Thanks for the video, gl with ironing out the discrepancies it's not easy. I posted on y'alls quick list video about software automation and auditing on the intake. It sounds like you need a data engineer to set you up with a database to track the out side from tcgplayer as well. Assuming you can export your sales data it should be straight forward to run a script to pull that data from tcgp and update a database with the time of sale, quantity, condition, etc. Wont help immediately but would be nice to have!
The worst feeling about the SEIs is that you have to pour through every card, understand what TCGplayer says is wrong with it, decide if you're going to relist it at a lower grade, take the time to actually relist it, and then file it. And all of that potentially for cards worth pennies. I wish TCGplayer would give us the option to accept their downgrades of our SEI cards, and move them into a SYP-like inventory without shipping them back and forth again.
@RianCroteau i think they fixed this loophole by specifying the 98% accuracy. anyone just dumping stuff on them on purpose wouldn't last long in the program
After years of selling via Direct, we opted out and have been doing well with just marketplace. Struggled to keep 50k-75k in current inventory now we topped over 204k. We get to spend more time on the growth instead of back and forth with SEI issues. It’s still a task to stay ahead of the demand.
i feel like with their current model they just want pack fresh cards, i keep getting nm card getting condition dinged to lp or mp and some even down to damaged. When i get the cards back I literally can't find anything wrong with it.
I've requested cancellation from direct multiple weeks ago, they've yet to take us off direct. We primarily sell under $3 cards and can sell the higher priced cards in our store. The 50% commission they charge on those card are just too high if that's primarily what you're selling. It also is cannibalizing our regular sales because all the good stuff gets sold so fast. Then people don't go to our inventory to buy other stuff. That's been our experience.
I am greatly enjoying this series. As one of the buyers on TCG player, our frustration over the years is finally being recognized on the seller front. Now keep this is mind. You're struggling with 50,000 cards, maybe adding 2k a week. imagine the quality issues a company must have printing, idk, say, 11 billion cards a year and having youtubers bash them over the slightest defect. Humbling. quite Humbling. Thank you for working hard to correct the issues on your side. I can only hope other sellers are as diligent.
I got kicked out of the direct program for a high discrepancy rate. They didn’t even give me a 30 day warning like they did for you. Wish I would have received that so I could have made changes and reconditioned my cards.
On the Direct tab where it says Pending Reimbursement Invoice you can click Export Pending RI and it will give you an excel sheet of any pending Direct orders. So, in theory, when you are trying to clear your discrepancies in store you could export that, pull the pending direct inventory and sit it to the side, and then file your discrepancies back into your inventory. Still not ideal but saves you a few days of waiting.
Nah cause they right to be afraid. Watch ya'll going to do things their way and YOUR STILL gonna get RI's with huge percentages. There's no reason for there to be 5 different Conditions. It should just be Mint, Played, and Damaged. The graders at TCGPlayer want to keep their jobs so they're always going to down grade whatever you send in cause that's their only job. That's what they do all day. You can't change that. I sure hope your making a plan b for when they eject you from the direct program.
I suggest doing a footbath with epsom salt or do some type of self nourishing or healing to avoid stress induced ailments, like ulcers, etc.thanks for all you do also. 🎉
i'm so irritated by direct cause it doesn't have to be this way. they could just accept the cards at the rate they condition them at and let it be a wash. They're already making boogoo profit from combining them all and then still charging us for shipping on each one even if it is reduced. They're not spending the amount they charge us on shipping to send those cards out. It's boarding on scam territory now.
The amount of doofuses on tcgplayer groups saying "IVE NEVER HAD A SINGLE REFUND OR DISCREPANCY, I DONT GET IT, JUST LIST LESS CARDS". I wish facebook replaced the poke button with slap.
The last step I didn't get - you already use these CSV tables to upload the inventory through quick-list. I thought these tables already contain the pricing information so you can keep track of which card was uploaded when? Or does the offered card also gets a price change depending on the current market? Then it would be more difficult to keep track with so many changes across tens of thousands of cards. Anyway, you got this Mason, Zack, and team CNA!
Thanks for the video, gl with ironing out the discrepancies it's not easy.
I posted on y'alls quick list video about software automation and auditing on the intake. It sounds like you need a data engineer to set you up with a database to track the out side from tcgplayer as well. Assuming you can export your sales data it should be straight forward to run a script to pull that data from tcgp and update a database with the time of sale, quantity, condition, etc.
Wont help immediately but would be nice to have!
