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That's an interesting point I hadn't even considered, because it's completely different from how I and a lot of people *I* know shop. I tend to focus on LP cards, because first, I don't have to pay the NM premium, and second, sellers generally grade condition very aggressively to avoid having to deal with returns/refunds, so LP cards are often borderline NM. It's very rare I've been unhappy with LP purchases. And a lot of people I know also tend to order LP unless there's a NM version at a cheaper price (happens once in a while on TCGPlayer).

Valid point. I'd personally not recommend MP (though I've seen people take that approach, so I mentioned it), but an aggressively priced LP can still sell. But you're right — you have to find your own thresholds that produce the sales volume and margins you're comfortable with.

Why not just verify orders as you prepare them for shipment, and if any cards seem to be off of the NM grade now that you've examined them more closely, message the buyer with scans/photos of the cards and ask what the buyer would like? I've had TCGPlayer sellers do this to me, saying shipment would be delayed until they hear back from me, and I was fine with that. Then the buyer can choose between a refund or accepting the cards as is. If they balk or insist, you could even offer a partial refund, with the buyer accepting the lower condition for a lower price (which keeps you from losing money due to seller fees you can't get back on a full refund). You'll still have buyers who'll bash you, but reasonable buyers will appreciate the choice and not fault you for whatever choice they themselves made.

@Islanzadi38 — The default condition for a list of cards is whatever you set the default to when entering them. The default doesn't have to be NM. I'd recommend setting your default to LP or even Played (MP on other sites). If you undershoot condition, you're less likely to have an issue with buyers. And you can still have a statement in your profile explaining this system, so people know cards will often be a better condition than listed.

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@Commander_Bacon — You said it yourself: It's the seller's responsibility. Opening yourself up to potentially greater profits by selling on multiple platforms simultaneously opens you up to the greater risk of selling out of inventory. If you desire the former, you'll unfortunately have to deal with the latter. And a misrepresented inventory that leads to a cancelled sale is, from a buyer's perspective, the very essence of a negative experience, so the negative feedback, while frustrating for you, is 100% accurate. If I need to order cards for an upcoming event, I'm going to avoid a seller who has a track record of having inventory issues and cancelled orders, because I need a reliable seller.

A couple options: 1) List only partial inventories on both platforms. If you have 20 copies of card X, list only 10 on Deckbox and 10 on eBay. This can also help with card spikes; see my response to Sandra below. 2) Give the buyer an option. Send them a message explaining the mixup, and offer these options: They can either wait for you to acquire the missing copies of the card to send them, or they can get a refund. Most buyers will be a lot more reasonable when they feel they have some amount of control in the situation, and you'll be earning their positive feedback by being willing to potentially take a loss to fulfill the order.

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@Sandra — A couple options: 1) A technique I've seen sellers use to hedge against sniping or card buyouts is to only list part of their inventory. So if you actually own 10 of card X, only list 2-4 of it. That way, if a card spikes when you're not looking, you'll only lose out on that extra profit for a couple cards, and can now list 2-4 more of your cards at the higher price. 2) Not all 90,000 of your cards need to have their prices checked and updated diligently. Only a small subset of those cards are likely to be prone to spikes. I would make a list of your rares/mythics, older foils, vintage cards, cards that have only had 1-2 printings a while ago, and the like, then keep that list up-to-date on a frequent basis.

Some other comments: In one of your posts, you stated that you "can't take a hit like that", referring to a $1 card becoming $20. But.... you're not taking a hit. Unless you bought the card for $5, then were forced to list it at $1 for a loss because the card went down in value, but now missed out on a spike that would have turned that loss into a gain.... unless that's the scenario, you haven't taken a hit. Presumably, you've still made money off of that card relative to your initial cost basis. @ic0n67 hit the nail on the head: If you were happy to sell the card for $1 prior to the spike, then for you, it's still a positive sale.

You also stated that this is your only source of income, which implies that you view it as a necessary means to bring in money, aka a job. Thus, it would behoove you to treat it like a job. Since you don't have any other job competing for your time, that gives you more freedom to spend the hours you would have spent at a job on this instead. Now, I'm not assuming you can spend 8 hours a day on it! Perhaps you have multiple kids, a house/garden/etc to take care of, an invalid relative you care for — I understand, as I have 5 kids and an 8 month old, we just started homeschooling all of them due to the pandemic, and at the same time as all that, I'm trying to work from home. What really flabbergasts me, though, is that, in your profile, you state that "updating the sell list daily or weekly simply isn't something I have the time to do" (emphasis mine). I get daily, but if you don't have the time to do it weekly.... then frankly, you have no room to complain about card spikes. The amount you earn at a job is directly proportional to the amount of time and effort you put in. The same is true as a peddler of cardboard. If I were to start selling my collection right now to make extra money, I know I wouldn't be able to treat it like a full-time job, so I'd resign myself to the fact that, if I missed out on some announcement or top 8 that made a card spike, oh well. I missed out. If I can't spend the time to ensure I run my cardboard-selling business correctly, then I deserve to experience losses.

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General comment to everyone asking for "sale proposals" — As @asrttyoxo said above, no other marketplace does this. And for good reason. How long is the buyer supposed to wait on you? Hours? A couple days? How long before they get the chance to cancel their order and ding you with negative feedback on that failed transaction due to nonresponse? And what if they wait 20 hours, only to be told, "Sorry, we don't have enough of that card in stock" or "Sorry, I had the wrong price listed"? If the card IS in the middle of a buyout, the buyer may have missed other opportunities with other sellers while waiting on you. Or if they were ordering for an upcoming game night, but then have to wait two days only to get their order proposal declined, they're gonna be rightfully annoyed with you. Yet in your proposed system, they'll have no means of leaving feedback that warns other buyers away from a slow seller. Honestly, I'd never again buy from anyone on Deckbox if this system were implemented, because I value the timeliness and dependability of the transactions.

