MTG Fanatic? They mention that they're quite picky on conditions so I'm concerned that they're one of those stores that will find minor, minor points of wear and use that as an excuse to mark down to played condition prices.

If anyone's had experience with them, I'd appreciate any insight.

Cheers

PoG

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A local dealer who had dealt with MTGF and me, told me that my grading standard is not as strict as MTGF.

If the cards aren't mint, they'll keep cards out of the order to pay for return shipping OR they'll reduce the buy price to .01 and not return anything without telling you

They pay the highest for a lot of cards that you'll find from a store online (before they nickel and dime, and dollar) you out of what you should have been getting because of supposed flaws in the cards

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Originally posted by Chiodos:
I sold them just under $1900 in cards. They said they were received on June 2nd. It still says the cards are being processed and it usually takes them about a week to do this. Well its been nearly 6 weeks and they have yet to reply to an email i sent out a week ago.

Anyone experience anything like this from them before?

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"I am writing you today as the president of MtgFanatic.com, Inc. to inform
you of the situation we are currently in. MtgFanatic is currently several
weeks behind in paying many of our sellers. For this we apologize. The price
and quantity of the items that we purchase on our buylist are determined by
current and historical demand. Unfortunately, we are in a situation where we
have purchased based on our demand, but the demand has significantly
dropped. Our business has decreased significantly in the past couple months
and the cards that we purchased to sell are not selling as quickly we had
anticipated. Because of this decrease in business, we have less money than
expected which is causing significantly larger payment times. The problem of
decreased business seems to be widespread as we have contacted several of
our peers in the Magic community who also have noticed a decrease in
business in recent weeks. The die-hard players will likely have noticed a
significant drop in prices from many sellers in recent weeks which can be
attributed to the decreased demand.

In response, we have removed tens of thousands of cards from our buylist,
dropped the prices we are offering for each item, dropped the quantity
needed and updated the FAQs to reflect the larger payment times. We
understand that our sellers need to be paid, and we sincerely apologize for
the lengthy payment times. We are making all efforts to get our sellers paid
in a timely manner and ask that you please be patient as we make our
payments as quickly as we can.

For those who still wish to be paid, we will be making all payments in a
first-in, first-out basis. For those of you who no longer want to wait for
payment, you can request that your items be returned to you. Please send an
email with the following in the subject line of your email request "Request
Returned Sale".

Again, I apologize for problems, and I hope that once we are through this,
we will be able to continue our business relationship.

Sincerely,

Chris Tremblay
President
MtgFanatic.com, Inc."

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Originally posted by junichi:
Sounds like they just turned all their purchases into consignments.

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Crappy ones to...