All I want to do is talk about COMC

[checkoutmydeals]

For those interested in shipping times and queues, here is a Bulk Shipment I just created (500 cards, total cost $277.49)

Tracking: Not Shipped Yet
Date Requested: 3/16/2026
Estimated Ship Date: 6/30/2026
Items Ahead of My Order: 1,165,466

[glen87]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

And if I price my port for sale is it going to add $0.50 per card to the price a buyer sees (if they are on simplified mode)?

Yes

i have bought 12 ports since jan. 2025 with a total of over 4,000 cards.....this will definitely affect how i buy future ports

[ironfireman]

Originally Posted by Budler

shipping 55 cards per standard shipment. $5.99 first one and .25 per the others = total $19.74
shipping 55 cards per bulk shipment. Total $19.99. No .25 per card or $5.99 shipping cost Just $19.99

So really that .25 is built into the bulk shipment for the first 55 cards. You pay no more per card after 55 cards. That is why they call it bulk. It is just not clear to some people. They still get that .25 for 55 cards. Call it/look at it, what you want but that is the way it is.

Those who buy and sell in simplified mode already paid .25 and they will now pay an additional .25 S&H fee for each card in bulk shipment, correct?

Are you saying that IF a person bought their cards in default simplified mode, paid the .25 extra up front they are not paying the new extra .25 per card now equaling .50 S & H fee?!

[kabenac]

I just made another shipment. They're charging me $59.99 to ship 59 cards standard. lol

Still waiting on my 12-21-25 standard shipment that cost me just under $80.00 to ship. That order is 226 cards. So, so amazing....

[Budler]

Originally Posted by ironfireman

Those who buy and sell in simplified mode already paid .25 and they will now pay an additional .25 S&H fee for each card in bulk shipment, correct?

Are you saying that IF a person bought their cards in default simplified mode, paid the .25 extra up front they are not paying the new extra .25 per card now equaling .50 S & H fee?!

What I have seen but have not dug into it very deep. Be honest I do not know where some on the amounts come from other people. If you have purchased cards in the simple mode before they added that last .25 you will not get charged the extra .25.

If you Buy now in simplified mode You pay .50 upfront (handling fee) and .25 per card (shipping fee) for the first 55 cards like my other posting showed.

So why would anyone buy a cheap card? They get the processing fee and the handling fee plus shipping.

Bulk shipping saves you money only if you ship more than 56 cards and not more than 500.

[checkoutmydeals]

Those who buy and sell in simplified mode already paid .25 and they will now pay an additional .25 S&H fee for each card in bulk shipment, correct?

Are you saying that IF a person bought their cards in default simplified mode, paid the .25 extra up front they are not paying the new extra .25 per card now equaling .50 S & H fee?!


Adding a card to a shipment used to cost 25 cents handling fee

In May, 2025 COMC also started adding 25 cents per card to all shipments, except Bulk (a new category which didn't exist before). At that point, it effectively cost 50 cents to add a card to a non-Bulk shipment. Simplified Mode buyers paid 25 cents when they bought the card, plus another 25 cents when they shipped the card. Advanced sellers paid 50 cents when they shipped the card, unless they were shipping Bulk

In March 2026, COMC increased the handling fee to 50 cents, but also kept the 25 cent surcharge (which I don't think even has a name, adding to the confusion).

So if you were to start from scratch, today, it would ultimately cost 75 cents to add a card to a shipment (50 cent handling fee plus 25 cent surcharge)

UNLESS you ship bulk. In that case, it's $19.99 plus all the handling fees (50 cents if you bought in Advanced Reseller Mode or if you bought after they increased the fee) but $0 for the surcharge.

By contrast, standard shipping is $5.99 for the setup cost but they also add 25 cents per card for the surcharge.

[ironfireman]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

Those who buy and sell in simplified mode already paid .25 and they will now pay an additional .25 S&H fee for each card in bulk shipment, correct?

Are you saying that IF a person bought their cards in default simplified mode, paid the .25 extra up front they are not paying the new extra .25 per card now equaling .50 S & H fee?!


Adding a card to a shipment used to cost 25 cents handling fee

In May, 2025 COMC also started adding 25 cents per card to all shipments, except Bulk (a new category which didn't exist before). At that point, it effectively cost 50 cents to add a card to a non-Bulk shipment. Simplified Mode buyers paid 25 cents when they bought the card, plus another 25 cents when they shipped the card. Advanced sellers paid 50 cents when they shipped the card, unless they were shipping Bulk

In March 2026, COMC increased the handling fee to 50 cents, but also kept the 25 cent surcharge (which I don't think even has a name, adding to the confusion).

