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[mwheeler27]

Originally Posted by cardsrus1

You also have an added advantage where the shipping cost is a much lower percentage of the sale for each card you sell. Which is also why you are one of the few that want another fee (tax) for each sale.

It has been proven over and over, raising fees will lower sales. The economy is the same way, raise taxes and you take in less, lower taxes and you take in more. I think part of the problem is that they see a mountain of cards that need to be listed, so at this point they do not care. By the time they get caught up with listings it may be to late.

Maybe they should have two separate companies...COMC.high-end, and COMC.low-end. They could charge the "tax" on the higher-end site and run things just like now on the lower-end card site. Then they could see which system runs better and makes their bottom line more attractive.

Can you imagine having a site that has cards with a minimum worth/asking price of $25 and only having to pay a flat shipping fee of $3.00? All cards being sent to the high-end site would have a higher listing fee, but would take priority over the low-end cards being listed on the other site.

I honestly believe that if they don't do all they can to make people happy, a competitor will come along that will ONLY specialize in higher-end cards. Patent pending technology or not, someone will find a way to compete more efficiently I'm sorry to say.

[h4auto]

Originally Posted by mwheeler27

Maybe they should have two separate companies...COMC.high-end, and COMC.low-end. They could charge the "tax" on the higher-end site and run things just like now on the lower-end card site. Then they could see which system runs better and makes their bottom line more attractive.

Can you imagine having a site that has cards with a minimum worth/asking price of $25 and only having to pay a flat shipping fee of $3.00? All cards being sent to the high-end site would have a higher listing fee, but would take priority over the low-end cards being listed on the other site.

I honestly believe that if they don't do all they can to make people happy, a competitor will come along that will ONLY specialize in higher-end cards. Patent pending technology or not, someone will find a way to compete more efficiently I'm sorry to say.

COMC low priced cards and decent shipping is what made me a member.. Now its price structure makes the site NOT UNIQUE and just good, not AWESOME like before.

sad. If they just worked the system with the original prices, they could actually made millions in the long run. now they are going to make hundreds instead.

I would invest in the company. If they are having trouble or tired of doing it.

[mwheeler27]

Originally Posted by h4auto

COMC low priced cards and decent shipping is what made me a member.. Now its price structure makes the site NOT UNIQUE and just good, not AWESOME like before.

sad. If they just worked the system with the original prices, they could actually made millions in the long run. now they are going to make hundreds instead.

I would invest in the company. If they are having trouble or tired of doing it.

This is what amazes me...A lot of you guys think the way they were running their business before was a gold mine waiting to make each of the owners millionaires many times over. Common sense should tell you guys that they had to change their structure in order to survive at the worst, or make more money at the least. Their structure in the beginning would have been their downfall had they not changed it to meet their growing pains.

I mean no offense at all to you H4auto. Just know that there are a lot more things going on behind the scenes that we may never know about, and until we do, it's really impossible for us to judge them on how they want/have to run their business.

I wish they could have kept everything how it was in the beginning as well. Why wouldn't we all? It's just not the way it can be anymore. They are too big now with too much overhead to keep things the way they had them in the beginning. I'm assuming this is the case anyway. I will admit that I could be more wrong than anyone else. Perhaps these guys are simply too greedy to see the error of their ways. However, I think this is highly unlikely.

[crr9381]

i may be in the minority here, but my issue with them is not their shipping rates but how they ship their cards. Many times the higher end cards that i have purchased have been mailed just in a penny sleeve between 2 toploaders. I do believe that is something they need to change, they need to protect the higher end cards better than that, atleast by toploading them. I dont really see how their shipping rates are any higher than ebay like people are saying they are. I n many cases they are cheaper.

[mwheeler27]

Originally Posted by crr9381

I dont really see how their shipping rates are any higher than ebay like people are saying they are. I n many cases they are cheaper.

I agree. I just bought some cards the other day where the seller charged me like $3.95 for the first card, and $1 for each additional card! I know that used to be the norm, but I hate spending $1 for each card when I buy several. It was my fault as I should have been paying more attention. No one to blame but myself on this one.

