selling on COMC

[bfaulkner1986]

well since Ive got back into the hobby, COMC has appeared. As a buyer its been great because im looking to complete a player set and I dont have to pay shipping to every seller.

Im looking to to send a batch of cards to sell with COMC to fund my purchases on the site. My question is what sells and what doesnt? Is it a good place to dump commons and make a few cents off them? Does mid to high end sell? How well do non-current year cards sell?

Im just trying to avoid paying to process them and watch the cards sit there for a year and then pay to get them shipped back.

Thanks,
Billy

 

[Bossy22]

I found I sold a lot of low end auto's, and game used but mostly I sold random # cards. Premier dates, old pacific parellels, etc. These made up over half of my sales easily!!!

 

[Raffi31]

Can you guys talk more about this? I don't know anything about COMC to be honest. If it's a good way to move singles and sets then I am interested in hearing more for sure.
Thanks a lot.

 

[steveottfan]

I've been trending my buys towards COMC for a while now and at this point I buy most of my autographs from the site. Sellers, for the most part, seem reasonable and a lot of my offers are accepted. I absolutely love how I can buy dozens of low end cards over an extended period and then get them all shipped together for $3.
As a seller I recently sent my first batch in. The whole process was very easy. Although I can't say sales have been though the roof, I did sell enough within the first day or two to take care of all the fees it had cost me to send the whole batch in. Sales keep trickling in and some have really surprised me. They've been all over the board for me, some high end and others low end. A great way to get rid of old traders unless your in need of quick money.
My only complaint is with the "transition to their new catalogue," which has been going on for quite some time now. There really is a lot of errors on the site now and many descriptions are off, very off. How many more 'several weeks' is it going to take to have this fixed?

 

[bfaulkner1986]

Hmm on first thought I wouldnt have thought the older base cards would do well but I guess that makes sense as thats where I am buying cards like that. High end cards are hit and miss probly eh?

 

[30ranfordfan]

I've had pretty good success. Have moved over 1k cards that I had an impossible time trading or selling on sites like HI or eBay.

The beauty of COMC is that they do all the work, but yes.... you're paying listing fees up front, so it can be costly.

Myself, I've been going through a lot of older boxes of stuff (90s through this year's stuff) and I've been classifying things in one of 5 ways:

1. It's something to keep
2. It's something good enough to try and use a trade bait, or an eBay sale
3. It's absolute junk, and I'll file it into a black bag for the man to pickup on Monday
4. It's unmovable base, but modern, so I can give it away to charity (thanks breakawaysc!)
5. It's too good to toss, hard to move, time to send to COMC!

The 5th group, it's consists of anything from the following:

Rookies, Parallels, Star player base cards, Autos, GU, Inserts

I've done pretty well at moving a lot of that stuff. Set your expectations at a realistic level though. Remember you're paying 25 cents to list, and COMC charges 25 cents (on top of your asking price) the first time a card sells (flippers don't need to worry about the extra 25 cents after it's sold the first time).

So, I've sent loads of Score Hot Rookies or Victory Rookies (common players) in. Do they sell?? YES! Do they sell fast? No. Do I make a lot? No. I just sold a Johan Motin Victory RC. It sold for 60 cents, 25 of which went to COMC, 25 of which covered the cost of listing it.... and I made a big fat dime! That's 10 cents more than I had before, it's a card that really isn't worth anything to me though, so happy to have done it.

I find if you're selling autos (not BAP or Scoreboard type stuff though) if you want less than $1.50 for them, they move really quickly. If you price GU cards for $1, they fly out quickly too. The margins are not huge, but it's easy money on low end stuff, and I just build up a bank roll and then spend on their site again.

Also, if you've got lots of stuff you're buying from them.... wait until you've got 100 cards to have them shipped. If you ship 100 cards in a month, it still costs only the $3, and you get a $5 store credit.

 

[bfaulkner1986]

Thanks for the great answer.

At first, the 50 cent fee to initially sell a card (especially low end) on the site seems high. But if you think of it as a way to access a group of buyers that are looking to fill sets and not pay multiple shipping,it isnt too bad. Like you said, to make even 10 cents off a common that would just sit there.
COMC basically charges the seller 25 cent shipping fee. Selling cards on ebay, I have to do all the packaging and shipping myself. If I could pay someone 25 cents per card to do my packaging and shipping, I would no problem.

I think im gunna send in a batch, a mix of everything from commons to low to higher end and see how it goes!

Thanks

 

[ernieren]

I've been on COMC since 2009 from that time i put 80.00 total cash into the site and nothing since . I have made enough in sales over that time to cover 12,000 plus cards into the site and buying cards as well. What sells ton's but the best things i've sold are hard to find older cards, numbered items , New stuff of course and hot players. All sports sell some items you would think wouldn't sell do. I sold a Baseball card the other day of Jeff Bagwell it was a Hologram and listed at 5.99 only one on the site sold the day after i posted. Now i was thinking i priced to low lol.

 

[manthis]

looks like i need to stop by there
maybe i can pick up afew deals..

 

[gobuffalo2331]

I love COMC I just picked up two rare singles on it last night. The only thing that bothers me at the moment is the fact that they haven't finished updating their catalog from like several months ago. Meaning that a lot of cards you search for won't come up which is a huge pain.

 

[bfaulkner1986]

Hmm did they stop letting you see how many times the card has sold now? Or am I doing something wrong?

 

[cardsrus1]

The most important thing to try to do is check to see if the cards you are wanting to send in are already on the site. If the card is already sitting on the site in quantity at less than a dollar, I will not send it in. Now that it takes up to 8 weeks to go live it is harder to check things accurately, especially newly released products. To answer what sells the best, that for me is low dollar cards. It is actually rare to have a sale for a single card over $20, most of my sales are plus or minus in the dollar range.