I don't doubt there are deals to be had. It's another option to explore, and more places to search is a good thing. As you said, I see quite a bit of similarity to ebay. I just don't understand the post upon post claiming 'great deals', 'hard to find cards', etc, and the handful of cards I search for are looking for ebay prices, or are not available. I do see it as a boon for 'common' player collectors, as has been said, for being able to stockpile a load of Billy Wagner cards until it becomes cost effective to ship a bundle at once. That has always been one of the biggest drawbacks of ebay to me is it just isn't practical for the lower demand lower value stuff (Moises Alou parallels, Terry Pendleton inserts, etc). This certainly helps fill that void. I just get leary when I see excessive praise and hype for places. I go into "I'm getting a pretty hard sell from someone who in theory has no vested interest in this" mode and get suspicious. It's my cynical nature.
You Gotta check out COMC!
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I don't doubt there are deals to be had. It's another option to explore, and more places to search is a good thing. As you said, I see quite a bit of similarity to ebay. I just don't understand the post upon post claiming 'great deals', 'hard to find cards', etc, and the handful of cards I search for are looking for ebay prices, or are not available. I do see it as a boon for 'common' player collectors, as has been said, for being able to stockpile a load of Billy Wagner cards until it becomes cost effective to ship a bundle at once. That has always been one of the biggest drawbacks of ebay to me is it just isn't practical for the lower demand lower value stuff (Moises Alou parallels, Terry Pendleton inserts, etc). This certainly helps fill that void. I just get leary when I see excessive praise and hype for places. I go into "I'm getting a pretty hard sell from someone who in theory has no vested interest in this" mode and get suspicious. It's my cynical nature.
Well, part of the issue here is some of the "hard to find cards" are gone by the time you go searching for them. Since you can get an RSS feed to your searches on COMC (similar to the saved searches on eBay), it's easy to snap up cards you need as soon as they hit the site. On eBay, the cards are up for the length of an auction, and then another two weeks in the completed sales. On COMC, within a couple of hours of selling, that card is out of public view unless put up for resale, and there is no facility at COMC for viewing past sales.
So at least for Dave Winfield, if the hard-to-get cards I need are within my price range, they don't survive long on the site. And I suspect the same can be said for players with several dedicated player collectors. The well-priced, rare stuff will only last a couple of hours on the site.
So at least for Dave Winfield, if the hard-to-get cards I need are within my price range, they don't survive long on the site. And I suspect the same can be said for players with several dedicated player collectors. The well-priced, rare stuff will only last a couple of hours on the site.
comc might not be for everyone, I was simply trying to say that it is a good site for ME and maybe it might be a good site for everyone else. they might not have a lot of cards of billy wagner, but maybe a ton of chipper jones , or maybe not enough of doc gooden, but a tom of chris bosio. i think for some it will be great and for others it might not be good. just another site to add when searching for cards. again, in my opinion it has been GREAT for me. hopefully it will help others as well.
Port sales ? What is that ? How does it work ?
I've also wondered how it makes sense for people to sell cards for 20 cents or less when it costs 20 cents to list them.
Your math is severely flawed BUT you make a good point.
By the search engine near the top of the page , click ads (by baseball). Click the ad info for all the details, click the seller name for all his listings.
The last one posted.
Port Sale: $18.4K BV PORT FOR SALE FOR 15% OF BV
General Portfolio Info
Items For Sale 5,900
Total Book Value $18,420.65
Items w/o Book Price 20
Total Asking Price $6,311.62
what i thought today was, if i list cards there and they sell, i wont cash out, instead like mentioned above, ill reinvest that money into buying cards there for my pc, that way i dont pay the 20% cash out fee, i get cards for my PC with money made from cards that i didnt want and were just sitting in a box collecting dust and i clear some much needed space by getting rid of unwanted cards, to me, that seems like a win win situation!
Pretty good port sell up for sale right now if you wanna try to flip for cards.
Port Sale: $700 BV In cards for $50!!!!!!!!!! - phleagles112
Or maybe its suppose to be $500?
Port Sale: $700 BV In cards for $50!!!!!!!!!! - phleagles112
Or maybe its suppose to be $500?
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what i like about buying on comc is that i can by cards from different sellers and then wait and have them all sent at once. i like that after i buy card there i have the option of also flipping the card and putting it in my inventory to sell. i received my first package of cards from comc, and they were well packaged and came pretty quick after i requested them to be shipped.
almost always the sellers there accept my offers, so there are great deals to be found, i guess it just really depends what your looking for.
so far so good as a buyer. i HIGHLY recommend at least trying out the site to see if it is for you. as a buyer 5 stars all the way, now....as a seller i dont know, but i think im going to buy some cards there and flip them just to see how the selling side is. ill report back here once i start getting sales...if any.
almost always the sellers there accept my offers, so there are great deals to be found, i guess it just really depends what your looking for.
so far so good as a buyer. i HIGHLY recommend at least trying out the site to see if it is for you. as a buyer 5 stars all the way, now....as a seller i dont know, but i think im going to buy some cards there and flip them just to see how the selling side is. ill report back here once i start getting sales...if any.
Anyone else try buying or selling on this site? buying i really like, i just tried my hand at selling, and so far nothing buy VERY low offers. example, i had a card with a bv of $10, i listed it at 50% off bv at $5.00 (which I thought was a pretty good deal) and still people want to offer $1.00-$2.00 on an already discounted card!
