Best COMC Flip?

[Jeramy]

I just logged in the morning and saw this. The purchaser didn't even make an offer:

9/13/2013 4:12:36 AM
2002 Upper Deck MVP Gold #12
Barry Zito #4/25
10222440 Sold for $22.56 Bought for $2.20

Not a bad ROI.

[GoBeavs]

Nice $20 profit on that. Here's my best one that I then resold on the site.

2012 Topps Chrome #100B
Ichiro Suzuki Batting SP
Item: 9546245 (bought) $10.00 (sold) $36.00 2/5/2013

[calculusdork]

I like this thread. :)

I don't have any good COMC flip stories, but I have tons of good LCS-to-eBay flip stories. I have bought many cards from him in the $2-$10 range and sold them on eBay for $25-50.

[hundley]

I've had a couple pretty good ones. I think the one below is my favorite. It was the fifth card I purchased on the site, first for flipping, picked it up before anybody cared about Zach Britton, and I sold it during the twenty five minute window where it was actually a desirable card. If I didn't sell it then, I'd definitely have to take a major loss to sell this card now.

2007 Donruss Elite Extra Edition Signature Aspirations #50
Zach Britton/100 #31/100
Item: 2096134 Sold for $60.00 Bought for $10.00

[37Jetson]

I looked through my 2011 flips and a couple of my favorite were bargain basement flips

1957 Topps Don Hoak - Purchased for $.76 Sold for $4.99
2010 Topps Gold Update Geoff Blum Purchased for $0.13 Sold for $2.79

I know I have some decent amount flips, but will have to dig deeper.

[papercards]

These were all in June alone...which ironically was my worst month in sales in the last 2+ yrs:

Jackie Bradley Jr. 2011 Leaf Metal Draft Prismatic sold $79.99 bought $11.30 (this was a part of a port buy, so not the same as buying a single card and re-selling it, so...)

2008 Upper Deck Premier Stitchings Gold#CS Tom Seaver/Rod Carew/50 #13/15
Item: 7215348 sold $21.00 paid $2.50

2011 TRISTAR Pursuit Autographs Gold#46 Paul Goldschmidt #53/111
Item: 9258321 sold $20.00 paid $3.60

2008 Bowman Sterling#CD Chris Davis RC (Rookie Card) sold $20.00 bought $4.75

I want to go back to 2009/2010 when I first got started on COMC...I know I did real well with Peyton Hillis and that actually got me to really become involved on the site...would be nice to look back at it. cool thread --- (I will also show a few worst flips, and I know one of them involves Mark Sanchez...enough said)

Found one of them:

2009 Score Inscriptions Autographs Red Zone#90
Peyton Hillis/30 #9/30
Item: 1278774 sold for $35.00 paid $10.00



10/4/2010

[washingtonmark]

Here are a few of my more recent ones I was fond on.

LeSean McCoy AU/199 RC (Rookie Card) #61/199 Ultimate Collection
PAID-$16.01 SOLD-$29.95


2011 Panini Threads Autographs Silver #202
Julius Thomas #62/299 PAID-$11.75 SOLD-$19.99



2007 Press Pass Legends Autographs #56
Tom Osborne PAID-$13.20 SOLD-$24.75

[Cactuspies]

Here are a few (sorry to some of you out there who purchased these). Some of my stats as skewed because of port sales since it does an average of the cards instead of an actual real price. I also sold a few things on ebay and took delivery of some and resold on ebay (after grading) so those are not listed and cards not purchsed on comc are not reflected either. A few of these I never meant to sell and I thought the higer prices would have scared buyers away. Oops I was wrong.

