Last COMC Order

I'm officially finished with COMC.

I was already running out of blog post ideas at the start of the year, and so I'd planned to spread out my pre- and post-Black Friday purchases over a handful of blogs in February and March. 

That obviously did not happen.

My last COMC order was requested on January 1st. The expected shipping date was January 30th. My last blog post was right in the middle.

The shipping date kept getting pushed back. I'd get closer to it and it would somehow get farther away. The amount of orders ahead of mine would never budge. 125,000 one day, 124,350 the next. The goalposts were moving. The cards were not coming.

While I waited, I filled in the rest of my set and team PC needs through Sportlots. Also my friend in California offered to sell things for me on his eBay store. I shipped a big box of unwanted cards to him, he sold them, he bought stuff with my money. That helped me finish even more sets.

Three Sportlots boxes have arrived in the time it took COMC to ship one order. After their worthless customer service department provided no explanation for the 3-month delay (and a measly $5 shipping coupon off my next order) I decided I was done with that site, for good. I've wasted too much time and money there for too long.

Not only that, there's always a couple cards in each order with significant damage that no one at COMC seems to notice. Three creases across the front of a card isn't enough for a condition note? Really?

I'm not using that stupid coupon because I'm not ordering from them again. My set projects are nearly complete anyhow. I've got less than ten cards left on my wantlist, and fewer than 30 pockets left to fill in my card albums.

There's a fairly big card show here in two weeks. I'm going to bring all the cash I've earned from sales, plus a little more. I'm going to look for my last few set fillers, a couple nice vintage singles, and some quarter/dollar box finds for my friend to flip. That's it.

I'm not interested in new cards. I'm barely interested in old cards. They're just puzzle pieces to me, and once the pieces are all in place I will admire the completed picture. And I'll move on to something else...

Football is the only sport I truly enjoy anymore anyhow. I haven't actively cared about baseball since the pandemic. The hockey season has been a disaster. I've been so terrible at choosing players to support, collect, and cheer for that I'm afraid to sink any more money into any player.

So, now that this order has finally arrived, I'll send away for one more Sportlots box. Then I'll go to one last card show. Then I'll finish my set building projects.


And

then

I'm

done.