All I want to do is talk about COMC

[scotthenrichs]

Originally Posted by dgrochester55

I redeemed store credit for blowout cards gift certificate last week and have heard nothing 6 days later. I checked my spam folder and saw nothing there either.

Is this a normal turnaround time or should I be reaching out to them?

Should be 4-5 business days...6 days ago was a Saturday, so I would say if you don't hear from them by Monday morning you'd probably want to ask.

[UCCF]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Oh wow didn’t know that, thanks. This is only my 2nd submission and with my first I got the recipient email and batch number same day package arrived, so this is good to know. Have some high end cards in this one so of course all worried about it.

I take it the turnaround times like 2 weeks for select are from when you get the batch number assigned, not when the package actually gets there.

Yes. But also, usually with Select submissions (at least for me) it's not 2 weeks, it's more like 5-6 days after they're logged in. Things tend to move through the system pretty quickly for everything but the standard submissions.

[boxbuster7]

just had 4 grades pop - 1 6 and 3 9's

They should really offer a refund if it grades below a 7 and doesn't have a note or is in the normal bucket

[justrun7]

I'm still waiting on a card to come back from grading that was submitted on 1/24. I have already received back other cards that I submitted later. Hopefully it pops soon because it is for my PC.

[RustyGreerFan]

Can someone show the math on selling a $50 card on ebay vs selling a $50 card on COMC? Here's what I have:

ebay
listing fee - free
ebay final sale fee - $7.03
net - $42.97

COMC
listing/processing fee - .50
5% final sale COMC fee (on $49.50) - $2.48
10% cash out fee (on $47.02) - $4.70
net - $42.32

Does that look right? Please correct me or let me know what I forgot to include.

How does this change for a $1,000 sale?

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by justrun7

I'm still waiting on a card to come back from grading that was submitted on 1/24. I have already received back other cards that I submitted later. Hopefully it pops soon because it is for my PC.

I would contact CS - mine were subbed 3/6 - although one is still missing - hopefully it got a 10

[sthoemke]

Originally Posted by RustyGreerFan

Can someone show the math on selling a $50 card on ebay vs selling a $50 card on COMC? Here's what I have:

ebay
listing fee - free
ebay final sale fee - $7.03
net - $42.97

COMC
listing/processing fee - .50
5% final sale COMC fee (on $49.50) - $2.48
10% cash out fee (on $47.02) - $4.70
net - $42.32

Does that look right? Please correct me or let me know what I forgot to include.

How does this change for a $1,000 sale?

I'm clueless on ebay fees, but that seems right.

A $1000 card on COMC will have a $2 upgrade/scanning fee, plus enhanced security fee for storage when for sale (not sure the cost, but pretty minimal)
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[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by RustyGreerFan

Can someone show the math on selling a $50 card on ebay vs selling a $50 card on COMC?

You're forgetting the cost of shipping. On COMC, the buyer pays it. On eBay, you'll likely be covering the cost yourself or if you charge, 10% of that goes into your ebay fees.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by RustyGreerFan

Can someone show the math on selling a $50 card on ebay vs selling a $50 card on COMC? Here's what I have:

ebay
listing fee - free
ebay final sale fee - $7.03
net - $42.97

COMC
listing/processing fee - .50
5% final sale COMC fee (on $49.50) - $2.48
10% cash out fee (on $47.02) - $4.70
net - $42.32

Does that look right? Please correct me or let me know what I forgot to include.

How does this change for a $1,000 sale?

If you want to get really picky. Asking/sold price of $50 on both sites not the total the buyer pays. S/H.

E-Bay: Shipping is out of your pocket if you do not charge for it.

COMC:
Cost of sending it to COMC. That will vary on the number of cards send it at one time. 1 card vs 100 cards a big different.
Processing fees may be more then .50 all depends on what type is you want to use. Are you willing to wait on a $50 card for the slow .50 processing.
The 5% is on the $50 not $49.50. Only .03 some no big deal.
The cash out is for the amount you withdraw. Again it sold for $50 and cash out of $50. So your net is just a few cents off at the best.

If you want to know which is the best way. It appears to boil down to just less then 2% different in E-Bays favor. Now comes into play your time and effort you are willing to put into to it and how fast you want to move the card plus how much control over the selling of it do you want. Are you willing to let someone else have the $50 card to sell for you.

The same goes for the $1000 card but the different is a about 20 times more.

[UCCF]

Originally Posted by Budler

If you want to know which is the best way. It appears to boil down to just less then 2% different in E-Bays favor. Now comes into play your time and effort you are willing to put into to it and how fast you want to move the card plus how much control over the selling of it do you want. Are you willing to let someone else have the $50 card to sell for you.

This is what it boils down to for me. You pay a marginally higher percentage to sell a card on COMC vs eBay, but you are spared the individual shipping of each card, dealing with non-paying buyers, answering questions, creating listings, taking photos, going back and forth to the post office, paying for shipping supplies, etc etc.

