TCGplayer Reviews

Spent many hours learning TCGplayer and searching for cards for a deck I’m building. Imagine after all my hours of searching and collecting to my cart and their site won’t take my bank card. I own my own business and this card has been used everywhere with no problems. Yes I repeatedly try to use here and it won’t. Only time I have any issues in the past was when PayPal has a hand in it. And they have paypal involve with their sire here. So I searched and searched for a way to call and ask why I can’t use my card and there is no way to call them. I sent an email but by the time I get anywhere with that the cards I’m looking for will be gone and I’ll have to start over. I used there automated chat but it’s useless. What is wrong with places that won’t help their customers? They have enough customers that they don’t care if I buy or send other people to or away from them?

TCGplayer requires me to login every time I open it… and if I forget to login then any work I’ve done on adding cards to my buy list (of which there isn’t just a simple buy list to add cards to without choosing a seller)… then those cards get wiped when I close TCGplayer again. For a busy person like me who doesn’t have time to spend sixty minutes consecutively adding cards one-by-one, I need a solution that works for my busy lifestyle when I am constantly interrupted. I also hate that if someone else buys the card from the same seller I have to go back in and spend more time trying to buy the same card again. I also am exhausted from trying to select cards all from one seller so I don’t have to pay a.) shipping or b.) the outrageous TCG mark up when they house it. We need to seriously add some quality of life features to TCGplayer for busy people who can maybe spend five minutes here and there adding cards to a buy list until they are ready to place a large order. And the last time I used the automated option it was less than intelligent and practically doubled the costs of my order so I had to start all over…. How have executive management not acknowledged this is a critical flaw?

I don’t know if I’m spoiled by other apps, but the features for scanning and organizing cards on TCGplayer are needlessly inefficient. To scan cards in you need to set up your own miniature film studio for each card, and trying to enter them manually needs to be done in tandem with Google because TCGplayer doesn’t let you preview an image of the card without adding it to your collection.

My experience uploading my Pokémon card collection has been going through each card one at a time, checking on Google, scrolling to find the right set on TCGplayer , adding the card, then exiting the card search browser to edit information on the card I added. Repeat ad nauseum.

It might be easier for Magic the gathering since that game has set symbols, but if you’re trying to catalogue that game I highly recommend finding another app. I won’t advertise one on this page, but there are plenty of better options. I bet there are for Pokémon too, but I don’t pay much attention to that game.

I wanna preface this by saying, I really love tcg and selling with them. TCGplayer is set up with the illusion of ease of use. But i found it more fluid to manually input on my laptop then to use the seller portal on TCGplayer ...for two reasons..that if could be fixed would leave TCGplayer a must have for all tcg users.
1. Ability to add the entire list of cards created from the scanning option to your seller portal..this would make it much less tedious
2. Ability to use the photo provided by the server when adding cards to online store...when posting on my computer I’m not required to take a photo (just state truthfully the condition)...when required to take a photo for every card on TCGplayer it makes the speed and ease of use absolutely obsolete

I love the idea of TCGplayer. If those issues could be fixed it would be a perfect streamlining option to add bulk cards to sellers online stores. Other than that it is not of much use to me or I think others over simply using their website.

Don’t get me wrong, I very much enjoy using TCG on the PC version to sell items. It’s very efficient, and even though they take a pretty big chunk it’s ultimately nice to have a central place to sell excess singles on your own terms. That being said, the mobile app seem to need work.

Some issues that I’ve seen:
-A majority of TCGplayer doesn’t seem to even be mobile friendly, but rather just an odd overlay for the main website. The exception of this being the scan feature, which houses its own issues.
- As mentioned, the scan feature goofs up occasionally when picking a set, and editing a selection can seem clunky sometimes.
-Lastly, and this is the unforgivable flaw that ultimately will just have me using the browser version: your collections are not ported over to the mobile version. That is to say if I have a collection that I meticulously added on the browser version, it is not automatically added, nor is it able to be ported over to the mobile version. There IS the ability to import a CSV file to the mobile version, but not the ability to get a CSV of your current collection on the site.

Overall I have high hopes for TCGplayer , but I’m not holding my breath. Don’t let TCGplayer’s clunk deter you from using this app, it’s a great site to help move most of your trading card product.

TCG Player deserves a better app than this.

