All I want to do is talk about COMC

[hausem06]

Originally Posted by JustinVerlander07

Ironically (but not surprising), the times I've emailed my 'manager' have been ignored, then a couple weeks ago I got someone else emailing me asking basically if I knew I had an account manager and to reach out. Email him telling him I knew that and my emails were ignored, says "your manager is on vacation I'll have him reach out next week" week goes by, I email both of them being like any follow up and both ignore me this time.

Least surprising thing I'd expect from COMC.

Thanks for the reply. So frustrating.


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[bravesfan#1]

A first for me.. purchased a Christian McCaffrey autograph on COMC and I just had it delivered.

Once I could hold and see the card in hand, I can see that it is blatantly fake and just a photo copy of the original card. Embarrassing that this was even listed on the site.

Emailed my account manager asking to return it but I got a response from a different customer service employee. I was told that PSA or CGC needs to look at it and deem it fake, they won’t accept a return without me wasting money on that.

??????

My friend is dropping off a submission next week in Chicago and I’m sending it with him. Hopefully a rep can hold it in hand and clear this all up in seconds. Or they double down and they stand by selling a photo copied card on their site.

[Boo]

Originally Posted by bravesfan#1

A first for me.. purchased a Christian McCaffrey autograph on COMC and I just had it delivered.

Once I could hold and see the card in hand, I can see that it is blatantly fake and just a photo copy of the original card. Embarrassing that this was even listed on the site.

Emailed my account manager asking to return it but I got a response from a different customer service employee. I was told that PSA or CGC needs to look at it and deem it fake, they won’t accept a return without me wasting money on that.

??????

My friend is dropping off a submission next week in Chicago and I’m sending it with him. Hopefully a rep can hold it in hand and clear this all up in seconds. Or they double down and they stand by selling a photo copied card on their site.

Let's see it

[bravesfan#1]

Originally Posted by Boo

Let's see it

Hopefully those pics come through.

Just a photo copied piece of flimsy paper.

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by bravesfan#1

A first for me.. purchased a Christian McCaffrey autograph on COMC and I just had it delivered.

Once I could hold and see the card in hand, I can see that it is blatantly fake and just a photo copy of the original card. Embarrassing that this was even listed on the site.

Emailed my account manager asking to return it but I got a response from a different customer service employee. I was told that PSA or CGC needs to look at it and deem it fake, they won’t accept a return without me wasting money on that.

??????

My friend is dropping off a submission next week in Chicago and I’m sending it with him. Hopefully a rep can hold it in hand and clear this all up in seconds. Or they double down and they stand by selling a photo copied card on their site.

Holy crap.

[Budler]

GONE are the good old days when you could call them and they would pick up and when Tim would reply to your messages.

Things change when you get big. I really believe Tim did not totally understand how hard it is to control everything when the business gets big. No way could he have seen the way the hobby has gone over the last several years.

[Sonnys88]

Originally Posted by bravesfan#1

Hopefully those pics come through.

Just a photo copied piece of flimsy paper.

Wow.

Definitely a "better" fake that is hard to detect from just a photo or scan but sounds like it is instantly detectable when in hand.

Could be a big problem for COMC if these types of fakes can get through their initial sorting / processing. More than likely the processing staff who initially handles the cards for scanning spends little to no time verifying cards are legit as they handle such huge quantities daily. It would not be detected until a buyer finally gets the card in hand.

[bravesfan#1]

Originally Posted by bravesfan#1

Hopefully those pics come through.

Just a photo copied piece of flimsy paper.

Forgot to mention that “txsodak” was the seller of this card.

5k feedback on ebay and a large PSA registry.

With that kind of history, no way he didn’t know it was fake.

[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by bravesfan#1

Forgot to mention that “txsodak” was the seller of this card.

5k feedback on ebay and a large PSA registry.

With that kind of history, no way he didn’t know it was fake.

But he could have been a flipper on COMC and bought from a different account.

[bravesfan#1]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

But he could have been a flipper on COMC and bought from a different account.

I caught it within a minute or two of being listed.

There is always the possibility that the card was flipped twice in the span of a couple minutes, but I lean towards him being the original seller with how quickly I got it after a saved search refresh.

[tribefan]

Does anyone know about the details for the National early submission credit?

"earn $10 in COMC store credit when you enter a submission of 500+ cards at any service level" "enter by July 29"

If I enter multiple 500+ cards subs, is the credit multiplied?

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by bravesfan#1

A first for me.. purchased a Christian McCaffrey autograph on COMC and I just had it delivered.

Once I could hold and see the card in hand, I can see that it is blatantly fake and just a photo copy of the original card. Embarrassing that this was even listed on the site.

