All I want to do is talk about COMC

[elektrokuter]

Originally Posted by DontBeSoy

I have had a few process this week. More of my standard have been processed than my select submission so far. Which doesnt make sense to me...

huh as of tonight ive had a handful of standard subs pop before all my select ones as well lol

[TakaTanakaGiant]

Originally Posted by ironfireman

Hey man! No hard feelings! I just thought "Offersplease" raising their price on a reasonable offer was funny. And then not accepting offers at all, but I can see now that it just wouldn't work with the %off sale bit.
So yeah, I offered you 5.95 for 3 GQ Machado RCs in Jan of '23 - probably for somewhere in the 10-20% off range. You rejected and raised your price. You still have em at 55% off of 4.74 per card so 2.14 per. They are going for 1.05-1.3. I picked up 4 after the '23 season for .75 per so... thanks I guess?! BTW If you are a regular user you've paid .54 cents for storage since then on the 3 which would covered the .47 less I offered compared to what you have them priced at now. See! Free entertainment!
Srsly - just kiddin man! Have a good one.

January OF '23!? Not January 23? 18 (EIGHTEEN) months ago!? Good lord, man. I'm sorry that our failed 4-5 dollar transaction, which I do not remember (although CLEARLY you do), has left you with enough emotional baggage to have my name stirring in your head. Perhaps you are the one that needs "a hug."


Why did I allegedly raise my price? I have no FRICKIN' clue. Maybe I was too far under the market at the time? But for a small transaction on a lot purchase? I don't see why I would.


And no, you don't just get to call me a "moron and a-hole" then follow it up with a "just kiddin man!" or "no hard feelings."

[ironfireman]

Originally Posted by TakaTanakaGiant

Why did I allegedly raise my price? I have no FRICKIN' clue..."

I found it so memorable because the guy with the user name ""offersplease" raised their price when made a reasonable offer. And the other time I made an offer to you "this user isn't accepting offers". I just thought it was funny and good entertainment.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

I know the reject/raise price has been covered a bunch, but I just had it happen to myself today on an offer I made, and I think it’s a pretty bad look. #1. A seller who does this I will never buy it at the raised price. It’s in the seller’s right and they can have fun sitting on this obscure 97 finest card that is now overpriced as long as they want. #2. I kinda wish there was a resource (list to consult) of sellers who routinely do this, as that would be very practical knowledge. As a buyer I would then never offer on their listings, so this can’t happen. I have at least been tabulating the sellers who do this to me personally, so I will then know to never offer on their items.

To be clear it is completely in the right of sellers to do it, and there may even be legitimate reasons, but it is a 10000% steer clear signal to me, and an easy way for the seller to lose a customer.

Over the years I have made myself a list of sellers that.
1. reject and raise prices
2. reject and no counter
3. reject and counter with 1 or 2% off.
4. ones how let offers expire
5. ones who do not take offer or only 1 or 2% off
6. ones who will now and then take offers
7. ones that most of their prices are too high

I do not block them or call them out. I will not even give out the lists as they have cards that I want, and I may get a few at my price now and then. This may be a wide brush and they may not do it to everyone/ or card.

For the last 4 years or so I redo my watch list every 9 months or so. 75 to 80% are the same cards and same sellers. Some cards have been setting for 15 years or more.

I have way too much time on my hands as I have almost memorized all of the 2,300 cards on my list and their prices as I look down the list.

Very few members here have cards that I need so no need to be worried about me getting upset with you.

[DynaEtch]

^^^
Pretty meticulous!

That’s basically my stance too. I don’t call them out (as in the one that just happened when I offered on a 97 finest card). The reason I don’t is because seller is not technically doing anything against the rules and it’s their right.

But having a list like you’re doing (and I’m doing at a more basic level, for sellers who reject then raise) is quite helpful. I won’t necessarily bar myself from ever buying their cards….but I can at least bar myself from ever offering on their cards going forward. So it has to be a full price purchase, and only if I really, really want the card and the price is already fair.

[ironfireman]

COMC sign-in is down. They were down for maintenence for 1hr+ and now the sign-in page is just blank.

edit (back up at 6:30 - down at least 4-6:30am EST)

[JustinVerlander07]

My 2nd of 3 submissions logged in today, my select submission is the last one I'm waiting on. Bummer. (other two were standard)

[DynaEtch]

Submission delivered to COMC on 6/24. Finally just got logged into my account today, 7/2. On edge the entire time bc it was a $5k+ package. Terrible.

I notice a trend with COMC…they do these promotions and seemingly never have the ability to keep up with them, so it is results in a breakdown in the whole process and things then don’t work as normal.

