All I want to do is talk about COMC

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by Crosby 87

All auction items will now start at 9.99

No they won't.

Originally Posted by rentz

i saw that seems crazy, i assume to stop the low dollar auction items.
i see people send to auction cards that should be $1-2

I wasnt sure if it meant direct to cash is 9.99 or all

What rentz said...

All direct to cash/PayPal auctions have a $9.99 starting bid. All COMC store credit auctions have a $0.99 starting bid.



What did change is the minimum charge, which should stop a lot of the $1 cards being sent to auction. Basically, with a $0.99 minimum, you'd be giving those cards away. Anything below $24.75~ and you lose, compared to the old 5%, no minimum auctions.

[rentz]

I checked the 9.99 starting price is only for Direct Cash

[Crosby 87]

Originally Posted by rentz

I checked the 9.99 starting price is only for Direct Cash

Little confusing for sure

[Rabs]

Just more reason to sell low end on eBay via ESE now.

I know it's not nearly as convenient as COMC but I agree with the price hikes it just isn't worth it for the $1-3 cards now.

[Sonnys88]

Originally Posted by notoriousrmb

I completely agree with your sentiment, but I've sold several of those Notre Dame cards in the last week...so those fans are still out there!

I think the bigger problem is that COMC wants to be a bigger player in the hobby, they are getting way too many junk subs to be able to keep up. As much as we say no one wants to see the e-cards, there are way too many 50 cent commons out there as well that are probably sitting in warehouses turning the site into Check Out My Crap.

They seem to be pushing live auctions, slabs, and higher dollar sales as opposed to what made them successful in the beginning - a way to share and sell the sub-five dollar stuff.

Agree that the amount of complete junk submissions that are being sent in is probably one of the biggest factors for the fee changes. And also, the amount of complete junk being sent to auction.

Thousands of cards are added every day that will never sell at any price. Those cards make processing times longer, take up space physically, and take up space on the site visually. And make no additional income for COMC as they never sell.

And thousands of cards are being sent to auction every month that either do not get a bid at 99-cents or only sell for 99-cents. Those make COMC little to no money (or probably actually make COMC lose money) and take up processing / handling time.

But, the thing is even with the higher submission fees, there will still be an endless line of people sending in cards that will never sell and sending low-dollar cards to auction. Based on the amount of people that sent in large groups of penny common cards to be processed at 50-cents per card and the amount of people sending very low-dollar cards to auction, I don't think the higher fees are going to stop them from doing the same and throwing their money away.

[byronscott4ever]

I submit rarely, but had a chance to drop at a show so I took advantage. Last minute, I also decided to submit most now instead of splitting into multiple submissions. Thank goodness!

[Comicmankev]

Originally Posted by orion9578

No they won't.



What rentz said...

All direct to cash/PayPal auctions have a $9.99 starting bid. All COMC store credit auctions have a $0.99 starting bid.



What did change is the minimum charge, which should stop a lot of the $1 cards being sent to auction. Basically, with a $0.99 minimum, you'd be giving those cards away. Anything below $24.75~ and you lose, compared to the old 5%, no minimum auctions.

Wasn’t it 0.99 to submit to auction before, now that’s not charged but is charged in fees, so no major difference? I’m so confused lol

[scotthenrichs]

Originally Posted by Comicmankev

Wasn’t it 0.99 to submit to auction before, now that’s not charged but is charged in fees, so no major difference? I’m so confused lol

That's how I'm reading it. Before you paid $0.99 to list an auction, plus 5% of the ending value in fees.

Now you pay $0.00 to list an auction, and pay 4% of the ending fees with a minimum of $0.99.

So how I read it, there will be even more junk hitting auctions, because now a $2 auction sale will cost 99 cents instead of $1.09! Basically, anything that sells for under $25 will cost 99 cents now, instead of 99 cents to list plus 5% of the sale.

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by Comicmankev

Wasn’t it 0.99 to submit to auction before, now that’s not charged but is charged in fees, so no major difference? I’m so confused lol

Only to try and confuse you more... Maybe

If the card had an Elite scan, it cost $0.00 to send it to auction before the change. With that said, it cost $2.00 to get an Elite scan for a card purchased on site and/or cards mailed in at the Elite level. While MOST people don't send in $1 cards at the Elite level and MOST people don't send cards on site to get an Elite scan...it does happen. There are a few guys I can think of right off the top of my head who send every single card to/through Elite.

But yes, I'd say you're close to right. You aren't spending $0.99 to send a cheap card to auction anymore, but you are paying $0.99 up to $24.75~.

