West Coast Sports Cards

This was my first time visiting, as I was in FW for something else and decided to drop in before headed home. It’s a nice big space, clean and tidy, got greeted by both employees as I walked in the door, but they gave me my space and let me wander around the shop.
One guy seemed more into the gaming stuff, but the other employee (Gene) was really helpful and knew his stuff in regards to the sports cards. Had lots of information about the product, was able to offer opinions on what he felt were the positive and less than positive qualities about what they sold, and when I made a purchase, was able to clear some space for me to open my purchases in the store — even going so far to offer some supplies (sleeves and such) for the newly opened cards.
It’s only been my 2^nd or 3^rd time in a card shop, in the last 6 – 7 months, as I’ve gotten away from the hobby, but a nice place like this with good staff behind the counter could be enough to get me back into it.

First of all been coming to West Coast for years, one of my favorite small businesses to visit, kid friendly, huge selection of everything sports, gaming, and memorabilia. My kid loves the claw machine.
These guys go out of their way to help hobbyists and it pisses me off reading these BS comments below. Yes the workers there get short with moody gamers whom are super needy buying 10 cent cards… Or customers whom expect instant service when the place is jammed or they are busy doing tasks and don’t see someone immediately… The joint is packed with people so they must be doing more right than wrong. You pissants who bomb on them would like to see you handle that job, no appreciation for the hard work that goes into catering to hobbyists. Thanks for everything West Coast see you soon!

The shop is pretty large with a good variety of selection of cards and memorabilia, clean and not too far from home. I’m not sure how I missed this placed as I have been to northwest and Shane’s before but mainly frequent DJ’s in renton as its the première card shop in the area in my opinion. The prices on singles are extremely marked up not just compared to ebay and online but to DJ’s sportcards. There were many notable cards that I own or bought recently where I found here for literally 4 – 5 times the price. yipes!!! A ceritifed autograph baseball jersey caught my eye that was several hundred dollars, not the cheapest thing in the world but was for my favorite player who I collect extensively so I know alot about his prices and this was literally $ 300 less than market value which didnt make sense considering everything else was overpriced in the store. I asked the kid behind the counter about it and he was ZERO help, he couldn’t care less and gave me no info and literally ran off to watch a guy open a box of football cards. seriously??? Another worker than tried to help and I tried to get verification this was authentic with paperwork as it DID state certified on the price tag. He looked it over and realize it was NOT certified and pull the jersey out of the case and threw it to the side like it was no big deal. No certification means its basically worthless in the memorabilia industry. To have a customer be the one to have to point this out and the lack of care or concern by the workers and possibly some uninformed person could have blindly been ripped off by them is beyond me. 100% lost my trust in this shop and will never be back.

This card shop has a great selection of magic cards, probably the best that I have seen in this area. Not only do they have the current cards to buy but they have older sets, even some that are autographed.
That being said the customer service was piss poor. Out of the three people working only one talked to us and he was to put it nicely a «punk.» He made us feel like we were not wanted. First off he took away cards that we were looking through with no explanation. Later he asked us if we were ready to check out when we were obviously still looking. Whenever we asked a question he was unfriendly.
He was inconsiderate to other customers as well. One, he repeatedly referred to as «Tom Cruise». When «Tom» was looking through cards, this employee was inexplicably beatboxing from behind the counter while fake boxing the browsing customer, invading «Tom’s» space while «Tom» did his best to ignore the fist coming inches from his face.
Ironically, the best customer service we got there was from «Tom Cruise» who answered a question for us.

Ok it has been about a month since I have gone in here. but it wass longer then that since my first visit back in 1994 I believe. any way the place has not changed much but the workers have. they are not as friendly and acted like I was up to something sice I did not want to buy anything right away. I was not into sport card much and still not bac when I went in it was the only place to get then super hero card cheaper then the comic book stores pre magic days. Like any sports card place the prices are close to the price guid price or the indamand price .
the surrounding are of the store has changed alot since 94 there is less store in the strip mall, and the bigger store hve either moved on or relocated to a diffrent area .Just because there is a run down Wal-​Mart in the area does not make this a good area.