All I want to do is talk about COMC

[base set]

Well I don't know anything about the new firm involved. Perhaps, you get what you pay for and I will never see my 179 new baseball cards ever. But I rolled the dice that the cards would show up instead of handing over five more dollars of baseball card funny money and sticking with USPS, which has always worked just fine for me although I don't much care for 'Priority' rates these days either.

An extra week of delivery time in the slowest shipping time period of the year, anyway, seemed an OK trade-off for that 5 bucks. But I'm not nervously counting hours waiting on /10 Zion rookies to make a hot flip on eBay with, either, so your mileage may vary from mine.

I do think COMC has some strange practices of little benefit to anyone, even themselves, (still accepting a Puig card that already has 181 copies in the warehouse? smh) and I think allowing employee accounts is highly likely to eventually blow up in their face as the hobby moves ever deeper into condition obsessiveness (which ties into my next point). Ultimately having 3 businesses involved in every transaction - you, them, the ever easy-to-blame 'shipper' (no, the high-speed-scanner isn't the droid you are looking for, the 'shipper' did it) - is always going to lead to mysterious squabbles and unhappy 3rd parties.

But for my little slice of trading away $1 cards I don't want for the ones I do want, they are just fine.

[allstarcollect]

Originally Posted by base set

still accepting a Puig card that already has 181 copies in the warehouse? smh

Of all the things to complain about this is really silly. You seriously want them to reject and send back cards because some magical # of cards resides in their warehouse? Really? Really? If you the owner of your card thinks it is worth listing, then they list it. That's they way it should be. Whose to say Puig doesn't have a 6 HR game, and 181 cards get bought the next day, but your 182nd was sent back because they had too many in stock. smh at your complaint.

[base set]

I mean cards that are now ramping up to inventories in multiples of their actual four year sales (and probably really crazy multiples of their 3 year sales). Doesn’t really bother me if someone else wants to give them 30¢ for listing such a card and that wasn’t a complaint. Perhaps there is no way around it, though they do claim the right to reject my box of 89 Donruss. But it fascinates me. It is kind of like the way Google will keep a copy of your email from 9 years ago that said: “Yeah, see you tonight.” Forever and ever, amen.

Personally, I hope Avila busts out his grandmother’s legendary Christmas desert treat recipe and uses it this month to lure Puig to Detroit for a couple years. But I think Yasiel could be smarter than that.

[base set]

The Puig card I noticed, by the way, is a checklist card.

Here is another example from the same six year old set that I collect. Recently, 9 brand-new-to-site copies of a base common were listed, all from the same submitter. The player, a middle reliever, played his final game in 2015 and amassed a career WAR of exactly 0.0, which also fascinates me, but not enough to buy an extra copy of that card, of which I already have several. The four year sales of that card are coincidentally 9, but the three year sales would be precisely zero. There are three other copies for sale that have been sitting there for six years now, as can be seen by the item #.

COMC received $2.70 for this service. But in the long run, is the person who gave them that $2.70 really going to be a happy customer?

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Solved...

[tbc]

Originally Posted by base set

The Puig card I noticed, by the way, is a checklist card.

Here is another example from the same six year old set that I collect. Recently, 9 brand-new-to-site copies of a base common were listed, all from the same submitter. The player, a middle reliever, played his final game in 2015 and amassed a career WAR of exactly 0.0, which also fascinates me, but not enough to buy an extra copy of that card, of which I already have several. The four year sales of that card are coincidentally 9, but the three year sales would be precisely zero. There are three other copies for sale that have been sitting there for six years now, as can be seen by the item #.

COMC received $2.70 for this service. But in the long run, is the person who gave them that $2.70 really going to be a happy customer?

So, COMC should be providing advice to sellers regarding what product they should inventory/sell? Will COMC expand this to full financial assistance? In the future can I have them review my profit and loss statements, my balance sheets?

If the person sent in 9 cards, they are asking COMC to inventory those 9 cards. Why is it COMC's responsibility, or in their best interest, to limit the seller/owner on how many they should submit? And when they cut it off at say 3 copies - what do they do with the 6 left? Send them to the owner at owner's expense? Use COMC's own business profits to send the 6 to the owner when it's not COMC's fault the owner sent in 9?

This is a really bizarre thing to be upset about. Do you simply hate capitalism?

[base set]

You are not reading me well. I am not upset at all, just commenting. COMC already reserves and uses the right to reject items, including on straight potential sales concerns, and perhaps they do, more than I know. When you have declined items returned, you pay shipping; it is your risk to send them in. They probably have to balance use of that carefully.

[rdixon1208]

Originally Posted by allstarcollect

Of all the things to complain about this is really silly. You seriously want them to reject and send back cards because some magical # of cards resides in their warehouse? Really? Really? If you the owner of your card thinks it is worth listing, then they list it. That's they way it should be. Whose to say Puig doesn't have a 6 HR game, and 181 cards get bought the next day, but your 182nd was sent back because they had too many in stock. smh at your complaint.

Originally Posted by tbc

So, COMC should be providing advice to sellers regarding what product they should inventory/sell? Will COMC expand this to full financial assistance? In the future can I have them review my profit and loss statements, my balance sheets?