I guess it needs to be said that this is probably a good deal for anyone sending stuff above that $24.75~ price range. Instead of paying $5.00 per $100, you're only paying $4.00 per $100 and saving the $0.99 auction fee.

[PNWcards]

Originally Posted by scotthenrichs

That's how I'm reading it. Before you paid $0.99 to list an auction, plus 5% of the ending value in fees.

Now you pay $0.00 to list an auction, and pay 4% of the ending fees with a minimum of $0.99.

So how I read it, there will be even more junk hitting auctions, because now a $2 auction sale will cost 99 cents instead of $1.09! Basically, anything that sells for under $25 will cost 99 cents now, instead of 99 cents to list plus 5% of the sale.

This is correct. It’s actually a better option now in any scenario than it was before.

[PNWcards]

Has anyone sent anything to the Cash via PayPal auction yet? Does it make you do anything regarding their statement, “• Must configure PayPal Cash-Out under the website My Dashboard > Seller Menu > Cash-Out Store Credit > Request a PayPal Deposit”?

[orion9578]

Originally Posted by scotthenrichs

That's how I'm reading it. Before you paid $0.99 to list an auction, plus 5% of the ending value in fees.

Now you pay $0.00 to list an auction, and pay 4% of the ending fees with a minimum of $0.99.

So how I read it, there will be even more junk hitting auctions, because now a $2 auction sale will cost 99 cents instead of $1.09! Basically, anything that sells for under $25 will cost 99 cents now, instead of 99 cents to list plus 5% of the sale.

Anddddd this is correct. I sat, overthought it, and left out the 5%, when I'm sitting here...trying to figure out how COMC is going to get more $$$

In any scenario, this new setup is indeed a better deal. $0.99 cards all the way up. $24 dollar sale on the old system would net you $21.81(assuming you didn't buy the card with an Elite scan, then you'd net $22.80) and the new system would net you $23.04, no matter how you bought it(scanned/not scanned).

[aguinness]

Originally Posted by notoriousrmb

I completely agree with your sentiment, but I've sold several of those Notre Dame cards in the last week...so those fans are still out there!

I think the bigger problem is that COMC wants to be a bigger player in the hobby, they are getting way too many junk subs to be able to keep up. As much as we say no one wants to see the e-cards, there are way too many 50 cent commons out there as well that are probably sitting in warehouses turning the site into Check Out My Crap.

They seem to be pushing live auctions, slabs, and higher dollar sales as opposed to what made them successful in the beginning - a way to share and sell the sub-five dollar stuff.

I started my COMC account in 2011, and COMC was already a presence in the hobby. Back then, sure - the site was a way to share and sell cheaper stuff, but that is because it reflected what the hobby was at that time.
Today, the hobby is so much different, it's evolved in countless ways and while there still are set collectors and those who want to share and sell the cheaper stuff, that is no longer a business model for sustaining growth. I'm glad COMC has continued to evolve with the hobby - back when I started was before sellers could even opt-in to Amazon sales. There has been a TON of positive developments with COMC that have progressed along with the hobby and helped progress the hobby over the years.
And in the broader sense, businesses that don't continue to evolve to the market don't last. Blockbuster, for instance.

That said, COMC has its faults, just like any selling platform. The communication from COMC has been consistently bad, to be nice, with only an exception every now and then. I just find it completely confusing when anyone who has utilized COMC for more than a year bothers to complain about their communication. At this point, the lack of communication from COMC should surprise nobody, and expectations should be set to the lowest point possible.

[CicadaMound]

Cracking down on low-end, bleargh.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by aguinness

I started my COMC account in 2011, and COMC was already a presence in the hobby. Back then, sure - the site was a way to share and sell cheaper stuff, but that is because it reflected what the hobby was at that time.
Today, the hobby is so much different, it's evolved in countless ways and while there still are set collectors and those who want to share and sell the cheaper stuff, that is no longer a business model for sustaining growth. I'm glad COMC has continued to evolve with the hobby - back when I started was before sellers could even opt-in to Amazon sales. There has been a TON of positive developments with COMC that have progressed along with the hobby and helped progress the hobby over the years.
And in the broader sense, businesses that don't continue to evolve to the market don't last. Blockbuster, for instance.

That said, COMC has its faults, just like any selling platform. The communication from COMC has been consistently bad, to be nice, with only an exception every now and then. I just find it completely confusing when anyone who has utilized COMC for more than a year bothers to complain about their communication. At this point, the lack of communication from COMC should surprise nobody, and expectations should be set to the lowest point possible.

