Are all COMC buyers cheap?

[ballerskrip]

Yes, I realize this a complete generalization. But I have to ask.

I loaded over 850 cards last night onto COMC. Since then, 14/16 offer have been for less than half of my asking price. My asking price is already either the lowest on the site, or near the lowest on the site, and most are already half book or less. ***Note, I could care less about BV.

I have been counter offering to try and get somewhere in the middle. The response to many have been THE SAME EXACT OFFER as the original. I even countered those a few times, and BOOM, the same exact offer again.

Just curious if this is how most buyers are on the site, because I am already annoyed after 24 hours.

When I buy on the site, 80-90% of the time, I don't even offer, I just buy. So I guess I am more surprised than anything.

skrip

 

[PujolsCollector]

I usually only offer less if I do not have the funds or I think a card is grossly over priced. If I have 9.47 in my account and you have a card listed for 10 I will offer 9. That way I still have some in there for the penny they take out one a month or whatever.

 

[katieneack]

There are a lot of people like that on this site, but not everyone. But I thought it only let you offer 50% off the asking price unless it is a port sale? Also, you can set it so that you only allow offers up to a certain % off of your asking price. For example, if you have set it to only allow offers up to 20% off asking and you have a card that you are asking $10 on. If I try to offer $5, it just pops up a message saying that this seller only accepts offers up to 20% off asking price. This will weed out all the cheap people and save you a lot of time.

 

[Crewfan82]

It is 50/50. I go stretches where I get a lot of hits at my asking price and then I can go weeks with only bs offers. I might be asking $1.00 for a card and an offer comes in at .90.

I do feel most buyers on COMC are always looking to pay less than what items are currently going for on eBay. It is a hard site to flip prospects on.

 

[RustyGreerFan]

I almost always offer 50% of what they're asking. About 50% of the time it's accepted.

If someone replies with the same price they offered originally, it simply means that is as high as they will go. It's the only mechanism COMC has for that situation. Same as when you make an offer to a seller and they just repeat their original price or their last offer. It's just means that's as low as they'll go.

 

[CollectorsCorner]

Have a card on there that sells for 45 on eBay and all I get is 25-30 dollar offers. I counter them all at 40 since I know they will have to pay shipping and they just reject it. So in short YES that is why I only put crap/stuff I can't sell on eBay there anymore.

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

So you're Matt238 ...... Good luck. But yes, unless you're selling for DIRT cheap, most cards won't sell on the site. That or if they spike on eBay and you forget to change the price, but otherwise it's a tough site to SELL on, great site to BUY on.

 

[ballerskrip]

So you're Matt238 ...... Good luck. But yes, unless you're selling for DIRT cheap, most cards won't sell on the site. That or if they spike on eBay and you forget to change the price, but otherwise it's a tough site to SELL on, great site to BUY on.

No, that is not me. I didn't really put prospect stuff on there. Mostly #d stuff, GU, some autos, some refractor stuff, etc.

 

[wolfmanalfredo]

Have a card on there that sells for 45 on eBay and all I get is 25-30 dollar offers. I counter them all at 40 since I know they will have to pay shipping and they just reject it. So in short YES that is why I only put crap/stuff I can't sell on eBay there anymore.

I'm not nor have ever been on comc. Offers can be a little short-sided, but you also have to take into consideration the 15-20% you save in ebay/paypal fees by not listing there. If you want max value, sell on ebay. You can't expect to get the same prices with far, far less of exposure.

Like selling a card for 100 on ebay might net you, for exaample, after fees and shipping, 80 bucks. Well if you're on a site with little or no fees, you have to take that into consideration. Thats why I never get ebay prices off ebay because if you want 200, and someone offers you 170, thats better then ebay after fees. I love FCB, but people here understand this concept. Thats why 90% of the time I sell at a loss compared to ebay prices. However, it almost always turns out to be roughly the same price after fees.

Bottom line, Off ebay buyers get the deals. Off ebay sellers in a sense garner the same prices after all the paperwork. I'd just take any offer that is 60-70% or more of what it gets on the bay and you're o.k.

 

[jrinne]

I'm dealing with the complete opposite. A lot of the cards I want to buy are so over priced that offering half that price is still overpaying. I hate it when you make an offer and the seller never bothers to respond.

 

[Joshua.Roundtree]

I'm not nor have ever been on comc. Offers can be a little short-sided, but you also have to take into consideration the 15-20% you save in ebay/paypal fees by not listing there. If you want max value, sell on ebay. You can't expect to get the same prices with far, far less of exposure.

Like selling a card for 100 on ebay might net you, for exaample, after fees and shipping, 80 bucks. Well if you're on a site with little or no fees, you have to take that into consideration. Thats why I never get ebay prices off ebay because if you want 200, and someone offers you 170, thats better then ebay after fees. I love FCB, but people here understand this concept. Thats why 90% of the time I sell at a loss compared to ebay prices. However, it almost always turns out to be roughly the same price after fees.

