All I want to do is talk about COMC - Page 632

KhalDrogo · 04-03-2021, 03:30 PM

If COMC didn’t absolutely have to, they wouldn’t charge upfront for shipping costs they will not incur until months down the road when they actually ship. They can prove me wrong by ceasing their practice of charging users upfront.

KhalDrogo · 04-03-2021, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by boxbuster7

They just opened up a new shipping facility. To many members dismay, COMC is not going anywhere

Poorly run businesses make bad business decisions.

Dragonman · 04-03-2021, 03:47 PM

Yet you love the dirtiest, most crooked, unscrupulous company of them all............PSA

KhalDrogo · 04-03-2021, 03:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Dragonman

Yet you love the dirtiest, most crooked, unscrupulous company of them all............PSA

Original deflection. Never heard that one before.

If PSA charged me upfront to use their services, and took months to fulfill their services, I wouldn’t use them either.

KhalDrogo · 04-03-2021, 03:56 PM

By the way, now up to 5.3% neutral or negative feedback in the last 30 days. It was 3.5% just 10 days ago. It’s only going to get worse. People are leaving feedback from orders at the beginning of March. Just wait until the people ordering now who don’t get their items for 4+ weeks start leaving feedback.

Dragonman · 04-03-2021, 04:01 PM

So you do not do business with Comc which is fine and totally understandable, Yet you are consumed by their success or failure.........When I fly I do not fly United Airlines hence I couldn't care less about their successes or failures.

boxbuster7 · 04-03-2021, 04:01 PM

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Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

Poorly run businesses make bad business decisions.

COMC has been poorly run recently - I 100% agree on that

But there is not a single piece of evidence presented that shows they have cash flow problems. So it is hearsay until then.

And the "400 daily auctions" cash flow claim isn't accurate. Those 400 auctions are like maybe 5% of the business they do.

The truth is nobody knows what is actually going on. I'm not ringing any alarm as cash outs have been paid out actually quicker than they promise recently.

mredsox89 · 04-03-2021, 04:25 PM

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Originally Posted by mc1

Checks been taking less than a month now.

Thats ok.

I just requested a check. Hopefully it's less than a month. Can't remember how long my last one took

Smarti5051 · 04-03-2021, 04:26 PM

I can certainly understand the frustration about shipping delays. I also understand, though do not necessarily agree with, the questioning of COMC's management practices based on the perceived response to the shipping problem. What I really don't understand though, is the level of hate for the company in general? Is waiting 3-4 months (or heaven forbid - 6 months) for cards really enough to wish the death of a company that has the potential to provide substantial value to collectors? For 50 cents a card, one can liquidate 100's (if not thousands) of cards at market value that would otherwise be gathering dust in a closet for the next 20 years. You can also find just about any card in any genre, typically at prices lower than Ebay, all while getting pictures that are better than the average ebay seller and virtually zero risk that the seller is trying to scam you in the process. Even better, you can pick up a card you want at a good price, put a "make me sell" price on it, and if it sells have even more money to get another card you want for your personal collection. Why is any of this bad for collectors? What other companies offer a similar avenue to liquidate unwanted low value cards with little to no work and/or trade up a personal collection?

Are any of the ones complaining about COMC old enough to remember the days where the market value of a card was $20, but the only way to sell the card was to go your local card store where you would get offered $3 (f you were lucky)? And anything with a Beckett value of less than $10 elicited a "sorry kid, I don't need any of those" response, and the cards then went to the back of the closet to be forgotten for 30 years.

decoycards · 04-03-2021, 04:48 PM

SHIPPING UPDATE

11/14/2020 - Shipment Ordered/Paid - 113 Cards - Economy - some ePack
01/14/2021 - Status Update - "Packaging Phase"
02/18/2021 - Target Ship Date
Current Status - Not Shipped (47 days late)

03/12/2021 - Shipment Ordered/Paid - 7 Cards - Economy Rushed - no epack
03/15/2021 - Status Update - "Packaging Phase"
04/05/2021 - Target Ship Date
Current Status - SHIPPED 4/3/2021 (2 days earlier than target)

03/17/2021 - eBay Shipment Ordered/Paid - 4 Cards - eBay Rushed* (standard $4.99)
03/19/2021 - Status Update - "Packaging Phase"
03/24/2021 - Target Ship Date
Current Status - Not shipped (13 days late)

So, the Economy Rushed order wins the race! One thing to mention is that the order that shipped has 6 cards from 1 Set & 1 card from a random set, so who knows, maybe another piece of the shipping delay puzzle is that if you have most cards from the same exact set, might be easier to fulfill, which doesn't excuse the delays, but could explain some of the randomness of which orders are getting shipped and which are not.

checkoutmydeals · 04-03-2021, 05:13 PM

Anyone know how long COMC gives an auction winner to pay before they file NPB? Also, if that happens does COMC repair the card or does it go back into your inventory?

