Check Out My Cards: Buying, Selling, & Flipping on COMC 

Another great video Chris thanks. I am a big advocate of COMC, you did a great job explaining the benefits here. A couple things I’d like to mention to further encourage everyone to give them a shot. First on the shipping/processing delays, I believe they will get back on track after COVID, they are located near Seattle and were amongst the first states to get locked down and they are still recovering, they never missed a deadline for me prior to COVID. Second, they do have a less expensive option to list cards at .35 per card vs the .50, this price is currently suspended as they try to catch up. Finally, just a technicality but the actual fee to sell and cash out equates to 14.5 percent, not 15. The reason is the 5 and 10 percent fees are each taken out separately so the 10 percent only comes out of 95 percent of the sale. Example, a card sells for $100. COMC takes 5 percent leaving 95 dollars deposited into your account. You then request a cash out of that $95 and COMC takes 10 percent of the $95 ($9.50) leaving you a total cash out of $85.50. Not a huge difference but it does add up if you are doing significant volume.

This dude is literally my favorite card youtuber.

COMC needs to pay you for this video...its super informative and your one of the best at explaining exactly what someone would need to know to get started in regards to the hobby in 2020. You speak in layman's terms with a normal speed that is paramount when step by step instructions are needed. Thankyou. I along with many others enjoy and appreciate your work and content. One of the best on RU-vid.

As an amateur collector/investor this is exactly the type of info I've been looking for. Just an awesome channel in so many different ways. Thank you!

You are a fantastic orator of this trading card hobby. COMC is very lucky to have you as a free spokesman of their company. So many positives in using their service. Thank you for another great video.

Great to see someone show and share personal experiences. It is much appreciated and thank you for shedding light on the hobby and the work that goes into it.

Great video my man. I've seen many videos from even the most 'experienced" Collectors, who have explained Comc and none have come even close to the detail and more importantly, the simplicity, of this Video. Granted, anyone can get on the site and eventually, at their own pace, learn how to use it, but to get a general Comc overview and know-how in a nice, concise and effective video is fantastic! Thank you!

I'm just starting to use COMC for lower-value relic and auto cards. Definitely some advantages over eBay. One thing I've noticed on eBay that makes it more competitive for buyers is that many sellers are now offering singles with free shipping in a plain white envelope (PWE) or just charging $0.50 to cover the expense of the stamp. All of the cards I've received in PWEs have arrived in great shape.

There's a lot of random videos about COMC on RU-vid but this is by far the best . Great job!

Been using COMC since 2013. I found them out, only because I live in the Greater Seattle WA area so I heard two MSFT guys started this. Great way to sell low to mid cards. Good source to find deals. Primarily are great for cards thought. I know they've tried to do other products, but cards is where their bread and butter is.

Thank you Chris for a clear & concise overview of COMC. I have not used them yet, but I'm seriously thinking about it after watching your video. Please make another if you have the time, but emphasize the flipping aspects more in-depth. Imagine if you had several of the Italian goalkeeper prior to a week ago. Then yesterday the Italians win the European Championship Cup & Gianluigi Donnarumma was named the MVP! I didn't look, but his elite cards must be going through the roof today.

Never knew what COMC was - thanx for the in detail tutorial Chris. Your presentations are the best!

Love comc, their warehouse must be jam packed with cards, i would love to see a tour on how they keep everything organized.

Your videos are very insightful. I appreciate how you just stick to the facts. Thank you!

Tremendous video! Very informative, I had no idea about this until now. You make really great videos, very impressive. Thanks 👍👍

The one thing that really confused me about COMC when I started out there 6 years ago was the condition names. When you initially ship a vintage card to COMC, it is often listed without a grade, but if you think the card is in great shape, you can submit the card for grading by COMC for a couple of bucks, or to one of the major grading services for a higher price. COMC allows some of the larger dealers to self-grade cards though, and their grade names may not exactly match COMC's. I can't remember the exact differences but, say, COMC might grade a card "NM-Mint" and a dealer might self-grade as "Near Mint-Mint". So searching for a card by condition is not quite as easy as it could be due to the mismatched grade names. (I emailed COMC for an explanation, and they responded with that information a few days later.) A couple of tips if you send in cards -- particularly vintage ones -- for the first time: If you send a card in a penny sleeve, make sure the sleeve is new and clean: COMC doesn't remove the card from its sleeve, and their photos reveal every flaw...even if it's a flaw in the sleeve itself. Also, if you're thinking about having COMC grade a card, be ruthless and/or realistic when zooming into their scanned images. If you're not used to grading cards yourself, it's easy to overestimate the condition and waste a couple of bucks merely to have COMC judge it as VG-EX, which depending on the card may not cover the additional grading cost. On the positive side, COMC did grade several of my 1970's Topps Baseball cards as either "Mint" or "NM-Mint", which has resulted in several selling at a significant premium.