The scanning feature is great when it works, but often fails on different borders, treatments, and sleeves and is unbelievably sensitive to various lighting.

The cart isn’t saved to my account, so I can’t switch between the site and TCGplayer .

The site navigation is painful for multiple reasons.
- I can’t add items to my cart from the search result listings, I have to enter the single product page which is inefficient and often loses my place in my search results when going back.
- Search results are not stored as a complete set, so navigating between pages of results means the contents change. This is frustrating when looking through groups of cards such as from an expansion.

An app like this should have functionality which not only provides a strong shopping experience but encourages use beyond shopping to both understand me better as a consumer and more importantly make me engage with the company more often so I spend more there. Things like trade helpers (which could eventually allow users to include this app credit in their trades to help with equitable transactions and generate more earnings) and a game tracker for life/counters/etc.

It’s unfortunate that the industry standard in the space has such a suboptimal mobile experience.

As far as scanning cards go this is a great feature, but this frequently gets the set of scanned cards incorrect and correcting the set has to be done one-by-one, which is made even more time consuming on an IPhone X where the “x” to close card pages is hidden behind the time at the top left of these “notched” phones.
I am also having an incredibly strange bug where I cannot read any of the settings for TCGplayer that contain an on and off slider. I can see the sliders in a list view in the options, but each row is completely blank so I cannot see what I am turning on and off.
Searching in the normal this app website in TCGplayer is frustrating as well. The keyboard frequently shuts itself for no reason, loading seems to take ages in comparison to using the normal browser on my phone, and the layout of most pages still being exactly the same as desktop layout just zoomed out makes searching a complete nightmare, something that would likely be the reason most people download TCGplayer.
All in all, TCGplayer’s potential is game-changing for those of us who sell cards. Scanning is second to none and I am hopeful for the ability to on the fly list scanned cards for sale without having to upload pictures.
If even just some of these bugs are fixed TCGplayer would be outstanding for TCG players.

An app version of a site or service is meant to make everything easier and more efficient. Somehow this app’s app functions more poorly than the mobile site. With constant log outs you’re forced to log in EVERYTIME and as a big seller on their platform it’s infuriating. I check this app about 20 times a day so just this issue alone has made TCGplayer unusable for me. I’m forced to use the mobile site if I’m on my phone.

On that note, TCGplayer version is LITERALLY a bootleg copy of the desktop version. So you’re forced to scroll and zoom on every page. It has the same feeling of scrolling the browser on a fire stick, clunky and time consuming. The only feature I even remotely like is the scan and collection features, it’s fairly accurate and easy to use but only useful for my customers looking to sell their collections, and if I’m uploading a photo listing.

So 2 stars, it has one redeeming feature but 90% off TCGplayer is inefficient and in no way user friendly.

when I think of an application, I think of a self-contained app, not a website. If I wanted to visit the website, I could very easily just go visit the website. I don’t need you to embed a website in an app, and have it not track the fact that I’m signed in across all of its pages, require me to sign in every single time that I open, and the UI that does keep me signed in does not update the data correctly.

this to me seems like something from the early 2000s that was just never updated properly, I would rather you make an actual app that is TCGplayer version of the website that I can sign into and actually remember my sign in for through closes, and not just be a glorified Web app shell of a website.

i’m currently a fluttered developer, and I would encourage you for platform compatibility that you use flutter so you can have it across the marketplaces but in this current state, this is just a website that doesn’t have cookies or remember my password with a clunky shell. And I’m better off literally bookmarking the website in Safari and creating a desktop link then using this.

I’m fairly certain that the feedback team will send the generic response to this.

TCGplayer is likable with easy access to the cards. There’s some great features that make life very simple for the buyer and seller interested in cards. It provides great service while doing the function of a mobile store.

In certain cases, I do find difficulties with load times. This is more so on the ISP than on TCGplayer itself. The fact that databases can be updated to support increased speed in which TCGplayer can be accessed is nice. It’s a decent compromise. Great work on that part.

The glaring issue is that the product variety on the scanner is very limited to the three listed card games. While nice, this inherently restricts the user to only three card games. I’m assuming that this is being worked on to accommodate the listed games and more.