[h4auto]

Originally Posted by mwheeler27

This is what amazes me...A lot of you guys think the way they were running their business before was a gold mine waiting to make each of the owners millionaires many times over. Common sense should tell you guys that they had to change their structure in order to survive at the worst, or make more money at the least. Their structure in the beginning would have been their downfall had they not changed it to meet their growing pains.

I mean no offense at all to you H4auto. Just know that there are a lot more things going on behind the scenes that we may never know about, and until we do, it's really impossible for us to judge them on how they want/have to run their business.

I wish they could have kept everything how it was in the beginning as well. Why wouldn't we all? It's just not the way it can be anymore. They are too big now with too much overhead to keep things the way they had them in the beginning. I'm assuming this is the case anyway. I will admit that I could be more wrong than anyone else. Perhaps these guys are simply too greedy to see the error of their ways. However, I think this is highly unlikely.

Here is my business --->Home. I kinda have an idea of owning a business.

They were not going to net millions the way they was doing business before, but they was gaining traffic and membership. If they was in the "red" for 3 years but developed a membership of 10,000's with millions of hits a day, someone like ebay or another major company would possibly buy them out for millions. On the other hand, if they want to turn a small profit and raise prices now and keep it a small one man operation enough to make hunderds monthly they are doing the right thing by eliminating the bulk of smaller priced cards and raising prices on shipping to make the business manageable.

There is no right and wrong way. Just A way. But in all honesty, they could turn this website in to a mega business, but if i found this site TODAY, i would have not been impressed and probably wouldnt have signed up due to the shipping rates and submit fees being to high for the lower priced cards. I WAS telling everyone that COMC was AWESOME and better then ebay when i first found it a few months ago, not anymore. It is still good, but nothing outstanding like it was value wise.

Just my .02 . But i am sure alot of lurkers or potential users see the fee structure as the weak point.

[parsetdx]

Originally Posted by mwheeler27

I agree. I just bought some cards the other day where the seller charged me like $3.95 for the first card, and $1 for each additional card! I know that used to be the norm, but I hate spending $1 for each card when I buy several. It was my fault as I should have been paying more attention. No one to blame but myself on this one.

When I sell on eBay I use a tiered free structure for shipping because I'm trying to charge buyers what it costs to ship and not make a huge profit on overpriced shipping.

1 to 5 cards = $3.00 (your baseline price)
6 to 10 cards = $4.00
11 to 25 cards = $5.00
26 to 50 cards = $6.00
51+ is purely calculated and most times it's no more than $6 anyway.

What I suggested earlier in this post is that COMC adopt EXACTLY this type of structure. It would make more sense, make them much more competitive over eBay (because again, the benefit of COMC is you can aggregate cards from MULTIPLE sellers into one combined shipping rate), and it would allow them to actually SHIP more cards, clear out their inventory and reduce their carrying costs.

Hello! COMC! Are you listening?!?!?

[CaptainBOHICA]

i need 4 bucks to ship all my cards back to me.......... buy buy buy!

a lot of cards are 50 cents or better! AND I WILL ACCEPT LOWBALL OFFERS!

BUY BUY BUY VVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVVV

[davebo]

One thing I have always thought with this gig - don't these people get tired on scanning cards? It's the one job I completely hate as far as listing on eBay. Scan once. Card moved. Scan again. Not so great. Scan again. OK but need to touch up. Ouch. It hurts my head even thinking about it.

[mwheeler27]

Originally Posted by h4auto

Here is my business --->Home. I kinda have an idea of owning a business.

I guess I'm not supposed to disagree with you now that I know you sell cars?

Obviously changes needed to be made with how COMC was doing business. More changes will be needed in the future as with all growing companies. Please don't compare your business with theirs and pretend you "know" what they are going through. You know the old adage, "comparing apples to oranges", right?

I'm not happy with their changes either, but I can and will adapt. Hopefully the rest of you can as well.