If you only sell a handful of cards per year, then eBay is fine. If you're trying to sell hundreds or thousands per year, COMC is a godsend.

[RustyGreerFan]

Originally Posted by UCCF

This is what it boils down to for me. You pay a marginally higher percentage to sell a card on COMC vs eBay, but you are spared the individual shipping of each card, dealing with non-paying buyers, answering questions, creating listings, taking photos, going back and forth to the post office, paying for shipping supplies, etc etc.

If you only sell a handful of cards per year, then eBay is fine. If you're trying to sell hundreds or thousands per year, COMC is a godsend.

YES. This is what I was getting at. There are guys in here who have known, understood, and taken advantage of this for YEARS. I have been using COMC since around 2011 and it FINALLY dawned on me two months ago that going the COMC route is superior.

While I am irritated with myself for not figuring it out sooner, I am frequently flabbergasted at how POORLY COMC does communication, branding, advertising, getting the BIG POINTS across, etc. By far the best example is how many people out there have actually done business with COMC and have NO IDEA COMC is anything beyond a Probstein or dcsports. Remember that many of the collectors who have joined the hobby in the past few years, including the entire pandemic, were intro'd to COMC on ebay. But their relationship has never moved beyond that point. These are the people who pipe up on social media with complaints like why is shipping $5 for a card under $5. Those people have likely known about COMC (on ebay) for years.

I realize their agreement with ebay certainly means they cannot redirect traffic, but come on. In my experience, 50% or more of the collectors out there do not know COMC is its own entity (for now). Or even if they do, they have some completely false ideas about what COMC is and how they operate.

My long-winded point being, why? Is it incompetence in communication/PR, or is it a deliberate way to control growth? Or maybe they are simply comfortable with relying on ebay and perhaps moving even further in that direction until they are ultimately bought out? I will never know because COMC does not consider its users shareholders.

[checkoutmydeals]

One stat sticks out for me:

In my first 12 years selling on eBay, I sold about 6,000 items.

In my first 12 years selling on COMC, I sold about 200,000 items.

If you only look at raw percentages of sales paid in fees, it's probably "cheaper" to sell on eBay.

If you add in postage, supplies, office space, sorting time, packing and shipping time, security and insurance, time spent writing descriptions and promoting your eBay business, it's a no-brainer.

Suppose you were to hire an assistant to do what COMC does, and also rent a warehouse, stock it with supplies, insure it, hire security guards, etc, it would cost way more.

[checkoutmydeals]

It might also be worth mentioning that if you have high quality items which are a bit beefy, that COMC's 7-day eBay auction fee is 3.5% of the hammer price, with a minimum fee of $3.50.

If you send a $50 item directly to 7-day auction, the fee is $3.50.

If you send a $1,000 item directly to auction, the fee is $35.

Auction items have to be processed as Elite. If you process the item first, or if it is not Elite, then they charge $2 to reprocess as Elite.

However, if you send direct to auction, there is no additional charge to reprocess as Elite.

If you cash out the credit, you pay a 10% cashout fee. However, if you use the credit to buy other stuff on COMC (or to pay COMC fees), then there is no cashout fee.

The Live Auctions have a different fee. It's $1.50 to $2 (depending on day of the week) plus 5% of the hammer price. You don't have to upgrade to Elite, however. Also the prices you receive are all over the map.

Another thing to consider is that you do get some pricing power with COMC. There are thousands of regular buyers on the site. The owner once remarked that the average eBay shipment on COMC is about 40 items. So, once someone buys one item, they often times will buy a pile.

[RustyGreerFan]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

It might also be worth mentioning that if you have high quality items which are a bit beefy, that COMC's 7-day eBay auction fee is 3.5% of the hammer price, with a minimum fee of $3.50.

If you send a $50 item directly to 7-day auction, the fee is $3.50.

If you send a $1,000 item directly to auction, the fee is $35.

Auction items have to be processed as Elite. If you process the item first, or if it is not Elite, then they charge $2 to reprocess as Elite.

However, if you send direct to auction, there is no additional charge to reprocess as Elite.

If you cash out the credit, you pay a 10% cashout fee. However, if you use the credit to buy other stuff on COMC (or to pay COMC fees), then there is no cashout fee.

The Live Auctions have a different fee. It's $1.50 to $2 (depending on day of the week) plus 5% of the hammer price. You don't have to upgrade to Elite, however. Also the prices you receive are all over the map.

Another thing to consider is that you do get some pricing power with COMC. There are thousands of regular buyers on the site. The owner once remarked that the average eBay shipment on COMC is about 40 items. So, once someone buys one item, they often times will buy a pile.

Great post, but I'm having some trouble following it - I don't know enough to provide my own context. Are you saying all of those good options? Is there one option that is an exceptional deal? Are you saying that in every instance auctioning your cards via COMC nets more than auctioning it yourself? Sorry - I'm just ignorant.