I haven't experienced this specific iteration. However, when COMC first started doing auctions, I sent a bunch of comic books, not realizing that they don't do comic books and apparently aren't intending to do comic books any time soon.

Recently, I was poking around my "Not For Sale" items, and discovered the comics were there, with new COMC ID numbers. So, it's possible that unsold auction items eventually make it back into the queue for another auction, and it's possible they get unceremoniously added to your unsold items section.

These didn't show up in the "needing attention" yellow banner thing that says you have items you need to price. So, you might periodically check your unsold items section and see if anything got added by COMC which you didn't realize was there.

mjohnatgt · 04-03-2021, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by KhalDrogo

If COMC didn’t absolutely have to, they wouldn’t charge upfront for shipping costs they will not incur until months down the road when they actually ship. They can prove me wrong by ceasing their practice of charging users upfront.

Feel free to make your complaints heard tonight during the interview. But stop making up stuff that you have no proof of, and stating it as fact. They have charged up front for shipments as long as I've been on site, 2014. That was probably the same policy from the beginning.
Is COMC drowning in their "success"? Yes. Does it mean they're running out of cash? Not by a long shot.

mjohnatgt · 04-03-2021, 05:22 PM

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Originally Posted by GoSportsball

Anyone know how long COMC gives an auction winner to pay before they file NPB? Also, if that happens does COMC repair the card or does it go back into your inventory?

Normally it takes a few weeks to go back in the eBay auction queue. But that also seems backed up, and it may take over a month. They are supposed to relist it twice more, and if it doesn't sell after three times on eBay auction, they put it back in your account. But yes, sometimes you have to email them at auctions@comc.com in order to get it unstuck from various points in the process.

checkoutmydeals · 04-03-2021, 05:55 PM

Since COMC leaves eBay feedback for all of its paying customers, their "Feedback Left" page is probably the best indicator of the number of items they've sold.

At last check, they had 634 pages of feedback left, at 200 per page, in the past month. So this is approximately 126,800 items sold.

If they were to sell 400 items per day at auction, with 100% sell-thru and 100% paying customers, this would be 12,000 items per 30 days. So, for every eBay auction item which is sold, they sell approximately 9 or 10 other eBay items. My personal experience has been that for every eBay item I sell on COMC, I sell about 4 or 5 items to a non-eBay buyer.

In addition, there are many ePack cards which are never offered for sale. The owner has them transferred to their COMC account and shipped directly to them. This is probably the majority of ePack cards. Certainly, it is the vast majority of ePack chase cards.

It seems likely that under ordinary circumstances, COMC processes, packs and ships tens of thousands of cards per day, and has for many years.

gosanostra · 04-03-2021, 06:36 PM

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Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

COMC responded back to a message from me a few months ago, and confirmed that "Reprice as Elite" is different than "Reprocess as Elite." If you reprice as Elite, they just charge you $2 and did't plan to go back and rescan the item or review it again. I highly recommended that they do this, since their website claims that all Elite items *deserve* high res scans.
Tim Getsch was scheduled to be on Sports Card Live's youtube channel tonight for an interview. Not sure if it's still a go or not.

now thats a scam

gosanostra · 04-03-2021, 06:38 PM

have you guys seen this? Its from a UD emloyee about comc, posted on a Marvel cards group

xbignick · 04-03-2021, 08:46 PM

Anyone have any luck getting them to cancel sending items to auction? Sent cards 2/25/21 that said they'd hit auction the following week, well over a month now.

imwonderboy · 04-03-2021, 09:35 PM

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Originally Posted by xbignick

Anyone have any luck getting them to cancel sending items to auction? Sent cards 2/25/21 that said they'd hit auction the following week, well over a month now.

I've emailed them several times trying to cancel 3 cards I submitted for auction on 3/3. They are all still listed as 'in progress'.

At this point I just assume get them back in my empty port and sell them off so I can be done already.

No response from them so far...

ForceChange77 · 04-03-2021, 09:35 PM

You guys need to listen to the YouTube live qa
They just admitted a bunch of January and February orders were messed up jumbled and the cards were all scattered. Wow holy crap.

