My Last 25 Cards Sold on COMC 10/9/24
Free article for all! While I'm looking to buy and sell more and more on eBay, COMC is still something I work on in the background. Here are my last 25 cards sold, with some notes.
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This is not buying or investment advice. I’m simply reporting the data I’m seeing. Please do your own research and make your own decisions. Just because cards have increased in value up to this point, it doesn’t mean they will continue to do so.
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Here she is—my last 25 cards sold on COMC.
Purchased $563.80
Sold $768.31 (This is sales price minus 5% sales fees)
Gross Profit $204.51 (Profit if I don’t withdraw my money)
Net Profit $127.7 (Profit if I withdraw my money)
These numbers are pretty self-explanatory, but here are a few more details about the fees.
Sales Fee
When you sell a card on COMC, they take 5% fee off the sales amount—that’s what I have in the “Gross Profit” column.
Withdrawal Fee
From there, you can use those funds to buy more cards, or, you can withdraw the money from COMC and transfer it to your bank account. There is a 10% fee on the amount you withdraw. I rarely withdraw, but if I were to on the amount earned from these 25 cards, the amount would be 10% of $768.31.
So, 10% of $768.31 is $76.83. Taking that amount from my gross profit, I’d get $127.68.
The Cards
How did I obtain these cards?
All were bought on COMC with the goal of flipping them immediately or down the road. I either found these by passively browsing the “Recently Added” section or actively searching for specific cards.
With these 25, I can bucket them into three categories:
Bought via “Recently Added"
Think of this like thumbing through a value box at the card store or show. I have no idea what I’m going to find, and I might not find anything. It all depends on what is presented. If I spend more time looking, there is a better chance I find something to buy.
These all came from the “Recently Added” section:
How often do I browse?
Honestly just a couple of 5-minute windows per day. And while there isn’t a constant stream of new cards being added at all times, a LOT of cards hit the site for sale. If you have the time, there is a lot to be found.
Why did I buy some of these?
Some were just obvious good deals:
Shannon Sharpe Prime Choice Reserve is right up my alley—I love 90s inserts and parallels like this that are undervalued and relatively easy flips.
With the Tino Martinez 2019 Topps Tribute Auto, you just don’t see a lot of autos of his. I didn’t know the value without comping, but comps were favorable.
Same with the Podziemski—just looked good based on comps.
Others were worth a chance:
I couldn’t find comps for the Archie Griffin anywhere, and not many for that 2013 auto set in general. Just felt right based on scarcity, so took the chance.
This was bought and sold within minutes.
Some I just guessed, which doesn’t always work out.
The Deebo just didn’t work out timing wise. The Vince Carter USA was bought during the Olympics and I thought that might help. Composite was a new hot product and I thought the Novacek was going to do better. The Stroud, I should have waited.
Last, while some were bought in the “Recently Added” section, I thought they might site for a while before they sold, like the CJ Abrams PSA 10.
All in all, it’s fine to have losses as long as the wins carry the bulk of the outcomes.
Short Term Speculation
Some cards I’ll buy, say, as a game is going on, noticing that a player hit a home run, scored a touchdown, etc. My goal is to buy the card before others and then sell it to those looking after the game ends, etc. This was most recently the case with the Tank Bigsby (top line).
Others like Parker Meadows and Glasnow were bought thinking that the Playoffs might help increase the value. Wilyer Abreu I thought was headed up in value and tried to get ahead of it.
The Mike Shanahan was just me seeing there were a lot of people watching the card and thought there might be a lot of bidding action (sent it to eBay auction via COMC). The Bryce Harper was on sale and was a good deal.
Longer-Term Speculation
Last, there are cards that I buy hoping that at some point months or even years down the road, they'll be worth more.
As you can see, I don’t do this a ton. Well, it also takes a while for cards to come to fruition so there won’t be a lot here usually unless I unload a player once they get hot. With Nivens, I bought a bunch and just wanted to turn a profit on one to get some money back. With the Wood, I’m just impatient and don’t really like Topps Debut.
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