Selling through COMC?

[buymycards]

I have had decent luck selling some lower end inserts. Stuff that isn't worth listing individually on ebay. COMC gives the seller Beckett pricing for each card, with the Lo BV and the Hi BV. Most of my stuff is priced at or below Lo BV, and I normally accept any offer at 1/2 of my asking price.

The big advantage is that I don't have to scan, list, or ship. It costs me 25 cents per card, plus 20% of the selling price, plus my costs to ship to COMC.

So, if I sell a card for $1 the breakdown is:

25 cents listing fee
20 cents cash out fee
4 cents per card to ship to COMC
I make a profit of 51 cents (not counting the cost of the card), which isn't bad because they are doing all of the work for me.

The break even point is about 35 cents per card after expenses (again, not counting the cost of the card).

If you can sell some cards at $5 each, your profit will be about $3.70 per card.

You have to be careful, because it seems that with some cards, there are so many of those particular cards listed that you have to have the cheapest price or they won't sell.

As far as buying, you can get some good deals on modern cards, and some decent deals on 50's through 70's, but if you are looking for pre-war you will be very disappointed. The asking prices are high, even for beat to hell T206's, and even if someone accepts your offer of 50% of the asking price (they probably won't), the price is still too high.

COMC is a great site and I enjoy it very much and it fills a void/niche that ebay can't provide, so I hope COMC continues to grow.

Rick