Chinese Market

[kevork]

Because I've been trying to complete my NPCCD collection, I'm finding that I'm having to compete with collectors from China who really like Seasons stuff.. Some are newer collectors, resellers, etc.

They have access to our markets and collectors, but the reverse seems to be an enigma. Decks that get sold to China hardly ever come out of there with people outside having no access.

How can someone outside of China participate in the playing card market there? What apps/websites are being used?

[GandalfPC]

I have used TaoBao in the past

[kevork]

Thanks Gandalf. Seems to be very limited in what I'm able to find, but it's a start.

[Zzzzi]

Chinese playing cards trading is usually done with “咸鱼”（goofish） which is similar to ebay trading software. search usually needs to be in Chinese, because many people do not like to enter the English full name in the product description, playing cards need to be searched using "纸牌"。

There is also a list in the wechat group to find potential buyers, but this is generally not too high price playing cards.

As far as I know, some collectors do want to sell their collection internationally, because some of the playing cards are usual sold at a loss in China, such as JR, TWI. But for most people shipping is a hassle, and international transactions are not guaranteed.

[kevork]

Interesting. Thanks Zzzzi. I couldn't get the SMS verification (which was hard to get to with that CAPTCHA that I couldn't translate to figure out and took multiple guesses to complete ). I'll keep trying at different times.

[tony liu]

People usually do private trades within the country, as you know the rare decks within China are usually transfers between friends, these are private and not public, a small number of decks appear on 'xianyu' which is a second hand site but often a lot of people stare on it, the most frequent trades are on weibo groups and some people organize online auctions. I hope this helps, although there will be collectors who wish to sell their collections globally, but express delivery are too expensive and lead to higher costs.

[SRO]

It'll also get quite a bit more costly when the Trump tariffs hit.

[JazzBaloo]

It'll also get quite a bit more costly when the Trump tariffs hit.

When or if?
Your chickens haven't hatched yet.

[SRO]

It'll also get quite a bit more costly when the Trump tariffs hit.

When or if?
Your chickens haven't hatched yet.

Tariffs were one of the central themes of his campaign, and were prominently mentioned in his inaugural speech. He has a majority rubber-stamp Congress in both houses. There's no reason to think that tariffs won't happen. Are you willing to put money on it? Because I am.