JustinVerlander07 · 04-03-2021, 09:44 PM

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Originally Posted by ForceChange77

You guys need to listen to the YouTube live qa
They just admitted a bunch of January and February orders were messed up jumbled and the cards were all scattered. Wow holy crap.

Yea......yikes (I'm also listening)

ForceChange77 · 04-03-2021, 09:47 PM

25000 backlogged rushed shipments
Major duck up in January and February 2021 on shipment s

GoSportsball · 04-03-2021, 09:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mjohnatgt

Normally it takes a few weeks to go back in the eBay auction queue. But that also seems backed up, and it may take over a month. They are supposed to relist it twice more, and if it doesn't sell after three times on eBay auction, they put it back in your account. But yes, sometimes you have to email them at auctions@comc.com in order to get it unstuck from various points in the process.

Great info. Thank you.

JustinVerlander07 · 04-03-2021, 09:51 PM

Tim admitted they were paying 30 cents per toploader lately. Yet they are now just offering 10 cents in store credit. LMAO

yoyosh · 04-03-2021, 10:04 PM

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Originally Posted by xbignick

Anyone have any luck getting them to cancel sending items to auction? Sent cards 2/25/21 that said they'd hit auction the following week, well over a month now.

Nope.
They actually replied to an email to me stating they were working on it when I requested an item NOT run at auction. Never showed up in my inventory, never showed as a link from my profile. Auction ran, and no further response from COMC

JustinVerlander07 · 04-03-2021, 10:10 PM

Sounds like a big time price hike in processing is coming. Buckle up!

04-03-2021, 03:30 PM	#15776
KhalDrogo Member Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 41,077	If COMC didn’t absolutely have to, they wouldn’t charge upfront for shipping costs they will not incur until months down the road when they actually ship. They can prove me wrong by ceasing their practice of charging users upfront. __________________ I love PSA!

04-03-2021, 03:56 PM	#15780
KhalDrogo Member Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 41,077	By the way, now up to 5.3% neutral or negative feedback in the last 30 days. It was 3.5% just 10 days ago. It’s only going to get worse. People are leaving feedback from orders at the beginning of March. Just wait until the people ordering now who don’t get their items for 4+ weeks start leaving feedback. __________________ I love PSA!

04-03-2021, 04:48 PM	#15785
decoycards Member Join Date: Mar 2021 Posts: 24	SHIPPING UPDATE 11/14/2020 - Shipment Ordered/Paid - 113 Cards - Economy - some ePack 01/14/2021 - Status Update - "Packaging Phase" 02/18/2021 - Target Ship Date Current Status - Not Shipped (47 days late) 03/12/2021 - Shipment Ordered/Paid - 7 Cards - Economy Rushed - no epack 03/15/2021 - Status Update - "Packaging Phase" 04/05/2021 - Target Ship Date Current Status - SHIPPED 4/3/2021 (2 days earlier than target) 03/17/2021 - eBay Shipment Ordered/Paid - 4 Cards - eBay Rushed* (standard $4.99) 03/19/2021 - Status Update - "Packaging Phase" 03/24/2021 - Target Ship Date Current Status - Not shipped (13 days late) So, the Economy Rushed order wins the race! One thing to mention is that the order that shipped has 6 cards from 1 Set & 1 card from a random set, so who knows, maybe another piece of the shipping delay puzzle is that if you have most cards from the same exact set, might be easier to fulfill, which doesn't excuse the delays, but could explain some of the randomness of which orders are getting shipped and which are not. __________________ IG: @DecoyCards ISO: Drew Doughty FWA, Carl Grundstrom FWAP, Carl Grundstrom YG High Gloss

04-03-2021, 08:46 PM	#15792
xbignick Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: New Jersey Posts: 29,304 xxbignick	Anyone have any luck getting them to cancel sending items to auction? Sent cards 2/25/21 that said they'd hit auction the following week, well over a month now. __________________ @xxbignick on twitter

04-03-2021, 09:47 PM	#15796
ForceChange77 Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 3,619 chansterbogey	25000 backlogged rushed shipments Major duck up in January and February 2021 on shipment s Last edited by ForceChange77; 04-03-2021 at 10:05 PM.

04-03-2021, 03:47 PM	#15778
Dragonman Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Pittsburgh,Pa. Posts: 957	Yet you love the dirtiest, most crooked, unscrupulous company of them all............PSA

04-03-2021, 04:01 PM	#15781
Dragonman Member Join Date: Dec 2011 Location: Pittsburgh,Pa. Posts: 957	So you do not do business with Comc which is fine and totally understandable, Yet you are consumed by their success or failure.........When I fly I do not fly United Airlines hence I couldn't care less about their successes or failures.

