How we pick stores

Sending people to the cheapest price is only useful if the store is real and actually ships. Every store on RiftCompare is added by hand after a check, and it stays only while it keeps passing. No store pays to be listed or to rank higher: prices are always sorted by price.

Before a store is added

It is an established shop. Its website has been around for a while (we look up when the domain was registered, and a domain under a year old gets a much closer look), with a business name, a real email or phone, and its own refund and shipping policies.
Other buyers know it. It has reviews (Trustpilot, Google) or is known in the community: official stockist and store-finder lists, and recommendations from buyers.
We read its prices from its own shop. In its own currency, product by product, and a listing must match exactly or it is left out.
No marketplace sellers, drop-shippers or copycat sites, and never a store anyone has reported as a scam.

After it is listed

A weekly check of every store's website. A store whose site stops answering, is parked or up for sale, or suddenly moves to a different address is taken off. New bad reviews or missing contact details get a look by hand.
Too-good-to-be-true prices are dropped. A store single priced under a quarter of TCGplayer's market price is dropped automatically, and sealed product has a minimum price per product type. A price like that is usually a mistake or the wrong product, so it is never shown as the cheapest.
Reported stores are checked first. A store that turns out to be a scam is removed from every Compare Empire site and banned for good.

eBay, TCGplayer and Cardmarket rows are marketplaces, not stores: they are labelled and never counted as a store. We don't vet the individual sellers there, so check a seller's feedback before you buy.

Report a store

Had a problem with a store we list, or does one look wrong to you? Tell us here. You don't need an account. Know a good shop for Riftbound cards we are missing? Suggest it.

Before you buy anywhere

Pay by card or PayPal, which let you dispute a charge. Be careful with a shop that only takes bank transfer or crypto.
A price far under every other store is a warning sign, not a bargain.
Check the shop's contact page and policies, and look it up on Trustpilot or Google before a big order.