2009-10 USA Baseball Gerrit Cole AU $15.95 $25.75

2011 Topps Pro Debut Bryce Harper $4.00 $12.00

1999 Playoff Prestige SSD Checklists Autographs Kevin Faulk $7.20 $12.00

2008 Sportkings Autograph Silver Barry Sanders $57.00 $85.00

2002-03 UD Piece of History Historical Swatches Jerseys Cam Neely $8.21 $18.00

2008 Donruss Elite Extra Edition Lucas Duda $4.73 $10.00

2009-10 Classics Timeless Threads Dennis Johnson $4.00 $12.00

2010 Topps Update Gold Heath Bell $0.18 $0.50

2002 Playoff Prime Signatures Autographs Deion Branch $9.00 $16.99

2007 Donruss Elite Extra Edition Aspirations David Price $8.50 $15.00

2007-08 SP Rookie Edition Kevin Durant $7.50 $16.50

1996 Donruss Elite Cal Ripken $5.29 $12.25

2002 SP Authentic Threads Doubles Patrick Ramsey/Tom Brady $4.00 $10.00

2006 Bowman Sterling Prospects Koby Clemens $2.50 $10.00

2009-10 Bowman 48 Autographs Bill Russell $38.99 $60.00

2007 Playoff National Treasures Signature Silver Laurence Maroney $8.00 $18.00

2006 Topps Chrome Rookie Autographs Sinorice Moss $5.82 $15.00

2006 Bowman Sterling Refractors Vince Young JSY $3.00 $12.00

2007-08 Ultra SE Retail Parallel Michael Jordan L13 $2.00 $8.00

1995 SkyBox Premium Prime Time Rookies Steve McNair $4.00 $10.00

[papercards]

2009 Upper Deck Signature Stars USA National Team Future Watch Patch Autographs#32
Manny Machado #44/50 Item: 6883180 paid $30.00 sold $155.00 8/13/2012

2011 ITG Heroes and Prospects Country of Origin Autographs Gold#MT
Mike Trout #/10 Item: 7405985 N/A paid $260.00 sold $599.99 8/3/2012

2006 Flair Showcase Legacy Blue#108 Justin Verlander FB #55/150
Item: 2829178 paid $3.99 sold $29.99 8/16/2012

August last yr was a great month, I think it was one of the top 3 I have had....and really because of the following transaction and not so much the Trout or Machado sales as everyone was having those--- I can't believe I sold or even had this:

2007 Upper Deck Premier Pairings Autographs#27 Kevin Kolb/Trent Edwards #4/25
Item: 7361881 paid $8.38 sold $29.99 8/23/2012

[Addison]

2013 Bowman Chrome Cream of the Crop Mini Refractors #TBJ3 Sean Nolin

Bought for: $0.25
Sold for: $0.40

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[checkoutmydeals]

Some flips this year, from cards spanning over 100 years:

1911 Murad College Series T51 120 Luther/Basketball $10.00 $51.00

1911 Murad College Series T51 146 K.W.C./(Kentucky Wesleyan College)/Baseball $9.00 $32.00

1949 Bowman 110 Early Wynn RC (Rookie Card) $16.00 $31.53

1951 Bowman 31 Roy Campanella $19.50 $41.61

1953 Dixie Lids 14 Mel Parnell $7.50 $23.28

1953 Topps 27 Roy Campanella DP $24.75 $63.05

1953 Topps 232 Dick Kokos $7.78 $26.31

1956 Topps CL1 Checklist 1/3 $15.00 $46.56

1957 Topps 294 Rocky Bridges DP $0.25 $2.87

1962 Post 101 Gil Hodges $9.58 $24.99

1971 O-Pee-Chee 172 Duke Sims/(Los Angeles Dodgers) $0.10 $1.99

1991 Star Thomas Blue 8 Frank Thomas 1987 Season $0.18 $2.49

1994 Action Packed WWF 8 Yokozuna $0.03 $0.99

1996-97 Topps NBA at 50 70 Nick Van Exel $0.20 $2.47

1998 Playoff Contenders Ticket Red 94 Hines Ward $0.60 $11.32

1999 Pokemon Base Unlimited 1 Alakazam (holo) (R) $0.50 $5.74

2003 Upper Deck Honor Roll 156 Kwame Harris RC (Rookie Card) $0.15 $2.47

2006 Star Wars Evolution Update Insert B 11B Padme Amidala $0.37 $4.49

2008 Celebrity Cuts 37 Jackie Robinson $0.38 $11.57

2008-09 SP Authentic Profiles AP10 Michael Jordan $7.50 $42.48

2010 Star Wars Galaxy Series 5 Bronze Foil 6 Han Solo $0.37 $4.49

2012 Star Wars Galaxy Series 7 Foil Gold 3 Obi-Wan Kenobi $1.25 $14.74

*****

Some of my most spectacular failures:

