All I want to do is talk about COMC

[Bowman1951]

Originally Posted by m4life43

My sales started super strong this year, haven't sold a single card in a week tho....

Run an 11 day sale, the only upfront cost to you is $1....even if it's only 5-20%, you'll get more eyes on your stuff. People tend to look more so at those items directly on COMC that are on sale and your account also gets exposure on the front page.

[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by sfgiants4life

James I had a question.

If I list a card for sale at $5.70 on COMC it moves up to around $10 on ebay. If I lower the price to $4.70 it is still listed with the free shipping on ebay so around $9 plus. While if the card is originally priced at $4.70 it would be $5.95 on ebay. How do I get the "free" shipping removed from my cards?

Are yours the only copy on site, or the only one listed on eBay?
I have noticed that if there are other copies listed above $4.74, that the free shipping stays attached because they could pick the other card; maybe on the multiple card listings they're "clingy" to the free shipping.
I agree it would be good if we could game the crossposting, but it would be better if they would move the free shipping bar to $25.

[1yunggun]

Originally Posted by m4life43

My sales started super strong this year, haven't sold a single card in a week tho....

Strange! Mine have been exactly the opposite and I run mainly football. I thought sales would be better in general because of tax time though.
Month Year Total Sales # Sold
February 2019 $538.95 89
January 2019 $522.84 117

Originally Posted by Bowman1951

Run an 11 day sale, the only upfront cost to you is $1....even if it's only 5-20%, you'll get more eyes on your stuff. People tend to look more so at those items directly on COMC that are on sale and your account also gets exposure on the front page.

Strangely, the only time I ever have success with running sales is during the COMC sales promos. I just ran a 30% off sale and sold more cards the day before at full price. I ran a sale at end of January and sold 6 cards! Ran another sale a week ago and I sold 9 cards. In comparison, I sold 10 cards Saturday without a sale. I think I'm pretty much done with sales unless they offer the free ones again as this has frequently happened almost every time I have tried a sale. I'll just keep lowering prices, accepting offers and being patient. Anyone else ever feel like sales don't work for them????

[GoBeavs]

Originally Posted by 1yunggun

Strangely, the only time I ever have success with running sales is during the COMC sales promos. I just ran a 30% off sale and sold more cards the day before at full price. I ran a sale at end of January and sold 6 cards! Ran another sale a week ago and I sold 9 cards. In comparison, I sold 10 cards Saturday without a sale. I think I'm pretty much done with sales unless they offer the free ones again as this has frequently happened almost every time I have tried a sale. I'll just keep lowering prices, accepting offers and being patient. Anyone else ever feel like sales don't work for them????

I've had the same success pattern. Did good during the promo sales. Did lousy if I ran my own separate sale.

[COMC James]

Originally Posted by sfgiants4life

James I had a question.

If I list a card for sale at $5.70 on COMC it moves up to around $10 on ebay. If I lower the price to $4.70 it is still listed with the free shipping on ebay so around $9 plus. While if the card is originally priced at $4.70 it would be $5.95 on ebay. How do I get the "free" shipping removed from my cards? They are priced under $5 but the additional cost won't go away. If I take it down for a month and then relist it at $4.70 will that do the trick? Taking it down for a couple of days doesn't work.

When the listing is refreshed (once every 30 days), free shipping will be removed if the list price (ask price + per item S/H) is $4.99 . Simply removing the item for sale won't trigger a listing refresh.

[dev6015]

Originally Posted by 1yunggun

Strange! Mine have been exactly the opposite and I run mainly football. I thought sales would be better in general because of tax time though.
Month Year Total Sales # Sold
February 2019 $538.95 89
January 2019 $522.84 117




Strangely, the only time I ever have success with running sales is during the COMC sales promos. I just ran a 30% off sale and sold more cards the day before at full price. I ran a sale at end of January and sold 6 cards! Ran another sale a week ago and I sold 9 cards. In comparison, I sold 10 cards Saturday without a sale. I think I'm pretty much done with sales unless they offer the free ones again as this has frequently happened almost every time I have tried a sale. I'll just keep lowering prices, accepting offers and being patient. Anyone else ever feel like sales don't work for them????