Better late than never.

[mc1]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

I notice a trend with COMC…they do these promotions and seemingly never have the ability to keep up with them, so it is results in a breakdown in the whole process and things then don’t work as normal.

They dont have the manpower. Thats been a constant for years and years.

[1992UDFootball]

Anyone else having issues with epack transfers showing up on comc?

[newcokeandtaco]

Sent some cards Direct To Grading via COMC (PSA Value Bulk $499 Maximum Value 45 Days Price: $22.00).
Subbed on 5/20/2024 and they are back in my account today. ~30 Biz days. Pretty fast and I am happy with the results/service.

[Bulldog55D]

What is everyone's thoughts on the COMC Pre grade checks? I'm about 43% Gem Rate on ones they say are good enough to send. (Still have 5 at PSA)

[boxbuster7]

wish it was $2 and not $5

[DontBeSoy]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

wish it was $2 and not $5

Should be MAX $3

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by newcokeandtaco

Sent some cards Direct To Grading via COMC (PSA Value Bulk $499 Maximum Value 45 Days Price: $22.00).
Subbed on 5/20/2024 and they are back in my account today. ~30 Biz days. Pretty fast and I am happy with the results/service.

Can someone explain how this is happening, and I submitted under the same tier grading service to PSA (45 day bulk, $499 maximum) almost two months earlier (submitted 4/1), and there has been nothing in my account? No sign of anything, not even the grade, now that we are way past 45 business days?

Does PSA just randomly grade with no rhyme or reason and zero regard to when they received the submission chronologically? Seems like a terrible way to operate. Should I be concerned, being 3 months out?

[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

Does PSA just randomly grade with no rhyme or reason and zero regard to when they received the submission chronologically? Seems like a terrible way to operate. Should I be concerned, being 3 months out?

Correct. You should not be concerned. This is standard operating procedure for PSA. Most likely there are some cards needing research in the submission and that is delaying the whole batch. But that's standard. Patience is required when dealing with PSA. You do not seem to have it.

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Correct. You should not be concerned. This is standard operating procedure for PSA. Most likely there are some cards needing research in the submission and that is delaying the whole batch. But that's standard. Patience is required when dealing with PSA. You do not seem to have it.

Well it’s one card in my submission. Pretty routine mid 90s marvel card that has no ambiguity with what it is.

I paid for a 45-day turnaround grading service at PSA and it is 3 months out. Yes, I did not know the turnaround times weren’t guaranteed. And I learned that lesson as I’m done using this service now. But at what point, if ever, can you get concerned about a submission? Do you think there is no timeline at all, I guess is what I’m asking.

They still are sending the cards physically through the mail right, of which there is no tracking or anything provided we have access to. What happens if in the very small chance it’s in limbo with the mail system or something, I’m not sure we’d even see that on our end as comc users.

[mjohnatgt]

45 business days is 2 months, to start. Plus the time it took COMC to collect all the cards from the warehouse and prep the submission, then the mailing and check-in time at PSA. Would I like more knowledge as to where my cards are in the process? Sure, but I'm not losing sleep over it? I've submitted thousand dollar cards to PSA through COMC. If they get lost, COMC is kind of on the hook to insure it, so I'll get reimbursed if they get lost/stolen.

I'm confused when you say that your submission is only '90s Marvel cards. Did you do a submission yourself or through COMC? Because I can guarantee they package hundreds of cards submitted through their PSA grading service at a time, not send a submission for each individual COMC user. So your Marvel cards were probably packaged with modern basketball, Pokemon, and 1910s tobacco cards. So it's quite possible that the grading is stuck in Research and ID.

[DynaEtch]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

45 business days is 2 months, to start. Plus the time it took COMC to collect all the cards from the warehouse and prep the submission, then the mailing and check-in time at PSA. Would I like more knowledge as to where my cards are in the process? Sure, but I'm not losing sleep over it? I've submitted thousand dollar cards to PSA through COMC. If they get lost, COMC is kind of on the hook to insure it, so I'll get reimbursed if they get lost/stolen.

I'm confused when you say that your submission is only '90s Marvel cards. Did you do a submission yourself or through COMC? Because I can guarantee they package hundreds of cards submitted through their PSA grading service at a time, not send a submission for each individual COMC user. So your Marvel cards were probably packaged with modern basketball, Pokemon, and 1910s tobacco cards. So it's quite possible that the grading is stuck in Research and ID.

I see what you’re saying about the submission as a whole now, I didn’t realize they are batching them so much like that (as in you don’t get your result until every card in the batch gets it apparently). Yes it was through COMC.