Football 1997 Pinnacle Epix E1 E.Smith GAME $5.00 $1.12

Football 2007 Playoff National Treasures Gold 15 LaDainian Tomlinson $11.13 $7.97

Basketball 2003-04 SPx Winning Materials Combos WC28 Peja Stojakovic/Brad Miller $2.00 $0.49

Baseball 2000 UD Ionix Reciprocal R24 Barry Bonds $1.50 $0.34

[stera8]

2012 bowman draft chrome mitch nay auto refractor. Bought $8 sold $15

[37Jetson]

Time for some 2010 Flips

1957 Topps Duke Snider Purchased $9.75 Sold $34.99
2009 Bowman Draft Rookie AU Jeremy Maclin Purchased $1.00 Sold $19.99
1957 Topps Gil Hodges Purchased $3.50 Sold $14.99
1957 Topps Bob Lemon Purchased $2.50 Sold $11.99
2007 Allen & Ginter Mini King Cobra Purchased $2.00 Sold $10.00
2007 Allen & Ginter Tim Lincecum Mini Purchased $1.20 Sold $7.99

I only listed the cards that were single buys. Some of my port buys had artifically low prices when the seller lowered the high cost cards so they could accept the 50% offer.

[mrwalken]

2010 was fun. Didn't know what I was doing, but it was still pretty clear that there were a ton of mispriced cards. Some 2010 (modest) successes:

1973-74 Topps #126 Paul Westphal RC $2.00 $3.99

1986-87 Topps #3 Wayne Gretzky $4.29 $7.95

1993-94 Upper Deck Flight Team #FT7 Clyde Drexler $1.50 $3.95

1993-94 Upper Deck Locker Talk #LT9 David Robinson $1.25 $2.99

1993 Star Wars Galaxy Series 1 Chase Cards #6 Princess Leia $1.00 $4.95

1993 Star Wars Galaxy Series 1 Chase Cards #5 Obi-Wan and Yoda $1.00 $4.95

1995 Topps Expansion Team Boosters #461 Mark Brunell $1.50 $4.50

1988 Southern Cal Winners #25 Frank Gifford $0.75 $2.99

[COMCMax]

A few of the better ones (buy price left/sold price right)

2008-09 Exquisite Collection Scripted Swatches #SCRPLJ
LeBron James/23 #6/23
Item: 10420353
Subscribe $750.00 $1,274.55

2008-09 UD Black 50 Greatest Autographs #50AUJO
Michael Jordan #13/50
Item: 10114666
Subscribe $700.00 $1,199.99

2011-12 Panini Gold Standard 14K Memorabilia Prime #9
Shawn Kemp/10 #2/10
Item: 11635370
N/A $125.01 $229.55

2013 Topps Tribute WBC Gold #98
Jose Abreu #10/25
Item: 11591754
N/A $20.00 $120.00

2006-07 USA Baseball Signatures Green #37
Matt Harvey #2/2
Item: 3484699
N/A $145.00 $295.00

2005 Sweet Spot Classic Patches #DS1
Don Sutton Astros/50 #33/50
Item: 11002987
[B]N/A $9.21 $80.00

2012-13 Panini National Treasures Gold #115
Nikola Vucevic JSY AU #5/5
Item: 11590282
N/A $300.00 $679.75

2012 Bowman Chrome Draft Draft Pick Autographs Purple Refractors #AH
Andrew Heaney #2/10
Item: 11336935
N/A $100.00 $180.00

2013 Topps Own The Name Letter Relics #OTNFH
Felix Hernandez #1/1
Item: 11239212
N/A $49.99 $100.00

2011-12 Panini Past and Present Gamers Jerseys Prime #83
Russell Westbrook/5 #5/5
Item: 11194393
N/A $69.95 $134.75

2012-13 Totally Certified Gold Materials Prime #11
Carmelo Anthony/10 #7/10
Item: 11084872
N/A $38.00 $100.00