Bottom line, Off ebay buyers get the deals. Off ebay sellers in a sense garner the same prices after all the paperwork. I'd just take any offer that is 60-70% or more of what it gets on the bay and you're o.k.

Umm, but COMC charges 20% fees to cash-out.....so it actually comes out to a little more than you pay for eBay/paypal fees.

 

[ThoseBackPages]

has to be at least 50% off as a buyer. they charge too much for shipping AND you have to pay for toploaders as well or else the cards have a good shot at arriving damaged.

 

[cmixer]

complete mixed bag -
people make 50% offers on anything & everything cause there is no incentive NOT to.

but yes, then people who do not know the "offer feature" come & buy at full listed price a month later.

 

[noaskiecards]

It really depends- i only really buy on the site and i find some sellers are super cheap- i will offer 1 dollar on a 1.50 card and they will counter 1.20 - usually ill just recounter 95 cents lol....but ya, some sellers will accept half and just want to unload so with a lot of sellers i offer half and we meet in the middle- again some i offer 23 on a 25 card and they need 24

 

[katieneack]

I think it is no different than Ebay really. I have paid full book or higher for several of the cards I have bought on COMC. For others, I have paid next to nothing. If you have something unique that is hard to find and people want, you will get a great price for it. But if you are listing cards that 10 other sellers already have listed, you are going to get low ball offers.

And I disagree about their shipping charges, I think they are very reasonable. I just had my last 3 months of purchased shipped the other day, somewhere around 100 cards, and it was less than $20. And there is no need to pay for the toploaders unless it is a really expensive item. Their packaging for the bulk shipping option is extremely Safe and secure. The way they package their cards, seomeone would have to intentionally try to damage them for anything to happen. I have been getting "bulk" shipments for 2 years now and I have never once even had a single corner dinged on any card. Shipping is only expensinve if you ship your cards every time you make a purchase. But if you let your inventory build up for a while and then ship all at once, it saves you a ton of money. $20 seems like a lot, but think how much it would have cost me to ship those 100 purchases separately! I think the savings on shipping is the best thing about that site. And you can keep your purchases in iventory as long as you want before having them shipped without being charged any storage fees.

 

[dp33]

I'm dealing with the complete opposite. A lot of the cards I want to buy are so over priced that offering half that price is still overpaying. I hate it when you make an offer and the seller never bothers to respond.

I've definitely found that to be the case as well. And this seems like the overriding theme - most cards are priced to where they would normally sell at about 50% or less of the listed price.

As a seller, even if you price much more in accordance with actual sell value, you will still end up getting offers of 50% of asking price because buyers are used to making those kinds of offers.

As a buyer, you are constantly haggling over prices of cards to the point where I would much rather go to ebay then deal with COMC sellers.

If I get annoyed with a buyer (TheDivaHalley, anyone?), I don't respond to their continued offers since the outstanding offer locks their funds. I would love to know who these thousands of people are who are so happy with COMC, and more importanly, what they are buying/selling and at what price. I don't have a problem with the service from COMC, so I'm not knocking what they're trying to do at all - but the responses in this thread alone show that it's not always the pretty picture that everyone paints.

 

[nosterbor]

I'm dealing with the complete opposite. A lot of the cards I want to buy are so over priced that offering half that price is still overpaying. I hate it when you make an offer and the seller never bothers to respond.

I have the SAME problem. I have seen cards that book for $1 and the asking price is $40. Commom 98 teks book at $1. with an asking of $10. it's a joke sometimes.

 

[Pine Tar]

Yes they are. Seems everyone wants cards for less then half of the going rate. It even happens on e-Bay

 

[CollectorsCorner]

I've definitely found that to be the case as well. And this seems like the overriding theme - most cards are priced to where they would normally sell at about 50% or less of the listed price.

As a seller, even if you price much more in accordance with actual sell value, you will still end up getting offers of 50% of asking price because buyers are used to making those kinds of offers.

As a buyer, you are constantly haggling over prices of cards to the point where I would much rather go to ebay then deal with COMC sellers.

If I get annoyed with a buyer (TheDivaHalley, anyone?), I don't respond to their continued offers since the outstanding offer locks their funds. I would love to know who these thousands of people are who are so happy with COMC, and more importanly, what they are buying/selling and at what price. I don't have a problem with the service from COMC, so I'm not knocking what they're trying to do at all - but the responses in this thread alone show that it's not always the pretty picture that everyone paints.

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[nbailey]

Just be patient, the player, team, and set collectors will eventually find your stuff and you will be pleasantly surprised at some of the prices you will get. The buyers who sit there all night looking at newly listed stuff are the flippers - looking to make money off your cards. The real buyers will eventually find you - and will pay market value for the cards.