I came up with four major criteria for what the perfect card-buying site would have...
- Price: I'm cheap...so sue me! I'm always looking for the best price available. There won't be any artificial price minimums like most have now. It will be whatever the market will bear. That's the way the Beckett Marketplace used to be before they instituted a 25¢ minimum. (By the way, does it strike anyone as odd that a company that is supposed to tell us what cards are worth has an price minimum?)
- Inventory: The site should have a boatload of cards available. If I'm looking for it, the site will have it. Commons, inserts, oddballs, vintage, junk wax, modern....they're all there.
- Shipping: The cards should come from one site, so that there is just one shipping charge. No multiple shipping charges, no more challenge to find the most cards from the fewest dealers--its all the cards from one dealer.
- Pictures: Show me the cards!
And when I looked at the four main sites, I realized that they each had strengths and deficiencies. None scored perfectly, but none were shut out either.
Price
|
Inventory
|
Shipping
|
Pictures
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Sportlots
|
yes
|
yes
|
no
|
no
|
JustCommons
|
yes
|
no
|
yes
|
no
|
COMC
|
no
|
no
|
yes
|
yes
|
Beckett
|
no
|
yes
|
no
|
yes
|
My ideal site would be...
....Checkoutmycommonslots Marketplace.
It will have the prices of Sportlots and JustCommons, the inventory of Sportlots and the Beckett Marketplace, the shipping charges from JustCommons and COMC, and the pictures as seen at COMC and the Beckett Marketplace.
If someone ever comes up with a site like this, the WW World Headquarters would have to have a major expansion...and the WW Wallet would have to expand too!
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