2013 Bowman Top 100 Prospects #BTP58
Yasiel Puig
Item: 11085185
Subscribe $9.61 40.00

1998-99 Topps Chrome Apparitions Refractors #A4
Karl Malone #91/100
Item: 10954016
Subscribe $30.00 $70.00

2011-12 Panini Gold Standard Black Gold Threads Prime #94
Alex English/3 #2/3
Item: 10954429
N/A $25.00 $85.00

2012 Topps Chrome Superfractors #157
Greg Jennings #1/1
Item: 10953469
N/A $34.00 $65.00

2009-10 Exquisite Collection Noble Nameplates #NJE
Julius Erving/17 #/17
Item: 7649633
Subscribe $150.00 $250.00

2011 Topps Tribute Pastime Patches Dual #DJ
Derek Jeter #17/24
Item: 7965791
N/A $245.00 $285.00

2012 Topps Tier One Clear Rookie Reprint Autographs #MC
Miguel Cabrera #14/25
Item: 10579532
Subscribe $160.00 $200.00

2009-10 Exquisite Collection Extra Exquisite Patches #XRA
Ray Allen #5/15
Item: 10707933
Subscribe $200.00 $425.00

1997 SPx ProMotion Autographs #4
Shawn Kemp #58/100
Item: 10630912
Subscribe $200.00 $230.00

2008-09 Upper Deck Premier Rare Patch Triple #RPTJPR
Michael Jordan/Scottie Pippen/Dennis Rodman #14/15
Item: 10606295
Subscribe $300.00 $550.00

2012-13 Totally Certified Rookie Roll Call Autographs Gold #73
Jimmy Butler/25 #6/25
Item: 10552534
Subscribe $30.00 $70.00

2006-07 USA Baseball Signatures Green #37
Matt Harvey #1/2
Item: 3484698
N/A $145.00 $251.80

2005 Sweet Spot Signatures Glove Black Ink #BL
Barry Larkin/15 #3/15
Item: 10483768
Subscribe $65.00 $94.55

2004-05 Exquisite Collection Patches Triple #SP
Scottie Pippen #9/10
Item: 10373291
N/A $200.00 $415.00

2009-10 SP Game Used Six Star Swatches #6STORGER
Michael Jordan/Kareem Abdul-Jabbar/Wilt Chamberlain/Hakeem Olajuwon/Moses Malone/Karl Malone #6/99
Condition Notes: includes certificate of authenticity
Item: 10263430
Subscribe $40.00 $114.99

2012 Topps Five Star Retired Quotable Autographs #BG
Bob Gibson #8/10
Item: 10157115
N/A $75.00 $113.75

2008-09 Topps Chrome Refractors Orange #24
Kobe Bryant #418/499
Item: 10147887
Subscribe $24.75 $40.00

2012 Panini National Treasures #6
Lou Gehrig/25 #1/25
Item: 10129589
N/A $52.32 $70.09

2012 Panini Cooperstown Signatures #54
Barry Larkin/199 #20/199
Item: 10095213
Subscribe $30.30 $48.76

2011 Bowman Chrome Draft 16U USA National Team Autographs Orange Refractors #ZC
Zach Collins #22/25
Item: 9804893
N/A $25.00 $70.82

2011 Topps Chrome USA Baseball Autographs Blue Refractors #USABB21
Michael Wacha #89/99
Item: 9967901
Subscribe $30.00 $41.31

2012 Bowman Chrome Draft Draft Pick Autographs Blue Refractors #MW
Michael Wacha #126/150
Item: 9557393
Subscribe $59.99 $67.87

2009 Sportkings Autograph Silver #P4
Pele/20 * #/20
Item: 6584941
Subscribe $157.05 $194.55

2012 Panini National Treasures All Decade Signature Materials #38
Tom Seaver/25 #13/25
Item: 10129595
N/A $20.82 $30.47

2012 Elite Extra Edition Signature Status Blue #102
Byron Buxton #32/50
Item: 10770647
Subscribe $60.00 $70.75

2012 Bowman Chrome Prospect Autographs Blue Refractors #BCP104
Joc Pederson #85/150
Item: 7973510
Subscribe $42.00 $64.00