I've had this issue too a few times and it blows my mind. I think it just has to do with so many more eyes being on the site as a whole during sales. People are much more likely to frequent the site when they know a sale is running vs just a regular weeknight.

Speaking of, have you guys found that any days of the week (or times of day) do better for you than others? I did some analytics on my sales a few weeks ago and there was almost a perfect distribution of sales by day of the week, but it seems like others do the best sales on Friday night. That's often where I find my best bargains when I'm shopping for flips or PC adds.

[sfgiants4life]

Originally Posted by COMC James

When the listing is refreshed (once every 30 days), free shipping will be removed if the list price (ask price + per item S/H) is $4.99 . Simply removing the item for sale won't trigger a listing refresh.

I have a card of mine that I saved on my watch list on ebay. It was priced above $5 and then I lowered the price to $4.50. I received alerts that the item was ending through ebay and the card is still showing $9.71 on ebay. The item was relisted I believe on Feb 2nd because the ebay listing is showing that it ends on March 2nd. It still kept the free shipping add on. I'll wait for March to see if it still has the "free" shipping added on.

[1yunggun]

Originally Posted by dev6015

I've had this issue too a few times and it blows my mind. I think it just has to do with so many more eyes being on the site as a whole during sales. People are much more likely to frequent the site when they know a sale is running vs just a regular weeknight.

Speaking of, have you guys found that any days of the week (or times of day) do better for you than others? I did some analytics on my sales a few weeks ago and there was almost a perfect distribution of sales by day of the week, but it seems like others do the best sales on Friday night. That's often where I find my best bargains when I'm shopping for flips or PC adds.

I've tried sales late at night to get less competition, early in the morning, mid day, various times in afternoon/evening,weekends, weekdays, holidays,blizzards and extreme cold fronts. I haven't found anything yet that works for me. I know others have found times that work best for them but I can't ever get any consistency.

[Rock_47802]

Originally Posted by 1yunggun

I've tried sales late at night to get less competition, early in the morning, mid day, various times in afternoon/evening,weekends, weekdays, holidays,blizzards and extreme cold fronts. I haven't found anything yet that works for me. I know others have found times that work best for them but I can't ever get any consistency.

Basically have to give it away. Make the sales count. 50% or more and stuff will sell

[Bowman1951]

Originally Posted by Rock_47802

Basically have to give it away. Make the sales count. 50% or more and stuff will sell

Not the best advice with the 1% backend hit now. Unless they aren't the kind of person that jacks prices up and then marks it half off, then it could work if they are happy with 50% off all cards they priced at competitive levels previously.

[3124508 on COMC]

Originally Posted by Bowman1951

Not the best advice with the 1% backend hit now. Unless they aren't the kind of person that jacks prices up and then marks it half off, then it could work if they are happy with 50% off all cards they priced at competitive levels previously.

It takes about 50% to really move "competitively priced" items. I don't even bother looking at most sales under 50% unless the seller doesn't normally accept offers.

[Swipe79]

I would agree that 50% is where the flippers usually show up and start buying it up. If your stuff is priced right and popular it will move with no sale running or a really low percentage. I've done roughly $1,500 in sales since I started my clear out and I'm only at 20% right now after increasing 5% at a time.

[1stBowman]

[QUOTE=phillies347;10302739]I look at the threads posted in this subforum daily, but it all seems to be the same general discussion about how COMC needs to improve. I agree that COMC has many flaws, but on the other hand, I am a huge fan of COMC, an active buyer, and an active seller. I just want to talk about my day-to-day experiences on COMC with other buyers and sellers.

