Show us the card you cannot find.
Describe the exact card you would buy if a trusted independent shop found the right copy. Your brief helps us test whether this problem is worth building for.
This is research, not a sourcing order. We cannot promise a match, availability, price or reply time.
Write an exact-card brief
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The card you mean.
A collector can know the exact card they want and still leave a shop empty-handed. Wanted Desk is exploring a better way to turn that missed request into a sourced card and a completed sale.
Research stage. You can send a card brief; matching and checkout are not live.
Every detail mattersA missed card is a missed customer.
An ordinary stock alert only watches cards already listed. We’re studying the requests that never make it into a catalogue: the exact variant, condition and budget a collector tells a shop about, then takes elsewhere.
Capture the real request
Record the precise card, acceptable condition and price ceiling while the collector still intends to buy.
Source through the shop
Use incoming collections, dealer relationships and existing inventory to find a suitable copy.
Close the loop
The shop contacts the buyer, handles checkout and records whether the request became a paid order.
Make the missing card unmistakable.
The first workflow would make a request specific enough to source and useful enough to act on. This is an illustrative format, not a live customer case.
- Similar names can hide different printings.
- Condition changes what counts as a match.
- A budget tests whether the request is purchase intent.
Your customer. Your stock. Your sale.
We’re inviting independent card shops in the UK and EU that buy collections and sell singles. The first test is a small, assisted pilot: record otherwise lost requests, try to fulfil them, and measure sales and staff time. If there is no meaningful return for the shop, the idea needs to change.
Discuss the pilot by emailHelp shape the first case file.
Run an independent card shop in Europe? Tell us how you handle exact-card requests you cannot fulfil from stock. We’ll continue the conversation in writing.
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