Where can I buy tarot decks wholesale for a gift shop?

Direct from the maker. Dark Forest sells its own catalogue at trade prices from 12 decks of a design; a few editions are in stock and the rest are made to order: $15.90 a complete 78-card deck with a printed box. Delivery is not inside the deck price: for 12 decks to the US it is $14 by ground for in-stock decks, or $39.99 UPS Express for made-to-order decks.

Can I buy wholesale without an LLC or a resale certificate?

From us, yes. There is no trade application, no approval step and no resale certificate required before you can buy at trade pricing; it applies automatically from 12 decks at the normal checkout. Your own tax obligations where you trade are a separate matter and stay yours.

Are gift shops profitable on tarot?

A deck costs $15.90 of goods at 12 decks, plus delivery ($14 for 12 in-stock decks to the US), and a $34.99 shelf price leaves room for a real margin before local sales tax. Because the printed box is already inside that price, there is no packaging cost to add before you shelf it.

How many designs do I have to take?

One, if you want. 12 decks of a single design is a valid order. You can also split the 12 across two in-stock editions, at least 5 of each (5 and 7, for example), which tests two price-point styles at once. Made-to-order designs come 12 of each, and each design is priced on its own quantity, so 12 + 12 of two designs costs more than 24 of one.

Can I put my own shop's name on the deck?

Yes, at the same 12-deck minimum and the same ladder. Where layout work is needed there is a one-off preparation charge - $50 for a printed box layout, $50 for a card back, $150 for the booklet layout - and all three are waived from 60 decks. Print-ready files that match our template carry no extra charge.

Who stocks tarot

Wholesale Tarot for a Gift Shop or Bookshop

Stock tarot in your gift shop or bookshop from 12 decks: $15.90 for a complete, boxed 78-card deck. In-stock designs leave within 1–2 business days. A few editions are in stock (at least 5 of each); every other design is made to order, 12 of each, and both count toward the 12.

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What you get

Ready decks from our catalogue: 78 cards on 350 gsm laminated card, in a printed box.
$15.90 a deck at 12, down to $10.90 at 192, in multiples of 12.
Start at 12 decks in total: at least 5 of each in-stock design, 12 of each made-to-order design. Each design is priced on its own quantity.
A few editions are in stock and leave our US warehouse within 1–2 business days; the catalogue marks them. Every other design is made to order in 3–4 weeks.
Delivery for 12 decks in the US: $14 by ground for in-stock decks (2–6 business days); made-to-order decks by UPS Express $39.99 (3–6).
Want to see one first? One sample deck of an in-stock design is $15.90 plus $19.99 shipping. Write to us; a discount can be agreed.

Choose your decks

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Dark Forest tarot cards from our wholesale catalogue.

The short answer: twelve decks, delivery shown separately

Decks in the order	Per 78-card deck	Goods total
12 — the minimum	$15.90	$190.80
24	$14.90	$357.60
48	$12.90	$619.20
96	$11.90	$1,142.40
192	$10.90	$2,092.80

One ladder, the same for ready stock, Made to Order and printing under your own brand. Delivery is not inside the deck price: for 12 decks to the US it is $14 by ground for in-stock decks (2–6 business days), and $39.99 by UPS Express for made-to-order decks. Your exact amount is shown before you pay.

A wooden Dark Forest tarot box slid open to show the boxed deck inside, with candles behind it — One of our own decks in a wooden box.

What a gift shop buys differently

A metaphysical shop buys a deck for what it is. A gift shop buys it for what it looks like across the counter, and that changes three decisions.

The box is the product. Every deck in the catalogue arrives in its own printed box, at no separate charge. In a gift shop that is not a detail — it is the difference between a boxed gift someone can hand over and a stack of cards in shrink wrap. Photograph the box, not the spread.

Price point beats catalogue depth. A gift shop does not need a long list of designs; it needs two or three that photograph well and land under a $40 shelf price. A first order can be two designs, for example 5 and 7 decks of two in-stock editions. Made-to-order designs come 12 of each. Each design is priced on its own quantity, so 12 + 12 of two designs costs more than 24 of one.

Tarot sits next to the things people already buy as gifts. Candles, journals, jewellery, mugs with a moon on them. A deck at $34.99 is the step up from a $15 impulse item, and it is the one that pushes an average basket past the line where a gift feels considered.

