All I want to do is talk about COMC

[CollectTheU]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

so what is the update?

they're adding .25 extra per card cause they can?

They are blaming the inflation caused by the tariffs.
"Even with COMC growing and business booming for our sellers, we aren’t immune to the rising costs of shipping and supplies that you’ve been hearing about each night on the news."
https://blog.comc.com/2025/05/27/com...date-may-2025/

[boxbuster7]

good lord

lol

[Budler]

They are doing what they said they want to do several years ago. Just doing it slowly. Get rid of the cheap cards and only do the higher dollar stuff. .50 processing fee, .25 handling fee, now another .25 shipping fee. So the buyer pays $1 before the seller even gets anything. It is not worth it for the seller or buyer if the card is not $10 or more.

Boy Tim the site has come a long way from when you stated it was for the little guys and will not become another E-Bay.

[boxbuster7]

Well I was on the fence if I wanted to ship some cards home and I'll just skip it entirely

Thanks COMC

[elektrokuter]

Wow the new shipping charges
Delaying the credit is def super sus now
If we got it on time I would have requested package already
But I’ve been away on holiday and haven’t had time to deal w it.
I had a lot of cards too. This is gonna be pricey
Not sure if I should request what I have and then be done with them
I had a few hundred cards I also wanted to submit but if no one’s willing to buy cheaper cards there anymore because of this I’ll have to reassess

[Saraste]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

Well I was on the fence if I wanted to ship some cards home and I'll just skip it entirely

Thanks COMC

If you are shipping a bunch of cards from reseller mode, the cost is not changing that much per card to receive it. The new bulk shipping is basically the old standard shipping with similar timelines. I ship anywhere from 500-1500 cards at a time. At 500 cards in bulk reseller mode (no graded cards), the cost to ship home used to be about $130. Now it will be about $145. They were losing lots of money shipping large orders just on the shipping costs alone. That $15 difference in the above example offsets that loss. I don't blame them for it.

Now if you are shipping a small number of cards, then the cost to ship appears to rise a bunch. I currently have 56 cards ready to ship. The cost to ship in bulk and standard mode is about the same: about $34. That's hefty to me and I will not do it. I will let things sit until I have at least 200+ cards to go.

Food for thought...

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by Saraste

If you are shipping a bunch of cards from reseller mode, the cost is not changing that much per card to receive it. The new bulk shipping is basically the old standard shipping with similar timelines. I ship anywhere from 500-1500 cards at a time. At 500 cards in bulk reseller mode (no graded cards), the cost to ship home used to be about $130. Now it will be about $145. They were losing lots of money shipping large orders just on the shipping costs alone. That $15 difference in the above example offsets that loss. I don't blame them for it.

Now if you are shipping a small number of cards, then the cost to ship appears to rise a bunch. I currently have 56 cards ready to ship. The cost to ship in bulk and standard mode is about the same: about $34. That's hefty to me and I will not do it. I will let things sit until I have at least 200+ cards to go.

Food for thought...

That is funny. I thought the more cards you ship the worse a deal it is. but maybe it is more complicated than just .25 extra per card.

[Saraste]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

That is funny. I thought the more cards you ship the worse a deal it is. but maybe it is more complicated than just .25 extra per card.

It is much worse for the standard rate. Bulk isn't that bad if you are actually using it for bulk. The rates to ship are same for the 2 modes at about the 55 card mark. Under that, standard is cheaper. Over that bulk is cheaper. The rates have gone up for both (actually all 4), but it is far less noticeable in bulk if you ship a bunch of cards.

[Budler]

This is what I see now!!

Standard USPS First-Class Mail Yes 13 days 2025-06-13 $5.99 $0.25 N/A
Rushed USPS First-Class Mail Yes 6 days 2025-06-06 $8.99 $1.00 N/A
Express USPS Priority Mail Express Yes 6 days 2025-06-04 $43.99 $1.00 N/A
Bulk USPS First-Class Mail Yes 36 days 2025-07-11 $19.99 $0.00 N/A

So If you are shipping home more the 56 cards it is cheaper to go the Bulk route. You are still pay an extra 25 cent for the 56 cards. ($14)

If you are doing say 58 to 60 cards it may be worth it to pay the extra .25 each to get it faster.

