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    TCGplayer, Europe, and "private deal" ?

    Hi all,

    I live in Paris, France and am about to buy some expensive cards (>600€/$) on TCGplayer. This would be my first time buying on this platform (I have just created an account).

    As a European I tend to buy on MKM and/or ebay, but I've been in discussion with a US-based ebay seller (who looks legit, not a lot of sells, about fifty, but other expensive cards among them) from the US for a nice deal that I don't want to finalize on ebay because when I tried, the platform adds ~190$ in "international taxes" (which obviously completely ruins the deal). I asked the seller if I could pay him directly via PayPal and he suggested going through TCGplayer if I had an account there.

    Is there anything special I should know ? How can this "arrangement" work out ? For example I've seemed to notice that I can't message another TCGplayer user directly (maybe I'm wrong), and in the end I don't really know if we could indeed make such a "private" deal on TCGplayer (while of course keeping some buyer protection) ?

    Thanks for your help.
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    Re: TCGplayer, Europe, and "private deal" ?

    I would say if you can't get the deal to work through ebay, try to see if he is in one of facebook groups, confirm references there and buy direct through paypal.

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    Re: TCGplayer, Europe, and "private deal" ?

    Quote Originally Posted by 13b View Post
    I would say if you can't get the deal to work through ebay, try to see if he is in one of facebook groups, confirm references there and buy direct through paypal.
    One of Facebook groups ? Like which ones ?
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    Re: TCGplayer, Europe, and "private deal" ?

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    One of Facebook groups ? Like which ones ?
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    Re: TCGplayer, Europe, and "private deal" ?

    Be careful of unexpected customs fees - people usually dealing within Europe only probably almost forgot that this still exists between most other countries


    I received a card from Canada that was (incorrectly) labeled as being around 100 CAD and I had to pay around €35 including around €15 'declaration fee' that many postal services or parcel services charge. I was also very lucky that the sender had randomly put 100 CAD as value only as it was in reality a $800 Tabernacle that would probably have cost €120-150 in Customs taxes (I did not ask him to write this wrong number as I had even totally forgotten about customs myself)

    Also note that asking someone to wrongly declare a low value is theoretically customs fraud that may be punishable.

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    Re: TCGplayer, Europe, and "private deal" ?

    That's why you have a Scrye or Inquest laying around to verify your pricing

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