That's what will happen. Look at the other threads in card talk, someone just picked up a $50 BV Willie Mays card on ebay for a 99 cent bid +I think $2.50s/h (total of 7%BV), there is another $50 Mays card from the same set at $9.18 on COMC just sitting there, 82% off and Mays doesn't sell. I know more than a few collectors who consider 50% BV to be their UPPER limit as a buyer unless it is very high grade vintage, rare/ HOF autos, or the hottest prospects. If you're going to find fantastic deals, it only stands to reason selling prices won't amount to much.
I generally list my unwanted autos/GU on COMC. Most book for 8-$10, I generally list for $1.50 and STILL get lowball offers. I just say No if it is 'offensive' otherwise most go for around $1. The market is just depressed right now, I have no idea what makes a card book for $10 when it sells for $1 but I consider myself pretty lucky if I get $10 of book to keep for profit.
The above is yet another reason that the notion that GU card are 'hits' when opening packs is laughable.
The above is yet another reason that the notion that GU card are 'hits' when opening packs is laughable.
$5 for most $10 cards is way too high, I generally don't pay more than $2-3 max, even game used. I wouldn't offer you that though, I would just pass and wait to get it from another seller. Sorry, that's the way the market is for me.
I have to agree with this. I went to a show for about an hour or so last week. Dug through a bargain box, pulled a 2008 and a 2009 Topps silk /50. The price for the Gary Sheffield was $7 crossed out, marked down to $3, the 2009 McLouth was $8 crossed out and marked down to $3. I asked the dealer if he could go any lower, hoping he'd say $5 for the pair. Last I remembered they booked for $10-12 each for commons a year or so back. He said "If you buy one, you can have the other for free" I gave him $3 for the pair. even using common prices on COMC looks like they are still $10 each, so I paid $1.50 per for them. I figured $2.50 was my high price on those cards, I was going to leave them there if he kept them at $3 ea. $5 each and I wouldn't have even pulled them out of the box.
I agree as well for the most part. In most cases, 50% of BV is not "a pretty good deal".
I have been on the site for about 2 months now, and I would say that sellers list high (50%-75% of BV) and hope for someone desperate, but will generally take lower offers. Not the way I sell, but I would say most sellers on COMC sell that way. Conversely, buyers realize this and generally make lower offers than what cards are listed at. If you're priced competitively, you'll have no problem selling there.
do you think $5 each for gu cards of players like jay bruce or joey votto or troy tulowiztski or adrian gonzalez is too much to ask? what would be a good asking price for these, maybe like $3.00 apiece. im just asking so i can get a better idea of how to price cards. because i was thinking $5 each was a decent price.
I haven't bought much GU in a while, last one I remember specifically was a 2006 Topps Update Barry Bonds 715 HR BV $50 I paid $5 for. GU is pretty much dead for me. $1 and $2 boxes are loaded with GU that sells slowly. You can find Pujols, Jeter, and Ripken GU on ebay for $5 or so dlvd with a bit of patience. For Tulo, Votto, Bruce, etc I would have a tough time being a buyer at $2.
My Hamels were flying off the site between $2 and $3. I'm not sure how much Votto has, so that may be in your favor, but I think $2 is the most you're likely to get for the others. I can tell you I paid $3.81 and $3.99 for my Tulowitzki 2010 Topps relics, so they were less than $2 without shipping.
Perhaps I'm missing out, but I've never made an offer on COMC; I just find a card priced what I'm willing to pay.
I suppose I will start making offers. I can definitely see a seller being offended by a crazy lowball offer, but it looks as though you all think that sellers price with reasonable negotiation in mind.
I suppose I will start making offers. I can definitely see a seller being offended by a crazy lowball offer, but it looks as though you all think that sellers price with reasonable negotiation in mind.
I very seldom make offers on cards I'm buying either as it's not too hard to find the cards I want priced reasonably, but I suppose it depends on what you're buying.
On the flip side, my prices don't have a lot of room for negotiation - I list it with pretty much my best price. I would say I have rejected about 75% of the offers I have received. But the classifieds are littered with sellers offering to accept offers at 50% of list price, and I've come across too many cards that are way overpriced to assume it is anything other than a strategy to work off of offers received.
I've been selling on the site since the spring of 2010. I've been mostly using the credit from my sales towards sending more cards in for processing...I continued to do this without any major cash infusion until I had cleared out most lower-end non-PC stuff. Now that most of what I want on the site has been sent in, I just "cash-out" for Paypal, spend on singles on the site, or get Blowout gift cards.
The site is great for selling those $5-20 BV cards which sometimes aren't even worth the hassle of selling on eBay and get some good return on them. The key is sending in cards there aren't already 20+ copies of up on the site as it seems that most sellers undercut each other's prices until they are at virtually zero margin. Some cards can go for almost full book while others, I can't give away at 90%+ off BV.
I when I bust product, I usually trade first...after a while, what's left goes into one of three bins:
1. Send into COMC for processing
2. PC
3. Dump at LCS
The site's been great for stretching my hobby budget while allowing me to have a cleaner office area. Plus it's fun!
-Chad
The site is great for selling those $5-20 BV cards which sometimes aren't even worth the hassle of selling on eBay and get some good return on them. The key is sending in cards there aren't already 20+ copies of up on the site as it seems that most sellers undercut each other's prices until they are at virtually zero margin. Some cards can go for almost full book while others, I can't give away at 90%+ off BV.
I when I bust product, I usually trade first...after a while, what's left goes into one of three bins:
1. Send into COMC for processing
2. PC
3. Dump at LCS
The site's been great for stretching my hobby budget while allowing me to have a cleaner office area. Plus it's fun!
-Chad
