All I want to do is talk about COMC

[mc1]

Originally Posted by orion9578

Yup, they do that semi often. That's what I meant by "most" haha. I'd say a good 25% of my "code" that's listed through COMC are cards people bought from me to flip.

I think I misspoke. I was almost sure the code changed if someone bought a card to flip. I just searched for some cards again and noticed they dont.

Although they did still take down some of my listings that were on there before. If i check some listings with multiple cards it shows mine on the dropdown as being OOS.

[Cheddar]

How long is it taking your processing to start once a package is received at COMC HQ? I had a package delivered with an Elite and Standard submission last on Monday, 12/2 and nothing has been scanned in yet to start the processing.

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by Cheddar

How long is it taking your processing to start once a package is received at COMC HQ? I had a package delivered with an Elite and Standard submission last on Monday, 12/2 and nothing has been scanned in yet to start the processing.

usually they pop pretty soon in my experience - If it doesn't show up tomorrow I would definitely email them

but it is a busy time of the year so I wouldn't worry

[aguinness]

Originally Posted by DynaEtch

I never did get this…all these people buying up fixed price comc listings on ebay for way more than COMC site price…but I believe it. I get a similar thing. Not only is there extra fee baked in to the eBay, but also doesn’t even reflect sale %’s off. Boggles the mind.

Originally Posted by orion9578

Tons of people don't know COMC's website I'm guessing, because I don't get it either. They're paying 14%~ more and also not seeing any sales. There could be other reasons as well. Preference to use eBay only? To be honest I can't think of any reason to pay 14%~ more...so I lean heavily towards they don't know

While I'm with you both on this, there's just nothing else in the hobby that comes close to the reach of eBay. Think about this...

• Net54 has about 25,000 active members.
• Blowout has just passed the 94,000 members mark.
• COMC tooted its horn recently for passing 300,000 members (which probably includes inactive members).
• eBay claims to have 133 million users worldwide - so the question is how many of those are sports card collectors. Even just 5 percent is more than 6 million (and I would guess the number is higher).

In other words, if you want to sell a card, then Blowout gets you nearly 4X the eyeballs as Net54; COMC will get you more than 3X the eyeballs as BO; while eBay is exponentially more than COMC. (And I recognize there will be differences based on what you are selling and that these numbers will shift due to that, and other, factors, but this is a gross generalization)
It'd be great if all sports card collectors recognized the value of having a COMC account (and others), but the sports card collecting world is so vast and deep, and for whatever reason, a giant majority of collectors don't care, don't know or don['t want to bother with some of the best resources out there.

[boxbuster7]

COMC lists on ebay though

2 birds 1 stone

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by aguinness

While I'm with you both on this, there's just nothing else in the hobby that comes close to the reach of eBay. Think about this...

That'd be why I said I've been sending more expensive cards home lately. If my cards aren't going to cross(at least not in a reasonable amount of time), I'd rather move them myself on eBay.

Broken record but the majority of my COMC sales(on bigger cards) are cards bought through COMC's eBay account(cross listings). If they're going to neglect cross listing, they're going to get stuck with all my snicklefritz

That's how all this got brought up

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

COMC lists on ebay though

2 birds 1 stone

0 birds are harmed when COMC stops cross-listing BIN's to eBay

It seems they haven't stopped all together, but it's slowed enough where I noticed a big dip in the last month(ish).

[boxbuster7]

I looked at my november sales and the $ amount was the same as october with the black friday stuff

so looks like I am getting affected also

[scotthenrichs]

Love COMC sometimes. Saw Dave Parker make the HOF on Twitter, quick bought his RC for $12, sold it 15 minutes later for $24, lol.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by orion9578

That'd be why I said I've been sending more expensive cards home lately. If my cards aren't going to cross(at least not in a reasonable amount of time), I'd rather move them myself on eBay.

I used to send all my under $5 stuff to COMC and now I'm mainly only sending my under $3 stuff there. I can move cheaper cards faster myself. I've gotten pretty efficient with eBay listings allowing for a better time cost-benefit selling cheaper cards. If they don't sell on eBay after a month and there's no watchers, then they go to COMC. If there's a couple of watchers, then I'll send offers or lower the price in an effort to clear them out before the auto-relist kicks in. Save the free listings for better stuff when possible.

I'm on the fence having stuff I sent in getting sent back to me since I've already paid the listing fee... but I suppose if it didn't sell at a low price on eBay within a month or two then it's dead weight anyway.

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by f2tornado

I used to send all my under $5 stuff to COMC and now I'm mainly only sending my under $3 stuff there. I can move cheaper cards faster myself. I've gotten pretty efficient with eBay listings allowing for a better time cost-benefit selling cheaper cards. If they don't sell on eBay after a month and there's no watchers, then they go to COMC. If there's a couple of watchers, then I'll send offers or lower the price in an effort to clear them out before the auto-relist kicks in. Save the free listings for better stuff when possible.

