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For those of you not familiar with this site model, this is what you call a 'drop shipping' operation. This is an online storefront that makes deals with wholesale distributors. They then get you to buy something 'from them' that they will actually never see or touch. They have agreed to a price-point with their distributor, who then receives your shipping info from them for a set amount of product. They then ship the product to those people. There is a chance that 'massdrop' may never even touch the item, although the dialogue below suggests otherwise so I may be wrong.
My point is, the shipping problem more than likely isn't with them, but with their distributor. Massdrop told them that they were selling this product, they agreed to a price, and when it came in at 2164x3 = 6492/32 = 180 booster boxes, their distributor didn't have that amount on hand. This is actually a pretty small amount of magic cards for a retailer, so not exactly sure why the hold up, but there it is.
The idea of the site is good - you are crowd sourcing volume discounts to get preferred pricing from a distributor. However, the anticipation of demand was lackluster especially considering the RtR one got cut short. Your site, specifically w/ regards to magic products, hit the Reddit MagicTCG frontpage as well as being mentioned on deckbox, two places online where a lot of people who play magic frequent. I would imagine it also appeared in other places like mtgsalvation, etc.
There is a huge online demand for magic products. There are sites (tcgplayer) that index magic-selling sites and give you the best price. If you can actually source the product and provide near-cost level magic products (say, $85-90 a box, you should be getting them at 74-79/box price point), you've got a real business here.
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