What is a buylist?

How a buylist works

Customers either bring cards to the counter or submit them through an online buylist tool. The shop verifies condition, applies the buylist price, and pays out — instantly in store, or after intake for mail-in submissions.

Buylist prices are typically a fraction of retail (often 40–70% in store credit, 25–50% in cash) to leave margin for grading, listing, repricing, and the risk that the card sits unsold.

Why store credit beats cash

Cash leaves the shop. Store credit comes back through the door. A 60% credit offer that turns into a 70%-margin singles purchase is meaningfully more profitable for the shop than a 40% cash payout — and the customer often perceives it as a better deal.

Related terms

• 1Cart trade-in — A 1Cart trade-in is the TCG Sync flow that lets a customer buy cards and sell cards back to the shop in the same cart, in the same checkout. Buylist credit is applied instantly against the purchase total — no separate buylist site, no waiting for store credit to land before placing the order.
• Autopricer — An autopricer is software that reprices a card shop's singles automatically against live marketplace data — typically TCGplayer market price, Cardmarket trend price, or eBay sold listings — applying margin rules per channel and per condition.
• Market price vs low — TCGplayer market price is an algorithmic average of recent sold prices across conditions. TCGplayer low is the lowest currently-listed price. Market is more stable and reflects actual transactions; low is a snapshot of the cheapest seller right now and can be skewed by a single outlier.