My main point is that I sell on ebay and it's technically going through to make sure all the items are still properly in stock. I really don't want negative feedback or people not getting what they ordered. It's hard to react in real time when you make online sales unfortunately. If i sell on one platform, I have to remove it from the other (or take down a listing). It's a grind, yes. I know it's the seller's responsability and all that, but we're not all tcg player, starcitygames, etc. We're small time just trying to side hustle, make extra money, etc. Everyone thinks we're these greedy rich people making infinite money off of this which just isn't true.
Having an LGS at this point seems unlikely, especially how hard some of them got hit during COVID. Also, they now mostly have a policy were their prices are not stickered and are sort of online but not with an actualy e-commerce solution, so yeah, they sometimes just lazily go on tcgplayer and give the customer that price as the sales price. There's no perfect solution, tbh, you're gonna likely get sniped on some stuff that goes up(but it feels often enough that it's the more 'experienced' traders on here that do that vs. potential clients.)
Cards 'spiking' a bit and selling for like 3$ isntead of 4 is not the problem really. It's more like the ones that goes from 5 to 15$ and other crazy scenarious. You sadly just know that the sale is due to the spike vs. organic demand and it's a little frustrating when you're trying to give people a great card selection.