So normally I ship 100 cards at $5.99 it is approx. 6 cent per card, now it will be approx. 20 cent per card. Not a big thing unless all the cards are $0.75 or cheaper cards.

How bad it affects you depends on what and how many you buy and ship home.

[DynaEtch]

Sheesh. Not a great thing. The one thing that stands out the most to me is before this, I could accumulate many cards (to keep it simple…in non-reseller mode) and then do a 1 time shipment of $5.99 and send it all home. Now that costs $19.99, if I’m understanding this correctly. So difference of nearly $15.

I think it might discourage shipments. One possible silver lining is the lessening of shipment competition in the queue…might lead to faster shipments.

[Crosby 87]

Made my shipment a nice round 100 cards for the purposes of this experiment

in reseller mode shipping quoted minus 5.99 discount

Estimated Delivery Mon, June 16 $49.75 - Standard

Estimated Delivery Mon, June 9 $127 - Rushed

Estimated Delivery Wed, June 4 $162 - Express

Estimated Delivery Fri, July 11 $39 - Bulk


then found this

"As of May 27th, the price of the top loader add-on has increased from $0.35 to $0.50.

Bulk orders exceeding 500 cards will be split into separate shipments with multiple $19.99 charges"

https://comc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ar...-Services-Fees

[JustinVerlander07]

Classic COMC. Wouldn't expect anything less.

Can anyone explain to me like I'm dumb why the tarriffs causes USA buyers to have our shipping costs double?

[dlangley2]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

Classic COMC. Wouldn't expect anything less.

Can anyone explain to me like I'm dumb why the tarriffs causes USA buyers to have our shipping costs double?

If we purely gave them the benefit of the doubt, it's going to be that all the supplies that go into shipping (boxes, sleeves, other packaging, even shipping tape) have seen their cost go up and so COMC is responding.

My actual guess is it's probably part that and part that all the other parts that go into the shipping process (time, labor, etc) have gotten more expensive over the past several years and this is their one big bite at the apple to try to cover all of that in a way they view as sustainable.

All in all, I can see why COMC would want to do this, but it seems like a complete misunderstanding on their part of what makes them unique and gives them a place in the greater hobby world (which unfortunately seems to be a theme for them over the years).

[gmoney328]

So as a buyer who usually buys 1500-2000 cards a year and ships maybe 10 times, this rate hike just made COMC obsolete for me. This is going to hurt their business.

[gmoney328]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

Classic COMC. Wouldn't expect anything less.

Can anyone explain to me like I'm dumb why the tarriffs causes USA buyers to have our shipping costs double?

More like almost quadruple. Don’t they recycle a lot of the supplies? And shipping didn’t go up that much. This is ridiculous.

[Saraste]

Originally Posted by Saraste

I ship anywhere from 500-1500 cards at a time. At 500 cards in bulk reseller mode (no graded cards), the cost to ship home used to be about $130. Now it will be about $145. They were losing lots of money shipping large orders just on the shipping costs alone. That $15 difference in the above example offsets that loss. I don't blame them for it.

Originally Posted by Crosby 87

Bulk orders exceeding 500 cards will be split into separate shipments with multiple $19.99 charges"

https://comc.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/ar...-Services-Fees

There is no longer a need to accumulate truly large orders like myself and others had previously done. When I get to 500 cards, I will ship.

[Rabs]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Sheesh. Not a great thing. The one thing that stands out the most to me is before this, I could accumulate many cards (to keep it simple…in non-reseller mode) and then do a 1 time shipment of $5.99 and send it all home. Now that costs $19.99, if I’m understanding this correctly. So difference of nearly $15.

I think it might discourage shipments. One possible silver lining is the lessening of shipment competition in the queue…might lead to faster shipments.

