Minimum Order Price

This has indeed been requested a few times, and it is clearly a problem for sellers.

I have been reluctant to add it though since it discourages buyers from purchasing cards and creates frustrations on that side.

If I want to create a deck for example, and there's a single seller with a bulk rare that I want, for 50cents, and that's the last card I need, I'll be willing to pay the 3$ shipping because I really need that specific card. If I'd then see that he does not ship orders under 5-10$, I would be upset.

This is the scenario I wanted to avoid... I am not sure yet which is the correct choice here, or if there is some middle ground solution...

So that's basically what I was thinking with minimum prices per shipping option. If your order is <$1, you can't do tracking, but you can still do plain white envelope, for example.

I think sebi's point still stands there though because some sellers could literally just not offer a shipping option with no minimum.

This is probably dangerous, but maybe create a shipping option that's always there for everyone and can't be disabled, which would be up to 6 cards in a PWE with no minimum, priced at like 50 cents (current cost of a stamp plus a few pennies for an envelope)? I know it's getting into gray area with creating something that sellers have to offer, but it also seems like a reasonable option to have anyway. Obviously this only works in the US, maybe Canada (not sure what their post is like), but that's probably the majority of buyers and sellers anyway.

Alternatively you could just encourage people to offer that option without requiring it. Sure, some sellers will just set a minimum order value on everything. The thing is, some sellers already do that anyway. They just write in their profile that they don't do orders under $5, for example, and then just cancel and refund anything else. It's just more of a headache for everyone. Or, as I mentioned, they'll just set a higher shipping cost, since that can't be avoided, and then apply discounts.

Ultimately I think that sellers that run into this problem frequently enough will find a way around it anyway, but it would be nice to have an officially supported way that reduces the headache for everyone involved.

Could this feature be added for trades as well?
From reading profiles I understand that some countries (besides Denmark) has high postage prices, and they all plead that you only offer trades over X amount of $. If possible having the ability in your profile to set a minimum trade/sell amount, and have a visual representation (i.e. making the contra-offer in a red tint or something) would likely waste less peoples time.

I think one of the things that needs to be understood is not only is it the case that Deckbox is not TCGPlayer, but Deckbox shouldn't *try* to be TCGPlayer. One of the killer apps of Deckbox is that it has decent collection management features. I would love to list my entire collection for sale using Deckbox's indices. However, I will not do this because I know that if I do, then the only orders I will get will be on cards that are systematically underpriced and that would be shitty for me. A lot of the stuff that's been done to smooth the experience for buyers makes really jumping into Deckbox market risky for sellers. And yes, that's how TCGPlayer does it but that does not mean it would have been unwise for Deckbox to create its own take on sales.

Last edited by 9700377 (2016-02-06 20:52:45)