Are gift shops profitable on a tarot line?

What the deck actually earns: the goods are $15.90 at twelve plus delivery, $14 for 12 in-stock decks to the US. Priced at $34.99 on the shelf, the margin is worked from those two figures, before whatever sales tax you collect, and nothing has to be added for packaging because the printed box is already inside the deck price. Take forty-eight of one design instead of twelve and the deck itself falls to $12.90 at the same shelf price. The full working is in the cost and shelf-margin guide.

A bookshop has a second argument. Card decks are non-returnable stock that does not date, does not have a publication window and is not discounted by anyone else on the high street two weeks after you put it out. Compared with the front table, a deck line is quiet, small and durable.

A hand holding a black and gold Dark Forest tarot card during a reading — A Dark Forest deck in use. The shop sets its own retail price; there is no resale condition attached.

Can I buy wholesale without an LLC or a business licence?

Here, yes.

Nothing is applied for and nothing is approved. Trade pricing starts at twelve decks at the ordinary checkout, and no resale certificate, company number or LLC is requested at any point. When you are ready, you can order straight from the wholesale order page.

That is the short version; the longer one is in buying tarot wholesale without a business licence.

Own-brand decks for a shop with its own identity

A gift shop with a strong name of its own can put that name on the box instead of ours, at the same twelve-deck minimum and the same price ladder.

Where we have to lay something out rather than print what you send, there is a one-off charge: $50 for the printed box, $50 for the card back, $150 for the booklet layout. From sixty decks all three disappear — that is on purpose, and it is the quantity at which an own-brand line stops being an experiment. Send print-ready files that match our template and none of it applies; the template is free on the printing specification page. This price includes a printed booklet from your text. No booklet? Switch it off in the order form and the price drops.

Lead time, restock and the second order

Two calendars, not one. A ready-stock design leaves within 1–2 business days of the order and reaches the US in 2–6 business days by ground. A made-to-order design takes 3–4 weeks from payment, then 3–6 business days by UPS Express into the United States. With your own artwork or a change to a design, you approve a proof first and the 3–4 weeks start then. The destination and the carrier service chosen move the second number. Want to see a deck first? One sample deck of an in-stock design is $15.90 plus $19.99 shipping; write to us with the quote form.

Every made-to-order deck is produced in Ukraine on 350 gsm laminated card; the full specification is on our custom printing page.

Plan the second order before the first one sells through. An in-stock edition can be reordered quickly while stock lasts; a made-to-order design, 12 at a time, takes 3–4 weeks, so build that into your buying calendar. Which is which is set out in ready stock versus made to order.

Common questions

Where can I buy tarot decks wholesale for a gift shop?: Direct from the maker. Dark Forest sells its own catalogue at trade prices from 12 decks of a design; a few editions are in stock and the rest are made to order: $15.90 a complete 78-card deck with a printed box. Delivery is not inside the deck price: for 12 decks to the US it is $14 by ground for in-stock decks, or $39.99 UPS Express for made-to-order decks.
Can I buy wholesale without an LLC or a resale certificate?: From us, yes. There is no trade application, no approval step and no resale certificate required before you can buy at trade pricing; it applies automatically from 12 decks at the normal checkout. Your own tax obligations where you trade are a separate matter and stay yours.
Are gift shops profitable on tarot?: A deck costs $15.90 of goods at 12 decks, plus delivery ($14 for 12 in-stock decks to the US), and a $34.99 shelf price leaves room for a real margin before local sales tax. Because the printed box is already inside that price, there is no packaging cost to add before you shelf it.
How many designs do I have to take?: One, if you want. 12 decks of a single design is a valid order. You can also split the 12 across two in-stock editions, at least 5 of each (5 and 7, for example), which tests two price-point styles at once. Made-to-order designs come 12 of each, and each design is priced on its own quantity, so 12 + 12 of two designs costs more than 24 of one.
Can I put my own shop's name on the deck?: Yes, at the same 12-deck minimum and the same ladder. Where layout work is needed there is a one-off preparation charge - $50 for a printed box layout, $50 for a card back, $150 for the booklet layout - and all three are waived from 60 decks. Print-ready files that match our template carry no extra charge.