So if you were to start from scratch, today, it would ultimately cost 75 cents to add a card to a shipment (50 cent handling fee plus 25 cent surcharge)

UNLESS you ship bulk. In that case, it's $19.99 plus all the handling fees (50 cents if you bought in Advanced Reseller Mode or if you bought after they increased the fee) but $0 for the surcharge.

By contrast, standard shipping is $5.99 for the setup cost but they also add 25 cents per card for the surcharge.

Question about Advanced Reseller vs. Simplified Default shipping costs - can someone confirm?
Using a 500 - card bulk shipment as an example to keep this apples-to-apples and forget about tax for now:
Advanced Reseller mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, today pay $0.50 S&H fee per card at ship-out. $250 + $19.99 shipping = roughly $270 total to get cards home.
Simplified Default mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, pay $0.25 extra per card at purchase ($125 upfront). When shipping home, pay $19.99 shipping only.
So the Simplified Default buyer pays about $125 + 19.99 = $145 + tax vs. the Advanced Reseller buyer paying about $270 + tax for the same 500 cards shipped home?
That's a significant difference. I can confirm this is how Reseller mode works now. Can anyone buying and reselling in Simplified Default mode confirm this is how it actually adds up for them?

[Svetlov]

Originally Posted by ironfireman

Question about Advanced Reseller vs. Simplified Default shipping costs - can someone confirm?
Using a 500 - card bulk shipment as an example to keep this apples-to-apples and forget about tax for now:
Advanced Reseller mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, today pay $0.50 S&H fee per card at ship-out. $250 + $19.99 shipping = roughly $270 total to get cards home.
Simplified Default mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, pay $0.25 extra per card at purchase ($125 upfront). When shipping home, pay $19.99 shipping only.
So the Simplified Default buyer pays about $125 + 19.99 = $145 + tax vs. the Advanced Reseller buyer paying about $270 + tax for the same 500 cards shipped home?
That's a significant difference. I can confirm this is how Reseller mode works now. Can anyone buying and reselling in Simplified Default mode confirm this is how it actually adds up for them?

Yes.

In simplified/standard mode, the shipment I requested in December, exactly 500 cards, cost me 24.99 bulk (I´m overseas, so that´s the 19.99 you refer to, I think).
Plus 500 x 0.25 that I paid up front = 149.99 (or 144.99 + tax domestic)

If I accumulate another 500 starting today, it will cost me 0.5 x 500 + 24.99 = 274.99 (or 269.99 + tax domestic)
Unless of course they double their fees again. Seems to happen every 6 months now, so I better hurry.

That 2nd total should be the same number you see as an advanced/resell user right now. And it will be the same for both modes going forward.

As discussed on the previous pages, they don´t take into account that some of those items have been bought before the change (for resell users).

If I (as simplified user) still have 200 cards form before and buy 300 more now: its 200 x 0.25 + 300 x 0.5 + 19.99 = 219.99 where the reseller would pay the "full" 269.99 regardless.

I don´t think this one of those cases either, where they simply fail to implement proper logic/code (remember all the botched incentives/bonuses dureing their spring and BF promotions?) The problem here, and I´m practically sure that´s the case, for users in resell-mode, they simply can´t discern retroactively which cards you bought with the intention to ship or which ones you bought to re-list. They´d have to waive the shipping fees on every single (of the several million) cards bought in resell mode otherwise, losing out on their profit. They won´t do that. So yeah, it´s a "one time"-slap in the face. There take it!

[cowboyfaninlr]

COMC is a joke, raising shipping prices and increasing ship time..Sportlots is the way to go.

[micorps1]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

I'm not going to stop using them, but I sold most of my port and if I send cards in again it'll be FAR fewer because my belief is they've nuked the ability to sell low end stuff now. I'll be buying less because I'd say 70% of what I buy on there is low end and it's just not worth it with a a cheap insert now has 50 cents baked into the price before you even buy it.

I agree that this is going to hurt my ability to move all this $1-5 stuff I get from breaks. Now will need to consider that when accepting offers just to get rid of that stuff. Combine that with listing fees it just doesn't make sense anymore to send in this stuff.

