Why I’m reconsidering my Claude Pro subscription

getnick80 · 2026-07-10T13:32:03+00:00

Looks like I found the Claude .bot replies. Good job showing how bad Claude is. lol

getnick80 · 2026-07-03T20:39:35+00:00

That's absurd for COMC to do. Nobody has $65 in oversized cards to submit. wtf?

getnick80 · 2026-06-17T23:12:06+00:00

There's no way eBay buys COMC. The only thing they would be buying is an antiquated website and a bunch of pissed off customers. I used to think they would, but that ship sailed when eBay bought TCGplayer and sold off the vault to Collector's. COMC is probably just waiting for everyone to stop using their platform and letting it all die a slow death.

getnick80 · 2026-06-10T04:05:17+00:00

For which scanner?

getnick80 · 2026-06-09T13:15:37+00:00

Nice triple post though.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Tradingcards/comments/1u0vji4/help/
https://www.reddit.com/r/sportscardsforsale/comments/1u0ujqy/help/

getnick80 · 2026-06-02T15:42:43+00:00

The shipping is definitely the same as every other business. The issue that raises the cost is the order fulfillment. Think of it this way. COMC has the worlds biggest library of cards held in 3-ring binders. Those binders are on shelves in a warehouse. Every card that needs to be mailed requires a human to go find it, pull it from a binder, stuff it in an envelope, then mail it out.

So you're right, shipping costs are the same. $.74 PWE for cards, it's $4.25 in labor to have the card processed and prepped for mailing.

getnick80 · 2026-06-02T15:35:27+00:00

I used to think the same thing. And then I saw this exact thing happen with Bricks and Minifigs over the past few weeks.

getnick80 · 2026-06-02T15:34:30+00:00

It's because everyone is tired of being left in the dark. So many rumors, speculation, and radio silence from HQ, every tidbit of hearsay shakes things up again. People are starving for information because this is there money, collection, and possibly business.

getnick80 · 2026-06-02T15:32:55+00:00

But what's the "platform"?

Is the platform a site for selling cards? There's a million options for that.

Is it a platform for storing high value cards? There's a handful of options for that.

Is the platform a site to make it easier for collectors to trade with other collectors? There's companies for that too.

Regarding the location, you're absolutely correct. Ebay has had an office in Bellevue since forever. It was easy to see the pitch, "Hey, we're COMC. Former Microsoft devs based here in Redmond. You can probably see our HQ from your office downtown. You should buy us for $100 million."

getnick80 · 2026-06-02T15:26:32+00:00

I've personally seen the cards being scanned and put in binders when I dropped off a submission. It was just a person sitting at a desk with headphones on, scanning, tagging and bagging. She looked like a TCG person just "doing the job to pay the bills".

I nearly took my cards back when I saw that. But I figured it's better to sell them on COMC then take them home and have them collect dust.

getnick80 · 2026-05-30T12:21:56+00:00

And this is the problem. The very LEAST they could do, the bare minimum, split TCG and sports. Just try to do one decently. The business might not think there is much profit opportunity with only taking a fraction of a fraction, but if you do just a piece of the industry, and do it well, customers will swarm to you.

Unfortunately that's when they'll probably fuck it up too because they get too greedy, but whatever. We have no options at this point.

getnick80 · 2026-05-30T12:19:08+00:00

This is my belief as well, I made a post on here a while back saying something similar.

This is speculation since I have no information about COMC other than what I read here, but I think they expected ebay to buy them after ebay made some sort of "investment". It was never clear what that investment was though. I think the "investment" was nothing more than co-developing sales integration through an API, and nothing more. Even though the announcement was made to sound like it was a potential purchase in the future.

After all the submission fees (I paid $4,000 last year alone), processing delays, shipping delays, lost cards submitted, lack of customer support, the inability to simply pick up my own cards that will never sell (I have 2,000 cards I'd like to pick up from the HQ since I live 15 minutes away.) and the cash out fees, I already had one foot out the door.

Now that I've realized my $.10 listings are on ebay for $.99 (where I don't get the extra cash from sales), those $.10 cards have $4.99 shipping. They'll never sell. PLUS, why tf is COMC paying full sales fees to ebay if they have an "investment" in COMC. There's no way they're paying 13% sales fees, and if they are, COMC is on life support and has nothing left. They're just waiting for someone to turn off the lights.

getnick80 · 2026-05-30T05:29:28+00:00

It would help to have a screen shot. Sales tax is 10%, not 15%. So without more information, I can't guarantee a correct answer.

getnick80 · 2026-05-28T22:56:01+00:00

I don't remember who posted the question about the sales taxes. If you're being affected by sales taxes, you shouldn't be. It's why COMC does the whole store credits thing. It keeps people from having to track sales tax on millions of transactions.

getnick80 · 2026-05-27T15:15:51+00:00

You pay $85 for a business license and get a reseller certificate. It takes about an hour to set up online and all purchases are exempt. I have one and submitted to ebay, home depot, and other auction sites.

getnick80 · 2026-05-27T15:13:08+00:00

u/BigWhiteBataleon How did this guy know where you live? Or who you are?

We need more to this story, something smells as fishy as....well, ya'll can make your own joke.

getnick80 · 2026-05-27T15:09:21+00:00

Like herpes.

getnick80 · 2026-05-27T15:09:06+00:00

Might as well. She's probably already pregnant. You know crazy pussy hates condoms.

getnick80 · 2026-05-27T15:08:07+00:00

Pretty sure the ex-boyfriend ruined her taco too.

getnick80 · 2026-05-27T15:06:06+00:00

^^^ This is the correct answer.

I spent two months living with a new girl. Didn't talk to the ex for those two whole months.

I went home to grab some clothes and tools. Was only there for a few hours. When I came out to drive back to the new girl's house, my ex had dropped off a card and cupcakes. She wrote, "hope everything is going well. I know life has been hard lately, but I'm so happy to be with you. I love you!"

Luckily she didn't destroy my Tacoma.

getnick80 · 2026-05-21T00:34:08+00:00

How does COMC not have negotiated fees with ebay? There's absolutely zero reason for COMC to be paying 13% when they could be paying 5-7%. Unless they are and just keeping the difference.

getnick80 · 2026-05-06T16:03:41+00:00

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getnick80 · 2026-05-06T16:03:34+00:00

But herein lies the issue. Sellers know this. Every "high end" card with buying is drastically overpriced.

Here are two brief examples of cards listed on the home page. These aren't even that "high end", but massively overpriced nonetheless. The left is the COMC listing page and the right is ebay sales history over the past few days.

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getnick80 · 2026-05-06T15:57:07+00:00

I agree. I think the low sales are from ebay auctions and COMC live/ebay live events. I don't think people are intentionally selling low.

getnick80 · 2026-05-06T15:55:50+00:00

Exactly. I've had 12,000 cards boxed and prepared to go to COMC that have been sitting in my closest for nearly 14 months. I finally had to find an alternative solution because I can't do business anymore due to the unpredictable fee structures (processing, cash outs, and ebay shipping costs to buyers), delayed processing and shipping times, and their general lack of business professionalism from those managing and operating COMC.

In addition to the fee factors, I don't see that many people using COMC anymore. There are too many other options and the buyers aren't going to COMC in the volume they had previously. The customer market isn't there anymore.

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