Comc prices vs eBay

[Skiffy85]

I’m new to card collecting and selling NBA cards. I’ve noticed there’s a big difference in price on eBay vs comc for most cards. Do you mostly get what you’re asking on comc if you price high?Or are these people hoping for that price and then end up accepting a buy it now or it just never sells on comc?

On eBay the prices are going way down for the new NBA Mosaic cards. I think this happened with the NBA optic this year too but i was busy with other stuff and didn’t realize it. Bu the time I went to start selling my optic cards the prices had jumped back up. Ive been testing auctions VS buy it now But it’s so hard to tell the card values since they seem to change daily. I was looking into trying COMC and I’ve read the threads on this site about

Any tips or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

[dictoresno]

ive noticed alot of COMC prices to be way out of the realm of realistic prices on alot of stuff.

[slugger82685]

personally i want to try and get my stuff to move. when i am first pricing my cards once they get added to my account i ALWAYS price them the lowest versus the other cards on the site. if there are no others on the site then i will check the pricing on ebay if i think its a card that might be worth more than a few bucks. with those i might price them a little higher than ebay to possibly give some room for market value increases or because i also run frequent sales and dont want TOO low of a price during my sales.

now if i am buying something on there to flip, then i might price it a bit higher than ebay because i am anticipating that card rising in value some time down the road and dont want to get caught with a bottom value sale as that card or player starts to rise in the market value.

there are definitely people on there that will price though hoping to catch someone off guard and trick them into paying a high premium for something that isnt really that valuable.......i cant imagine that works too often but i guess it only has to work a few times for it to be worth doing. Personally i would rather accumulate funds quicker than that.

[Skiffy85]

I’m trying to decide if it’s worth my time to list base cards in auctions with 1-2 Non base cards or just send them all to COMC. I see the prices of base rookie cards are much higher than eBay prices. But I’m wondering if they’re just unrealistic pricing on comc

[sliqwill]

i don't know if they still do it, but in the past you could buy 'credits' on COMC and see what pricing the sales are at...

like previously said, I am one of those 'try to be the lowest price' guys, but also you will see some sales on COMC that outpace eBay because of how the old COMC cashout policy was, where it made it worthwhile to overpay 5% or 10% on a high end card, so you could turn relatively low end stuff that doesn't sell on eBay because it isn't worth the shipping price, but because COMC has all items at the warehouse they can do a shipping discount...

so if you sell off singles for say $0.50 that wouldn't sell on ebay because no one would pay the $3 shipping, and you got them in for say $0.25 listing fee, you net $0.25 on a card that is virtually worthless on eBay...you do this with say 500 cards, you get yourself $125 that you couldn't get on eBay, so you buy a $115 card for $125, because under the old COMC rules, to get that $125 it would cost you 20% you net $100 cash, but if you get that $115 card and sell it on eBay, you did better with the 10% FVF than the 20% cash out...and that savings would be even greater if you had an eBay promo for FVF of no more than $10 on a transaction, especially if you were getting a card that sells for $500+

since then, COMC has changed the way they get their cut of the money, to where they take 5% off the top on any sale and introduced a new fee for a cashout under $250...

I see a ton of people that buy my stuff to flip and put unholy prices on there trying to catch a sucker...I leave some meat on the bone on many items because for me its a volume/quick return thing over a 'sit and wait'...because if you are getting a 10% profit on something and can turn that into another 10% profit and continue to compound that money over and over, in the end you come out ahead by getting 10% 200 times vs getting 200% once or twice...

I was an eBay flipper for years where I would break down large lots, but the cost of shipping drove me out because people didn't want that $1.50 auto that cost them $4.50 to get after shipping and I was playing in the 'low end' pool...id buy a lot of say 200 autos for $250, knowing that 30 of the cards I could quickly flip for $200, leaving me 170 at a cost of $50 knowing full well I could 'fire sale' them at $0.50 each on a board like this and come out with at least $35 in profit...ideally I wouldn't get to the fire sale point, ebay would give me some crazy promo of say 5000 free listings, and I had my TurboLister built up with almost 12000 listings at one point, so grab 5000 items, upload them, which would take anywhere from 3 minutes to select to maybe 20 minutes, then start the program and an hour or two later, 5000 items listed...cheap combined shipping and those $1.50 cards are selling...

its all about figuring out how you wan to play in the market...myself, I turned $300 into well over $15,000 in the course of 10 years...occasionally something happens and a guy catches fire, like Colin Kaepernick, and ill toss up a Chrome RC that I got from a lot I bought and sell it for $25 like I did over the weekend...

[mc1]

ive noticed alot of COMC prices to be way out of the realm of realistic prices on alot of stuff.

The good deals get bought up quickly. Usually flippers. Ive seen some sellers run a sale and decided to come back to buy some cards later and theyre gone in an hour or two.

Ive priced items before and the “good” deals were sold in less than 5 minutes.

[Bowman1951]

I’m trying to decide if it’s worth my time to list base cards in auctions with 1-2 Non base cards or just send them all to COMC. I see the prices of base rookie cards are much higher than eBay prices. But I’m wondering if they’re just unrealistic pricing on comcWell, you've discovered what should be a very simple way to sell your cards if you severely underprice them compared to everyone else on COMC and there are buyers for them.

But if these are cards in the value range of like $1-5 raw, you can't even send them right now (unless you bump up a level of service to pay double per item listing). This isn't an exaggeration, it may be until almost November where those three-month processing level cards could see the site once they begin accepting them again. If you're in a rush, go with eBay and deal with your own shipping/return problems there.