Great video and inspired me to sign up! There seems to be massive advantages particularly for international buyers as previously buying low value cards was prohibitive, now I can buy from multiple sellers to either sell without any postage fees or build up one large order to ship, saving huge international shipping fees. If I keep them on account it also saves import taxes. Thanks again for the video!

I used to be like you too.. I wanted total control over all the stuff I wanted to sell, but the time and headaches are just too difficult to manage alone now. Back when eBay was cheap enough to do it yourself, it was okay. But the specialization of COMC is looking more like a viable option to me. At first I saw their eBay listings to be really expensive and thought it would be really hard to sell cards through them. But I think the key is to use your time to do the research in order to know which cards you can sell and then let them do the footwork for you and take the reduction in profit. It's not a bad option at all.

Thanks a bunch! Was wanting more info on then, ima check them out for sure!

Awesome videos and thank you for taking the time out of your day, to provide such great content. I wish you and yours all the best and stay safe out there! Keep those videos coming!

I'd love to see a video on how you catalogue/organize your stock/personal collection.

I was gonna se d cups cards in wn they first started. Ut the way the grading process is ritnow HELLO COMC.IT WAS YR VIDEO KRYSTAL THAT GAVE M.E THE NUDGE I NEEDED.THANKSBUDDY.

Great video. I run a eBay store, do about 15k a year as a side hustle. I think COMC would be great to unload a lot of low end stuff, then use all that credit to buy a big chip.

Excellent video Chris.I always learn alot from what you share.

I would love a video on your flipping strategies. Or really just strategies that exist in general for flipping. Thanks for the awesome content!

Another AWESOME video, Chris! I'm Sold on COMC! Thanks, be safe, enjoy the States!

Hi Chris - thank you for your video! One thing that may be important re the chart you shared comparing the 4 selling/consignment options. You listed the total cost to the buyer of a $5 card on ebay, including shipping and tax, at $8.50. I have been selling on ebay almost 6 months now and agree that's pretty accurate. You also noted the fees to the seller - at 15% - to be about 75 cents. At 15%, the seller would pay ebay $1.18. Ebay now charges their % on the TOTAL VALUE of the sale ... they charge the seller a percentage of the total, including shipping and tax. So you had the ebay profit at $4.25 with the cash-out profit of COMC at I think $3.82. Cash-ou for ebay being dinged for total value would be $3.86. LESS than COMC, with the higher fees to buyers AND the extra work to sellers. 15% is a fair average. I pay 13.25% in TV fees. On $8.50, that would be $1.13, for a net on $5 card of $3.87. As you point out, that's my time doing all the listing / shipping work, buying shipping supplies etc. I was shocked that my fee including shipping and tax? Maybe it did not always. Now it does. In dealing with cards worth under $50, COMC just seems like absolutely the best option for partnering to consign on singles. Especially commons. Thanks again for this video and your channel!

Reminds me of Amazon FBA for cards. Really good video!

Very educational and well-explained. Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience.

Very very informative ,and well done Chris, thank you so much!

Thanks for this info. Very Helpful. Good stuff to know.

Amazing video!!! COMC it is. I have only bought from them but never sold. It’s about that time.

Wow your videos are awesome and easy to understand 👍

I've been buying from them through ebay and they had some rarities at very good prices. And the cards have came looking sharp (so sharp the numbered cards and a Shohei SSP I purchased are going to PSA in the Nov special.).

Thank you for simplifying everything! Thank you.

Excellent. Really appreciate this informative video. Thank you!

Nice! You convinced me! I'm going to join, sell and buy on there!

This is super helpful, even today. Thank you!

Great video. Thanks for creating and sharing.

Gr8 video and content Chris... Thank you for your input on COMC Cards... I have been considering selling some of my card's and this would be very beneficial to me... Well done man... Stay safe...👍💕🔥⚾😷

It’s almost like you read my mind! I am fairly certain I am ready to send off my first batch to sell. - Jeremy Setzer

Very in-depth, thank you so much!

very helpful,thanks love your buying stories

Awesome video, learn so much from your videos !!