Not losing sleep by any means…card isn’t super expensive, but I also am done with the grading thing through PSA on comc I think. They should probably do away with even listing it as 45 days as it’s misleading.

[checkoutmydeals]

The main problem is COMC calling this "45 day service". That's the number of business days PSA has the card. It does not include the time it takes to remove the card from inventory, pack and ship the card, return shipping, and reprocessing the card when it gets back to COMC.

They compound this problem by not giving firm dates. I have no idea when I submitted certain cards or when they returned into my account. I have no idea when a card submitted today is expected to arrive into my account. They should just call it 12 or 16 weeks or something, give an estimated date and let people be astonished at how "quick" it was when it only takes 3 1/2 months.

They do this with other services. About 60% of the cards I submitted for "16 week" processing in the last special have already been processed. Most of the shipments I requested which were estimated to ship in "2 months" have actually shipped in 4 to 6 weeks. But when they designed the boilerplate for the PSA submissions, someone thought it would be an awesome idea to call it "45 days", knowing full well that it would almost never be literally 45 days from the time someone submitted their card to the time it arrived in their account.

[kyaa]

Hi all, I've got a question--

Do low end PSA graded cards ($10 to $20 range) sell reasonably well on COMC?

[NatsSBR]

Originally Posted by kyaa

Hi all, I've got a question--

Do low end PSA graded cards ($10 to $20 range) sell reasonably well on COMC?

Yes. I've found I do better with low-end slabs on COMC than selling them myself... probably because buyers can find a bunch of what they want from one place and save on shipping.

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by checkoutmydeals

The main problem is COMC calling this "45 day service". That's the number of business days PSA has the card. It does not include the time it takes to remove the card from inventory, pack and ship the card, return shipping, and reprocessing the card when it gets back to COMC.

They compound this problem by not giving firm dates. I have no idea when I submitted certain cards or when they returned into my account. I have no idea when a card submitted today is expected to arrive into my account. They should just call it 12 or 16 weeks or something, give an estimated date and let people be astonished at how "quick" it was when it only takes 3 1/2 months.

They do this with other services. About 60% of the cards I submitted for "16 week" processing in the last special have already been processed. Most of the shipments I requested which were estimated to ship in "2 months" have actually shipped in 4 to 6 weeks. But when they designed the boilerplate for the PSA submissions, someone thought it would be an awesome idea to call it "45 days", knowing full well that it would almost never be literally 45 days from the time someone submitted their card to the time it arrived in their account.

My biggest problem is modern cards in no lower condition bucket or note coming back a 5

[orion9578]

Something to look out for if you're auctioning cards through COMC...

https://www.ebay.com/bfl/viewbids/33....m145235.l2565

This was my card and ended on 7/1/2024. With a little less than an hour left it shot up from $200+ to $1,100+ ... I surely wasn't expecting that much on it but figured $300 was probably a worst case and $500 a best case. I'll take it though, right? Wrong, I will not take it .

With about 5~ seconds left it went from $1,100+ to $227.50. What? I didn't quite understand, so I went to the bid history. Someone retracted their $1,200 bid with 5~ seconds left, thus literally no one else bidding was probably going to be bidding(save auto-bids I suspect). With about an hour left, once that bid came in, about 50%~ of the watchers dropped. The retracted bid was place at 5:10PM PST and retracted at 6:07:25PM PST. "Oddly" enough eBay now has a rule in place that you can retract a bid, no matter how much time is left, if it's within an hour of placing said bid.

So I start to thinking that it seems fishy. Scared away potential bidders, IMO. So I decide to get ahold of eBay, with it being a 6 feedback winner and a 14 feedback retractor. I explain the situation to eBay and the lady was very nice and actually turned out to be very helpful. She puts me on hold, comes back and says the first thing she found "odd" is all bids were from the US, save the 6 feedback winner and 14 feedback retractor. Asks to put me on hold again. Comes back, both 6 feedback bidder and 14 feedback retactor have the same IP address(in the UK). She says she'll forward all this to the correct person to look into more carefully but says for anything to really "happen" she needs the seller, COMC, to message them. I emailed regular CS and my rep and have basically been ghosted. Card got paid for, nothing I can do. Would it have gotten more bids? I'll never know but I think it was probably worth more than it sold for. Beware when auctioning through COMC. I'd never seen this one before .

[Saraste]

The regular speed shipment I requested on 6/12 and was estimated to ship on 8/11 actually shipped today! It appears they have gotten the shipping times under control. I don't know if that comes at the expense of another area, receiving, processing, etc. I sure hope not.