[Weeblewobble24]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

For those interested in shipping times and queues, here is a Bulk Shipment I just created (500 cards, total cost $277.49)

Tracking: Not Shipped Yet
Date Requested: 3/16/2026
Estimated Ship Date: 6/30/2026
Items Ahead of My Order: 1,165,466

I think when I created mine in mid Dec there were 600K items before me. Down to about 100k now.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by micorps1

I agree that this is going to hurt my ability to move all this $1-5 stuff I get from breaks. Now will need to consider that when accepting offers just to get rid of that stuff. Combine that with listing fees it just doesn't make sense anymore to send in this stuff.

Correct. COMC probably killed 90% of my business (both buying and listing) since October. I can piss and moan about it but that's wasted energy. Just adapt. I'll list a lot more of my $3+ stuff on eBay. ESE stuff sells really well on there. Cheaper cards will get combined into player and occasional team lots. I can always open an eBay store for additional listings if time allows otherwise COMC can get all of those $3 eBay listings that fail to sell after a couple months.

[sfgiants4life]

Originally Posted by Svetlov

I don´t think this one of those cases either, where they simply fail to implement proper logic/code (remember all the botched incentives/bonuses dureing their spring and BF promotions?) The problem here, and I´m practically sure that´s the case, for users in resell-mode, they simply can´t discern retroactively which cards you bought with the intention to ship or which ones you bought to re-list. They´d have to waive the shipping fees on every single (of the several million) cards bought in resell mode otherwise, losing out on their profit. They won´t do that. So yeah, it´s a "one time"-slap in the face. There take it!

Thanks for helping me and answering all of my questions.

After thinking about it I agree with ironfireman. I could have tied up thousands in .25 fees under simplified and I guess be more screwed that way then I would be under advanced mode and paying .50 now under bulk shipping. It still feels wrong though to not grandfather in the cards before the announcement after all Tim used to say there is no difference between the two modes other than when you pay the .25. In the end the best would've been to constantly switch but oh well.

I think I will just debate about whether to sell it on my own or just sell it and liquidate through COMC. I think for me its a combination of both...and I hate the idea of COMC profiting off of me even more then they already will.

I have a ton of cheaper cards that I need to figure out what to do with that are still profitable but COMC will make a lot off of me regardless of which way it goes.

I think after all of the fee increases in 2025 and 2026 it shows us sellers that COMC is willing to change the model without notice and destroy what we think they wouldn't.

For me the trust isn't there and who knows...they may increase the other fees whenever they want or change the fee structure entirely. Hard to make long term plans with COMC when there is no trust.

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

Those who buy and sell in simplified mode already paid .25 and they will now pay an additional .25 S&H fee for each card in bulk shipment, correct?

Are you saying that IF a person bought their cards in default simplified mode, paid the .25 extra up front they are not paying the new extra .25 per card now equaling .50 S & H fee?!


Adding a card to a shipment used to cost 25 cents handling fee

In May, 2025 COMC also started adding 25 cents per card to all shipments, except Bulk (a new category which didn't exist before). At that point, it effectively cost 50 cents to add a card to a non-Bulk shipment. Simplified Mode buyers paid 25 cents when they bought the card, plus another 25 cents when they shipped the card. Advanced sellers paid 50 cents when they shipped the card, unless they were shipping Bulk

In March 2026, COMC increased the handling fee to 50 cents, but also kept the 25 cent surcharge (which I don't think even has a name, adding to the confusion).

So if you were to start from scratch, today, it would ultimately cost 75 cents to add a card to a shipment (50 cent handling fee plus 25 cent surcharge)

UNLESS you ship bulk. In that case, it's $19.99 plus all the handling fees (50 cents if you bought in Advanced Reseller Mode or if you bought after they increased the fee) but $0 for the surcharge.

By contrast, standard shipping is $5.99 for the setup cost but they also add 25 cents per card for the surcharge.

Originally Posted by ironfireman

Question about Advanced Reseller vs. Simplified Default shipping costs - can someone confirm?
Using a 500 - card bulk shipment as an example to keep this apples-to-apples and forget about tax for now:
Advanced Reseller mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, today pay $0.50 S&H fee per card at ship-out. $250 + $19.99 shipping = roughly $270 total to get cards home.
Simplified Default mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, pay $0.25 extra per card at purchase ($125 upfront). When shipping home, pay $19.99 shipping only.
So the Simplified Default buyer pays about $125 + 19.99 = $145 + tax vs. the Advanced Reseller buyer paying about $270 + tax for the same 500 cards shipped home?
That's a significant difference. I can confirm this is how Reseller mode works now. Can anyone buying and reselling in Simplified Default mode confirm this is how it actually adds up for them?