I just shipped 85 cards to me for $5.99 which ended up being free due to the shipping voucher.

I've always waited to ship until I had 50-100 cards roughly and it's always been around $5 total. If it is really jumping $15 to ship the same amount of cards going forward I will limit my COMC purchases.

[f2tornado]

If it expedites the shipments, then I can live with it. It won't really impact my decision to purchase $2+ type cards but will potentially impact my purchases $1 and under type cards. Glad I shipped by bigger order after spring clean week since I didn't want to wait a month for the credit. Saved a chunk.

[Rabs]

Originally Posted by f2tornado

If it expedites the shipments, then I can live with it. It won't really impact my decision to purchase $2+ type cards but will potentially impact my purchases $1 and under type cards. Glad I shipped by bigger order after spring clean week since I didn't want to wait a month for the credit. Saved a chunk.

Thankfully I did it the day after the shipping credit voucher showed up so I saved $15 by not waiting a few extra days.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by Rabs

Thankfully I did it the day after the shipping credit voucher showed up so I saved $15 by not waiting a few extra days.

That I did not do. I only had around 40 cards ready since I requested my 100+ card order and I prefer to wait until I get 70 or more. But who would have guessed they would go to this extreme? Again, if it gets cards shipped faster instead of just lining pockets, then I won't complain loudly. Timeliness is golden in this hobby/business.

[tdbaseballcards]

This makes the 'Simplified shipping mode' even more confusing. You are paying the .25 as part of the purchase, but then have to pay another 25 cents to ship it home. The whole point of the simplified shipping mode was to not have additional shipping costs and just pay the flat rate.

I can't believe they didn't give any sort of 'grace period' because now all the items we've purchased just got 25 cents (minimum) more expensive (unless you are going to do bulk). I'm not happy about that.

This is really going to hurt their low end market and now these cards may never sell or sit forever.

I had no idea they implemented this as they don't have any alerts/warning/notices on their website. I didn't get this blog post, so if I never saw these posts on BO, I would not have had any clue until I went to request my shipment. Instead of stupid pop-ups about TCG there should be notices about the increased shipping costs.

Typical COMC fashion that they don't care about their users.

[DynaEtch]

Gonna make rushed shipping almost obsolete for any sizeable quantity of cards…$.25 extra per, vs $1 extra per really adds up, and it’s only like a 1-week difference between standard vs rushed.

Here is a typical example…I have 26 cards in this shipment, all purchased, using non-reseller mode.



Who’s gonna pay an extra $20 for just 1 week quicker rushed. “Standard” is basically the old rushed shipping just it takes a week longer now. That’s how I’ll view it.

Gone are the days of $5.99 flat shipping. Cheapest options now look like this for anything sizeable.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Here is a typical example…I have 26 cards in this shipment, all purchased, using non-reseller mode.

I just tell myself it's still cheaper than paying 26 individual sellers to ship from eBay, even with ESE. As a seller there, I guess I'd prefer the "buyer's premium" over additional selling costs but at some price point, it's going to impact the sales of lower end items. I try to avoid sending anything in that's not likely to fetch a buck but I still end up with many that fall short. Not worth my time comping most of that stuff.

[Rabs]

With 26 cards shouldn't standard shipping be $12.49 not $16.49?

$5.99 plus $6.50 (0.25 x 26)?

[Budler]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Sheesh. Not a great thing. The one thing that stands out the most to me is before this, I could accumulate many cards (to keep it simple…in non-reseller mode) and then do a 1 time shipment of $5.99 and send it all home. Now that costs $19.99, if I’m understanding this correctly. So difference of nearly $15.

I think it might discourage shipments. One possible silver lining is the lessening of shipment competition in the queue…might lead to faster shipments.

Lot of us collectors buy in the simple mode. Now I am wondering if more will do the advance mode waiting to pay the 25-cent handling fee when shipped. They will get the same amount but not when one buys a card but when shipped and that may be longer for me it may be a year or longer.