Tuesday, May 25, 2021

ComC ........ disaster?

 I started out yesterday with a gripe, so why not continue on today. After all, it's been a pretty shitty (literally) day. ComC..... I've always disliked vehemently the slowness of ComC. Long before the Covid period, they had their shipping issues. But, it was worth it most of the time. 3 weeks ugh hated it so MUCH. There was a lot to love with ComC, say like scans front and back, often great prices can be had on the not so inexpensive cards. However, over the years 99% of what I bought were the everyday ole commons base set build needs or more likely just the base Braves. Cards that should have been a dime, were .30 minimum. Then I found cardbarrel well formerly just commons. That was so great base cards for .08-.13.....PERFECT LOVED IT. Those prices slowly creeped up, although I seen one for .13 the other day. CB has got somewhat inline with the GREAT SportLots at .18, still I'll take it. I love to buy cheap. Who doesn't? Last year I blew my lid with ComC with the delays. I swore them off, after upping my game to the more pricier rarer cards, and then waiting months and months and months and months. Somewhere, after that last bitch session I had (probably December 2020) about the delays at ComC, I fell into their trap again. Loading "x" amount of dollars in the store account, all to get a card or two I wanted. Then you use it up and I did, then request shipment which I did on January 27th 2021. A few days later Feb. 3rd, I got my "expected shipment" e-mail stating they would ship on April 29th. As that date approached Gavin posted about a delayed delayed issue with an order he placed, and I started to wonder.....Oh crap not again. He got his order with the additional delay. The next week I was expecting my "we mailed" it e-mail to come. Yeah, that didn't happen. I started stewing, you see like a dumb ass, after I requested shipment I threw a hundred bucks into the store account and slowly added cards using the funds, (I still have $15) so another ten bucks or so before I request shipping again. so yeah I am stewing, I still haven't gotten that e-mail saying they were on their way. The 4/29 date came and went. After waiting three full months, what's another day or a couple of weeks! Still, nothing so I wrote them, YES..... you bet I did some ass chewing and also explained that I would most certainly be writing this post! It would be a couple of days for them to respond with a May 14th, email stating my cards had shipped. However, they did NOT, I checked everyday and the shipped out on May 17th. 3 Day priority the box said when it arrive on Friday May 22. I of course ripped right into it. another hate is that you do NOT get an invoice showing every damn card you ordered. The cards are not in chronological order, just those little slips with each card. I ordered 155 cards and the receipt they sent says so. Right away I see an issue. Two boxes with individual tickets/receipt on each. One said 78 cards and the other 76 cards.  Although they (ComC) are in Washington where I guess they are using the NEW Math, I am not accepting 154 cards when I paid for 155. I counted them (154) and I put them in order so that I would be able to figure out what was missing (which I couldn't) BTW. Along the way I realized that one of the cards a 1991 Topps Desert shield card was not a Desert Shield card, those aren't cheap you know. I was pissed even more.



Needless to say, I replied back to the staff e-mail letting me know they "shipped" them. I still have not heard back from them. Can you imagine paying a few bucks for a 1991 Topps Tom Kelly manager base card? I tried to figure out 10 cards at a time on the ComC website for the shipment, matching card for card, as they can not be sorted into chronological order there. I get to page 16 of the shipping invoice and just 4 cards remain, hmm. Where the heck is card #155. Now I can not even figure it out what was missing. As I write this post, venting my frustration with ComC knowing I still have to request another shipment I may have figured out the missing card.....It is NOT a damn card, but the item is the shipping cost. I won't know until I hear back from them......if I hear back from them. 

So, now that we cleared all of that out. How about looking at some of what I did get.




Three autographed or relic birthday boys and a Japanese Kanebo card of a PC guy.




Here are the other Desert shield pick ups. Below.....4 vintage Hank Aaron cards.



Yes, I knowing bought the two 1962 Topps Hank Aaron. It was in late 2020 when i made the purchase and was sitting in my cart when I decided earlier this year to STOP doing such things when possible. So it is still not wasted. I will put one in the PC and the other in the set build. As for the other two. Triple HOFer's and all PC guys, love em. 3 of the 6 are Braves.......




It is hard to see in the scan, but these are all the metallic snowflake parallels.




Finest Flashbacks. I still need #99 (I think is is Acuna). I also still need two of the Finest base Braves cards as well  101 & 114.



The Braves trio of 2020 Trbute and a trio of Acuna "special" cards. Turns out that with my impatience I picked up one of the Topps Choice Acuna cards already while waiting to get this one. Another gripe about ComC....too darn difficult to scroll through the shipment listings to see if it is on the way. My stomach is churning just now knowing I have apx. one hundred cards sitting in my inventory.



Shiny.....Shiny.....Shiny.


How is that for a variety of relic cards?


I think that this is a good stopping point for tonight. It gives you a pretty good idea of what will be coming in Thursdays post.








28 comments:

  1. Well, as you said, you made a few mistakes here in COMC's new world because COMC just isn't equipped to handle ANYTHING anymore. I still use it, but only because I'm insanely patient compared to other people and also because I keep my orders small now because I don't trust them at all.

