Looking for a trustworthy European middleman to help get me some cards from card market. If anyone knows or is one please let me know. Thank you!
what are you looking for exactly?
@pokaholic, I’m looking to buy a couple cards from card market, but I don’t live in Europe so I’m unable to.
If no one has responded yet, feel free to PM me.
One thing to keep in mind: tracked shipping from me (in The Netherlands) to outside Europe is roughly 27.50-35 USD for a box and 20-22.50 USD for a letter right now, even if it’s just a single card (they’ve raised it due to the quarantine, although it was never cheap tbh)… 
Untracked letter is ~3 USD, though.
Not sure what the shipping fees are in other European countries right now, so depending on what and how many cards you’re looking for, it might be better to look for someone with cheaper shipping fees.
But feel free to PM me either way. I have some cards on my desk for two other people who live in the US anyway, so I can just add a third stack. 
Greetz,
Quuador
I live in Europe, but I’d recommend someone else because I never buy from cardmarket. If you want anything else from Europe, tell me.
@quuador, i’m definitely interested in purchasing from cardmarket through someone outside of US. Is shipping still so expensive? And, are you still willing to be middleperson?
from my country tracked letter to us is around 6 or 7$
Off-topic but I’m moving to the Netherlands as well in a few months. What’s cardmarket? Is it similar to eBay but only for cards and limited to EU? Any tl:drs of what I should be aware of before buying so as not get scammed or any tips.
Thanks in advance 
Cardmarket is trash don’t buy from it
I don’t know if genuine or a ploy to keep more buyers away 
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Cardmarket works great. You can get in touch with all sellers and ask for pictures. It’s a mix of professional and hobby sellers. Several tradingcards brands can be bought.
You never overpay for shipping because the system cardmarket uses to calculate shipping works very good.
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Shhh
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ohh awesome. Any chances of a scam? Or this game I should keep in mind?
www.cardmarket.com/en/Pokemon is indeed similar as eBay, Amazon, and alike, in that there are multiple sellers. It’s for sellers and buyers from Europe only indeed. I personally think it’s a great webshop, and I’ve bought loads of cards from it. Especially as someone who collects all languages, I think I bought about 60% of all German, French, and Italian Pikachu/Seviper cards for my collection from there. And I usually also buy all my English cards there, since it’s cheaper (including shipping) than retail webshops (i.e. TrollAndToad, TCGPlayer, etc.) or eBay.
Only main disadvantage is that sellers doesn’t have pictures. Or I should say it’s optional, so about 1% of the sellers has pictures up. If condition is important to you, I would advice to always ask for pictures before making a purchase from a seller.
As for avoid being scammed, I’m not sure. I only see a possible of scenarios based on my personal experience:
- Non-arriving packages. If a package doesn’t arrive, you can mark it as such and contact the seller to ask for a refund or for them to resend the same card. If they don’t want to do either or doesn’t respond (happened only once for me), you can escalate it to CardMarket. 2. Fake cards. I’ve received a fake card twice thus far, but in both cases the sellers were just very new and didn’t knew they were fake. After I contacted them and explaining their card was fake, and what was fake about it, they both state they didn’t knew and refunded me.
- People having listed the wrong card/version/condition. If you always ask for pictures this can be avoided. But I did happen to receive an XY Evolutions Surfing Pikachu instead of the WotC promo Surfing Pikachu I’ve bought for example. I’ve also seen people list Spanish and Italian Base Set Pikachu cards at the Base Set 2 Pikachu listing. Since they have the same artwork, I can see why they’ve made that mistake. Overall it doesn’t happen to often. And especially with WotC era promos I just ask for a picture to make sure it’s the version I want before making the purchase these days. I also received LP quality cards which were advertised as NM. Or I simply received the wrong language (English instead of the German one I bought). But again, all that can be avoided by asking for a picture beforehand (I kinda wish CardMarket would enforce sellers to add pictures…).
Apart from those select cases I’ve bought over 500 cards from CardMarket over the past four years, and I can definitely recommend it from anyone within Europe.
Oh, and one more disadvantage: every time you transfer PayPal to CardMarket you pay a small fee (5% + 0.35 cents I think, but not sure out of the top of my head). You can put money onto your account to avoid those fees every time, though. If you were to receive a (partial) refund for any of the above cases (or others), the refund will also be put on your CardMarket account to use for future purchases.
I somehow completely missed your message. I’m afraid the shipping costs are still the same, and I doubt they’ll go back to what they were before the pandemic even if this is finally over tbh… If you still need any help regardless, feel free to contact me. But if you prefer to find someone else in Europe where it’s cheaper to send internationally to help you out I can completely understand as well.
Greetz,
Quuador
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Wow that’s double the amount for a tracked letter from Italy, although our service isn’t renowned to be the most efficient lol.
Anyways, cardmarket offers a great variety of choice. I’d say the major issue is that sellers often overstate condition. However, their assistance pretty much always refunds you if you decide to return the cards to the seller.
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Wow. Thank you for the very detailed post and taking the time to do that. Really appreciate it. From what I understand if the fake care cards, or LP cards instead of NM, etc. Can be a problem as condition is definitely important to me. I’m still fairly new to Pokémon and I usually collect slabs. I just recently sent my first submission to ludkins for grading. I’m not a binder collector (at least not yet) and the only thing that goes into the binder are from the packs I open which haven’t been wotc. So getting the right pictures and cards are definitely important. But I do it’s advantages if the price difference from eBay is substantial enough. How has your experience been buying slabs or sealed product?
Thanks
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I’ve never bought any graded cards from CardMarket. Some sellers to have them advertised, but not a lot. The few graded cards that I’ve bought were all from eBay (or graded myself or received as gift).
As for sealed, I’ve only bought around four sealed products through CardMarket thus far, which all four were without any issues. Two were English theme decks that were exclusively released in Europe, which I’ve forwarded to a friend in the US for his collection. One was the English EX Sandstorm booster pack with Seviper on the pack, which arrived well-packaged and in good condition. And the last was a theme deck containing a Pikachu I was looking for, which was simply cheaper on CardMarket than on eBay. I’m not much of a sealed collector tbh (I only have three sealed booster packs; one sealed booster box; one sealed theme deck; and about 30 sealed promos), so can’t give much information about that in general, let alone in getting them from CardMarket sellers. 
Greetz,
Quuador
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To add on to @quuador ´s experience: I bought sealed product very regularly during 2016-2019 on cardmarket (wotc-ex) and never had a single issue, sellers are usually very helpful in the process and you can get additional pictures/information easily. Now, the product pretty much dried up completely though.
From time to time I also buy graded cards there but those are far in between as there is sadly no specific feature to list graded cards seperately - they get mixed into raws and sometimes you can get a deal as you can´t search for them specifically.
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That’s fair. Thanks a lot for all the detailed information. Appreciate it
I feel like a lot has dried up? I don’t know what stock used to look before on cardmarket but I searched for skyridge and there are 0 cards available. Just some packs (which would guaranteed be weighed). But 0 cards is something lol