How to Buy a Collection

[conor912]

Originally Posted by swarmee

Exactly, if he had bumped his own thread from three years ago where everyone clamored to know when they were coming to market, no issue. The issue is doing it off-topic that screwed up an interesting start to a thread.

Back on topic: Most of my large purchases are "port sale" buys on COMC, where the normal rate for buying collections is 15-30% of the initial list price of the cards on COMC. My best buy was a collection of 5,000 cards that were initially listed at $10,000 individually that I negotiated the seller down to $1,100. However, many of those cards listed for $1 each originally were actually $2-5 cards that I repriced even higher once I got them.

That port buy is what made me so interested in COMC and started my collection of cards this past couple of years.

What's a port buy?

[swarmee]

https://www.comc.com/Promotions/Port_Sale

These are sales of groups of cards from 100-5000 at a time for a single price. All cards are already listed for sale by one person, and you can browse through all of them and make offers for the whole kit and kaboodle. Then if they accept, they all get loaded to your inventory and you can choose to reprice them or have some delivered to you.

Some ports (portfolios) are worthwhile, some are highly overpriced looking for a sucker.