2005 SP Legendary Cuts Autograph Cuts #GO
Lefty Gomez/68 #19/68
Item: 10535769
[B]N/A $29.00 $45.00

2012 Topps Heritage Minors Black #99
Evan Gattis #47/96
Item: 10541620
Subscribe $17.00 $30.00

[dirtydistance]

2011 Topps Chrome Xfractors #92
Julius Thomas
Item: 8230658
Subscribe $0.47 $7.00 9/7/2013
2011 Topps Chrome Xfractors #92
Julius Thomas
Item: 8230657
Subscribe $0.47 $5.00 9/7/2013
2010 Topps Update Black #US114
Kenley Jansen #26/59
Item: 8227533
Subscribe $4.97 $18.00 9/2/2013
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1998 SP Authentic Player's Ink Gold #AW
Andre Wadsworth/90 #78/90
Item: 10607783
Subscribe $6.40 $20.00 8/22/2013
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2000 Upper Deck Hitter's Club #78
Gabe Kapler HS
Item: 6677182
Subscribe $0.02 $0.75 2/26/2013
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1997 Metal Universe #196
Sedrick Shaw RC (Rookie Card)
Item: 6676962
Subscribe $0.02 $0.75 2/9/2013
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2008 Upper Deck Ballpark Collection #83
Tim Lincecum
Item: 9134801
Subscribe $0.41 $4.00 1/21/2013
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1992 Action Packed Mint Parallel #282
Warren Moon BR #32
Item: 8245889
Subscribe $3.98 $40.00 12/12/2012
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1995 Signature Rookies Tetrad Mail-In #P3
Darin Erstad
Item: 6677032
Subscribe $0.08 $1.50 8/2/2012

[itradeerrors]

My best COMC flip by far.

1989 Fleer #616D
Bill Ripken/Words on Bat/covered by black scribble
Item: 9877074
Subscribe $5.74 2/15/2013 10:51:10 AM

Turned out to be the only known version of that card.:D Sold it for $200 and it can now be seen on the BILLRIPKEN.COM (Looking for the FF - 1989 Fleer #616) (http://www.billripken.com) website. In the versions section it is listed as Black Scribble(NEW?)

[49ers1981]

?whos COMC??????????

[Jester]

?whos COMC??????????

Check Out My Cards, Comics & Collectibles - COMC (http://www.comc.com/)

You can buy a card and re-list it for sale with one click. No work, no per-transaction fee, no waiting to have anything shipped to you.

The COMC team has been loving this thread!

-Jeremy

[dcaudle68]

Football 2010 Bowman Sterling Printing Plates Black 3 Chris Cook 1 1 Bought $2.17 Sold $9.98 8/21/2013
Football 2011 Topps Precision Rookie Autographs White Ink 121 Shane Vereen 5 25 Bought $4.58 Sold $15.00 7/3/2013

Couple of my best ones

[cardsrus1]

My best flip was for a non sport transaction about a month ago, I ended up with over $1,000 profit on roughly 30 cards.

[checkoutmydeals]

No work, no per-transaction fee, no waiting to have anything shipped to you.

Not to sound like an ungrateful, stinkin' whiner or anything, but as long as COMC is monitoring this thread, one point of clarification is in order.

The COMC "IQ Test" IS work. Needless, unnecessary busy work which accomplishes nothing useful, adds no value to the site, and acts as a roadblock to people who are trying to use your website effectively.

When the COMC "IQ Test" was first introduced, I thought it was some temporary thing. Like you'd get rid of it that weekend or make it much easier to get history points. 10 to 100 history points per correct answer would be an improvement, but the truth is that anyone who spends hundreds of dollars per month in COMC fees shouldn't have to spend one second of their life gathering up more history points.

Alternately, I thought that by now you'd make the history points go farther. 1 history point = 1 hour of unlimited price lookups would be nice. Free lookups on our own cards or cards which have no price history would be an improvement.

Also, I had assumed by now that you would have come up with a more useful price metric than "highest price ever paid by the most desperate person to own the item when the item was at its peak value in the past 6 years".