The worst feeling about the SEIs is that you have to pour through every card, understand what TCGplayer says is wrong with it, decide if you're going to relist it at a lower grade, take the time to actually relist it, and then file it. And all of that potentially for cards worth pennies.
I wish TCGplayer would give us the option to accept their downgrades of our SEI cards, and move them into a SYP-like inventory without shipping them back and forth again.
@RianCroteau i think they fixed this loophole by specifying the 98% accuracy. anyone just dumping stuff on them on purpose wouldn't last long in the program
Take care of your mental health.
If you burn out the numbers and all the hards work mean nothing.
Take care of yourself, you got this!
After years of selling via Direct, we opted out and have been doing well with just marketplace. Struggled to keep 50k-75k in current inventory now we topped over 204k. We get to spend more time on the growth instead of back and forth with SEI issues. It’s still a task to stay ahead of the demand.
i feel like with their current model they just want pack fresh cards, i keep getting nm card getting condition dinged to lp or mp and some even down to damaged. When i get the cards back I literally can't find anything wrong with it.
I've requested cancellation from direct multiple weeks ago, they've yet to take us off direct. We primarily sell under $3 cards and can sell the higher priced cards in our store. The 50% commission they charge on those card are just too high if that's primarily what you're selling. It also is cannibalizing our regular sales because all the good stuff gets sold so fast. Then people don't go to our inventory to buy other stuff. That's been our experience.
What do you sell?
@@Julnlecs86 Pokemon. 90% are under $3 singles.
Makes sense. Thanks for sharing.
I am greatly enjoying this series. As one of the buyers on TCG player, our frustration over the years is finally being recognized on the seller front. Now keep this is mind. You're struggling with 50,000 cards, maybe adding 2k a week. imagine the quality issues a company must have printing, idk, say, 11 billion cards a year and having youtubers bash them over the slightest defect. Humbling. quite Humbling. Thank you for working hard to correct the issues on your side. I can only hope other sellers are as diligent.
I got kicked out of the direct program for a high discrepancy rate. They didn’t even give me a 30 day warning like they did for you. Wish I would have received that so I could have made changes and reconditioned my cards.
Captains log : day 5 👨🏻✈️🃏
On the Direct tab where it says Pending Reimbursement Invoice you can click Export Pending RI and it will give you an excel sheet of any pending Direct orders. So, in theory, when you are trying to clear your discrepancies in store you could export that, pull the pending direct inventory and sit it to the side, and then file your discrepancies back into your inventory. Still not ideal but saves you a few days of waiting.
Nah cause they right to be afraid. Watch ya'll going to do things their way and YOUR STILL gonna get RI's with huge percentages. There's no reason for there to be 5 different Conditions. It should just be Mint, Played, and Damaged. The graders at TCGPlayer want to keep their jobs so they're always going to down grade whatever you send in cause that's their only job. That's what they do all day. You can't change that. I sure hope your making a plan b for when they eject you from the direct program.
I mean I feel like that is a doom and gloom attitude to have about a business.
@@TheBuffetBar sort of, but he’s not wrong either about the condition thing. There’s no reason to have that many.
I suggest doing a footbath with epsom salt or do some type of self nourishing or healing to avoid stress induced ailments, like ulcers, etc.thanks for all you do also. 🎉
Can you show us some of the return cards and what their condition is versus what TCG player said they were in another video
You’re doing the work. You got this
Keep crushing 💪🏼😎👍🏼
I'd love to see the actual process with using quick list and conditioning.
i'm so irritated by direct cause it doesn't have to be this way.
they could just accept the cards at the rate they condition them at and let it be a wash.
They're already making boogoo profit from combining them all and then still charging us for shipping on each one even if it is reduced. They're not spending the amount they charge us on shipping to send those cards out.
It's boarding on scam territory now.
The amount of doofuses on tcgplayer groups saying "IVE NEVER HAD A SINGLE REFUND OR DISCREPANCY, I DONT GET IT, JUST LIST LESS CARDS". I wish facebook replaced the poke button with slap.
The last step I didn't get - you already use these CSV tables to upload the inventory through quick-list. I thought these tables already contain the pricing information so you can keep track of which card was uploaded when? Or does the offered card also gets a price change depending on the current market? Then it would be more difficult to keep track with so many changes across tens of thousands of cards.
Anyway, you got this Mason, Zack, and team CNA!
unfortunately quicklist wasn't designed to work with ROCA, so their csv inputs and outputs don't work the same.
1000s of cards a week? 😮. I wished I could sell 1 card a week.
You make more not being on direct 🤷
More work more pwe packing and shipping more risk when you aren’t on direct