Originally Posted by Svetlov

Yes.

In simplified/standard mode, the shipment I requested in December, exactly 500 cards, cost me 24.99 bulk (I´m overseas, so that´s the 19.99 you refer to, I think).
Plus 500 x 0.25 that I paid up front = 149.99 (or 144.99 + tax domestic)

If I accumulate another 500 starting today, it will cost me 0.5 x 500 + 24.99 = 274.99 (or 269.99 + tax domestic)
Unless of course they double their fees again. Seems to happen every 6 months now, so I better hurry.

That 2nd total should be the same number you see as an advanced/resell user right now. And it will be the same for both modes going forward.

As discussed on the previous pages, they don´t take into account that some of those items have been bought before the change (for resell users).

If I (as simplified user) still have 200 cards form before and buy 300 more now: its 200 x 0.25 + 300 x 0.5 + 19.99 = 219.99 where the reseller would pay the "full" 269.99 regardless.

I don´t think this one of those cases either, where they simply fail to implement proper logic/code (remember all the botched incentives/bonuses dureing their spring and BF promotions?) The problem here, and I´m practically sure that´s the case, for users in resell-mode, they simply can´t discern retroactively which cards you bought with the intention to ship or which ones you bought to re-list. They´d have to waive the shipping fees on every single (of the several million) cards bought in resell mode otherwise, losing out on their profit. They won´t do that. So yeah, it´s a "one time"-slap in the face. There take it!

Do you see how silly this seems?

[Budler]

Originally Posted by ironfireman

Question about Advanced Reseller vs. Simplified Default shipping costs - can someone confirm?
Using a 500 - card bulk shipment as an example to keep this apples-to-apples and forget about tax for now:
Advanced Reseller mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, today pay $0.50 S&H fee per card at ship-out. $250 + $19.99 shipping = roughly $270 total to get cards home.
Simplified Default mode:
Last month, buy 500 cards, pay $0.25 extra per card at purchase ($125 upfront). When shipping home, pay $19.99 shipping only.
So the Simplified Default buyer pays about $125 + 19.99 = $145 + tax vs. the Advanced Reseller buyer paying about $270 + tax for the same 500 cards shipped home?
That's a significant difference. I can confirm this is how Reseller mode works now. Can anyone buying and reselling in Simplified Default mode confirm this is how it actually adds up for them?

Yes you can buy and sell in simplified mode but Why put out more on a card you are selling and have to wait to sell it to get it back. I have done it more them once due to the fact I buy a card and founds out I had it. So it goes back up for sale.

Buying: (Handling fees both are the same at the end)
Simplified Mode: You pay .50 per card at the time you buy it.
Advance Mode: You pay the .50 at the time you ship it.

Shipping: using just standard or bulk ways only
Standard: $5.99 plus .25 per card no matter how many cards you ship. Cheaper to go with bulk after 55 cards.
Bulk: $19.99 Total with a limit of 500 cards. Cheaper to go with standard when shipping less then 55 cards.

Disclaimer: Some types of cards will cost you more per card to ship.

There has been confusion due to the over lapping of handling fees and changes in shipping costs in these posts. When did they kick in and which purchased cards do the effect. I purchased cards last year so they may not be affected with the new .25 handling fee.

[Crosby 87]

11 sales from 7 users since the announcement .

Previous three months: 278, 269 , 251 sales

That's a drastic decline if the pace keeps up.

[ironfireman]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

Do you see how silly this seems?

People just lost a significant amount of money. I probably lost at least a few thousand dollars and that sucks. I sell cards at 2 retail locations and buying & selling and getting stock from COMC was a part of that. I don't make a lot of money on cards but the retail spots have been fun. I get a lot of old timers, kids and just regular folks looking to dig through boxes etc. and we don't have any LCS around.
When you run a little side hustle or business it involves a lot of number crunching, expenses, unforseen stuff and you try to figure it all out best you can to not at least lose money. Well a bunch of us lost money and are trying to figure it out. COMC just screwed us because they can. And they probably will again. It's sh*tty.