As usual a great video. Well done and good info.

Just went back and watched this, 7 months later. great content! Thanks!

Verry informative, Thanks for breaking it down. New subscriber.

Thanks. Very informative and thorough.

This is the best video I've seen on YT in a LONG time ... COMC really needs to have this video on its page explaining ... thanks for this, love this video! ... also, need that Honus Wagner card vid ;)

Man, comc looks awesome. Thank you for the explanation

Great video. I always wondered what this place was. Funny, I use to live in the same city they are located.

awesome awesome video....recently opened up my loads of cards that i wasnt seen for 22yrs and ben tryna figure out how to sell a lot of them that either i cant afford the grading process or the wait time. The bonus value for me is the ONLY thing you need to do is "set the price" and the hold everything in their warehouse. Only thing i need to ask is how do they accept payment from me for the card i send in and how would i receive my money back if i wanted to cash out some of it/ thanks for the great video. Appreciate it..

Excellent video! Thanks for sharing.

GREAT video! Thanks for sharing this, much appreciated

Amazing video, thank you so much. Not sure if maybe I missed this in the video (if I did, then apologies for asking), but when you submit to COMC, do you place each card in both a penny sleeve and top loader? Thanks again and keep up the great content!

This channel should have 100 thousand subscribers easily. Chris is awesome

Good point about shipping and ebay. I live in Canada.and buying cards on Ebay from US sellers can charge insane prices for shipping. Frequently see $12, $15, even over $20 to ship a single card to Canada from the US. This is for a common single card ! Obviously I don't bother buying from these sellers which is a shame because it means I miss out on a large selection of card options. I will check out COMC to buy and sell.

I could be wrong but my general feeling is that COMC graders give precedence, or take into greater consideration, the centering of a card overall when ‘grading’ rather than corners. I always seem to find a greater variance in grades of comparable vintage cards where centering seems to be the biggest difference. This would make sense if I run COMC and the goal is for an increase in purchase decisions being made by buyers. As a buyer on the site, it is far easier to discern the centering when comparing Poor, VG, EX, ‘graded’ cards rather than the quality of corners. we are trying our best to get the best corners on cards. Not easy when you’re looking at a scanned digital image of a card through a monitor or a phone screen. It’s tough.

What an amazing channel for information.

Thank you so much for your videos. After 25 years away from collecting a came back 1 year ago buying baseball cards. Your videos are so informative without talking down to people. I'm more collector than investor/flipper. That said I still have want to save money. Would it be a good idea to use COMC to sell base cards and inserts of star players along with rookie cards of lesser brands, (Gypsy Quenn, Heritage) to get some of the money back that I spend on hobby and retail boxes. Thanks again for the great videos.

4:13 I've spent almost $300 on shipping this month. As we say in Australia, "Not happy Jan". And we the Irish don't like it either, but yeah, if only they had one of those storage warehouses for MTG cards, etched specifically.

Wonderfully done and thourough thank you ! Have been on Comc for a few weeks now and want to send in a bunch of cards to them and this really helped as their site doesn't really explain the deal. What I want to know is say for example I send in 3 Luka Prizm Raw RC's . All the same and in great condition. On there for sale now is EX to NM for $370, Near MT to MT $1152.00 and Gem mint $2450.00 I am NOT a professional grader and if I'm looking at ea card and corners are clean etc, thats a big decision to be wrong on if I went to sell on Ebay and just having to list as Raw where Comc actually qualifies each raw card. I don't have a whole lot of VTG so I would hope their grades are accurate for what I would be sending..

Awesome video! Love ComC!

Great video AGAIN!! I’ve been considering COMC or StarStock. Thanks again for making the hobby a little easier to navigate and understand. Can you help me with my personal life as well??

great job with this video much appreciation for your information.

Yo great video answered all my comc questions thanks

I am in Canada. I buy cards off EBAY and have them shipped directly to COMC with my username. They get uploaded fast never had an issue. Then I flip them through COMC usually 1-2 years later when the prices go up. Obviously gotta figure out which cards are good value to make it work, but I vouch for COMC.

I've been a follower since day one krystal

Hey Chris, love the channel and don’t miss a video. Thanks for what you do. I have a quick question about COMC. When you submit cards to them do you recommend sending them in top loaders? I have a ton of cards in the $2 to $12 range that I don’t really want to fool with and they are just taking up space. They are already penny sleeved and top loaded so it would be more of a hassle to take them out of the top loaders if it’s not recommended send them top loaded. Thanks in advance for your help.