It sounds like everyone just wants an extension of the trade functionality that allows trading money for cards instead of cards for cards. In this system, I could look through your tradelist, add some cards to a trade, see both the Deckbox-calculated price as well as your listed price you're asking, and make an offer along those lines, much like eBay's Best Offer feature. Trades could also be a mix of money and cards from my tradelist, if you've stated in your profile that you'll accept trades that aren't cash-only. Once I propose a trade of my money for your cards, you'll have the option to accept, reject, or counter my "best offer", just as you would with card-for-card trades.

Basically (and @BluePrecision), if it's a marketplace with sellers, then it needs to function like any other store; it's not a different business model from TCGPlayer or MKM. If I click a button to buy, then by the very fact that you have the card listed for sale, you've agreed to sell it to me at the listed quantity and price. It is 100% the seller's job to ensure that can happen.

I'm glad you're aware; most people don't seem to be knowledgeable of such things. When I first got involved in the Magic crowd, I apparently held the bias that most Magic players would also be tech/computer nerds. But since being on Deckbox, I've been surprised by how many actually aren't, so I've begun to tailor my responses with that assumption in mind. Apologies if it came across as condescending.

Doh! You're right. I completely misread your original post as the opposite of that. Yes, Deckbox needs to switch it around. I don't think I've ever noticed, because I just always sort by collector number, which obviously orders them correctly.

I agree. This also would follow how WotC themselves order those cards in the set.

This has to do with programmer's ordering. In programming, it'll follow the ASCII table, in which " has character code 0x22, the uppercase letters use codes 0x41-0x5A, and _ has code 0x5F. That said, Sebi could obviously program Deckbox to override the default ASCII sorting. Personally, I'd rather just ignore beginning punctuation, and sort them based on the first letter of the card. But I can see the logic in grouping punctuation, too.

So in this case, it's actually correct. This is the order WotC uses. See e.g. Masters 25, in which Akroma is #002 while Vengeance is #003. This follows a certain commonsense as well, in that the character should precede their spell.

Yes, happening to me too. Sebi has been making a lot of changes to the layout of the site, in an attempt to make the desktop layout work better on smaller screens. The following is pure conjecture, but it's possible he's working toward a unified layout, instead of maintaining a separate desktop and mobile experience. I for one would +1 that goal. And that would explain why he's made the mobile layout the non-default option.

In any case, you can still open to the mobile layout by default if you have ?mobile=1 appended to the URL. My browser (Chrome on Android 7) starts learning that version of the URL once I've typed it enough times, so as soon as I start typing "Deckbox", it already has that appended. You obviously could also use things like bookmarks on your home screen.

Thank you so much for spending the time (and money!) to do that. I apologize for this egregiously tardy thank you -- we started homeschooling our 5 school-age kids due to COVID-19, so.... don't know if you have any kids in your life.... but I'm sure you can imagine that it's been a crazy transition!

I could see transitioning from Dropbox to Github at some point, but considering the sheer number of CSVs and accompanying download links contained in this resource at this point, that's no small task. For now, the current system is working out alright.

Here's a small thing that probably most other users won't care that much about but should hopefully also be an easy tweak:

I follow the forums fairly closely and would always look for the "new posts" icon whenever I visited the site. Now that's just the default icon and there's no way for me to know if there's new posts without actually going to the forum.

Considering you were able to display or hide an icon as needed, you obviously already have the necessary framework in place for conditional styling. What if instead of the conditional styling being "icon / no icon" it were "filled icon / empty icon" or some other dual icon system. That way an icon could always be shown in mobile, but we could still tell if there's new posts or not at a glance. And you could use both icons in desktop also, or just stick with the old approach.

Have you listened to the Command Zone podcast before? They do a series for each Commander release focused on this very thing -- a budget (around $25) upgrade by changing about 10% of the deck (though they often end up mentioning more than 10 cards to add or remove if you'd like to change it more). Great series. It also analyzes which commander has more synergy and support right out-of-the-box (spoiler: it's not always the face card), and helps focus the deck a bit more on that strategy.

Here's a link to the Kathril deck: https://youtu.be/9Y5Wms1gMaA  Although, if you don't like watching videos or just don't want to watch the whole thing, they put a link to their upgraded decklist in the video's description.

If they are logged into a Deckbox account in mobile view, then open your link, it'll display in mobile view. I also can't find a way to display it in mobile view when not logged in. Weird that mobile view only works for logged in accounts (maybe a bug?), but if they have or are willing to create accounts, then at least it'll work!

Do you use any sort of cloud storage that allows share links, like Dropbox, G Drive, OneDrive, etc? Post a link to the CSV and I'll be glad to help you with it!

There's been a lot going on with so many recent product releases. I bet he'll get to it soon. It's an easy fix -- he just prepends "Token:" before the token name so it has a unique name in the database.

In the meantime, you CAN add the correct token to your Inventory by just changing the edition after adding the card, from The Dark to Extras: Core Set 2021 (or set the default edition to the Extras edition prior to adding the cards). Obviously not ideal, but yeah, he'll fix this at some point.

Finally got it added! Sorry for the delay -- it was a ton of data to wade through.

I also had to come up with a method of making it easier to figure out which CSV to download (for the themes with multiple variants, like Goblins or Wizards). I would greatly appreciate feedback on what I came up with, whether it makes sense and whether it makes it easy to find the CSV you need.