Experience with Check Out My Cards
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It's not too bad.
I TTM a lot, so whenever I need cards of guys who I know will sign, I get them from COMC. I also discovered that I can get PC autographs for fairly cheep.
I TTM a lot, so whenever I need cards of guys who I know will sign, I get them from COMC. I also discovered that I can get PC autographs for fairly cheep.
I don't think the fees are that bad. If you buy the cards and let them build up until you have more than 10 cards you can get bulk shipping. I have bought over 800 cards from them and have about 100 on there to be bought.
I think the shipping costs are good. If you bought several cards on Ebay, you'd be paying per item. Here they bundle up the items into one package. I've had nothing but good experience but I don't sell.
i saw someone on blowout do a pretty in depth breakdown of fees vs. ebay and COMC was cheaper...if buying, COMC is usually always cheaper due to shipping.
Another hint if you are buying, upload some money to your account and it will let you submit an offer to sellers...usually you can get stuff even cheaper that way...people mostly send stuff they dont want there to sell so they are more apt to take less for it...but you have to have money in your account to make the offer...try it, it works.
I've been selling there for a while and its great...getting ready to send another load in to them this week.
Another hint if you are buying, upload some money to your account and it will let you submit an offer to sellers...usually you can get stuff even cheaper that way...people mostly send stuff they dont want there to sell so they are more apt to take less for it...but you have to have money in your account to make the offer...try it, it works.
I've been selling there for a while and its great...getting ready to send another load in to them this week.
I love buying on there! I've picked up some nice Sandbergs on there for well below what eBay would fetch.
I don't have anything more vintage than the late 1970s, so I can't speak to that, but I've done very well selling on there with random stickers, oddballs, Japanese cards, etc. I have no intention of cashing out, so the commission they take isn't a factor for me. Anytime I build enough site credit, and I don't have cards waiting for shipment, I use it to fuel another submission.
For me, COMC is a way to expand my player collections by unloading stuff I can't seem to sell on Sportlots or trade away anywhere else. My initial investment of $40, two years ago, has more than been recouped.
For me, COMC is a way to expand my player collections by unloading stuff I can't seem to sell on Sportlots or trade away anywhere else. My initial investment of $40, two years ago, has more than been recouped.
Good experiences.
Might be a great place to search for the YSL cards that The Bench needs. Best regards, David
There are Pros and Cons for every hobby site out there and everyone has their own way of collecting. From my experience, COMC has provided me with over two years of FLAWLESS buying and selling. Plus, if you really do the math their fees (for buying and for selling) are extremely competitive. Furthermore, they are offering services not found anywhere else.
COMC is by no means the only destination for my buying and selling but it does serve me very well. I also frequent Sportlots for commons (like Moments and Milestones!) and Ebay for the rarer items I buy or sell.
There are dozens of threads related to COMC on the Bench, a quick search should give you plenty to read!
COMC is by no means the only destination for my buying and selling but it does serve me very well. I also frequent Sportlots for commons (like Moments and Milestones!) and Ebay for the rarer items I buy or sell.
There are dozens of threads related to COMC on the Bench, a quick search should give you plenty to read!
i dont sell any of my vintage stuff...all i do is go through my collection and my box breaks and all the stuff i dont want or care about having in my collection I send to COMC...i usually send 150 at a time.
The key is to just be patient...you might not sell stuff for a week then all of the sudden you get 15 cards that will sell in one day...it's just hit and miss and who is in the news that day. If someone has a great game, something that sat there for a month might be gone, you just never know. Just set your prices at what you are comfortable with and forget about it...you dont have to do anything else unless someone sends you an offer to approve.
I actually looked on there not long ago and couldn't find a single one the bench needed. Just search Yankee Legacy and it pulls them all up.
http://www.checkoutmycards.com/SearchFeed.aspx?SportID=0&Search=2008+yankee+stadium+legacy&Sort=r
Pick the RSS feed you prefer from the drop down box and everyday you get the new ones (newly added to the site) sent to you...I do this with the guys I collect, it saves a lot of time!
They are great for buying cards I need to fill Topps inserts sets................Had a list in the queue i was ready to pull the trigger on, then decided I wanted another card that I put in an offer for and won that.....................Figured I could get all the cards sent to me, but no....................Doesn't work like that...................Have to have $$ in your account for cards like that (which was exactly what my offer was for), plus shipping and packing, ect...................The irritating thing was this, after I purchased the "queue (or won) card", I could not combine shipping on those orders.................They said: "Oh, they're processed differently, we have millions of cards!" I gave them all my information and still, "No can do!" Well, a week later, lo and behold, all the cards, even the orphan, made it together in one bubble mailer to my house after paying separate S/H caharges...........................Called and complained and they gave me a credit, which I CAN'T complain about....................I guess, long story short, is that they will work with you and try and make things right.....................Don't know how long they have been doing it, but I always keep a few in my cart and wait to pull the trigger.........................Thanks for the long read.................
I joined at the beginning of this month and sent in 449 cards to sell (ranging from 2001 to 2011, mostly $2-$10 inserts/refractors, plus a few jersey cards). They just finished uploading them last week, so they beat their 4-week promise by a week - that's pretty impressive considering that they're overloaded and short-staffed right now.
In the first 24 hours, I sold 19 cards for almost $25. I was pretty amazed, in all honesty. I got $2-$3 for jersey cards that I wouldn't have gotten more than $0.99 for on ebay. Sold 2011 Topps inserts that I haven't been able to trade/sell on here for 6 months in 1 day. I still have a bunch more left to sell, so I might change my tune, but so far so good.
Rob (VintageHeroes) steered me there, and I am very grateful for it. Like he said - read the other threads. They won't offer too much more that hasn't been said here, but they will all be mostly in favor of the site.
I will agree that the cash-out is high, so if you're not looking to purchase cards using your store credit or Blowout Cards gift certificates, it won't be a huge advantage. I actually calculated ebay as costing a little less than COMC for a $10 or $15 sale, but I think it's a big "IF" to assume that you could sell the same card on ebay for as much as you can on COMC. But I'm also not looking to sell my cards in that range on COMC - I want to move the thousands of low-end inserts/SPs/etc. that I have, and I think COMC is by far the best option for that.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
In the first 24 hours, I sold 19 cards for almost $25. I was pretty amazed, in all honesty. I got $2-$3 for jersey cards that I wouldn't have gotten more than $0.99 for on ebay. Sold 2011 Topps inserts that I haven't been able to trade/sell on here for 6 months in 1 day. I still have a bunch more left to sell, so I might change my tune, but so far so good.
Rob (VintageHeroes) steered me there, and I am very grateful for it. Like he said - read the other threads. They won't offer too much more that hasn't been said here, but they will all be mostly in favor of the site.
I will agree that the cash-out is high, so if you're not looking to purchase cards using your store credit or Blowout Cards gift certificates, it won't be a huge advantage. I actually calculated ebay as costing a little less than COMC for a $10 or $15 sale, but I think it's a big "IF" to assume that you could sell the same card on ebay for as much as you can on COMC. But I'm also not looking to sell my cards in that range on COMC - I want to move the thousands of low-end inserts/SPs/etc. that I have, and I think COMC is by far the best option for that.
Good luck with whatever you decide to do.
COMC is alright in my book except on a very few occasions...when I wasn't too happy with card condition upon receiving cards. You can't really spot certain flaws in their scans. I ended up keeping them anyways b/c of unique serial numbers and how cheap they were. *shrugs*
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