For Vendors
Your own card store. Without the marketplace cut.
I build, host, and maintain singles and sealed storefronts for card show vendors. Your domain, your customers, one flat monthly cost instead of a slice of every sale.
Through the end of August
$799 to build it instead of $999.
Same deal whether we talked at a show or you found this page on your own: setup is $799 if you email me by end of day Monday, August 31, then $65 a month, locked for at least your first year. No deposit, no contract, and no commitment to reply. Tell me what you sell and I'll tell you what the switch looks like.
Email me to lock it inRun a physical shop with a register and weekly events? The Game Stores page is the one for you.
TCGplayer and eBay vs. your own site
Every sale you make on TCGplayer or eBay pays them a cut of it. Around 10 percent on TCGplayer, more than that on eBay, and payment processing comes off the top either way. Sell more and you pay them more, every single month, forever.
Your own site costs $65 a month whether you sell one card or a thousand. That is the whole argument. Their bill grows with you. Mine doesn't.
| You sell | They take | I charge | You keep | Per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| $650 | −$65 | −$65 | $0 | breaks even |
| $1,000 | −$100 | −$65 | $35 | $420 |
| $2,500 | −$250 | −$65 | $185 | $2,220 |
| $5,000 | −$500 | −$65 | $435 | $5,220 |
| $10,000 | −$1,000 | −$65 | $935 | $11,220 |
Fees figured at 10 percent, which is about TCGplayer and generous to eBay, and before either one's payment processing. Whatever you actually pay them, the real gap is wider than this.
I'll be straight with you: under about $650 a month this doesn't save you money yet, and if you tell me that's where you are, I'll say so and leave you alone. Past that, the line just keeps going. At $5,000 a month you are handing a marketplace $6,000 a year to do a job your own site does for $780.
Then there is the part the fees don't show.On TCGplayer the buyer is theirs. They found you in a search result next to eleven other sellers of the same card, and next month they will buy from whoever is a nickel cheaper. On your site the buyer is yours. Put a QR code on your banner and the guy who grabbed a deck at your table Saturday orders the chase card from you on Tuesday night, at your price, with no one taking a cut and no one showing him a competitor on the way to checkout.
What you get
A real website on your own domain, with your name on it, live in about a week:
- Two game catalogs auto-populated at setup. Pick any two: Magic, Pokemon, One Piece, whatever you actually sell. Each one gets filters that match it, so Pokemon buyers get Pokemon filters and One Piece buyers get colors.
- Anything else goes up by hand, free. Sealed boxes, packs, bundles, supplies, one-off lots: type it in, price it, done. No catalog required and no charge for it.
- Sealed on the same shelf. Boxes, packs, and blisters go in the same cart as singles.
- An admin panel where you list, edit, bulk import from CSV, and mark things sold. No spreadsheets, no code.
- PayPal checkout in your name, with the total verified server side so nobody can edit a price on the way through.
- Market price sitting next to your price while you list, so you can price fast without flipping between tabs.
- Order emails and a shipping view, so you always know what's going out.
- Backed up every single day, with a week of history kept. If something breaks, I roll it back. Keeping the site up is my job, not yours.
- Works on a phone, because that's where your buyers are.
The part nobody else does
Your prices update themselves overnight.
Every night your listings are repriced against current market data, per card and per printing. A reverse holo is priced as a reverse holo, not as the normal version of the same card. Played copies come down automatically: lightly played sits at 90 percent of near mint, moderately played at 75, heavily played at 60.
Found a card you want to hold at your number? Untick auto on that listing and it never moves again. Everything else keeps up on its own.
This is the job most sellers do by hand on a Sunday, or quietly stop doing, which is how you end up selling a $40 card for $12.
It stays yours
Already have a domain? We use it.If you own a URL from an old site, a Shopify trial you abandoned, or something you bought and never pointed anywhere, I'll connect it to your new store. You keep it registered in your name and I never take it over. If you don't have one yet, I'll register it for you and it goes in your name too.
Your customers are yours.Every email address that buys from you lands in your admin, not in someone else's marketplace. Export the list any time you want it.
You can leave.No contract and no lock-in. If you ever want out, you keep the domain and I hand you your data. I'd rather earn the $65 every month than trap anyone into it.
Selling at shows
Every store ships with a show button.One press in the admin pauses online checkout, so the card you just sold at the table can't also sell on the site while you drive home. Buyers can still browse the whole catalog. Press it again Sunday night and you're open.
Show mode is the upgrade, $299 once.For vendors who don't want to pause at all: the site keeps selling during the show from the same inventory, and online orders wait for your approval between customers so stock never double sells.
How it goes
- 1You tell me what you sell and where you sell it now.
- 2You send me a logo and your domain. Don't have one? I'll register it for you.
- 3I import your two game catalogs, wire up PayPal in your name, and set up your branding.
- 4You list your first cards. I hand you the keys and stay on call.
About a week start to finish. Your part of it is a couple of hours total, most of which is picking what you want it to look like. You don't pay the first month of hosting until there's a working checkout on your own domain.
Pricing
| Storefront setup, two game catalogs included | $999 one time $799 until Monday, August 31 |
| Each additional game catalog | $100 one time |
| Listing your own stock by hand, any game | Free |
| Hosting, support, and daily backups | $65 per month |
| Show mode add-on | $299 one time |
| Custom features | $50 per hour, 2 hour minimum |
Setup covers your domain hookup, branding, two game catalogs, PayPal onboarding, and a working checkout before you pay the first month of hosting.
The catalog fee is only for the automatic import: every card number, rarity, printing, image and market price pulled in for you so you never type any of it. Adding stock by hand is always free, in any game, catalog or no catalog.
What the $65 a month actually covers.Hosting, and me. I keep the site up, patched and running, and I'm the one you call when something looks wrong. It gets backed up every day and I keep a week of those backups, so a bad afternoon is something we roll back rather than something you rebuild.
That $65 is locked for at least your first year.The only thing that would ever move it is my own server costs going up, and if that day comes you hear it from me in advance with the reason. It will not go up because you got busy, sold more, or added stock.
Custom means custom: want lists, price history, buylist mode, a second seller. If you can describe it to me, I can quote it.
See one running
Click around a live one first. Real cards, real sealed, real market prices. There's a button on it that opens the admin read-only too, so you can see the listing screen you'd actually work in, not just the shopping side.
Open the demo storefront$799 through the end of August
Email me by end of day Monday, August 31 and setup is $799 instead of $999, then $65 a month locked for at least your first year. Tell me what you sell and where you sell it now, and I'll tell you what the switch looks like. If I stopped by your table at a show, mention where we met.