Emailed my account manager asking to return it but I got a response from a different customer service employee. I was told that PSA or CGC needs to look at it and deem it fake, they won’t accept a return without me wasting money on that.

??????

My friend is dropping off a submission next week in Chicago and I’m sending it with him. Hopefully a rep can hold it in hand and clear this all up in seconds. Or they double down and they stand by selling a photo copied card on their site.

call them out on twitter...I'll give you some additional gas

[dgrochester55]

I just had six new cards from a submitted select batch ready to list, but $60.00 was taken from my balance instead of the normal $2-3 that I would expect. I've already contacted support, but did anyone else encounter such a huge difference in money taken out today?

[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by tribefan

Does anyone know about the details for the National early submission credit?

"earn $10 in COMC store credit when you enter a submission of 500+ cards at any service level" "enter by July 29"

If I enter multiple 500+ cards subs, is the credit multiplied?

Usually they're pretty literal, so i would guess not because of "a submission" terminology. They would have put "each" or "any" of they meant multiple.
Contact them to get confirmation.

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by dgrochester55

I just had six new cards from a submitted select batch ready to list, but $60.00 was taken from my balance instead of the normal $2-3 that I would expect. I've already contacted support, but did anyone else encounter such a huge difference in money taken out today?

There was one time I noticed a promotion sale fee on a card was like $8 - and should've been like $.25 - it happens but it is rare. Although submissions are probably done by a human so that is worrisome...

[scotthenrichs]

Sigh, so much epack junk being auctioned, no one wants your Call of Duty League autographs, who even buys that crap?

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by scotthenrichs

Sigh, so much epack junk being auctioned, no one wants your Call of Duty League autographs, who even buys that crap?

Degenerates(not me, anymore!)


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On another note...

About 18 months ago, or so, I had an AEW card sell on eBay via a COMC auction. I don't care to try to find my post about it, but the summary is it was a 1/1 and got bid up way high. With 1 second left, the high bidder retracted their bid, thus nullifying anyone else trying to bid/snipe and going to the underbidder with no competition(for like 1/10th the price it was at...).

I didn't even think you could do that at the time, but alas, you could and still can(I guess). I called eBay, after getting ghosted by my "rep" on the matter and I'm not overly sure how or why...but they actually helped me once I explained what'd happened. I was told that the retracted bid and the winning bid came from different accounts(obviously) but the SAME IP address. I was told to have COMC chase it down, since I had just cosigned the card...it was sold through them. Of course, COMC did nothing, barely responded and basically said..."not worth our time" to chase it down. Frustrating.

Flash forward to today. This is NOT my card but I was watching it:

https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/25....m145235.l2565

Looks like a similar situation, except it was 2 accounts, both NARU'ed after doing what they did...I assume.

I didn't check to see who's card it was on COMC(hovering over said card on auction on COMC will show you the username)...but I'm HOPING they're on here, see this post and are...pissed. Haha. Get ahold of COMC. Tell them what happened. Not to say that the card would have gone for more, but you will NEVER know because these sneaky f'ers do crap like this. I don't follow ALL COMC auctions, but it makes me wonder just how often it happens. Also odd that it happened on another AEW 1/1 card.

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Sorry, I'm longwinded at times . Back to complaining about how COMC is horrible nowadays

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by orion9578

Degenerates(not me, anymore!)


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On another note...

About 18 months ago, or so, I had an AEW card sell on eBay via a COMC auction. I don't care to try to find my post about it, but the summary is it was a 1/1 and got bid up way high. With 1 second left, the high bidder retracted their bid, thus nullifying anyone else trying to bid/snipe and going to the underbidder with no competition(for like 1/10th the price it was at...).

I didn't even think you could do that at the time, but alas, you could and still can(I guess). I called eBay, after getting ghosted by my "rep" on the matter and I'm not overly sure how or why...but they actually helped me once I explained what'd happened. I was told that the retracted bid and the winning bid came from different accounts(obviously) but the SAME IP address. I was told to have COMC chase it down, since I had just cosigned the card...it was sold through them. Of course, COMC did nothing, barely responded and basically said..."not worth our time" to chase it down. Frustrating.

Flash forward to today. This is NOT my card but I was watching it:

https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/25....m145235.l2565

Looks like a similar situation, except it was 2 accounts, both NARU'ed after doing what they did...I assume.

I didn't check to see who's card it was on COMC(hovering over said card on auction on COMC will show you the username)...but I'm HOPING they're on here, see this post and are...pissed. Haha. Get ahold of COMC. Tell them what happened. Not to say that the card would have gone for more, but you will NEVER know because these sneaky f'ers do crap like this. I don't follow ALL COMC auctions, but it makes me wonder just how often it happens. Also odd that it happened on another AEW 1/1 card.

