All I want to do is talk about COMC

[ThePatriotWay]

Sometimes I wonder why people flip my cards for 10x the amount when the flip itself would never sell considering there are several other listings for 9x less the amount. Like, it took me several months just to sell it for $6, what makes you think you're getting $90?

Are these the people that just have 90% off sales?

[scotthenrichs]

Originally Posted by ThePatriotWay

Sometimes I wonder why people flip my cards for 10x the amount when the flip itself would never sell considering there are several other listings for 9x less the amount. Like, it took my several months just to sell it for $6, what makes you think you're getting $90?

Are these the people that just have 90% off sales?

I sometimes have a laugh looking at cards I sold years ago and see the original buyer still has it for sale at a higher price.

[Smarti5051]

Overpricing cards (especially modern cards where condition issues are less common) is much more common than I would have expected. Usually, when multiple people have the same item, you see undercutting. But on COMC, you see lots of buyers holding the line at 10x the cheapest copies even if there are dozens of cards at that price.

The three selling practices I find most interesting: (1) having a sale of 20-90% off where your sale price for every item in your promotion makes it the 4th lowest price for each card (caveat, this must somehow work, as you see big sellers do this repeatedly); (2) having a port sale at the same time as a discount sale where the port asking price is more than sum of your current price for every card in the port (I guess an upcharge for the convenience of buying all of someone's leftovers with one click); and (3) charging more for the only copy of a modern "VG-EX" or "EX-MT" bucket card than the "Raw" bucket that has 30 copies at 20% of the price. In my experience, the "EX-MT" bucket is 20x more likely to have flaws than the "Raw" bucket, so customers are paying more for an inferior version of the same card.

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by base set

A dozen cards appeared in one of my searches this morning that weren’t there yesterday. Someone is working weekends.

But they should just add an LOL to this note:

'This item is coming from a remote warehouse and is not eligible for expedited shipping. You will still be able to request standard shipping, but it may take 4-6 weeks extra for packaging. '

If I price a card now, it will then post on a weekend(today). They aren't working weekends there.

[ThePatriotWay]

Originally Posted by scotthenrichs

I sometimes have a laugh looking at cards I sold years ago and see the original buyer still has it for sale at a higher price.

Same, I always check on my flippers just to see how long they're holding it.

[vthobby]

% Sold since 2016.....

99% !!!!!!!

Mike

[cruiserdaddy7]

Once people buy from me, I hope They make money and do well with it.

[Dragonman]

Yea I encourage flippers...I hope they do well with my cards....The only issue i have is when buyers like Gregmo, Checkoutmydeals, Sportscardheaven buy a card that i have had on the site for 12 years and is priced at a quarter and they reprice this 25 cent card that nobody would buy for 25 cents for 12 years at $2.49...Its just bad for the site when newcomers see this awful card priced at $2.49.

That is when I wish we could block buyers.

[shrevecity]

Originally Posted by ThePatriotWay

Same, I always check on my flippers just to see how long they're holding it.

I don't get that. If you were happy when you sold it so what if they hold it or flip they can do whatever they want with it. I would hope they could sell it. The more flippers sell the more you sell.

If you sell for a price you are not happy with there is only one person to blame for that.

[sthoemke]

Originally Posted by Dragonman

Yea I encourage flippers...I hope they do well with my cards....The only issue i have is when buyers like Gregmo, Checkoutmydeals, Sportscardheaven buy a card that i have had on the site for 12 years and is priced at a quarter and they reprice this 25 cent card that nobody would buy for 25 cents for 12 years at $2.49...Its just bad for the site when newcomers see this awful card priced at $2.49.

That is when I wish we could block buyers.

Making $1.99 on a 25 cent investment is not bad, even if it takes 12 years

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

I don't get that. If you were happy when you sold it so what if they hold it or flip they can do whatever they want with it. I would hope they could sell it. The more flippers sell the more you sell.

If you sell for a price you are not happy with there is only one person to blame for that.

Seems like some root against their customers, doesn't it?

[ThePatriotWay]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

I don't get that. If you were happy when you sold it so what if they hold it or flip they can do whatever they want with it. I would hope they could sell it. The more flippers sell the more you sell.

If you sell for a price you are not happy with there is only one person to blame for that.

To determine if my price was low and learn, I compare myself to other flippers all the time. I watch their accounts to see what they are flipping (targeting) and so on. Again, a learning experience.

Originally Posted by cruiserdaddy7

Seems like some root against their customers, doesn't it?

Guys, my comment wasn't suppose to be controversial. Don't take offense to it. It was a simple observation today, someone bought a $6 card from me today and listed it for $88 when there is another card listed for less than $20. In addition, it took me several months just to sell that card for $6 (a small flip). Personally, I thought $88 was a reach. The point is, sometimes I notice flippers don't undercut (or set competitive prices) and just set very high prices for whatever reasons. Perhaps, the buyer is just holding or perhaps he plans to buy the other card and monopolize. Maybe he just runs massive promotions. Either way, good luck to him but COMC in general is a learning experience for all.