If the person sent in 9 cards, they are asking COMC to inventory those 9 cards. Why is it COMC's responsibility, or in their best interest, to limit the seller/owner on how many they should submit? And when they cut it off at say 3 copies - what do they do with the 6 left? Send them to the owner at owner's expense? Use COMC's own business profits to send the 6 to the owner when it's not COMC's fault the owner sent in 9?

This is a really bizarre thing to be upset about. Do you simply hate capitalism?

He said it was a strange business practice. Geesh. You guys are especially antagonistic today.

[JustMoe]

Originally Posted by rdixon1208

He said it was a strange business practice. Geesh. You guys are especially antagonistic today.

For the love of all that's holy, no one tell him about Zigmund Palffy's RC from the 91-92 UD set...

[sammyjankis]

The final cards of my 160 card basic submission just popped. Holy hell almost all of my cards were put into a condition bucket. There’s just no way.... Cards with bum corners that were sharp when I sent, I don’t believe for a second that they were damaged on shipment. These were PSA 9s at worst. Wtf is going on COMC. Absolutely the last time I send any cards to them.

[base set]

Originally Posted by JustMoe

For the love of all that's holy, no one tell him about Zigmund Palffy's RC from the 91-92 UD set...

don't worry, I just sometimes enjoy clicking on whatever random card appears on the Baseball/Recently Added page; sale techniques for baseball picture cards never fails to fascinate. And was just looking at a brand new 30¢ revenue for COMC, taking in a card from that very set, with an inventory:4 year sales ratio of 29:2. The figure '2' there was actually the random entertainment surprise. Good Luck, card # 72 million and change!

[sthoemke]

Originally Posted by sammyjankis

The final cards of my 160 card basic submission just popped. Holy hell almost all of my cards were put into a condition bucket. There’s just no way.... Cards with bum corners that were sharp when I sent, I don’t believe for a second that they were damaged on shipment. These were PSA 9s at worst. Wtf is going on COMC. Absolutely the last time I send any cards to them.

If the cards have the same corner that is damage, then it is likely they were damaged during shipping.

[JustMoe]

Originally Posted by sthoemke

If the cards have the same corner that is damage, then it is likely they were damaged during shipping.

Or they were damaged when they were removed from the box...

[tbc]

Originally Posted by JustMoe

Or they were damaged when they were removed from the box...

Moe, I understand that you used to work at/for COMC. Would you be willing to share your reason for no longer being there?

I do appreciate when you're able to provide some insight as to how the company works. It is nice to read when the company is not transparent at all.

[Bowman1951]

Originally Posted by sthoemke

If the cards have the same corner that is damage, then it is likely they were damaged during shipping.

That's my biggest issue with the new EX-NM bucket. I don't think even some sellers understand and often overprice their cards when they end up there. COMC should absolutely still be required to put condition notes on the cards that go in here. But this poor seller may never know what's wrong with the hundreds of cards that ended up in the new "revenue stream bucket" for COMC, because they are skipping the key component step as to why they end up there in the first place.

[Bowman1951]

COMC James,

Why do only two out of the six cards in this EX-NM bucket have condition notes on them?

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Baseball/...ded/COMC/EX-NM

Why are some sellers left to simply guess why their cards ended up in the lesser area and others aren't? What happened to uniform consistency?

[sammyjankis]

Originally Posted by JustMoe

Or they were damaged when they were removed from the box...

Has to be this. All cards from multiple different sets - 2019 topps gold, 2019 topps Walgreens yellow, etc. - were bucketed together some with the same corner damage. I purposely put cards from the same set at opposite ends of the box though. So either my entire double boxed and very well protected order had 1 corner damaged, or the cards were sorted and then damaged.

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[3124508 on COMC]

Looks good to me!

[cking]

Originally Posted by sammyjankis

Has to be this. All cards from multiple different sets - 2019 topps gold, 2019 topps Walgreens yellow, etc. - were bucketed together some with the same corner damage. I purposely put cards from the same set at opposite ends of the box though. So either my entire double boxed and very well protected order had 1 corner damaged, or the cards were sorted and then damaged.

Did you get charged .30 for each card or does it go up to .60 if it goes in a condition bucket?

[ClipsandVols]

Originally Posted by 3124508 on COMC

Looks good to me!

Woof!

[Saraste]

Originally Posted by 3124508 on COMC

Looks good to me!

That bottom edge cut.

[RandysHobby]

Can anyone use these? I have a submission popping tomorrow and would LOVE if I can avoid adding PayPal funds...

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Basketbal.../Graded/PSA/10

THANKS!

[3124508 on COMC]

Originally Posted by RandysHobby

Can anyone use these? I have a submission popping tomorrow and would LOVE if I can avoid adding PayPal funds...

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Basketbal.../Graded/PSA/10

THANKS!

At least you aren’t sitting on this one. It’s almost as bad as that Jeter. COMCs graded card inventory is a train wreck.

[3124508 on COMC]

Originally Posted by RandysHobby

Can anyone use these? I have a submission popping tomorrow and would LOVE if I can avoid adding PayPal funds...

https://www.comc.com/Cards/Basketbal.../Graded/PSA/10

THANKS!

But while we're at it, it looks like of your copies, the only one that isn't from OCSI is 40857273, so I would advise against purchasing 28889968, 41109723, and 41295225 too.