Also on that note, I would like to have the option of picking and choosing frequently used databases to increase speed. There are some card games that people don’t play, thus eliminating the need for that particular data update. It might be best for those that have an account and would like to have that access through the settings menu. For example, if a person plays MTG and Pokémon, but not Yu-Gi-Oh, you can have that database be removed from the update package.

Hi guys, issue with logging in on the mobile app.

Major glitch IMO. When going to "Your account and more" via the "You" icon in the bottom right of TCGplayer window, the "Log In" option allows you to log in; however, it does so in an isolated browser window within TCGplayer .

Once logged in (and after verifying email), you're logged in to a single web browser instance of the this app website — but you're still not logged into TCGplayer .

Your only option, from there, is to hit the "X" in the top left corner. At that point, you're returned to TCGplayer , and in "Your Account and More" your only option is "Log in." It is an endless loop of fury.

This is especially annoying considering I am LOGGED IN to TCGplayer when I go to “Shop”.

I am a hobbyist/player/collector that was using TCGplayer to catalog cards and add to my collection under the assumption that, when done, they would show up in my account on desktop/on the site.

Unfortunately, since I’m not logged in on TCGplayer , they’re not showing up, and there’s not a way TO log in on TCGplayer .

Luckily, i’m still able to export the list via email; but now I’m concerned that if I add them manually via a list to the this app site, and then log in gets fixed eventually, I’m going to have a huge duplicate problem on my hands when they decide to merge. Brutal, after scanning 400+ cards and spending hours doing so. Pain.

There’s a stunning lack of features. Unlike most card scanner/collection apps you can’t seem to actually make a deck, just have various collections. If you want a big collection of all your cards, you cannot merge your various smaller collections, you just gotta start scanning from scratch. It really sticks out how feature-barren TCGplayer is. Furthermore the scanner is… very hit or miss. Mostly miss. I bought a precon mtg deck with 100% cards from the Commander Legends set. I had it on a white background, no glare, and this scanner was convinced that each card was from Khans of Tarkir. I had to manually go in and change the set each time, defeating most of the purpose of having a card scan function in the first place. It’s a shame, cuz honestly iOS card scanner apps are seriously lacking, you either get a good scanner and no features, or a good collection app with no scanner. With very little adjustment, TCGplayer could be the best on the appstore. But right now it’s just in the middle of the pack. At least it doesn’t charge you $5 a month to see your collection like some other apps do.

I do like the this app app. It’s convenient to have an app to easily access the price of cards. It’s also an incredibly useful tool as a seller.

The huge, glaring issue with TCGplayer is its lag/consistency. TCGplayer is usually quite slow. Occasionally it straight up drops connection (tested on stable internet against a computer accessing the website). There are times where it would load the frame but not the actual prices and sellers. It’s hard to quickly look something up for a trade, especially if you have to jump through extra hoops to find the price guide when searching normally doesn’t work.

As it stands, I don’t recommend this as a quick reference tool. TCGplayer should only be used by sellers that want to check their inventory. Mobile buys can use it, too but really only should when you absolutely want to use this app.

My biggest complaint with TCGplayer is not being able to manage the cards i have for sale as smoothly as it should be. When I go to the seller portal, I expect to be able to see all the cards I have listed with the current info for those cards such as the currently listed price. As of now I have to go to sell, then click view active listings, which brings me to a page that lists every card in this app inventory and I have to click “my inventory” and then “search”. Then I can’t even quickly see the prices I have set at a glance. I have to click on the individual listing to see the price. That’s annoying. I want one click to bring me to my listings where I can see all of its details and then click on the listing if I want to edit it.

I also really wish I could merge card lists. If I have two large lists that I scanned separately but want them together, I have to scan them all over again which can take forever if there’s a lot of cards.

TCGplayer does a lot of great stuff in how it integrates with this app’s site but it has a number of shortcomings.

The scanner on TCGplayer is very finicky and slow. I’ve given up on trying to scan any pre8th edition black cards entirely and green or blue can be inconsistent. If MTGManager didn’t have such a quick and consistent scanner I’d let it slide. That said, MTGManager also charges for stuff & TCGplayer is fully free. I don’t know how your scanner works but if it doesn’t already do it I’d suggest having it read the card text and comparing it to an existing database to help narrow down the possible cards. At bare minimum you’d get the right card but wrong version sometimes.