04-03-2021, 04:26 PM	#15784
Smarti5051 Member Join Date: Jan 2021 Posts: 294 stonecali Smarti5051	I can certainly understand the frustration about shipping delays. I also understand, though do not necessarily agree with, the questioning of COMC's management practices based on the perceived response to the shipping problem. What I really don't understand though, is the level of hate for the company in general? Is waiting 3-4 months (or heaven forbid - 6 months) for cards really enough to wish the death of a company that has the potential to provide substantial value to collectors? For 50 cents a card, one can liquidate 100's (if not thousands) of cards at market value that would otherwise be gathering dust in a closet for the next 20 years. You can also find just about any card in any genre, typically at prices lower than Ebay, all while getting pictures that are better than the average ebay seller and virtually zero risk that the seller is trying to scam you in the process. Even better, you can pick up a card you want at a good price, put a "make me sell" price on it, and if it sells have even more money to get another card you want for your personal collection. Why is any of this bad for collectors? What other companies offer a similar avenue to liquidate unwanted low value cards with little to no work and/or trade up a personal collection? Are any of the ones complaining about COMC old enough to remember the days where the market value of a card was $20, but the only way to sell the card was to go your local card store where you would get offered $3 (f you were lucky)? And anything with a Beckett value of less than $10 elicited a "sorry kid, I don't need any of those" response, and the cards then went to the back of the closet to be forgotten for 30 years.

04-03-2021, 05:13 PM	#15786
checkoutmydeals Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 3,030 king-collect checkoutmydeals	Anyone know how long COMC gives an auction winner to pay before they file NPB? Also, if that happens does COMC repair the card or does it go back into your inventory? I haven't experienced this specific iteration. However, when COMC first started doing auctions, I sent a bunch of comic books, not realizing that they don't do comic books and apparently aren't intending to do comic books any time soon. Recently, I was poking around my "Not For Sale" items, and discovered the comics were there, with new COMC ID numbers. So, it's possible that unsold auction items eventually make it back into the queue for another auction, and it's possible they get unceremoniously added to your unsold items section. These didn't show up in the "needing attention" yellow banner thing that says you have items you need to price. So, you might periodically check your unsold items section and see if anything got added by COMC which you didn't realize was there.

04-03-2021, 05:55 PM	#15789
checkoutmydeals Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: USA Posts: 3,030 king-collect checkoutmydeals	Since COMC leaves eBay feedback for all of its paying customers, their "Feedback Left" page is probably the best indicator of the number of items they've sold. At last check, they had 634 pages of feedback left, at 200 per page, in the past month. So this is approximately 126,800 items sold. If they were to sell 400 items per day at auction, with 100% sell-thru and 100% paying customers, this would be 12,000 items per 30 days. So, for every eBay auction item which is sold, they sell approximately 9 or 10 other eBay items. My personal experience has been that for every eBay item I sell on COMC, I sell about 4 or 5 items to a non-eBay buyer. In addition, there are many ePack cards which are never offered for sale. The owner has them transferred to their COMC account and shipped directly to them. This is probably the majority of ePack cards. Certainly, it is the vast majority of ePack chase cards. It seems likely that under ordinary circumstances, COMC processes, packs and ships tens of thousands of cards per day, and has for many years.

04-03-2021, 06:38 PM	#15791
gosanostra Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Posts: 185	have you guys seen this? Its from a UD emloyee about comc, posted on a Marvel cards group

04-03-2021, 09:35 PM	#15794
ForceChange77 Member Join Date: Jan 2017 Posts: 3,619 chansterbogey	You guys need to listen to the YouTube live qa They just admitted a bunch of January and February orders were messed up jumbled and the cards were all scattered. Wow holy crap.

04-03-2021, 09:51 PM	#15798
JustinVerlander07 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: michigan Posts: 16,582 gladdyontherise gladdyontherise	Tim admitted they were paying 30 cents per toploader lately. Yet they are now just offering 10 cents in store credit. LMAO __________________ Dan LeFevour PC 214/299 "Cavs in 7. Write it down"

04-03-2021, 10:10 PM	#15800
JustinVerlander07 Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: michigan Posts: 16,582 gladdyontherise gladdyontherise	Sounds like a big time price hike in processing is coming. Buckle up! __________________ Dan LeFevour PC 214/299 "Cavs in 7. Write it down"