I'm on the fence having stuff I sent in getting sent back to me since I've already paid the listing fee... but I suppose if it didn't sell at a low price on eBay within a month or two then it's dead weight anyway.

I've started running it as follows:

$250+ comes home.

$50.01-$250 mostly go to auction via COMC, though I will let some stuff sit awhile and eat the "security fee".

$25-$50 gets scanned MOST of the time, no fees after the scan.

$0.75-$25 get listed as is, I pay storage fees.

$0.39-.$0.75 sit till I'm gone from this world

The $250+ coming home is mostly a newer thing due to cards not crossing. The rest really is a response to their horrid CS. If I'm going to get basically 0 CS, they're going to get basically as close to $0 in recurring fees as possible. They get me in other ways though. I buy a lot. I sell quite a bit still. Scans. Grading. Auction fees. Shipping fees.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by aguinness

While I'm with you both on this, there's just nothing else in the hobby that comes close to the reach of eBay. Think about this...

• Net54 has about 25,000 active members.
• Blowout has just passed the 94,000 members mark.
• COMC tooted its horn recently for passing 300,000 members (which probably includes inactive members).
• eBay claims to have 133 million users worldwide - so the question is how many of those are sports card collectors. Even just 5 percent is more than 6 million (and I would guess the number is higher).

In other words, if you want to sell a card, then Blowout gets you nearly 4X the eyeballs as Net54; COMC will get you more than 3X the eyeballs as BO; while eBay is exponentially more than COMC. (And I recognize there will be differences based on what you are selling and that these numbers will shift due to that, and other, factors, but this is a gross generalization)
It'd be great if all sports card collectors recognized the value of having a COMC account (and others), but the sports card collecting world is so vast and deep, and for whatever reason, a giant majority of collectors don't care, don't know or don['t want to bother with some of the best resources out there.

Each site has its Pros and Cons for sellers and buyers. It all depends on what you are selling or buying. A majority of sellers and buyers use more than one platform to buy or sell. There is a ton of sites trying to sell you cards. I'm sure there are a lot I have not heard of, like the Net54.
For me as a buyer, I find a site and run them out of the cheap cards I need and on to the next site. Then back and start over again hoping they have some more for me. So if you as a seller is lucky enough that I go to the site you are on at the time you have a card for me at the right price. Bingo!! you have made a sale.
There are a lot of buyers like me. YES I wish there was one site that had everything. So all buyer and sellers were on the same level.

[Budler]

For all you big time sellers. How large of an inventory do you think is manageable. I'm mainly thinking about COMC as there are sellers with well over 500K with a lot of prices out of line. I understand you can just price them and forget about them and see if they sell but is that really managing them?

I'm talking about a one-man operation. Maybe with a little part time help unpaid. (kids, wife, friend)

[boxbuster7]

I'd say anything above 100,000 is difficult

just had a first - forgot to customize a .05 cent card to 0% off and it sold for .01 cent

In the column after fees it said < $0.01

lol

[dgrochester55]

Originally Posted by Budler

For all you big time sellers. How large of an inventory do you think is manageable. I'm mainly thinking about COMC as there are sellers with well over 500K with a lot of prices out of line. I understand you can just price them and forget about them and see if they sell but is that really managing them?

I'm talking about a one-man operation. Maybe with a little part time help unpaid. (kids, wife, friend)

I have a little over 60,000 cards and spend about 10 hours a week on average buying online or managing inventory.

There is no way to keep up on every single card all of the time. My three ways to help manage the inventory so that cards are moving.

1) Pricing cards where you think they will sell. If I find a popular player for 10 cents and there are two cards at 15 and 20 cents, I may price it higher anyway at 25-50 cents if I think that will eventually sell.

2) Checking cards that require storage fees at the end of every month and moving them under $2.50 (I do the 50 a month) or lowering the prices to clear them out quicker

3) Looking through the first few pages of my oldest inventory and pricing cards lower to clear them.

Its a long game when you commit to listing and selling that many cards, but I see it as mostly a hobby and a little bit of a side income.

[boxbuster7]

I stopped caring a few years ago if something undersells

but with that said most big sellers probably error on the side of overpricing vs. underpricing

[Scottish Punk]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

I stopped caring a few years ago if something undersells

but with that said most big sellers probably error on the side of overpricing vs. underpricing

I think i am getting to that point. My inventory is just above 3000. It isn't much compared to others, but the biggest I have ever had it. I got more to send in at the new year. I have been getting more aggressive with pricing and sales to clear out cards. Would love to get it to under 1000 and with very minimal storage fees per month. My biggest issue is that I need to be more selective on what i sent in. I usually just send in all parallels. The market has shifted, some parallels are basically just base cards and don't cover the .50 insert fee.

