Important: The items listed in this section of our site are not for sale. Instead, these are the items we will buy from you in exchange for cash or trade.
We offer three payment options for your Magic Card items-
- Cash via either check or PayPal (PayPal may apply their own fee).
- Storewide Credit of 15% more than Cash that can be used on anything in our store including sets and sealed products.
- Singles Trade Credit of usually 50% or more than our Cash offer that can only be used towards Magic singles and shipping costs of an order.
- Please use the buylist cart to create a buylist order to sell or trade.
- You must have an account to sell or trade.
- For more valuable English cards we offer a Mint, NM, PLD, and HP cash and trade price.
- For lower valued and Non-English cards we may not use as many conditions.
- Foreign cards that are not listed are not accepted.
- We pay the same for cards signed by the original artist as long as the signature is not smudged or faded. Cards with smudged or faded signatures are considered to be in heavily played (HP) condition.
- If you are unsure what condition your cards are in feel free to list everything as NM-M and we will grade and adjust the amounts when we receive your buylist order.
- If you have more copies of a card than our current quantity in demand we may still be interested in them at a lower price. Please contact ABU if this is the case. Please do not place multiple buylists including the same item.
- You may place an order for the items you would like to trade for at the same time you place your buylist order so you can be sure the items you want are reserved for you.
- Once your buylist order is received we will contact you before making payment or adding credit to your account if we need to adjust your total due to condition downgrades. You can either accept the adjusted price or have those items returned. We generally do not charge for returns.
- The cost of shipping cards to ABUGames are paid by the seller (shipping costs of an order being traded for can be covered by cards sent in).
- Once you have completed adding cards to your buylist cart and have checked out you will be given further instructions with shipping information.
- If the total of your sale or trade is over $1000.00 or you are selling many copies of the same card please contact ABU after completing your checkout but before sending your cards so it can be personally reviewed.
- Cards received that are in "destroyed" condition will not be accepted and will be returned. This includes cards with major surface whitening, major corner wear, major edge wear, major creasing, major inking, major center shuffle creasing, major warping, major water damage, major binder indention, tears, holes, or have a heavy tobacco or other odor.
- Buylists need to be shipped within 2 business days of being placed.
- Cards should be sorted in the order of the final invoice or additional processing time or fees may be applied.
- If you have selected a form of Rush Processing for this Buylist, please include this buylist number on the outside of the package.
- Do not send cards in binders, binder pages, or wrapped in rubber bands.
- If you are wanting to send cards in sleeves, please send in standard-sized card sleeves and do not use any Perfect/Inner Sleeves.
- Local Processing: Buylists that are dropped off at the retail store are currently held for at least 1 business day before processing.
- If a card has recently been banned, restricted, or announced as a reprint do not attempt to unload them before we have a chance to update our price as they will not be accepted.
- If a price offered seems too good to be true we've probably made a pricing error. We may return items that were mispriced.
- We reserve the right to refuse any buylist/trade order for any reason.
Please follow these steps for preparing and adding your cards to the buylist cart (Please note that the buylist cart will expire after 60 minutes of inactivity) -
If you are having us grade the condition of your cards-
1. Sort your cards by set and then alphabetize the cards in those sets.
2. Add all your cards in as NM-M condition to the buylist cart (note your final total will most likely be lower once we have adjusted for condition).
If you are grading the condition of your cards-
1. Separate your cards into each condition.
2. Sort each condition of cards by set and then alphabetize the cards in those sets.
3. Add each condition of cards to the buylist cart so that cards of the same condition stay together.
Your sale or trade is appreciated very much!
Please note that white-bordered cards with either Arabian Nights, Antiquities, Legends, or The Dark expansion symbols are reprints from the Chronicles edition. If you're not sure what edition a card you have is from please reference our edition guide.