Sportscard Playground

I missed you guys tonight but when checking the hours I realized that I have never posted a review.. sorry Heidi & Steve!!! This is my go-to card shop, I have been buying Pokémon & Football here since Silver Tempest was $4 a pack lol. Obviously the owners are awesome everyone knows that, and responding to an earlier review I just read I would like to say that the customer loyalty is definitely on point, and as far as the pricing goes, they aren’t expensive.. the hobby is. Pokémon is like the stock market, highs and lows. If you’ve collected long enough then you remember how it was in 2016, then again when covid hit in 2021-2. The card shops shouldn’t be blamed for inflated prices, the scalpers should. Anyway, SportsCard Playground is awesome, thanks guys and I’ll see ya tomorrow.. it’s dance night. 😂

This is our third time checking out this store and my 5 year old son is obsessed with coming here. He saves his money that he earns doing chores and loves to sit and pick out a few dollars worth of Pokemon cards. The owner is such a nice guy and so sweet with my son. Thank you again for being so kind to him! He is very excited about his new cards and putting them in his special shiny binder as I type this!! ( We bought a nice card set for him from here for Christmas but he doesn’t know it yet!)

The people there are very nice and welcoming, the selection is decent but the pricing and customer loyalty is questionable. The Pokemon hobby is getting out of hand these days with the price gouging and I know that the prices are higher than normal everywhere but they don’t have to be. I am willing to pay over retail but I watched ETB’s go from $60 to $160 in a couple of months, that’s insane. I know the owners can argue that their cost has risen but what is the excuse on product that has been there since the beginning of the craze? Your distributor raised prices 3x? As a business owner I know at the end of the day it is a business and I am willing to pay over retail but marking up product 3x is just greed.