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Our story

About Want To Buy

The reverse marketplace for trading cards — built so buyers stop overpaying and good sellers get rewarded.

For Collectors, By Collectors

Why we exist

Every other TCG marketplace makes you scroll through thousands of listings, fight bidding wars on the rare cards you actually want, and hope the seller actually ships what they advertised. Want To Buy flips that. You post what you want, set your price, and sellers compete to win the deal. No more endless searching, no more snipers, no more overpaying because one greedy seller cornered a card.

Buyer-first by design

  • Hidden auto-accept and max-ceiling rules so sellers compete on price without knowing your real budget.
  • Seller card photos strongly recommended on every order, mandatory for transactions over $5,000 — orders with no seller photos that result in disputes are resolved in the buyer's favour.
  • Continuous buyer unboxing video is mandatory to open any dispute, regardless of transaction value.
  • Funds are held securely by Stripe — sellers don't get paid until you confirm receipt and the dispute window has passed.
  • A transparent strike system that removes bad actors before they reach you.

Our mission

Make trading cards a fair market. Reward sellers who genuinely care about packaging, accurate grading, and customer service. Make it impossible for scammers to operate. Keep fees low and predictable, and explain everything in plain language.

What we support

Pokémon, One Piece, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcana, Digimon, and a growing list of other TCGs. Both raw and graded cards (PSA, BGS, CGC, GAI, CCIC) — for graded cards, sellers attach a direct cert lookup link so buyers can verify the slab independently before accepting any offer.

A note from the founder

Built by a collector, for collectors — frustrated with every existing platform and convinced there was a better way.