Lately, I have been using eBay and MOTL less and less to buy and sell Magic cards. I also buy very few Magic cards from US dealers (TCG Player, Bidwicket, SCG, CFB, etc.) because their prices are generally sky high and they don't have the niche items that I generally look for (miscuts, misprints and Russian cards). So where have I been buying my cards from? The perhaps surprising answer is Facebook. Before joining multiple online Facebook Magic groups I rarely used Facebook,mostly because I don't really care what other people are doing or what other people "like."
The first group I joined was Magic: The Gathering misprints and oddities. This niche group now has over 10,312 members. This is quite an astonishing number for such a niche market as misprints.
The second groups that I joined were the Non-English Magic the Gathering trading group and the High End Magic stuff for sale! These groups have ~2000 and ~15,000 members respectively.
The above groups are the groups that I still actively use to buy and sell Magic cards.
So why use Facebook instead of selling to a store, eBay, MOTL, etc.:
Pro -
No fees!
No picture limit
You can message the buyer/seller
Con -
Scammers
Posts can get lost
Be careful out there but don't forget to have fun and buy some new sweet cards (or sell some to me!).
Cheers,
Simon
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