Other than that, what you say is correct. COMC does all the busy work of scanning, sorting, identifying cards, storing, packing, shipping. It's totally awesome. But the main reason I deal with COMC is so that I DON'T have to spend my day identifying random cards, some of which have tiny little numbers or no numbers at all.

If you do insist on making us scrounge up history points, at least give us some task which would actually accomplish something. I saw a while back there was a contest where someone could send in a checklist for a particular minor league card set, and the winner of the contest would get some history points. Why is that a contest? Why just the one set? If COMC is working on a checklist feature and creating their own checklist of millions of items, why not let us create checklists for you? Anything would be better than that "IQ Test".

The worst part about the IQ Test - when I see a card I'm actually interested in, I can't click on any link to go to that card. The IQ Test might be marginally useful if it actually led to browsing and impulse shopping. But it doesn't even do that.

[checkoutmydeals]

I should clarify - the COMC sales history feature DOES add considerable value to the site. The COMC IQ Test does not. Unfortunately, COMC introduced the COMC sales history feature the same day they yanked the free Beckett prices, so it's hard to calculate how much value was added to the site with the sales history feature, vs how much was lost by losing the free Beckett prices. My belief is that if the COMC sales history feature was introduced 6 months or a year before the free Beckett prices were pulled, that the loss of Beckett values would not have had as much impact as it did. But what's done is done.

[mrwalken]

Completely agree about the history points. That needs to change ASAP. It's an annoying waste of time for big sellers, but we're basically forced to put up with it. However, I could see plenty of casual buyers just saying, "Screw This" and buying their cards elsewhere. Frankly, it's an insulting system to all users.

Incidentally, I'm ok with only showing the highest price paid. If you show all the prices paid or a range, it may be harder to ever get deals done (buyers will want to pay the low end and sellers the high end). Also, the total number of copies that have been shipped out is valuable information. Big difference between a card with 2 copies on the site and 20 have been shipped out vs a card with 40 copies on the site and 2 have been shipped out.

[checkoutmydeals]

Even with the casual user, I'm not sure the history points work out. My 11-year-old son deposited $70 into his account to process a batch for the COMC National Special. He got 700 history points for doing this. But he never used them because he's waiting for the cards to be processed and to start selling those cards. Meanwhile, all of his history points have expired, and the batch is 15% processed.

My son's best flip is a Pokemon card that he bought for $1.33 and resold for $9.40. His eyes light up whenever he talks about it, and his friends think it's awesome that he's a 'card dealer'. So, props to COMC for being a place where an 11-year-old kid can actually buy and sell on the internet. But the history points thing still needs an overhaul.

[pcbuck]

2010 Aaron Hernandez Topps Chrome Autograph
Purchased $11.00.
Sold $ 25 to life

[checkoutmydeals]

Incidentally, I'm ok with only showing the highest price paid. If you show all the prices paid or a range, it may be harder to ever get deals done

The range I'd like to see is the average or median sales price plus one standard deviation as the high, and the average or median sales price minus one standard deviation as the low. For cards with a lot of sales, I'd also like to restrict that to sales from the past year. For cards with thin sales, I'll take what I can get.

Theoretically, that's what the Beckett high and low prices are - a range of values based on actual real-time selling prices reported by dealers from around the country selling in a variety of venues - auctions, retail card shops, shows, etc.

In reality, Beckett has been phoning it in for at least 25 years. If you see a card with 100 or more copies on COMC, that card is overvalued in Beckett. Yet, how frequently do they actually adjust prices?

For example, look at 1989 Fleer #548, Ken Griffey Jr RC (Rookie Card). COMC has 192 in stock, for as little as $1. They've sold 484 copies for as much as $5.64. Yet Beckett still has this listed as a $10 card.

Using the formula I proposed earlier, this would probably have a value range of about $1 to $3. Which is about right. That is a solid $1 to $3 card. It's a popular seller. But nobody has paid $10 for a raw copy of that card in the past 15 years.

