Best Alternative to Ebay to sell cards online?

RyanSwinger · 05-13-2020, 02:53 PM

Is there a good alternative available to sell cards online to avoid the fees/etc. associated with ebay.

Thanks

mjohnatgt · 05-13-2020, 03:13 PM

eBay can get you into millions of customers for only 13% final value fees. So no. COMC is really good, and crossposts to eBay, but their fees are along the same line as eBay. Best thing about them is they do the work for you, so you don't have to make yourself a small business like eBay.

mc1 · 05-13-2020, 03:22 PM

Try the Buy/Sell section on here. Let me know how that works out for you.

AnthonyCorona · 05-13-2020, 03:42 PM

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

eBay can get you into millions of customers for only 13% final value fees. So no. COMC is really good, and crossposts to eBay, but their fees are along the same line as eBay. Best thing about them is they do the work for you, so you don't have to make yourself a small business like eBay.

As much as we complain I agree, hard to beat it

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checkoutmydeals · 05-13-2020, 08:14 PM

COMC is awesome, but I would strongly recommend not submitting anything there until they are caught up with their current workload. Also, if your main reason for avoiding eBay is that you don't like fees, you're really not going to like COMC.

As for a general alternative to eBay, I don't think you're going to find anything satisfactory for all items. The good alternatives are for specialized items. For instance, I am big into Magic The Gathering cards. There are good dealers who specialize in Magic cards. There are good private groups on various social media platforms where people trade and sell high end Magic cards. There are good person-to-person sites where individuals can trade low value cards among each other using Plain White Envelopes. But none of those platforms would be a good place to sell or trade sports cards or lawnmowers or anything which is not a Magic card.

Similarly, there might be platforms where you can beat eBay for trading low value singles or graded pre-war Hall of Famers or whatnot, but eBay is going to be king of "here are 1,000 different lots of random items which I want to auction or sell on a Buy it Now basis."

Even with COMC, it might be that if you have a box with 5,000 cards in it, that only 10 of them are really worth submitting to COMC. What do you do with the other 4,990? I don't know. Maybe put them into a bulk lot which you sell on eBay.

thefantasyman · 05-14-2020, 09:33 PM

Wasn't sure if there's a better place to mention this but a new alternative is StarStock.com which officially launched this week. 5% seller fees, no ingestion fees, no withdrawal fees, submit cards, we do the work, keep secure in a vault. Big focus on speed, low cost, and customer service. When we're running on all cylinders you'll have the ability to invest in players at scale, real-time trading, earnings in your account instantly. Don't have to deal with shipping. Don't have to deal with Paypal. Don't have to deal with sellers/buyers personally.

It's rookie/prospect cards only of current players, raw and graded. We already have cards moving on the platform, we're ingesting and adding new cards daily, we're adding new features and tweaking user flows and designs. We're also taking feedback from hobbyists, investors, collectors, flippers on how they want to use the platform to see what we can build.

Don't want to step on any toes here so if this is in the wrong place let me know, happy to move it or take any questions (if any) elsewhere. Feedback appreciated. Thanks in advance for checking it out!

dictoresno · 05-15-2020, 12:03 AM

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mjohnatgt Member Join Date: Apr 2015 Location: Niceville, FL Posts: 14,724 mjohnatgt mjohnatgt	eBay can get you into millions of customers for only 13% final value fees. So no. COMC is really good, and crossposts to eBay, but their fees are along the same line as eBay. Best thing about them is they do the work for you, so you don't have to make yourself a small business like eBay.

05-13-2020, 08:14 PM	#5
checkoutmydeals Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 3,051 king-collect checkoutmydeals	COMC is awesome, but I would strongly recommend not submitting anything there until they are caught up with their current workload. Also, if your main reason for avoiding eBay is that you don't like fees, you're really not going to like COMC. As for a general alternative to eBay, I don't think you're going to find anything satisfactory for all items. The good alternatives are for specialized items. For instance, I am big into Magic The Gathering cards. There are good dealers who specialize in Magic cards. There are good private groups on various social media platforms where people trade and sell high end Magic cards. There are good person-to-person sites where individuals can trade low value cards among each other using Plain White Envelopes. But none of those platforms would be a good place to sell or trade sports cards or lawnmowers or anything which is not a Magic card. Similarly, there might be platforms where you can beat eBay for trading low value singles or graded pre-war Hall of Famers or whatnot, but eBay is going to be king of "here are 1,000 different lots of random items which I want to auction or sell on a Buy it Now basis." Even with COMC, it might be that if you have a box with 5,000 cards in it, that only 10 of them are really worth submitting to COMC. What do you do with the other 4,990? I don't know. Maybe put them into a bulk lot which you sell on eBay.

05-14-2020, 09:33 PM	#6
thefantasyman Member Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 33	Wasn't sure if there's a better place to mention this but a new alternative is StarStock.com which officially launched this week. 5% seller fees, no ingestion fees, no withdrawal fees, submit cards, we do the work, keep secure in a vault. Big focus on speed, low cost, and customer service. When we're running on all cylinders you'll have the ability to invest in players at scale, real-time trading, earnings in your account instantly. Don't have to deal with shipping. Don't have to deal with Paypal. Don't have to deal with sellers/buyers personally. It's rookie/prospect cards only of current players, raw and graded. We already have cards moving on the platform, we're ingesting and adding new cards daily, we're adding new features and tweaking user flows and designs. We're also taking feedback from hobbyists, investors, collectors, flippers on how they want to use the platform to see what we can build. Don't want to step on any toes here so if this is in the wrong place let me know, happy to move it or take any questions (if any) elsewhere. Feedback appreciated. Thanks in advance for checking it out!