A Europe-wide marketplace for trading card singles. You list cards against a shared price guide and buyers across Europe order them by post, so you need tidy card stock and a fast letter routine.
The kit our builder picks for a typical Cardmarket seller. Change the answers to fit yours.
Label printer
A compact thermal printer for your first few hundred labels.
Scales
Weighs letters and card mailers to a tenth of a gram.
Each step in the order you'll need it.
You find the card’s product page, add your copy with condition, language and price, and it appears in the list of offers. A buyer adds cards from you to their basket and pays Cardmarket.
You get a paid order, pack it, mark it as sent, and the money reaches your Cardmarket account once the buyer confirms arrival.
Every card goes in a penny sleeve, and anything of value adds a toploader or a semi-rigid card saver, so it survives a letter sorting machine.
Cards sent loose arrive bent, and buyers open disputes over bent cards.
Sort your stock by game, then set, then number, in long card boxes with labelled dividers. Picking an eight-card order should take you a minute.
Keep listings and stock in step: remove a card from Cardmarket the moment you sell it elsewhere.
Put the sleeved cards in a team bag, then between two stiff boards or in a rigid card mailer, and weigh the letter before you post it.
Weigh the letter on a pocket scale to find its weight band, so the buyer’s postage covers the real cost.
Cheap singles sell from the shared product picture. For cards worth more, scan or photograph your own copy, front and back, so the buyer sees the centring and edges.
A light tent and a tripod give flat, glare-free shots of foil cards.
Once you buy boxes or collections to resell, register as a business and move to a professional seller account, with duties such as invoices and the EU 14-day right of withdrawal.
Keep a sheet of what each box or collection cost and what its cards fetched, so your tax figures match what Cardmarket reports.
Each one costs you money or reviews, and each has a fix.
Complete kits for one kind of seller, costed and laid out.
Step-by-step help for the jobs that come next.
Cardmarket lists every card in Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering and other games as one product page, and sellers add their copies with condition, language and price. Buyers fill a basket from one seller, pay Cardmarket first, and you post the cards in a letter or parcel.
Private sellers pay a 5% commission on the value of each card sold. Most orders are a few cards, so the work is finding, sleeving and posting small letters quickly, with a storage system that tells you where every card lives.
Straight answers to what sellers ask about this.
A 5% commission on the article value of each card sold, capped per article. Orders that go through the Trustee Service add a small fee of 0.5% to 1%, depending on the shipping method. Check Cardmarket’s fee table for the current figures.
Cardmarket holds the payment until the buyer confirms the order arrived. It applies to orders above €25 and to a new seller’s first five sales, and it covers you in a dispute when you used a tracked method.
You choose which shipping methods you offer from Cardmarket’s list for your country, from a plain letter for a single cheap card to tracked post for valuable orders. The buyer picks one at checkout and pays the postage.
Yes. Cardmarket covers most of Europe, and you can offer shipping to the countries you choose. Sending from the UK to the EU adds customs paperwork, so check Cardmarket’s help on shipping from the UK before you open those countries.
Use Cardmarket’s own scale, from Mint to Poor, and judge under bright light. Grading too high is the main cause of disputes, so pick the lower grade when in doubt.
Buying boosters or collections to flip singles makes you a trader and should register as a business and switch to a professional seller account. Cardmarket shares your figures with the tax authorities under DAC7 once a calendar year reaches 30 orders, or €2,000 in card sales.
