All I want to do is talk about COMC

[Budler]

What is the odds them having a Black Friday Sale this year.

[blegit07]

Recently i sent 7 flat rate boxes for consignment. 5 of them were signed for and checked into the system. 2 were REFUSED by comc. Has anyone had this happen before???? I’m missing $20,000 worth of cards and I’m out $120 in shipping and insurance because they refused the packages. And no they haven’t been sent back to me yet. Looking for advice on how to handle this. I have emailed comc already.

[shrevecity]

If they were refused that means the USPs has them. File an insurance claim. The only reason they get marked refused it when they are never picked up at the PO or they are brought back unopened and the receiver tells the USPS they don't want it. Either way the USPS has possession of them.

[scotthenrichs]

How to drive yourself crazy in three steps :

Step 1 : Download your entire sales history from pre 2020
Step 2 : Filter out anything that doesn’t contain one of these words : Prizm, optic, holo, Kobe, Lebron, Tatis, Mahomes
Step 3 : Look up how much more it sells for now than you sold it for then and add up all the differences :-)

[JustinVerlander07]

Originally Posted by scotthenrichs

How to drive yourself crazy in three steps :

Step 1 : Download your entire sales history from pre 2020
Step 2 : Filter out anything that doesn’t contain one of these words : Prizm, optic, holo, Kobe, Lebron, Tatis, Mahomes
Step 3 : Look up how much more it sells for now than you sold it for then and add up all the differences :-)

Oh man looking up past sales is just torture. One that sticks out for me is a Kobe 08-09 Topps Chrome refractor. Sold for $15, it's currently around $1k or so. I sold the card at least 4-5 years ago, though.

[37Jetson]

Originally Posted by Budler

What is the odds them having a Black Friday Sale this year.

They will have one with expedited shipping by July 4,2021 and standard shipping by Labor Day 2021.

[sliqwill]

what is the advantage of listing a card WAY WAY WAY over market value and then having it like 60% on sale?...especially even when at the sale price you are more than double the price of others?

I don't think the COMC sale price reflects on eBay, so if you list something for $10 and 60% off, its $4 on COMC and like $11 on eBay...

[mjohnatgt]

You are correct about the sales not crossing to eBay. Normally it's just people who haven't updated their prices in years. Originally they overprice them to run large discount sales figuring that they'll sell more that way compared to pricing them low to begin with. It's a strategy, not a necessarily good strategy.

[jjj5278]

Originally Posted by sliqwill

what is the advantage of listing a card WAY WAY WAY over market value and then having it like 60% on sale?...especially even when at the sale price you are more than double the price of others?

I don't think the COMC sale price reflects on eBay, so if you list something for $10 and 60% off, its $4 on COMC and like $11 on eBay...

Bc people are dumb. The sellers are dumb for wasting the money on running promotions and paying the enhanced security fees on expensive cards. Buyers are dumb Bc they see something 60% off and think it’s a deal. I have a couple hundred dollars to spend there but everything is so far over eBay I’m just going to cash out probably. It sucks Bc I’d rather spend it there but when people are $100+ over eBay comps it just doesn’t make sense.

[sliqwill]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

You are correct about the sales not crossing to eBay. Normally it's just people who haven't updated their prices in years. Originally they overprice them to run large discount sales figuring that they'll sell more that way compared to pricing them low to begin with. It's a strategy, not a necessarily good strategy.

its not a lack of updating prices, as they will buy something from me for say $2 and relist for $15 and then it goes to immediate 60% off promo type stuff...makes no sense to me

[GoBeavs]

Originally Posted by sliqwill

what is the advantage of listing a card WAY WAY WAY over market value and then having it like 60% on sale?...especially even when at the sale price you are more than double the price of others?

I don't think the COMC sale price reflects on eBay, so if you list something for $10 and 60% off, its $4 on COMC and like $11 on eBay...

Could be any number of reasons. I have a few cards like that right now because you can't isolate any cards from sales. I've been running big sales to clear out my inventory over the past month. Recently I finally had some of cards from my March submission go live. It's very obvious that I would have to list the regular price much higher so that the sale price is at market for these new cards. However, the rest of the port is still at slashed sales prices.

The funny thing is some those actually sold on eBay at the inflated prices.

[jjj5278]

Originally Posted by GoBeavs

Could be any number of reasons. I have a few cards like that right now because you can't isolate any cards from sales. I've been running big sales to clear out my inventory over the past month. Recently I finally had some of cards from my March submission go live. It's very obvious that I would have to list the regular price much higher so that the sale price is at market for these new cards. However, the rest of the port is still at slashed sales prices.

The funny thing is some those actually sold on eBay at the inflated prices.

So why not just price the cards cheap instead of running a promotion? If you want to blow them out price them super cheap and then you don’t have to pay the 3% on top of it? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to be a dick.

[mjohnatgt]

Different strokes for different folks. That seller thinks that is his best selling strategy.

