Munafik wrote:My question is this: Has anybody here done business with these two online hobby stores, and if so, would you recommend either of them? Thanks for your assistance in this matter.

Dragonstrove plenty of times....good service, prices are ok, high on some items  but you can get a deal.

T&T...their prices seemto be on the high side, and most their business seems to be in CCG.  Haven't bought anything from them.

Mike B.

The two items I bought from Dragonstrove were in great condition and arrived very promptly.  The guy from Dragonstrove has always been quick with his responses to my queries and was quite courteous.

The one item I won from Troll and Toad was shipped quickly, packed well and came to me for a reasonable shipping price.

Thanks for the testimonials to all who replied!

I've had great experiences with dragonstrove.  Friendly and good prices for what I was purchasing.

I have had several purchases with Dragon's Trove as well, all went very well.  For the most part Michael prices his stuff quite fairly, he doesn't screw you on S&H charges, he ships quickly, packages good and corrects any problems without hassle.

Now, I have purchased from Troll and Toad through their online store one time(not Ebay their actual website) and that transaction went fine, although the shipping was pretty high.  At the time, I thought  that I overpspent on the item I bought, which is my problem not theirs being that I went in with full knowledge of what I was doing.   However, that selling strategy is also what you can expect from them with everything that you buy.  They price their stuff higher than too high(typically at least 2 times higher that the highest items typically go for) and they hope to snag people not knowing the by doing it.    In the long run, the item that I bought (a Warriors of Mars for $500) ended up being about what the market has been bearing for them over the last 12 to 18 months, so in retrospect by their own standards I got a great deal(I'm guessing that if they come onto another one, they will price it at $1000).  That said, if you can expect anything from T&T, it is that chances are that if you are buying something from them(on Ebay or their seperate website store) that no matter what you are buying, you are likely greatly overpaying for it based on what things normally go for.  

Additionally, I do not want to speak for anyone elses experiences, but I have heard more than one person complain about their gradings of some(not all) of the stuff they had bought and I have also heard on a couple of occasions where *printings* of certain items where misrepresented as well.  Again though, those are not my own experiences, they are only things that I have heard here from others.