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by Crosby 87

11 sales from 7 users since the announcement .

Previous three months: 278, 269 , 251 sales

That's a drastic decline if the pace keeps up.

I'm noticing a big decline as well after a hot start to the new year

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by ironfireman

People just lost a significant amount of money. I probably lost at least a few thousand dollars and that sucks. I sell cards at 2 retail locations and buying & selling and getting stock from COMC was a part of that. I don't make a lot of money on cards but the retail spots have been fun. I get a lot of old timers, kids and just regular folks looking to dig through boxes etc. and we don't have any LCS around.
When you run a little side hustle or business it involves a lot of number crunching, expenses, unforseen stuff and you try to figure it all out best you can to not at least lose money. Well a bunch of us lost money and are trying to figure it out. COMC just screwed us because they can. And they probably will again. It's sh*tty.

My point was how many words needed to be used to explain the shipping process. It's ridiculous and convoluted.

[glen87]

Originally Posted by Crosby 87

11 sales from 7 users since the announcement .

Previous three months: 278, 269 , 251 sales

That's a drastic decline if the pace keeps up.

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

I'm noticing a big decline as well after a hot start to the new year

593 cards sold 3/1-12 (49 cards per day) (date of announcement)
20 cards sold 3/13-17 (4 cards per day)

[dlangley2]

My port was completely dead for about a day after the initial announcement and has actually picked up most of its prior volume since. What surprised me is some of the sales I am making that I thought would be completely dead after the announcement. Like cards that I bought for $0.50 and am selling for $0.75 and similar still seem to be going. Part of it I'm sure is that I got a little more aggressive with my sales % after the announcement and also bulk dropped prices on some of my most stale stuff, but I assumed that lane would be completely dead now. I'm kind of wondering how much of it is people just haven't realized it yet and how much is actually just going to keep going even after the rate increase.

[sfgiants4life]

Well with the drop in sales I guess the shipping times will hopefully get better.

With the drop in low end sales for all the epack stuff I am debating about dropping from the $50 per month upgrade I use. I feel it is pretty much a waste now and I am not acknowledging the new reality for epack marvel cards on comc. I notice epack low end going down to pennies.

[yoyosh]

Originally Posted by yoyosh

So....
COMC still hasn't yet corrected the pricing on the ~100 cards that they've overcharged me for on this batch.
Last night 8 cards from the batch populated.
Good news = they priced they correctly!
Bad news = 6 of the 8 cards are not mine.
Any COMC users missing SIX(!!) Leaf Metal cards of someone named....Big Justice?


COMC, wtf is going on over there!?!?

It’s been over a week.
These cards (not mine) are still in my account and COMC won’t even credit me for sticking them in my port.
I think I’ll be running a ton of eBay auctions and closing up shop before end of 2026.
What a sad, sad mess

[checkoutmydeals]

With the drop in low end sales for all the epack stuff I am debating about dropping from the $50 per month upgrade I use. I feel it is pretty much a waste now and I am not acknowledging the new reality for epack marvel cards on comc. I notice epack low end going down to pennies.

It's probably worthwhile to do some sort of cost / benefit analysis. Download a month's or several month's worth of sales. Look at the items which sold between 76 cents and $2.50 ("Sale Price" column).

You get $0.7125 "COMC Credit" when a card sells for 75 cents. If you subtract .7125 from the COMC credit you received from each of the the 76 cent to $2.50 cards, that is the amount of excess credit you received from having cards in that price range. If it's less than $50, it's probably not worth upgrading the account. If it's a lot more, it might be.

Another thing to look at is how many pages in Inventory Manager you have of cards which are priced 76 cents to $2.50. Without an upgraded account, you'd have to pay 1 cent per card, or $1 per page in Inventory Manager if you are looking at 100 listings per page.

Consider what might happen if you were to simply take every card priced 76 cents to $1 and just priced them at 75 cents. If you had a free account, what impact would that have? If each card which sold in that range sold for 75 cents instead, how much less would your store credit have been?

To a retail buyer on eBay or a person who is not in Advanced Reseller Mode, this price change increased the price they see by 25 cents. If every seller were to drop every price of every card by 25 cents, those people would notice no change to the prices they saw a month ago.

If the card was originally priced at 26 cents, that's a huge drop in base price. But for cards which were priced at 76 cents to $2.50, it might not be that terrible.

[boxbuster7]

who the hell is big justice?