Now Consider 2010 Bowman Platinum #1, Stephen Strasburg RC (Rookie Card). This also books in Beckett for $10. COMC has 121 copies on the site for as little as 97 cents. 216 copies have sold for as much a $7.62. But we don't know when those sales took place, and the $7.62 doesn't tell you anything about whether the card is worth 97 cents. A range of recent sales prices would be more helpful in that situation. And once again, Beckett isn't particularly helpful with their opinion of the card's value at $10. Nobody ever paid $10 for that card, even when it was hot. So where does the $10 come from?

Other useful metrics would be a median price for all cards sold from a set. This would be particularly useful for figuring out the value of commons, especially from thinly traded sets with low print runs.

It would also be useful to see the total number of cards from a set which have been sold vs the total number of cards which are unsold. This would be useful for determining whether a set has any collector interest.

Similarly, it would be useful to see the total number of cards from a player which have been sold vs the total number of cards from that player which are unsold. This would also be useful for determining collector interest.

A lot of times, I run into a card which is the only copy of that card to ever be on the site. It has no sales history. If I could figure out easily if the set is being collected or the player is being collected, I would be much more likely to purchase that card.

[calculusdork]

Even with the casual user, I'm not sure the history points work out. My 11-year-old son deposited $70 into his account to process a batch for the COMC National Special. He got 700 history points for doing this. But he never used them because he's waiting for the cards to be processed and to start selling those cards. Meanwhile, all of his history points have expired, and the batch is 15% processed.

My son's best flip is a Pokemon card that he bought for $1.33 and resold for $9.40. His eyes light up whenever he talks about it, and his friends think it's awesome that he's a 'card dealer'. So, props to COMC for being a place where an 11-year-old kid can actually buy and sell on the internet. But the history points thing still needs an overhaul.

As you have said before ... if the whole point of 'hiding' sales data is to keep people from mining it, then -- while history points are a decent method of handling this -- the process needs much improvement. It is unnecessarily cumbersome, and I would think the last thing COMC would want is for its sellers to become frustrated using the site.

[hockeycards]

Best:
2009-10 The Cup Printing Plates OPC Premier Magenta Matt Duchene #1/1 #66 $106.28 $169.75

2010-11 Upper Deck North Carolina Autographs #40 James Worthy $49.99 $115.00

2010-11 Artifacts Autofacts #AFCH Don Cherry $6.76 $39.99

2010-11 Upper Deck French Printing Plates Yellow #214 Nick Leddy YG #1/1 $10.00 $39.99

2010-11 Artifacts Tundra Tandems Patches Gold #TT2PENS Crosby/Fleury /15 $40.00 $82.00

2009-10 The Cup Signature Patches #SPPK - Patrick Kane #69/75 $34.00 $74.74

2011-12 Upper Deck Exclusives #471 Viatcheslav Voynov YG #89/100 $3.04 $23.75

Worst:
1964 Topps #125 Pete Rose UER $55.75 $44.80

1959 Topps #550 Roy Campanella/Symbol of Courage $40.09 $24.00
I think these were both part of a port I bought that I did well on overall. Though I think I have some 'worsts' sitting in my inventory.


Regrets:
2008-09 Upper Deck #245 - Steven Stamkos YG RC (Rookie Card) $31.82 $35.00
I think I sold this one around the time he was struggling as a rookie.

2010-11 Playoff Contenders Patches,141,Jeremy Lin AU RC (Rookie Card),0,,$4.99,$7.50,2/4/2012 9:16:08 PM,
I think I sold this one two seconds before I heard of him. According to the sales history this card has sold for up to $201.

2008-09 Upper Deck Exclusives #235 Claude Giroux YG #48/100 $18.00 $30.00
I see one sold on ebay recently for $199

[jetscollector10]

I've purchased a total of 351 cards during my 4 years on the site. Here are some of my best flips:

2010-11 Timeless Treasures Gold #115
Larry Sanders AU #4/10
Item: 6293936 N/A $12.00 $22.00 8/23/2013


2010 Donruss Rated Rookies Autographs #18
Chris Ivory
Item: 8335274 Subscribe $12.74 $25.00 5/25/2013

2009 Upper Deck Signature Stars #131
Chris Davis AU
Item: 7101882 Subscribe $13.00 $25.00 4/6/2013

2009 Donruss Elite Status #122
Clay Matthews/47 #29/47
Item: 7843192 Subscribe $8.50 $21.25 3/16/2013

2010-11 Playoff Contenders #151
Derek Stepan AU RC (Rookie Card)
Item: 4863156 Subscribe $3.75 $10.00 3/7/2013