[checkoutmydeals]

I was trying to answer the question of how much COMC fees are. I wasn't expressing an opinion of which is better. A lot depends on the situation, and the seller. For the most part, I wouldn't send items to eBay auction through COMC unless it was part of a larger strategy.

I'd also say that there are many instances where eBay is superior to COMC:

* There is only a very small number of cards which are appropriate to submit to COMC.

* You can sell other things on eBay besides these cards

* The turnaround time is much faster. You can obtain a card, list it, sell it and ship it the same day. Then use that money to buy something else and have it in a few days. On COMC, this process might take months or years.

* You can list multiple item lots on eBay. So instead of selling a bunch of $1 cards, you can combine them into a $25 or $50 lot.

* You can sell anything on eBay, not just certain cards.

[UCCF]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

* You can list multiple item lots on eBay. So instead of selling a bunch of $1 cards, you can combine them into a $25 or $50 lot.

This might be my #1 wishlist item that they could add to COMC. I would love the ability to take 50 Ohtani cards in my account, bundle them together, and sell them as a lot (and also have that lot cross-listed to eBay). Or 50 1st Bowmans from 2019. Or 100 Yankees cards. Whatever.

[Budler]

A few years ago I posted the Pros and Cons of places I purchased from over several years. I'm not going to redo it but all had good and bad points. As a buyer right now COMC and one trading site is on top of my list but I look everywhere.

E-Bay
COMC
Beckett
Sportslot.
Amazon
Local card shops
Lot of trading sites. I have joined about 30 of them.
Craigslist and others listings like that
Some online stores

As a seller it may be different as sellers are different just like the buyer. I know several guys that sell on more than one. It depends on what card they are selling.

Best of luck to all of you finding which site works the best for you. There is no one place that works the best for all of us.
PS. Always looking for Nebraska Cornhusker football cards that I need.

[sthoemke]

I've had very good sales recently (last week or so). I think it is because the log-in varification/time-up being improved/fixed. People are coming back to COMC, instead of leaving due to the log-in issues.

[peterose4hof]

I still have to do the verification every time I log in.

For the heck of it, I went back and counted my emails from COMC.

I've now done the verification 652 times since October 16th.

[Budler]

Frustration is getting worst with COMC. I got a message from them stating I would get a credit for their late shipment of my last order, but it would expire on May 7th. So I spent all the money I had there and even put in a little more. Just to get more cards for shipment. I hate to have a shipment of 10 to 15 cheap cards.

Now I have requested a shipment and they are asking me to pay for the shipping ($4.99).
I have been trying to get ahold of them with no replies and the support "leave a message" is coming back to me as junk mail.

All I can do is keep messaging them in hopes they will answer. I know their CS is overloaded.

[dgrochester55]

Originally Posted by peterose4hof

I still have to do the verification every time I log in.

For the heck of it, I went back and counted my emails from COMC.

I've now done the verification 652 times since October 16th.

Originally Posted by Budler

Frustration is getting worst with COMC. I got a message from them stating I would get a credit for their late shipment of my last order, but it would expire on May 7th. So I spent all the money I had there and even put in a little more. Just to get more cards for shipment. I hate to have a shipment of 10 to 15 cheap cards.

Now I have requested a shipment and they are asking me to pay for the shipping ($4.99).
I have been trying to get ahold of them with no replies and the support "leave a message" is coming back to me as junk mail.

All I can do is keep messaging them in hopes they will answer. I know their CS is overloaded.

My sign in issues were resolved in December after I escalated and got in touch with an IT person (or staff member that knew about computers). I had no idea that it was still going on. That over six months now and is inexcusable.

COMC clearly needs to add and/or replace some of their staff. They seem to be following the general trend of companies in 2024 where they are desperately short staffed, say that they need people but do not add any help or hire.

I have a lot of cards in my inventory and there is no equal competitor, so I am not going anywhere, but I wish that COMC would make having a basic level of customer service was a priority.

[LSUNatChamps]

This may have come up before, but does anyone know what the colored icons at the top left of a username mean when you are looking at your Active Offers in the app? Sometimes I can see what looks like a green house; another icon is a blue house - does this have to do with a user's online status?

[Budler]

My issue was fixed. They looked for the problem before replying to me. Once they find it they had me verify what order was the problem and it did fall under the issue they find.

So I got my credit.

[RobDerhak]

Originally Posted by LSUNatChamps

This may have come up before, but does anyone know what the colored icons at the top left of a username mean when you are looking at your Active Offers in the app? Sometimes I can see what looks like a green house; another icon is a blue house - does this have to do with a user's online status?

I countered an offer and it is green.

Didn't register what color it was when it was incoming, but that would be my guess is that Blue is incoming offers and Green is outgoing offers?

[newcokeandtaco]

Tracking: Not Shipped Yet
Date Requested: 3/2/2024
Estimated Ship Date: 5/12/2024 (Originally 4/29/2024)
Items Ahead of My Order: 214,145
~20 cards in this order

COMC is still running over 2 months for Economy shipments.
Received the $5 off email today. One day after the original estimated ship date.