COMC Beginners Guide & User Reflection: Buying, Selling & Flipping Sports Cards 

Glad you liked it!

I'd recommend it. I've got another video dropping this weekend about some strategies I'm using with COMC, you may want to check that one out too.

I quite enjoy COMC. It's not perfect, but it's got a lot going for it.

Glad it was helpful!

What does the blue/green tag mean on COMC? Still learning.

Actually, it's funny you mention that video suggestion, because the next two videos scheduled for release on my channel here over the next few days are one about a stash of cards I'm sending to COMC and the next one is a stash of cards going to StarStock. I like the idea of following up with them later to see how it is all going on down the road, and highlighting some of the learning and other things like you mention.

Appreciate that! Glad you're enjoying it.

Breaks definitely can be a form of gambling, for sure. I think 95% of people who participate in breaks do so with the same frame of mind as gambling. There's a few people who may just want to be collecting cards from their favorite team, and for them a pick-your-own team break may actually not be a gamble but a way to get cards from your favorite team without having to pay the cost for cards from all the other teams you don't collect. But, yeah, I think that's rare. It's mostly just gambling. Big part of the reason I never break. I love sports cards, I dislike breaks quite a lot.

Glad you got some value from the video. I actually just put up another COMC related video just a couple days ago that you may like as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NsDVMlkR29o.html

Yeah, I think you're right there.

@@scoa how much does it cost to buy a card on COMC and NOT flip it but to let it stay in your account?

@@petejames1326 Depends. If you don't put it up for sale, free. Or if it's for sale for $0.75 or less, free. Cards you have up on their market cost $0.01 per month. If it is a card worth over, I think, $100, there is an additional cent or two per month for extra security fee. So very very little overall.

Yeah, it definitely has it's purpose. It has its downsides, but overall I like it quite a bit for what it is good at.

Thanks Jax, glad your enjoying the COMC videos! I got a playlist of a bunch of them that you might be interested in checking out.

I think COMC works great for those $2-$20 cards. Much easier than eBay, and even with the cash out fee, the fee percentages are ebay-like. And a lot of buyers in COMC looking to buy cards in that range. And if you just get other cards instead, then you can avoid that cash out fee altogether. I wouldn't go any lower than a $2 card (maybe even $3) though. I think anything $2 or less may work better within some kind of small lot on eBay.

maybe if you get a good deal, otherwise better off cashing out, because $10 is probably less than the ebay fee’s on selling a decently valued card

Hmm... that actually hasn't happened to me, as far as I can remember. I thought it was just cards shipped to the COMC facility in Canada that took some time to migrate to the Redmond location. But I just did a little forum reading, and someone did say that during Covid times they would sometimes process cards off-site and then bring them into the main facility a few days later. I don't know if maybe they did something like that with some of your cards for some reason.

@@scoa Thanks for the fast reply and the research. Yea I hope that's what it is and they'll be moved in a few days. I have good cards but I hope the items store remotely label doesn't deter people bc of late shipping. Kinda feels like an inconvenience. But Im hoping for the best. Have a good day.

I was wondering if I can email you a few in depth questions about selling strategies on COMC? I would really appreciate the opportunity to get some more insight. Thanks. -Clint

@@bigclint999 sure, no problem. My email is eyeofjavad at gmail.com

I actually have another video dropping next week that talks about 5 strategies that might work for people with COMC that I'm finding useful, you should keep an eye out for that one. If you're looking to flip some cards, it's all about finding the right cards, which isn't always easy, though plenty of possibilities exist. Sometimes I find looking at cards by "recently added" can find some unfound gems occasionally that haven't been seen by anyone else yet. Otherwise, I think it's just a matter of finding players and cards that are a bit underpriced and that are searched for at least somewhat regularly (like hyped players, or players in important upcoming games, etc), where the price is no higher than eBay comps, preferably a little under, and where there is a decent gap between the card your gonna buy and the next one listed. But though there are possibilities, I don't think it's easy to make a ton flipping on COMC, too many people looking to do the same.

COMC does have a lot of fees. But, for me, the way I use COMC it makes the fee come out to basically the same as what I would be paying if I sold on eBay (usually actually less than eBay's fees), but I don't have to do any of the packing, shipping or anything else (plus I don't live in the US, so selling on eBay is really not an easy option for me). I don't use the elite service often, so usually I'm just paying $0.50 per card to upload. If your card sells on eBay, it doesn't effect you in any way, so that part is irrelevant to me as a seller. COMC just ends up making a bit more money, but most of my cards sell through the platform itself anways. They don't charge the seller a shipping fee, unless the seller is buying a card of course, then you have to pay $0.25 per card to ship to yourself. But I don't mind that. $0.25 shipping for a card I buy (or $1 if graded) is great. And then I avoid the 10% cash out fee by using the money to buy other cards either for my PC or to sell elswhere. So I avoid that fee too.

Blue is the normal price, it turns green when a seller is offering it for a sale price.

@@scoa ahhhhh okay. So if a card is listed for $17.50 in blue, this means that’s the price. If it is green tag, this means it’s at a reduced price (Sale) by the seller? Got it. Thank you!

@@weouchere8384 exactly

@@scoa thank you so much for clearing this up for me I greatly appreciate it! I am new to this hobby!

Personally, I'd say probably not. $0.50 ingestion fee per card, plus shipping your cards there and other little fees. You probably won't make much there for such cheap cards. I tend to only send in cards worth at least $2 or $3 minimum. SportsLots might be one worth checking out though. They are a good place to go for for the lowest end of cards. You can sell in player lots or set lots or something like that.

@@scoa okay. Thank you so much.

I'm from Oregon, but have been living in China for a number of years now. Great to hear you're enjoying these at work. Hope it helps make the work day fly by!

With COMC auctions, you don't have to pay that additional PayPal fee. So maybe the overall fee using COMC is actually ever so sightly slightly less than eBay.

I'd love to get a tour of their storage warehouse someday. I bet it's quite the operation.

Haha. Yeah, COMC definitely could help you clean up your card area for sure. I like them for lower end cards a lot, though I think cards that are going to sell for at least $2 is as low as I'd go on the platform, just because of ingestion fees. Anything lower than that you wanted to clear out may be better in bulk lots on SportsLots or something, imo.

I hear ya. I'm glad there are decent viable alternatives to use. eBay is the one that might get the most eyes on cards, but COMC and others all have some real advantages over eBay.

StarStock is pretty much dead now. I wouldn't recommend them for anything at this point. They no longer accept raw cards, and the marketplace is a ghost town of people just hoping to sell of the last of what they have there. COMC I do recommend, the more I use them. $5-$60 rookie cards are all in that range of the kind of cards that do well on COMC.

@@scoa I not long made my comment then went to their site to realise they didn’t take raw. Appreciate the advice on the Comc. Looks its them by pure default😆

@@edgerushcards7590 haha. There's always eBay too. But yeah, I prefer COMC myself, just so much less hassle, though eBay gets things sold quicker. Fees end up being pretty similar between the two, all things considered.

Interesting. I've never heard of this happening before. That's unfortunate it happened to you and rather surprising. I've bought many hundreds of cards on COMC over the past couple years that I've shipped back to myself and never had this issue.

Yes someone should really do a thorough investigation on this. @@scoa