I started using TCGPLAYER about two months ago for singles and it’s been pretty good so far, shot up to lvl 4/pro quick and sales are steady. I’ve only listed English cards so far though and was wondering which US site is better for Japanese. I am mainly try to sell about a hundred modern URs and a couple of vintage.
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I thought TCGPlayer didn’t have Japanese?
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You can add a picture with a description of Japanese. It isn’t clean but works.
I wish tcgplayer had the option to list and search Japanese
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Selling Japanese on TCGplayer sounds like a bad idea as they don’t officially support it, so I can’t imagine many people are searching for Japanese singles on there.
That makes sense, do people generally have better luck selling Japanese singles on eBay?
Yes, eBay is the bulk of Japanese card sales not sold in Japan
Ebay is the best place to sell Japanese singles. Its cumbersome and inefficient to sell Japanese singles on TCGPlayer. Your buyer pool knows TCGplayer doesn’t support Japanese, so right off the bat you are starting with a smaller pool.
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Thank you all for your input, this is very helpful!
As a buyer i personally hate when there are listings for asian language cards that are a fraction of the price and dilute the stats of the english cards market value and such
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I never thought of it like that, it’s a great point. Really confused why TCG player hasn’t added at least Japanese at this point. I’m actually considering getting off the site entirely for selling and just going back to eBay but that’s mainly because of the absurd lack of flexibility with shipping
I bought a binder from my brother’s gf and she had a lot of Japanese. Sold it on ebay and 2x my money and feel like a business man . Don’t get me wrong they were vintage cards n took some for my personal collection. I prefer ebay. Usually buy from ebay anyways.
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You can buy/sell some Japanese cards to my knowledge. After some research I’ve found an FAQ for their app that discusses them.
If you go to the Pokemon part of tcgplayer and search Japanese you will get a few pages of various promos/stamped/special release cards.
Additionally, there is a pretty extensive language guide for MTG that includes other languages.
So you can buy them, but its quite cumbersome to do so and not worth it over ebay. My personal guess on why they don’t push Japanese cards more is that they were relatively unpopular (compared to English) until somewhat recently. Adding them would also mean that they would have to essentially house space for the entire Pokemon tcg x2.
What do you mean by house space? Like on the servers or search results on their pages? If you mean physical space, that wouldn’t change anything because individual sellers house their own inventory.
Ideally they have every language and you can filter by language.
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Oh there was never a question as to whether or not you can sell them on TCG Player, it was rather “is it worth it to sell Japanese there as opposed to ebay”
As for the popularity, I could be wrong, but I feel like Japanese Pokemon is more popular in the US than a lot of the niche TCGs you find in the “more” section on TCG Player