For independent card shops
Your stock, online and selling
Most card shops have thousands of singles behind the counter and almost none of them listed anywhere, because listing them properly is a full-time job. We built the tools that make it not one: a card database, live UK pricing, printing variants, and three ways to get your inventory in without keying it twice.
See if my store qualifiesFree to apply, free to list, and every store is reviewed by a human before going live.
Three ways to get your inventory listed
Whatever your stock currently lives in, there is a route in. You will not be typing card names into a form.
Sync your inventory
On Shopify, our app imports your catalogue and keeps stock in step both ways, so the same card never sells twice. On another system, export a spreadsheet and we take it from there. If you run something we have not met, tell us what it is and we will look at connecting to it directly.
Bulk upload a spreadsheet
A CSV with card name, number, set, condition, quantity and price. We match every row to the catalogue automatically and show you anything that needs a human eye. Most shop inventory exports already have these columns.
Scan it with a phone
Point a phone at a card and it is identified, priced from the live UK market and queued as a listing. Built for working through a box at a time. Currently in beta, and free while it is.
Whichever route you take, we will do the first run with you rather than hand you a manual.
Two shop windows, one stock list
The same inventory sells in both places, and stock stays in step. You are charged only when something sells.
A storefront on your own domain
2%
- Your domain, your branding, your customers.
- Browse, basket and checkout without leaving your address.
- Buyers do not need an account.
- Card processing is inside the 2%, not billed on top.
Point a subdomain at us and it sits alongside whatever site you already run. Nothing you have needs to change.
The TCG Hamster marketplace
8%
- Lower than the 10% individual sellers pay.
- A store page collectors can follow.
- Partner spotlight and newsletter placement.
- Your listings appear on set checklists and card pages.
Higher, because this is the side where finding the buyer is our job rather than yours.
Where we actually are, so you can judge it
We are new. The marketplace is live, the payments, escrow and postage all work, and there are over a thousand cards listed. What we do not have yet is a crowd. If you are looking for somewhere that will shift volume this month, that is not us yet, and we would rather say so now than have you find out.
What being early is worth: a founding rate we agree with you rather than a published one, your store in front of every collector who does arrive, a say in what we build next, and us doing the work of getting your stock listed rather than handing you a login. If that trade is not worth it to you, we would rather you told us.
What partner stores get
A storefront on your own domain
Your branding and your address, with our catalogue, checkout, stock and payouts behind it.
A marketplace store page
Banner, logo, item spotlights and every listing, at tcghamster.com/store/your-name.
Human-reviewed Trusted Store badge
Reviewed stores carry the badge across the marketplace. Nobody gets it automatically.
Proper card pricing
Live UK market prices per printing and per variant, so a reverse holo is not priced as the plain one. This is the part general ecommerce tools cannot do.
Insured postage on protected sales
On every protected sale, tracked and fully insured postage is covered by the buyer's protection fee, not by you.
Trades at 10%, postage included
Take trades as well as sales. 10% of your own side of the swap (minimum £4.00) covers tracked, insured postage for your parcel. Our verified intermediary is priced separately, from £30.00 a side.
Start selling. Grow into more.
Store approval covers selling. Each service below carries its own badge, and its own review, because collectors trust these badges with their cards. You will be asked to show at least a year's experience, in whatever form proves it best.
🛡️ Trade Intermediary & Verification
Hold and verify protected deals: the highest-trust role on the platform, and the most heavily vetted. Paid per deal.
🔍 Pre-Grading & Card Prep
Grade estimates, prep, and bulk submissions for members.
💷 Sell to Us (Buyback)
Buy members' cards and collections at your published rates.
🤝 Consignment
Sell members' high-end cards on their behalf.
Applications live in your Partner Console once your store is approved.
How it works
Apply
Tell us about your store. Two minutes, and free.
We review
A human checks every store. We only partner with shops that price fairly.
We get your stock in
Sync, spreadsheet or scanner, whichever fits what you already run. We do the first run with you and agree your rate.
You go live
Your storefront and your marketplace store page open together, with stock in step across both.
Questions first? Email hello@tcghamster.com
Run streams as well as a shop? Escrow for off-stream sales