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Sorry, I'm longwinded at times . Back to complaining about how COMC is horrible nowadays

I don't understand how that can happen. eBay's policy is that bids on Trading Cards can't be retracted unless the seller retracts the bid for you...

"Keep in mind that you can't always retract a bid once it's made. Bids on items listed in Trading Cards categories, for example, can't be retracted."

[Sonnys88]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

I don't understand how that can happen. eBay's policy is that bids on Trading Cards can't be retracted unless the seller retracts the bid for you...

"Keep in mind that you can't always retract a bid once it's made. Bids on items listed in Trading Cards categories, for example, can't be retracted."

Yep, shouldn't be possible for a buyer to retract any bid on an item listed under the Trading Card category. And I doubt COMC actively monitors the auctions to remove any bids manually.

Most likely eBay removed the user account for non-payments, irregular bidding activity (same IP address bidding on items with different user accounts), or something else - and that retracted all of their bids. Just so happened at that time for that item probably because the bidding on that item triggered the account to be removed.

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

I don't understand how that can happen. eBay's policy is that bids on Trading Cards can't be retracted unless the seller retracts the bid for you...

"Keep in mind that you can't always retract a bid once it's made. Bids on items listed in Trading Cards categories, for example, can't be retracted."

Yeah, I'm not sure either. It(COMC retracting the bid) got brought up when it happened to my card as well. I watched the Adam Cole card end last night and it was at $1,100 something with 2 seconds left...then at 1 second left it went back down to the $182.50.

Exact same thing happened with my auction over a year ago. Not the same character, mine was a Sammy Guevara card, though both AEW. It was north of $1,000 and at 1 second left it dropped down to $227.50, where it ended. Effectively blocking any snipes set to lower than whatever that amount was over $1,000 that they bid, then retracted.



Anyways, I thought it seemed odd, how it went down. I spoke to eBay and they said it was in fact a bid retraction at the last second by someone located at the same IP address as the winning bidder.

I watched this exact same thing happen last night on the Cole card. 2 seconds left it's at $1,100+ and at 1 second left it dropped to the ending price, $182.50, again blocking any snipes set lower than that ridiculous $1,100+ bid.

Lastly, I'll say it again just for clarity...the Adam Cole card was NOT MY CARD. I'm just pointing it out for anyone who is interested in seeing it, sees this happen to a card they own and HOPEFULLY for the owner of the Cole.

Both of the 0 feedback accounts got NARU'ed immediately after they retracted/the card ended...but I suspect if the cards owner got with eBay, they might find out that they have something in common with the winning bidder. Just might be the same "scam", blocking snipes/manual bids & the same IP address.

PS. I wanted to address the bolded again. I was told by COMC multiple times that they did not cancel the bid on my item, once they finally got around to responding to me.

Also, how would 2 accounts both get their bids cancelled by COMC with seconds left, then BOTH get NARU'ed immediately...all at the same time as the winning bidder is placing their winning bid? Seems like the same thing that happened to my card, except it was 2 "fake" bids this time, not 1.

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by Sonnys88

Yep, shouldn't be possible for a buyer to retract any bid on an item listed under the Trading Card category. And I doubt COMC actively monitors the auctions to remove any bids manually.

Most likely eBay removed the user account for non-payments, irregular bidding activity (same IP address bidding on items with different user accounts), or something else - and that retracted all of their bids. Just so happened at that time for that item probably because the bidding on that item triggered the account to be removed.

I was typing all ^ crap up while you responded.

I can't say that didn't happen with this auction...seems odd eBay would do all that with 1-2 seconds left, effectively blocking anyone else from bidding.

I watched the Cole end last night. Maybe bids still could have gotten through because of how they did it? I'm not sure how it works. But that is 100% NOT what happened with the Guevara card I sold, as I spoke with them and they assured me it was someone at the same IP address as the winning bidder that retracted their bid at the last second.

They(eBay) also told me COMC COULD HAVE chased it down and went after the winning bidder. Of course, my COMC rep at the time BASICALLY told me it wasn't worth chasing down for them. Frustrating but I just let it go on my end. Not sure what else I could have done. It is possible that my card would have ended at that price no matter what, and I get that. But I didn't like the fact that there wasn't even an option for bidders to bid because of the crazy high bid/last second retraction.

[Blazed]

Originally Posted by orion9578

Degenerates(not me, anymore!)


_______________________________

On another note...