[mc1]

Originally Posted by Budler

For all you big time sellers. How large of an inventory do you think is manageable. I'm mainly thinking about COMC as there are sellers with well over 500K with a lot of prices out of line. I understand you can just price them and forget about them and see if they sell but is that really managing them?

I dont have that big an in inventory but have enough that it makes it a small chore to manage. Last year I went through my full inventory a couple times and calculated the time it would take to go through 100 cards and adjust prices. Roughly, it was 9-10 minutes per 100 cards. That was just changing and adjusting prices without actually researching for comps on ebay/terapeak or other sites. So somebody with 10k cards would need 16-17 hours if they went through all their cards, at the pace I did.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by Budler

For all you big time sellers. How large of an inventory do you think is manageable. I'm mainly thinking about COMC as there are sellers with well over 500K with a lot of prices out of line. I understand you can just price them and forget about them and see if they sell but is that really managing them?

I'm talking about a one-man operation. Maybe with a little part time help unpaid. (kids, wife, friend)

COMC has a bulk pricing tool that allows a seller to reprice a bunch of stuff quickly. Someone with six figures of individual cards on there shouldn't have much issue if just making bulk adjustments. Forget about making individual edits. That's a pain even when having 5-10k cards on the site.

eBay would be far different since an individual also needs to pack up any sales on top of the added effort listing stuff.

[mjohnatgt]

Bulk repricing tool only for versions of windows that are 4+ years old. They need to rewrite the software.

[f2tornado]

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Bulk repricing tool only for versions of windows that are 4+ years old. They need to rewrite the software.

Forgot about that. My computer goes obsolete this spring when Windows stops updating the OS, at which time it will be a good paper weight from a security standpoint... but will have utility for the COMC bulk editor.

[Budler]

As of now I have just close to 2,000 cards on my watch list. I remove my watch list every year and rebuilt it. Out of the 2,000 cards approx. 6 sellers have 70% of them not always the lowest prices, but a lot of time the only card. I understand that as if you have over 400,000 cards the odds are you should have some of my cards. As of now there are only a hand full of cards under a dollar. As I check them out, I see a lot around that $2.75 Then at several other amounts. So it appears they are using the bulk pricing tool. A lot around the $5 mark. The big guy's price is $5 and others if there is any they are at $4.90. (which I understand why). Check the comps and they sold closer to $2.50. That is what I do not understand, and they let them set for years. Without what appears to be checking in on them.
I have seen only 2 or 3 regular members here that have cards for me. If you do not have your COMC link here I can not see if you have any cards that I need.

[boxbuster7]

Originally Posted by Budler

As of now I have just close to 2,000 cards on my watch list. I remove my watch list every year and rebuilt it. Out of the 2,000 cards approx. 6 sellers have 70% of them not always the lowest prices, but a lot of time the only card. I understand that as if you have over 400,000 cards the odds are you should have some of my cards. As of now there are only a hand full of cards under a dollar. As I check them out, I see a lot around that $2.75 Then at several other amounts. So it appears they are using the bulk pricing tool. A lot around the $5 mark. The big guy's price is $5 and others if there is any they are at $4.90. (which I understand why). Check the comps and they sold closer to $2.50. That is what I do not understand, and they let them set for years. Without what appears to be checking in on them.
I have seen only 2 or 3 regular members here that have cards for me. If you do not have your COMC link here I can not see if you have any cards that I need.

I mean this in the nicest way possible...you've been posting the EXACT same thing (weekly? monthly?) for the last 5 years. We get you don't think COMC sellers know how to price, but you're just beating a dead horse at this point.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by boxbuster7

I mean this in the nicest way possible...you've been posting the EXACT same thing (weekly? monthly?) for the last 5 years. We get you don't think COMC sellers know how to price, but you're just beating a dead horse at this point.

I'm no offended as you are 100% right. I have been complaining about prices of cards that I want for years. Like others I just get frustrated at times and let off some steam. You really do not know how many times I have wrote something about a lot of things here and then removed it before posting it, just to blow off steam. A lot of times I hit the post button then think I should have just removed it instead.

Prices of everything has gone way up and the hobby is changing since I started. So if I or anyone wants to stay in the game, we have to pay the (now) price. Which I have been doing (not happy with it).


There are a lot of sellers that have their cards priced fairly even some underpriced (IMO). When I find them and I need them. I jump on them.

[Gurds]

Currently on my 6th business day waiting for my cash out from my Cyber Monday sale (just over $1000)

Got my Black Friday week sales cash out to PayPal in 3 days and it was about $2500 more than I'm currently waiting on.

Good stuff COMC.

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[Dredd84]

I’m still waiting on a cash out from November 19th. The only answer I get from customer support is that their IT is looking into it. I’ve received two other cash outs from December before my November one. Very frustrating.


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