2008 Stadium Club Rookie Autographs #104
Joe Flacco A
Item: 5034559 Subscribe $35.00 $55.00 2/3/2013


2010 Playoff Contenders #153
Joe Webb AU RC (Rookie Card)
Item: 4312208 Subscribe $9.00 $20.00 1/5/2013

2010-11 Limited Monikers Gold #100
Erik Karlsson #34/50
Item: 5908275 Subscribe $20.50 $35.00 11/5/2012

2010-11 Panini Gold Standard #231
Avery Bradley AU RC (Rookie Card) #95/299
Item: 5850730 Subscribe $5.69 $15.00 4/18/2012

2005 Topps Pristine Personal Endorsements Autographs #RF
Ryan Fitzpatrick/1500 C #265/1,500
Item: 1873967 Subscribe $5.76 $19.00 9/25/2011

[37Jetson]

Love this one! You probably would have a tough time getting $2.88 today on that card. Great timing!

2005 Topps Pristine Personal Endorsements Autographs #RF
Ryan Fitzpatrick/1500 C #265/1,500
Item: 1873967 Subscribe $5.76 $19.00 9/25/2011

[Jester]

Re: calculusdork, checkoutmydeals, mrwalken

Thanks for the feedback! I mean that genuinely; your points are well-made and we are grateful to have you involved as we look at ways to make the site better.

Jeremy

[checkoutmydeals]

COMC has always been very responsive to its customers, and they usually find a solution if they agree with it philosophically and if it's physically possible to accomplish. I've seen COMC implement hundreds of customer suggestions over the years, which is why I keep making them.

COMC also has a habit of sometimes saying that they'll do something, and then nothing will happen for a seemingly long time. It could be that you're working frantically behind the scenes on some great new feature, and it could be that you got distracted by something else and forgot about it. So it seems appropriate to remind you once in a while.

The "history points" feature has been active for 2 1/2 months now. I've found the ability to see sales history extremely useful, both as a buyer and a seller. As a buyer, I'm more confident purchasing certain cards, even for more than I previously would have paid when everything was a pig-in-a-poke. As a seller, I'm more likely to lower prices on thinly traded items, and more likely to take a discounted offer when an item has little or no sales history. Yet, I'm also more confident holding my ground on certain items.

Even when submitting items, I'm more likely to favor players or sets which have a strong sales history than ones which have a weaker history.

But gathering up history points with the COMC IQ Test is strictly for the birds. And the actual data being dispensed is of limited value. So I don't mind reminding you from time to time that the feature could use some tweaks.

[weedyalan]

some of my best COMC Flips

Most Profit:
2003 Upper Deck Prospect Premieres Autographs #P30 - Jake Fox
Bought: $6.00
Sold: $17.97
Profit: $11.97

Highest Profit Margin:
2007 Topps Update 2007 Highlights Autographs #RW - Ron Washington
Bought: $0.69
Sold: $8.97
Profit Margin: 1200%

[NeonStatus]

You all sure know how to spot a deal on there. Some of the flips posted were surprising.

[My-Coolectibles]

Just made a great COMC flip:

Brought 3 2009 Playoff Contenders Brian Hoyers right before his first start.
$12.25
$8.00
$28.80
=$49.05

Sold for $120
Profit = $70.50

[calculusdork]

Just made a great COMC flip:

Brought 3 2009 Playoff Contenders Brian Hoyers right before his first start.
$12.25
$8.00
$28.80
=$49.05

Sold for $120
Profit = $70.50

Doesn't get much better than that - nice work!

[jrod7290]

2013 Topps Mike Trout auto bought for $95, sold for $120.45 a day later.

2008 Upper Deck Heroes Eli Manning gold auto (part of a port sale) bought for $33.21 sold for $79.75

2010 SP Authentic Jermaine Grasham jsy/auto bought for $11.99 sold for $37.50

Plenty more as I buy ports a lot but that's a few of my good ones.