About 18 months ago, or so, I had an AEW card sell on eBay via a COMC auction. I don't care to try to find my post about it, but the summary is it was a 1/1 and got bid up way high. With 1 second left, the high bidder retracted their bid, thus nullifying anyone else trying to bid/snipe and going to the underbidder with no competition(for like 1/10th the price it was at...).

I didn't even think you could do that at the time, but alas, you could and still can(I guess). I called eBay, after getting ghosted by my "rep" on the matter and I'm not overly sure how or why...but they actually helped me once I explained what'd happened. I was told that the retracted bid and the winning bid came from different accounts(obviously) but the SAME IP address. I was told to have COMC chase it down, since I had just cosigned the card...it was sold through them. Of course, COMC did nothing, barely responded and basically said..."not worth our time" to chase it down. Frustrating.

Flash forward to today. This is NOT my card but I was watching it:

https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/25....m145235.l2565

Looks like a similar situation, except it was 2 accounts, both NARU'ed after doing what they did...I assume.

I didn't check to see who's card it was on COMC(hovering over said card on auction on COMC will show you the username)...but I'm HOPING they're on here, see this post and are...pissed. Haha. Get ahold of COMC. Tell them what happened. Not to say that the card would have gone for more, but you will NEVER know because these sneaky f'ers do crap like this. I don't follow ALL COMC auctions, but it makes me wonder just how often it happens. Also odd that it happened on another AEW 1/1 card.

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Sorry, I'm longwinded at times . Back to complaining about how COMC is horrible nowadays

So the incident happened on eBays platform, eBay can see that both accounts had the same IP address, then tell you to go talk to COMC about it?

And you believed that eBay couldn't do anything about an incident that happened on their own platform and blame COMC for "doing nothing"?

Wild

If this same incident happened on a card you had consigned with probstine123 or MCSportsCards would you have accepted that same reply from eBay?

Ebay should be in contact with COMC to explain their findings and the winning bidder with the same IP address and the bid retractor should be banned on both platforms

I'm sure there's also some legalities to intentional interference causing financial harm to auction houses/consigner, not sure though since eBay seems to be operating like the wild wild west

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by Blazed

So the incident happened on eBays platform, eBay can see that both accounts had the same IP address, then tell you to go talk to COMC about it?

Both accounts had the same IP address in the UK, according to the rep I got transferred to. They told me while it "might have been" my card, the actual seller(COMC) was the one who had to chase it down.

Originally Posted by Blazed

And you believed that eBay couldn't do anything about an incident that happened on their own platform and blame COMC for "doing nothing"?

I blame eBay as much as I blame COMC, for doing absolutely nothing. eBay's excuse was COMC had to go after them, even with the information eBay had. COMC did COMC things and basically just said "nope", for all intensive purposes.

Originally Posted by Blazed

Wild

Sure is!

Originally Posted by Blazed

If this same incident happened on a card you had consigned with probstine123 or MCSportsCards would you have accepted that same reply from eBay?

Yup. But again, they told me I could do absolutely nothing. To be honest, I'm not even sure why they chased it down for me as much as they did. Maybe because they took a peek and saw something fishy had indeed happened? You're guess is as good as mine.

Originally Posted by Blazed

Ebay should be in contact with COMC to explain their findings and the winning bidder with the same IP address and the bid retractor should be banned on both platforms

Yup, agreed.

Originally Posted by Blazed

I'm sure there's also some legalities to intentional interference causing financial harm to auction houses/consigner, not sure though since eBay seems to be operating like the wild wild west

I'd assume there are as well, but according to the eBay rep, COMC was the only one who could do anything about it by starting a complaint.

I got paid for the item within a few minutes and it never got returned to my account, so I assume the guy got the card. So, I again assume that NOTHING happened to him(bannen/NARU'ed etc.).

As to the bolded... It's been the wild wild west on there for quite some time. I remember threads about these types of issues being brought up since the FCB days, which I guess were in the early to mid 2000's. I know eBay has had issues since I joined...21 years ago...

[Soxrule111]

So I had my free graded cards go live today, charged me $24 for the 24 cards....Odds I get refunded....

But also, the cards arent in my port either. So I was just charged for the free promo and have nothing in....

[newcokeandtaco]

Originally Posted by Soxrule111

So I had my free graded cards go live today, charged me $24 for the 24 cards....Odds I get refunded....

But also, the cards arent in my port either. So I was just charged for the free promo and have nothing in....

Ugh, Comc is a mess right now. One requirement for the promo was selecting the option while creating the submission. You can confirm this under "Submission Status" and it should say:

High-End Consignment Services - FREE Graded Card Submissions

How long did it take from shipment delivered to showing up? I am at 14 days currently and patiently waiting for anything to show up.