Moving On...from Beckett to COMC

[GehrigFan]

Originally Posted by buymycards

COMC has some very good features, especially if you are interested in newer cards, insert sets, etc. I have had success selling newer stuff and I have made some good deals on purchases. I like the website and they are always improving the features.

As far as pre-war cards, if you think the BIN prices on ebay are high, take a look at the prices on COMC and you will fall over laughing. You can make offers, but the asking prices are so high that I don't even make offers any more.

Rick

Rick - I totally agree about the high pricing. One part of my role is to go through and find cards that are way too highly priced and get them to knock the price down. I will say from experience that a lot of the vintage dealers put a price on their cards that is double what they really want. Since you can make offers as low as half price, some sellers just price their cards at twice what they will accept. I know this from experience as a user - I put all my shiny new stuff on the site, sell it, and then use the money to make offers on pre-war HOFers. I've picked up everything from Allen and Ginter HOFers to a Buchner Gold Coin Jimmy Ryan (who should be in the HOF!), about 4 different Walter Johnsons, and so on - all at half the listed price.

I am not planning on going after high end $1000+ vintage (for now) but rather want to build the pre-1970 vintage cards selection to make it a place for you to easily put cards on the site that you would normally ebay. The difference is that with COMC, you don't do any work. We scan the cards at up to 36X zoom, front and back, store the cards in a secure, insured facility, put them on the site, you set your price, and when they sell, we fulfill and ship the cards out, For buyers, it doesn't matter if you buy 100 cards from 100 sellers, we ship them all so you save hundreds of dollars by paying just one shipping cost, which I believe is $3 plus 25 cents per card. You can also use the credit you get for selling and buy other cards you want and thus skip the 20% fee. So personally, I don't care if I theoretically "overpay" on a pre war HOFer a little bit, if all I'm using to buy it is a bunch of cards I don't want in the first place. I have heavily upgraded my collection by doing this over the last 3 years.

Mark