It would be nice if TCGplayer had slightly more sorting options. The ability to sort the cards you’ve added to a binder with even these minor options would be amazing:

Alphabetical
Number of copies
Set name
Card type
Date added
Value

Also the ability to search to see if a card is in your collection could be a nice addition.

Or even just manually moving cards up or down the list.

Overall it’s a pretty good app, and it’s hard to complain when it’s FREE. I just want some improvements. The scanner stuff could be tough but just improving sorting alone would make me immensely happy

I’ve been using TCGplayer for a while now to catalogue our cards as we open them. I love that you can make lists, as I like tracking the value of hauls or boxes. However there are more downsides than I feel like there should be.

1) There’s no way to combine or merge lists on TCGplayer . I would have loved to make overall set lists, but it’s almost impossible to do this within TCGplayer .
2) Not being able to export as a csv on iOS is a huge downfall, as a lot of different sites use that format for imports.
3) When “exporting” the list it doesn’t track if a card is foil or not, which again makes it challenging to catalogue it correctly and takes time to fix.
4) I would love to see the option of selecting a set to search from. Often times the promo is pulled, or obscure cards are (when I’m scanning standard cards).
5) The organization for the Art card catalogue is atrocious. Some cards have numbers, and some don’t. Others will pull as a gold foil, with no option to switch it to the standard version.

While I have found TCGplayer to be the most reliable for scanning apps (and I love that you can make several lists), there is still a lot of work to be done.

I love TCGplayer , but it often recognized editions wrong, which I’m still fine with (I’m not expecting perfection with so many card variants) but let’s use “Siren’s Call” as an example. I scan it in and it comes up as 4th. Mine is unlimited so I push the button to change it, but I can’t because the choice of unlimited is “beyond the range” of the selection screen. I can pull it up enough to see it but as soon as I try to select it by taking my finger off the screen from scrolling it “snaps up” 3-4 places so I can’t choose it any more. World Championship, Urza, unlimited and others are affected by this. It’s not every card, some are formatted correctly so I can choose it. Someone is obviously just lazy with formatting. It’s a shame since it is a good app otherwise.

I love using TCGplayer for cataloguing my decks and binder, but I would love to use this for my whole entire collection but adding thousands of cards can be a nightmare with TCGplayer.

I want to preface this with the fact that I’m very grateful for TCGplayer. There isn’t another one that stays as up to date with the cards and has as good of a system.

The one thing I would love is a way to interface this with my computer very well. Wether be TCGplayer or my phone (iPhone 12) but cataloguing so many cards heats up my phone and lags it very bad and also crashes TCGplayer .

Also while the scanner is very good, with a lot of newer sets it never scans the set right and changing every single card I scan can be a nightmare with the card setting interface. They are all slight and small little issues that don’t matter much but after the thousandth card really gets to me. If there was an option just like the option to make every scan foil but makes every scan always part of a specific set, that would be nice.

My biggest thing though, if I could scan with my phone and make all the adjustments and the database on my computer that would be a dream come true!!

Thank you for the great app and hopefully my voice is heard. 💕

Love the website, so far, love TCGplayer . It makes it so easy to buy stuff! I buy my Pokémon cards here, and it is so easy to find what I need. Market price listed and selling prices of people. I always get nervous buying card online but what made me less nervous is when someone got a card falsely claimed to be near mint but had a giant scratch, this app stepped in to help them get money back or rectify the situation. I so far trust TCGplayer to make purchases on. Also while products are being scalped for this site, the price doesn’t seem to be more than $20 over on the elite trainer boxes which I find pretty refreshing. I haven’t used all things available on TCGplayer which is why I gave it a 4 of 5. Maybe I can try to sell some cards here for others to try and complete their collection.

Ok so I would honestly want to really know what my Japanese Pokémon cards are worth but it won’t scan the Japanese Pokémon cards so is there ever gonna be a update where I can scan my Japanese Pokémon cards and see what the real value is .aka. My Japanese charizards. Just asking if you would add a scanning option or Let TCGplayer Scan Pokémon Cards Then k can actually see the real value of the card and yes it’s a good app to use to scan English Pokémon cards but I would honestly love you to add in Japanese Pokémon card scanning because if you don’t then how am I gonna find out what the actual value of my Japanese Pokémon Cards are also I do use TCGplayer to scan Pokémon cards and yes thanks if you add this update in maybe?

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