Cards & Games — Local services in Painesville

Positives first; I'm an advocate for shopping local when it comes to trading cards, and I think this store has a lot of fun inventory that I would encourage people to check out. You can find a decent deal on things if you know what to look for and the owner seems to be comfortable with negotiating prices on certain product.

Now negatives; the "boss" is rarely in and it is my experience that the employee who is usually behind the counter is unable to buy or sell damn near everything when this is the case. If the owner is not present, and you're there to negotiate, sell, or look for ANYTHING in a bulk bin, good luck. In my experience he's rarely in. Unfortunately, I've also felt like the employee has aggressively shadowed me for loss prevention (which I get), made abrasive attempts at up-selling me on cards, and has made pretty presumptuous statements about what I may or may not be into every time I've shopped there.

I think there are other stores near / around Painesville where you will be treated with more dignity and respect, and get a bigger bang for your buck...

As someone who has been to probably hundreds of card shops - I rarely, if ever, will post a negative review as I believe in promoting small, family owned businesses. That being said, my time here was rather unpleasant. The employee inside the card shop was friendly, but it was the overly kind of friendly that made me as a customer feel really uncomfortable. Throughout the entire shopping experience, I felt as if I was being followed around the entire time, and some of the questions the employee asked were very personal and (in my opinion) unprofessional. There were certain comments made and certain questions posed that genuinely had me uneasy, and left me leaving feeling very uncomfortable. As for the selection the shop had, there was a lot to see. The vintage sealed boxes were cool to see, and the various pieces of sports memorabilia they had on display were cool to see as well; however, I did find their prices to be typically well above...

They have allot of stuff. I also bought quite a bit from them. I'm never going there again however. This place wouldn't buy anything from me. I go in and say I have a few things to sell. Imedetly I was told he couldn't do anything with it ( he didn't even see what I had). I had well over two hundred good cards and a few PSA 10 old Pokemon cards. I didn't let him see my PSA cards become of his response. I was only going to ask for $5 for the other cards and see if he wanted to buy my PSA cards or possibly trade for a few things. I recommend if you are going to sell your stuff and even buy to do it online. They lost me as one of a few customers that they do have. I'll wait till they are about to go out of business to buy...