Getting to the trade price
Can You Buy Tarot Cards Wholesale Without a Business License?
Yes. No trade application, no resale certificate and no company registration: from twelve decks you pay $15.90 a complete 78-card deck, $190.80 in total, plus $14 ground delivery in the US.
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The short answer: no application, no licence check
Three separate gates usually stand between a small shop and a trade price. None of them is here.
| The usual gate | What it is for | Here |
|---|---|---|
| Trade account application | The supplier screens who resells their goods | Not required |
| Resale certificate / tax ID | Lets the supplier sell without charging sales tax | Not required |
| Minimum annual spend | Keeps small accounts off the books | None |
| Minimum order | Makes a production run viable | 12 decks |
The only gate we keep is the last one, and it is a physical one rather than an administrative one: twelve decks is the smallest quantity a print run and a shipment make sense at. Above twelve, orders run in
If even twelve decks is more commitment than you want right now, our dropship tarot cards program removes that gate too: single decks, no minimum, no licence check, shipped straight to your customer from US stock.
Why other suppliers ask, and what they are actually asking for
It is worth knowing what the paperwork is for, because two very different things get called "a business licence" in the same sentence.
A trade account application is a supplier protecting their own retail channel. If a maker sells direct to the public at full price, they do not want a private buyer taking the trade price and undercutting them. That is a commercial decision, not a legal requirement, and it is the one we have chosen not to make.
A resale certificate or sales-tax ID is a tax mechanism, and it works the other way round from how it is usually described: it exists so the supplier does not have to charge you sales tax, because you will collect it from the end customer instead. A supplier who cannot see one may simply charge tax. It is not a permission to buy.
A business licence or an LLC is between you and the place you trade in. No supplier grants it and no supplier can waive it. What a supplier can do is not make it a condition of the price, and that is what happens here.
What we do ask for
A delivery address. For a printed run, artwork you have the right to print, and your approval of the digital proof before production starts. That is the whole list. The full conditions are on the order terms page, and the artwork and rights position is set out in who owns the artwork.
Nothing else is collected and nothing else is checked. When you are ready, the order page opens your wholesale account and your deck selection.
What you are allowed to do with the decks once you own them
Resale is unrestricted. You set your own retail price, sell in a shop or online, and we attach no territory, channel or pricing condition. That is unusual enough to be worth stating plainly, and it is set out at length in can you resell wholesale tarot decks.
Where your own artwork is printed, you keep ownership of it. We do not license it, resell it or use it to train anything.
Where your tax position genuinely does still matter
Access to the trade price and your tax obligations are two separate things, and only the first one is ours to decide. Whether you must register a business, collect sales tax, or account for VAT where you trade depends on your country and your turnover, not on us. On a cross-border order it depends on the destination: to an EU address, delivery and your country’s VAT are added at checkout and paid with the order, with nothing due on delivery; to the UK, the 20% UK VAT is not charged at checkout and is paid to UPS on delivery; elsewhere the buyer is normally the importer of record. The mechanics are in customs, duties and import tax. A first order into a new market is worth an hour of a local accountant's time.
What the first order looks like
Twelve decks of one catalogue design, or twelve mixed across designs with at least five of any single ready-stock edition. $190.80 of goods, plus $14 ground delivery in the US, with the printed box already inside the deck price. The catalogue is on the wholesale deck page.
What happens after you click buy: a ready-stock design leaves within 1–2 business days, and ground delivery in the US takes 2–6 business days. Your own artwork or a changed design goes to a digital proof first; once you approve it, printing takes 3–4 weeks, then UPS Express takes 3–6 business days in the US ($74 for 12 decks; Economy is $39 and takes 8–12 business days). Neither is a guaranteed date, and both move with the destination and the service.
One sample deck of an in-stock design costs the 12-deck price ($15.90) plus $19.99 shipping: write to us with the quote form, and a discount can be agreed. One sample of your own art costs $79 plus $19.99 shipping.
Common questions
- Can I buy wholesale without an LLC?
From Dark Forest, yes. We do not ask for an LLC, a company number or any business registration before selling at trade prices. Trade pricing applies automatically from 12 decks at the normal checkout. Whether you need to register a business where you trade is a separate question between you and your own jurisdiction.
- Do I need a resale certificate or a sales tax ID to buy wholesale?
Not with us. A resale certificate is a tax mechanism that lets a supplier sell to you without charging sales tax, because you collect it from the end customer instead. It is not a permission to buy, and we do not require one.
- Is there a trade account application or an approval step?
No. There is no application form, no approval queue and no minimum annual spend. The only threshold is the 12-deck minimum order, which exists because that is the smallest quantity a print run and a shipment make sense at.
- How do I find legitimate wholesale suppliers?
Ask four questions in writing before you pay: what is the minimum order, what is the unit price at that quantity, what is included in it, and where are the goods made. A supplier who will not answer those four in writing is not ready to be yours. Ours are published: 12 decks, $15.90 a complete 78-card deck at 12, printed box included, $14 ground delivery in the US, made in Ukraine.
- Can I resell the decks anywhere I like?
Yes. Resale is unrestricted, you set your own retail price, and we place no territory, channel or pricing condition on it. If you print your own artwork, you keep ownership of that artwork.