Chris, this was fantastic, but I came across it 3 years late. Do you have any updates on this? Thanks again, fantastic content.

🔥🔥🔥 love your videos

Very well thought out video, thank you. Doesn’t comc charge storage fee’s for your cards?

Thanks for the eye-opener.

The problem with using COMC is that, if you buy a card to grade then you have to ship it. You aren’t wanting to wait months to build up to 100 cards and save on shipping usually. That all would waste time and then you add the grading time and you are wasting 5-7 months.

Liked! Best COMC video I've found thus far! If you purchase now instead of purchase and relist. Are you then able to sell the cards you've obtained under inventory manager?

I wish that they had the option to write a comment when making an offer. I just received my first order that I had shipped to Australia. Purchase date mid-April Arrival date mid-September. For the most part, the quality of the cards was good and the shipping materials were very good, and all the cards had penny sleeves. The time to prepare a shipment for the cheaper shipping options is extreme though.

Love the way you break it down bro

Great explanation and video Chris. I'm still learning on COMC but it takes time like you said. Can you clarify the storage fees, on a next videos ? Thanks

Great info. If I buy a card on COMC and selected purchase now am I able to relist it later instead of asking it to be shipped. Thanks

One last question on comc in regards to vintage. I noticed some card they give a grade ExMt for example where other just say base or raw. It seems cards in which they gave a grade are listed for a higher price. Is it a different service level in which they assign a condition or is it just random?

Is there a time to expire a time that cards can sit on their shelf. What if you want your cards back. Im sure the 50cents per card is gone but is it just shipping fees

Thanks! This was helpful!

Perfect! 🏆🏆🏆

Thank you so much for answering my question. One last one, In your opinion, at what price point (Raw) would you send cards to COMC to sell that is would make financial sense? Anything over $1, $2, $5?Thanks!

Very thorough. Thanks

Refering back to your chart at 14:40 what are people paying and receiving on Starstock?

Wow, fascinating! I've purchased cards from them listed on ebay... but never understood this side of their business. Very interesting. You mentioned you sell cards in the $2-20 range, is there a reason you're hesitant to list higher end cards on COMC?

I’m just not sure about one thing.....What cards can you send in? Any? Stars and/or rookies? Certain brands? I’m new to this but the video is awesome and very informative. Thanks so much.

I like completing Celtics base sets, so Comc is great for me. I can buy all the cards for 3 or 4 sets at a time, and it will cost me $50 tops including shipping

A really informative video. I have my very first batch of cards at COMC. Waiting for them to show up for me to price. This video only increased my excitement to try this service out. Quick question. I have heard a number of times from a few different sources that COMC works best for less expensive cards. What is the concern with putting more expensive cards on COMC, like $500 or $1,000+ cards? Thanks once again for your time.

Thanks for the great info great video

Still working on my fist submision to COMC. Some work stuff came up and other things. Once you've made your first submission and pay the up front out of pocket - going forward does everything then just come off your account balance? For example if I had $175 as a balance after selling some cards, can I send another batch in and they would deduct the fees from that? Thanks! -Jeremy Setzer

This was a very informative video ty

Have you done a video on organization? I'd love to know how you handle different groups of cards like grading candidates, retired possible hall of famers, etc.

@Baseball Card Collector Investor Dealer I believe you mentioned it really quick but could you clarify when they charge you their fees after they receive your cards for selling? I'm curious because this would be a difference in sending 1000s or 100s at a time depending on when your overhead cost is tied up.

Thanks for the video! Very helpful. I am thinking of sending in some cards for the first time. One quick question. If I were to send in some cards and wanted a card or two back after a while if they don’t sell. What is that process? Just pay for them to ship them back?

My only criticism of COMC so far would be their scans don’t have the quality of say an iPhone camera. Little contrast in the pic and kind of gray.

I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this video, as others have mentioned below you have answered most questions (better then the company's site) Quick question about cards on Ebay I see a bunch of cards that have a "comc" watermark on them does Comc sell your cards on Ebay? is that something you have to ask or give them permission to do? Sorry if it's a stupid question I just don't know if all their Buys / Sells were done thru their site only or if they list them on Ebay as well (I see those "comc" watermarks on tons of cards on Ebay. Thanks for your video and I will definitely check out your store to see what I can pick up.... Wish you Much Success!!

Great video!

Super helpful and I’m into Marvel cards. Thanks!