[Boo]

For all the complaining, fees and late processing, COMC is good for one thing in particular...selling a card of a scrub who hits 2 HRs in a game. So much FOMO going on right now, I'm getting money for guys who won't hit 2 HRs the rest of their careers!

COMC is great as a seller for FOMO!!

[aguinness]

Originally Posted by jjj5278

So why not just price the cards cheap instead of running a promotion? If you want to blow them out price them super cheap and then you don’t have to pay the 3% on top of it? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to be a dick.

On top of this, I've sold some cheap commons in the past few months and taken a look at the others on COMC. Sometimes there are a number of other examples that are on sale cheaper, but mine sells on eBay before theirs (presumably) because the sale price doesn't transfer to eBay.

[no10pin]

Originally Posted by jjj5278

So why not just price the cards cheap instead of running a promotion? If you want to blow them out price them super cheap and then you don’t have to pay the 3% on top of it? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to be a dick.

I'm sure most people who are doing it have tried it both ways, and this is the strategy they have landed on.

There are millions of cards on the site, and some people just browse by sport rather than searching for specific cards.

There's a specific section for sellers running sales, and you can also sort by cards based on % off. It might raise the chance of someone randomly running across your card if it's a $20 card that's 90% off vs. a $2 card at full price.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Different strokes for different folks. That seller thinks that is his best selling strategy.

As a buyer/trader of my PC (only) my strategy is different from other buyers/trader. So I understand sellers are different also. As my needs are very large it takes a lot of time to go through them. With over 1400 cards on my watch list plus 100s more. Plus other ways I sort when looking It takes hours. At this time I'm only doing a hour or so on COMC so I miss a lot if they are not priced at the lowest or their sale is over.

There are 4 or 5 seller that has a lot of cards I need. Most are over priced and they only do discounts and sales of a few % off if any. A lot of cards priced at $2.75 that should be closer to $1.25 or $1.00 It appears that they do not have the time to price correct so they do bulk pricing to a range.

It is strange how some do their prices.

[mjohnatgt]

Another reason on the nonsports cards: only one gets listed on eBay at a time, since the category doesn't allow variation listings with the dropdown menu like the sports cards categories do. So some people figure out which specific one is currently listed on eBay and buy that one and mark it up. Because that is the one that will sell via eBay. I've done it before myself; buy a $8 card instead of a $5 version, then when the $8 one sells on eBay, I buy the $5 one... ;-)

[ark8085]

Originally Posted by Boo

For all the complaining, fees and late processing, COMC is good for one thing in particular...selling a card of a scrub who hits 2 HRs in a game. So much FOMO going on right now, I'm getting money for guys who won't hit 2 HRs the rest of their careers!

COMC is great as a seller for FOMO!!

Lol true, I usually can tell who’s getting the call to the bigs just by cards I’ve sold on comc. And a lot of the times I’m guilty myself haha

[sliqwill]

Originally Posted by Budler

As a buyer/trader of my PC (only) my strategy is different from other buyers/trader. So I understand sellers are different also. As my needs are very large it takes a lot of time to go through them. With over 1400 cards on my watch list plus 100s more. Plus other ways I sort when looking It takes hours. At this time I'm only doing a hour or so on COMC so I miss a lot if they are not priced at the lowest or their sale is over.

There are 4 or 5 seller that has a lot of cards I need. Most are over priced and they only do discounts and sales of a few % off if any. A lot of cards priced at $2.75 that should be closer to $1.25 or $1.00 It appears that they do not have the time to price correct so they do bulk pricing to a range.

It is strange how some do their prices.

im usually the lowest price which is why I only allow % off above a certain number, so I don't have someone trying to buy my cheapest card on the site at 50% off...that drives me nuts...plus i would say the majority of my stuff is at $0.75 or less so i don't have storage fees...

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by jjj5278

So why not just price the cards cheap instead of running a promotion? If you want to blow them out price them super cheap and then you don’t have to pay the 3% on top of it? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to be a dick.

There is the mentality of a sale.. Some people see ohh 60% off I need to buy these. It creates a sense of urgency.

[bmann33]

Finally got a tracking number for my May 18 standard shipment request.

[gosanostra]

its taking about a month for them to acknowledge mailbox deliveries

[GoBeavs]

Originally Posted by jjj5278

So why not just price the cards cheap instead of running a promotion? If you want to blow them out price them super cheap and then you don’t have to pay the 3% on top of it? I’m genuinely curious, not trying to be a dick.

I have over 5,000 cards. Maybe some day I'll figure out how to work the repricing tool. In the meantime, it's much easier to run a temporary sale, even if it does cost me 1%.

[jjj5278]

Originally Posted by GoBeavs

I have over 5,000 cards. Maybe some day I'll figure out how to work the repricing tool. In the meantime, it's much easier to run a temporary sale, even if it does cost me 1%.

That’s a good answer. I was just wondering. I’ve never had more than 450 in my port at any time, so it’s easier for me. I thought it was 3%, but 1% isn’t bad.