Back in 2010 and 2011 you could e-mail Tim and he would answer your e-mail.
Tim stated to me (back then) what and how he wanted his company to be in the future. It was not being another E-Bay or a store front for a few big sellers. He wanted to be for the little guys. I give him a list of things I seen that could be coming down the road and his replay was no way those would happen. Now we see he has learned what it takes to keep his company going forwards. Times changes and you have too also or go under. Even if you do not like it.

But again, there are a lot of collectors that still are doing it the old school way. Not everyone is into that is going on today. When I started collecting all the people that I collected with are no longer collecting. The hobby went a way they were not willing to go along with. Most are not willing to spend $1.25 or so for a common.

The same thing goes for most of the trading sites I have joined (over 30). Now they are gone or just a few core members or have gone to mainly one thing. (one sport or only high dollar stuff.)

[notoriousrmb]

Watch your new adds closely, had 30 cards added last night from a submission received back in July where they charged me the new rate of 65 cents each per card.

[scotthenrichs]

When do you think this $10 store credit will hit for submitting 500+ cards at the National? When they finish listing the sub in December?

https://blog.comc.com/2025/06/27/com...y-30-august-3/

[aguinness]

Originally Posted by Budler

Back in 2010 and 2011 you could e-mail Tim and he would answer your e-mail.
Tim stated to me (back then) what and how he wanted his company to be in the future. It was not being another E-Bay or a store front for a few big sellers. He wanted to be for the little guys. I give him a list of things I seen that could be coming down the road and his replay was no way those would happen. Now we see he has learned what it takes to keep his company going forwards. Times changes and you have too also or go under. Even if you do not like it.

But again, there are a lot of collectors that still are doing it the old school way. Not everyone is into that is going on today. When I started collecting all the people that I collected with are no longer collecting. The hobby went a way they were not willing to go along with. Most are not willing to spend $1.25 or so for a common.

The same thing goes for most of the trading sites I have joined (over 30). Now they are gone or just a few core members or have gone to mainly one thing. (one sport or only high dollar stuff.)

I think there are more people now in the hobby than ever before, and more ways to collect than ever before. And for those who want to do base commons, those can be had for pennies, perhaps even for free at stores or from breaks that would otherwise trash them.
COMC may not be the place to go for those base collectors any more, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t real opportunities for them to enjoy the hobby, nor does it mean that COMC is worse off for it. I would prefer to not have a deluge of junk on COMC, both BIN and on auction, and I think the platform will be a better place with a focus on $3 and up (roughly).

[byronscott4ever]

Originally Posted by notoriousrmb

Watch your new adds closely, had 30 cards added last night from a submission received back in July where they charged me the new rate of 65 cents each per card.

Are they supposed to charge based on submission date or processing date?

[mjohnatgt]

Originally Posted by byronscott4ever

Are they supposed to charge based on submission date or processing date?

Submission date.

[Budler]

Originally Posted by aguinness

I think there are more people now in the hobby than ever before, and more ways to collect than ever before. And for those who want to do base commons, those can be had for pennies, perhaps even for free at stores or from breaks that would otherwise trash them.
COMC may not be the place to go for those base collectors any more, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t real opportunities for them to enjoy the hobby, nor does it mean that COMC is worse off for it. I would prefer to not have a deluge of junk on COMC, both BIN and on auction, and I think the platform will be a better place with a focus on $3 and up (roughly).

Disclaimer: It is all about what YOU collect and where you live.

I kind of disagree with you as it appears to me. I live in Longmont CO. in the 80s/90s we had up to 27 card shops (only cards), almost even weekend there as a show, not count several trading club meetings per month. Just in a town of 55,000. Now at 100,000 and counting we have no real card shop (the one has a few hundred cards with the cheapest being $15), been years for the last show in town. Back then half the people you talked to was doing a little collecting but now days it is hard to find someone collecting and when you do, they are into it for the money and only the higher priced stuff. To me not real collectors.

Yes, there are a lot more ways to collect now days for some. It is way too many ways and hard to figure out which way to go. Appears set building has gone away.

Closest shops are around 50 miles, and they are only having higher valued cards or do not display their cheap cards. They will not even let me go through their boxes of commons. Shows now days are too far to drive knowing I will not find a card I need and at a price I will pay.

I have purchased 1,000s of cards from COMC. Collectors like me are the ones who helped Tim grow his company into what it is today. You should be thankful to us small and cheap collectors. I know it would happen and understand why. 3 years ago, one of their CS personal told me Tim really want to get rid of all cards valued under $5. Right now, the .50 processing and another .50 plus for shipping means a lot of cards will not sell and will set there for a long time.