I have 2 accounts on COMC ; one account is solely for flipping. I work with cards that are unique to the site, and I've had some positive results. I've pieced together and flipped 13 ports in 2015, profiting approximately $1k in total. Sellers have been happy with the ports, and many have bought more than one, so it has been a win-win for both parties. I use my second account to buy cards for my ever-changing PC. I'm usually willing to overpay a bit for higher end singles, as it beats a 20% cash out fee. Moreover, I am starting to submit cards for the first time (my first submission is currently processing) I plan to purchase a few ports and continually submit cards, and I dream of building a card empire on COMC as large as TheBretts

How are you doing on COMC as a seller? Are your sales trending upward or downward? Do you submit cards often, and if so, what type of cards are you submitting the most? Or do you solely flip cards on COMC? I want to hear what is working/not working for everyone else, and simply talk about COMC.[/QUOTE

I'm really happy with COMC so far.

As someone who lives in Australia, buying singles from Ebay isn't feasible. The postage exceeds the price of a card 27-1 sometimes. Conversely if I want to sell singles on Ebay it has to be a relatively valuable card for someone in the US to fork out that kind of postage.

I have bought quite a few cards on COMC and I love how I can purchase a stack of them all in the one place and pay between $5-$12 to have them shipped over here. If I bought a really expensive card I would have to pay for registration but none of my orders so far have exceeded $250. If it weren't for COMC I'd only be able to buy boxes/cases or $100+ singles.


As a seller I'm not sure how it will turn out. I sent my first consignment recently ( 440 cards valued @$1700 - and sliding. There's a lot to learn viz prices, volatility, timing etc.)
Judging on the process rate so far about 30% of the cards might end up being rejected( they were all pulled from packs). I'm fine with that level of quality control, especially as a buyer myself but it's an indictment on the card manufacturers. Think about that: 30% of cards you pulled from a brand new box are not fit for resale. If that ends up being the rate(30%) I don't think I'll do it again. I have deferred sending another lot just to see how this one pans out.

And whilst I'm no computer guru( semi-literate in fact) their website seems very well structured and navigating it is easy once you've got the gist of it. 10/10 for functionality.

The staff have been courteous and helpful, too.

All in all very pleased with COMC.


I do have one slight hiccup currently, though. One which will impact my COMC experience and the reason I went looking in this neck of the BO woods.

However, I might post it in a more appropriate thread ie: Paypal!

[cardsrus1]

Originally Posted by COMC James

When the listing is refreshed (once every 30 days), free shipping will be removed if the list price (ask price + per item S/H) is $4.99 . Simply removing the item for sale won't trigger a listing refresh.

Will there ever be a time again where you guys listen to the owners of the cards and stop the nonsense of adding "free" shipping to a $5 item? Somehow a 15% markup has turned into 50%+ markup! I thought Tim was supposed to be a wiz in math?

[cardsrus1]

Originally Posted by dev6015

I've had this issue too a few times and it blows my mind. I think it just has to do with so many more eyes being on the site as a whole during sales. People are much more likely to frequent the site when they know a sale is running vs just a regular weeknight.

Speaking of, have you guys found that any days of the week (or times of day) do better for you than others? I did some analytics on my sales a few weeks ago and there was almost a perfect distribution of sales by day of the week, but it seems like others do the best sales on Friday night. That's often where I find my best bargains when I'm shopping for flips or PC adds.

Much like anything in life, people abuse something ruining it for everyone else. Once a sale is an everyday occurrence, they lose there effectiveness. They have become the mall kiosk that everyone ignores, which only hurts the casual seller running legitimate sales. The sellers that swear by them are now stuck using them, as there loyal base expects it. COMC COULD have resolved the issue by basing the fee on usage as opposed to stock volume, they choose to worsen the problem...