[hockeycards]

There is one single auction that COMC will not let me bid on because it says they don't ship to Canada (well, one that I've tried... there are many others that I haven't tried). I can't figure it out.

If you're wondering why your Lemieux black diamond card sold lower than expected, ask COMC why Canadians couldn't bid.

[ForceChange77]

Originally Posted by sthoemke

Making $1.99 on a 25 cent investment is not bad, even if it takes 12 years

Assumes comc will be in business in 12 years. With the current shipping fiasco, I don’t know. Comc has extended times on eBay to 30 to 45 days now, ebayers are starting to notice

[salthill]

Originally Posted by ThePatriotWay

It was a simple observation today, someone bought a $6 card from me today and listed it for $88 when there is another card listed for less than $20.

Was it the account named JoelShitShow?
His prices are a wonderland - like Fantasia but more delusional. (If you ever find a card of his that’s the lowest, make an offer on it and he’ll jack up the price. It’s like a fun game of whack-a-mole.) I’m sure his spreadsheet shows astonishing rate of return, but only on the cards he eventually sells.
(I’m curious of his motivation / business model, because it definitely doesn’t appear to be “making a profit on turning over cards”.)

[salthill]

Originally Posted by ForceChange77

Assumes comc will be in business in 12 years.

As other posters have pointed out - including former employees - they have a significant long-tail problem. The storage charges they introduced last year will ease that. But they’re warehousing millions of cards that’ll never leave their premises. And that number only goes up.

[discostu]

Originally Posted by salthill

As other posters have pointed out - including former employees - they have a significant long-tail problem. The storage charges they introduced last year will ease that. But they’re warehousing millions of cards that’ll never leave their premises. And that number only goes up.

...and each Epack release adds another million cards to the dust pile.

They need to evolve and start prepacking and shipping sets...or induce a controlled burn on Epack inventory.

[KhalDrogo]

For a BIN listed tonight.

[sthoemke]

Originally Posted by discostu

...and each Epack release adds another million cards to the dust pile.

They need to evolve and start prepacking and shipping sets...or induce a controlled burn on Epack inventory.

Or have a bulk shipping price if someone wants to buy a quantity of the same exact epack card.

[discostu]

Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

For a BIN listed tonight.

The fact that they haven't been able to get control of shipping any better than this is really troubling.

Short of employee sabotage by monkey wrenching an internal system, there is no plausible reason that they are a month into a supposed surge on new employees with nothing but worse performance to show for it.

And truly, that's the only acceptable excuse.

If I'm Upper Deck, and my entire bottomline is funded by Epack and COMC is the delivery and execution....I'm terrified.

[jjj5278]

Originally Posted by Dragonman

Yea I encourage flippers...I hope they do well with my cards....The only issue i have is when buyers like Gregmo, Checkoutmydeals, Sportscardheaven buy a card that i have had on the site for 12 years and is priced at a quarter and they reprice this 25 cent card that nobody would buy for 25 cents for 12 years at $2.49...Its just bad for the site when newcomers see this awful card priced at $2.49.

That is when I wish we could block buyers.

Sportcardheaven is the worst. They’d reprice it at $249.99 to run a 50% off sale. I can’t imagine how much they pay in fees in a month, but I know they are absolutely throwing money down the drain with a lot of their stupid asking prices. Idiots.

[checkoutmydeals]

I apologize if I upset anybody by purchasing their items for their full asking price (or at their auto-accept price if enabled).

Anyone who doesn't want me buying their stuff, feel free to send a private message.

Anyone who wants to sell stuff at 2009 prices, also feel free to message.

[88horsepower]

They are now a full month overdue from my shipping estimate and won't return emails.

[base set]

Originally Posted by shrevecity

Or they were just priced by the seller.

Ahh yes, 18 months now after pricing a card myself, I forget that possibility when I see the newly listed cards.

Such as a card on my want list for 5 years, which I have never seen for sale before and turned up yesterday - which is why I think COMC could pull out of these problems. The basic idea of the business is a very good one.

I like seeing a card sell to be re-priced by someone else. Very educational.

It is sometimes hard to recall that pricing on COMC often reflects supply on COMC - which may not reflect supply elsewhere. I am trying to finish an old insert set and knocked off all but one card in it via COMC last year for $1 per card, with generally 6-12 copies of each available. Except one card - only one copy available - which is priced at $7. Now maybe the seller would take 50%, I dunno. But I finally looked on eBay and there are multiple copies available for $1.

I will say that with regular shipping ballooning out to >4 months now, it is getting a lot easier now to remember to just check ebay when the COMC price looks high.

[cruiserdaddy7]

Originally Posted by 88horsepower

They are now a full month overdue from my shipping estimate and won't return emails.

Im at 51 days LATE on rushed, so be prepared to wait longer.