So much for my rant and raving.

[aguinness]

Originally Posted by Budler

Disclaimer: It is all about what YOU collect and where you live.

I kind of disagree with you as it appears to me. I live in Longmont CO. in the 80s/90s we had up to 27 card shops (only cards), almost even weekend there as a show, not count several trading club meetings per month. Just in a town of 55,000. Now at 100,000 and counting we have no real card shop (the one has a few hundred cards with the cheapest being $15), been years for the last show in town. Back then half the people you talked to was doing a little collecting but now days it is hard to find someone collecting and when you do, they are into it for the money and only the higher priced stuff. To me not real collectors.

Yes, there are a lot more ways to collect now days for some. It is way too many ways and hard to figure out which way to go. Appears set building has gone away.

Closest shops are around 50 miles, and they are only having higher valued cards or do not display their cheap cards. They will not even let me go through their boxes of commons. Shows now days are too far to drive knowing I will not find a card I need and at a price I will pay.

I have purchased 1,000s of cards from COMC. Collectors like me are the ones who helped Tim grow his company into what it is today. You should be thankful to us small and cheap collectors. I know it would happen and understand why. 3 years ago, one of their CS personal told me Tim really want to get rid of all cards valued under $5. Right now, the .50 processing and another .50 plus for shipping means a lot of cards will not sell and will set there for a long time.

So much for my rant and raving.

I was collecting at the same time in Vermont. And there may be fewer brick and mortar shops today than there were then. There weren't too many then, but I did have a handful to go to.
But comparing card shops between now and then is like comparing apples to catalytic converters. It's not just the hobby - the world has changed so many times over, and if that's the one metric to measure the hobby, it's not a great choice. And today, it's not just about other options, but it's probably tougher to have a brick and mortar store to sell anything.
Back then, I had card shops, the occasional card show and my friends to trade with in order to find cards I wanted. I had Beckett magazines to look forward to, but had no clue about other periodicals that offered cards. Not that I had the money to send off, anyway. Card collecting was almost exclusively a localized hobby.
Today, we have scores of virtual card shops either on our phone or laptop, 24 hours a day. Not to mention so many more big auction houses, card shows both small and large, chat boards and social media to make deals, and so on and so on. The access to cards has never been better, and more people are utilizing that access than ever before. I can't see any plausible deniability to contradict this.
I was thinking about this just to other day - back in the 1980s and 90s, if I wanted a Carl Yastrzemski 1968 Topps card, if my friends didn't have one and the shops didn't have one, I had to wait. Today, if I want the same card, I can have hundreds of examples available within minutes, at just about any grade level, and then probably have one in had in a couple days.
And there's still plenty of room for small collectors, there always will be as long as Topps and card companies churn out base cards at the rates they are. The vast majority of cards in existence likely have MVs at or below $3.
It's a shame any store or seller would preclude a potential buyer from going through any box. Just bad business - but again, the hobby probably has more bad actors than ever before and more bad/awful business folks, too. I don't let those bad actors spoil the hobby for me, though, and I hope others won't either.
I don't blame Tim at all, if that is his stance (and I'll take it with a big grain of salt as it is like the game of telephone). He has a business to run and has to make tough decisions that will determine its viability.
One more thought... years ago on this board (perhaps in this thread), a lot of people levied complaints about COMC and even suggested that it wouldn't take much to start a competitor and put COMC out of business. That never happened, obviously, and that's in part because it's not that easy. But if COMC is getting out of the $5 and under game, perhaps there is an opportunity for someone to step in and meet that demand. My guess is that won't happen, mostly due to the amount of work it would take to start that business, but also because there are already so many other outlets for those low value cards.

[elektrokuter]

This is me assuming they arent getting rid of Fresh Pulls with all the changes- so question:
Can we assume items not listed on their site here apply to Fresh Pulls? https://blog.comc.com/comc-fresh-pul...-release-list/
This is updated pretty recently but missing wwe finest and disney chrome. Be weird of they took in spongebob but not disney but who knows

[boxbuster7]

I would say out of all the terrible companies at the top of the industry COMC might have had the worst 2025 out of any of them

[aguinness]

To nobody specifically -
If there's a part of the hobby that doesn't jibe with you, if there's a seller or platform that you find awful, then just leave it and find a part that is good for you. There are plenty of sellers and even platforms that I don't use at all for various reasons.
I wish everyone the most enjoyment possible in this hobby, as collecting cards can be so much fun, in an infinite amount of ways.
And if you're not enjoying part of it, the best statement is just to move on elsewhere instead of yelling at the clouds.