    So that causes me to think: who is going to put up with this for another year or two? I happen to like COMC more than you (and others). It has a lot of stuff that I like that other places don't and you can't beat the pretty pictures. But the whole site is going to die if they don't figure this out soon and time is getting shorter and shorter. It doesn't look good.

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    1. I honestly don't believe they are going to change their current "system".

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  2. Is Bob Clemente related to Roberto? :)

    The Japanese card is interesting. Aaron wins the round though.

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  3. Love Aaron/Clemente/Mays card. Am still building a COMC stack because I'm an optimistic fool who thinks things will get better even though I fear that their move is going to fuck up my order and they won't be able to find a bunch of my cards.

    Keep us posted on the missing card though. If it is indeed the request for shipment that'll save me a lot of headache. I can't believe they don't send an invoice now.

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  4. I'm leaning real hard on the missing card being the shipment request. Now then there's the Desert Shield that is not a Desert Shield card. It's been several days already, and hadn't heard a word. Didn't know about the move, thanks for the heads up. I may wait until the get settled before I pull the trigger on my remaining inventory.

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  5. I fell into the same trap as you... when I found a card I had been looking for at a price I just couldn't pass up. I figured I'd add a few extra bucks on top of that and I'm sitting on some credit and a few cards I know I probably won't see until the end of 2021 or early 2022.

    I try to be understanding... and try not to get my hopes up... but I know I'll probably get annoyed at the very least when I finally submit my shipment request. That's probably why I haven't even bothered trying to burn through my credit the past month or so. I'm procrastinating to avoid the frustration.

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  6. Some guy buying a 1991 Tom Kelly base card is going to get a nice surprise when he ends up with your Desert Shield card.

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    1. better damn not. I really can't see anyone paying a SL price for a Tom Kelly base card. I am thinking this card (the one I got) is just missing the foil stamp, but is was not noted as such. Kind of looks like an imprint on it.

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  7. Not a big COMC fan at all. I’ve never had a very bad experience or anything. I just don’t like the site or their antics.

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    1. If they change NOW, like right NOW, they could FIX their issues.

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  8. My only real problem with COMC is that every single company seems to have adapted to the new normals, EXCEPT for them! They keep hiring more and more people, and yet nothing is getting any better. The Rona's not doing much anymore, and yet they're still operating like the black plague is running rampant right outside there door. It makes no sense. I've been saying it for awhile, but NO reiterated it, if they don't start changing soon, there isn't going to be anything left to change. I've noticed a few of their biggest sellers liquidating their inventories this month, meaning that at least a few people are beginning to abandon ship. One has to wonder how long it'll be before others start to follow suit.

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    1. They are too focused on their auctions, I mean Ebay sales. Several previous large online card stores done the same things years ago, and their website stores went to shit.

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  9. My requested in November and December shipments arrived together yesterday. The Mickey Tettleton stuck out like a sore thumb, the slip says Hentgen like I ordered. I'll be trading on Tcdb to get the Hentgen that I actually wanted.

    I've exported my purchase history as a CSV file and can sort by date purchased or year of issue to figure out if I have everything.

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    1. They could simply just send a dang itemized invoice with the cards. It's not like those pesky little "receipt" things are saving the environment.

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    2. I'll count my cards this afternoon and let you know if the numbers on my silly receipts match up...

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  10. I can see every card I ever purchase from COMC all the way back to 2014. When I'm on my COMC "Dashboard" page, I click on the "View all purchases" link (under the list of my five latest purchased cards). That takes me to my Purchases History and I can see all the cards I purchased in 2021. If you want to see purchases from other years, under the title "Purchases History", you should see this: My Dashboard > My Stats > Purchases By Year > 2021. Click on "Purchases By Year". Hopefully that will make things easier to verify that all cards were delivered.

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    1. I done that, would have been easier if they were sortable chronological. I still say the 154 vs 155. is the shipping request.

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    2. Good point. Chronological sorting would be quite useful. COMC also provides a link to download your Purchase History but I've never done that. I wonder if one were to download it, then perhaps they could do a chronological or at least an alphabetical sort. I'll have to try that one day.

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    3. I have, it really just opens up each individual order in the same format it was when ordered.

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  11. What is that Acuna card with the BBQ/Hot Sauce bottle on it? I'm intrigued...

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  12. Clemente/Aaron/Mays has to be the best 3-player combination on a league leader card.
    I really like the hot sauce Acuna card and the one that's reminiscent of '92 Topps. Not that I love '92 Topps so much, you just don't see that design revisited much.

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  13. I still have a little over 25 bucks left in my account on COMC and get more worried by the day about their site. I'm patient like Night Owl, but what's bothering me is after their big move and hype how it will help along with hiring a lot more staff, the shipping times haven't decreased much if at all. In the last month I think the wait time might have dropped 4 days, so its still 4 months to get cards. I'm really thinking of requesting a shipment in the next month so I (hopefully) won't have to worry about it shipping during the Christmas season. Once I deplete my funds, I will still stick around, but will be a lot more weary on buying.

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  14. So I counted my cards and unfortunately the total is correct. So they combined two shipments for a total of 334 cards on the receipts and I received 334 cards.

    At least 3 of them are the wrong card, but I think I'll just eat the loss than go through the hassle of returning. I'll at least report it once I've double checked all the refractors are actually refractors.

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