[sfgiants4life]

I stumbled on this item on COMC 62687530. Priced at $4.00. I was curious as to what ebay sells this for so I checked and found it listed at $9.13. I check nonsports fairly often so I am wondering did the seller list it initially for over $5 and then went down....or did it just start with the free shipping already there. The whole shipping add on scares me about listing more cards. If they add on more $4 shipping to cards it will just kill the lower end market.

[jefflasvegas]

Originally Posted by sfgiants4life

The whole shipping add on scares me about listing more cards. If they add on more $4 shipping to cards it will just kill the lower end market.

I was a little nervous too with the additional fees being added to ebay but have been happy with sales so far. When I submit cards for sale, I'm not looking as ebay as my buyer but the COMC community. If I do get and ebay or amazon sale, I consider it a bonus.

When choosing what to send it to COMC, I do my due diligence by looking up every card on the site first. If there are no copies under $1, I send it in.

[shrevecity]

If I wanted to sell the card on Ebay I would list it myself. I price my items to sell, most of what I submit are cards that have already been listed on Ebay for 30 days and did not sell.

[mintacular]

Not to beat a dead drum but many of my eBay sales have dried up as the $4 add on to every $5-$15 card has killed my competitive edge. Again, 2 months ago a buyer purchasing 10 $10 cards paid $4 in shipping, that buyer today would pay $40 in hidden shipping costs, no wonder these sales are dead....

On the same topic, I am almost exclusively selling $5 and under cards which is the opposite effect COMC intended. Even though the cash out fee is less, I still prefer to sell my own $20 cards because I can list them immediately and can more accurately grade said vintage card b/c they routinely slap "Poor/Fair" on cards that are VG VGEX EX, etc.

[sfgiants4life]

The cards I list usually sell on ebay/Amazon. Those sales make up a majority of my sales and those are dead. It is the lowest since 2016 and they seem to be just headed downhill. Other than the two of us how is everyone else doing on the $5-$15 market?

I also agree on listing the higher end cards yourself...especially sketch cards. The COMC descriptions are horrible. I just take delivery and list on ebay.

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by sfgiants4life

The cards I list usually sell on ebay/Amazon. Those sales make up a majority of my sales and those are dead. It is the lowest since 2016 and they seem to be just headed downhill. Other than the two of us how is everyone else doing on the $5-$15 market?

I also agree on listing the higher end cards yourself...especially sketch cards. The COMC descriptions are horrible. I just take delivery and list on ebay.

Sales have never been stronger for me. But it has taken about 2X the work it did then in the past. Looking at my last 50 sales, most are in the 1-5$ range.

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

Sales have never been stronger for me. But it has taken about 2X the work it did then in the past. Looking at my last 50 sales, most are in the 1-5$ range.

Same here, its hard for me to judge the 5-15 cards though as most of my port is under 5.00 only cards in it that are not over are cards I have bought to flip or picked up in a couple of port purchases I have made. The .75- 2.00 cards have been selling at record pace for me.

[SPCRD]

Just looked at my sales I’ve sold 252 cards this year and only 7 of those were on eBay.. What sucks is eBay was a big part of my sales last year, it was unusual if I didn’t sell 1-4 cards a day on eBay. Way to go COMC.

I also just went and dropped prices on 1100 cards which took a long time since eBay is basically out of the game with the ridiculous markup on shipping..

[kelleys1]

Originally Posted by sfgiants4life

The cards I list usually sell on ebay/Amazon. Those sales make up a majority of my sales and those are dead. It is the lowest since 2016 and they seem to be just headed downhill. Other than the two of us how is everyone else doing on the $5-$15 market?

I also agree on listing the higher end cards yourself...especially sketch cards. The COMC descriptions are horrible. I just take delivery and list on ebay.

I used to average 1 every couple days. This year I have 1 sale on eBay YTD.

If I ever submit another batch, it will not be with cards over $5. Will sell those on here or eBay.

[scotthenrichs]

I've got plenty of eBay sales myself this year, but only one of the over $5 variety, it's all been little $1 type stuff.