General Forum

Hi folks, how do these sites stack up for:

i) selection

ii) price

iii) shipping / experience for Canadians

??

Thanks,

R Haynes

I don't "shop" often, (prefer to trade here) but when I do I use comc. They have a Canadian distribution site over the border so their shipping is the same (at least from my experience) as it is for the US.

I will have to stay tuned for this one, since I am also looking to gather more info on these sites.

From my cursory inspections, COMC seems to have the best selection, but I am still confused on some of their shipping pricing/policies/practices. I might shop here for higher valued cards, but as for commons, or even most parallels, their lowest pricing seems to be a little above what I would think of as 'fair'.

sportlots seems to be better pricing, and from what I've read, better shipping potentially, but it seems a lot of listings lack pictures/scans so it might be a bit more of a shot in the dark. I would potentially shop here for commons, but not much more pending individual sellers having enough info and/or photos

As for Beckett Marketplace, they seem to have quite the selection, but I've yet to come across any 'good' shipping deals to Canada, although many of the bigger sellers seem to have really good deals on shipping to the US. Once this is all over, this may be an option for me to consider as I am only an hour from the border. In future, I may end up offering to coordinate runs over the border with other members if arangements can be made.

As for Burbank, I think I read somewhere that they are no longer shipping here, but that may have changed.

Anyhow, hope this helps, and/or gets a bump up for more reads and input!

Just started an account on Sportlots last night. Seemed pretty smooth so far. It was as I had suspected though. Finding the majority of common cards to complete sets was simple, and there were a couple of inserts from sets I collect as well, however as I said, they don't quite have the selection yet, it all seems to be over on COMC. IMO it seems like there's a steady set of users who are flipping and scalpi-- 'remarketing' cards, which is fair enough, but I can't get on board with that. I feel like that is not okay for concerts, sports events, etc, so I would be hypocritical if I thought it was okay for any other marketplace. just my 2 cents. I suppose if I were to play there, I would say don't be afraid to make offers to sellers or to try and negotiate prices to what you are willing to pay or what seems fair to you. You don't know if they will meet you in the middle if you don't ask.

Sportlots is ok price wise, but shipping can be insane.. It seems the best option for Canadians is to use the Box shipping. 

I ordered the cards I needed to finish the 1992 Studio set and, by boxing them at Sportlots, I'm apparently saving $1300 in shipping.. 

Some of the postage rates were insane.. I took a couple screenshots that I'm going to post on my blog 

Overall, though, I prefer COMC. I just didn't want to pay $50 for the cards I was able to find on Sportlots for $20. Of course, right now COMC shipping is either backed up horribly or not happening to Canada with the border effectively shut. 

I am from Canada and I have bought cards from all those sources.

COMC i my favorite for non-commons because their shipping seems most reasonable.

I REALLY don't like Burbank because their card prices are extremely unreasonable! It actually annoys me when thier cards come up on my ebay searches! 

Beckett can be good for hard to find cards, but unless you have a mail box in the US (I do), then shipping to Canada is expensive.

Sportlots is best for commons, but again, unless you find a Canadian seller, shipping to Canada is EXTREMELY expensive.

Until we can scrape up the $$ for the fine tuning/structuring work our website needs to make it easier to search it is not a horrible option.

At just a dime each the better cards tend go fast but there are always some goodies that get overlooked.

Have a great Sunday! 

Lol I just put another order in last night! Looking forward to receiving everything in the future. I think I will be able to complete almost 4 different sets thanks to baseballcardsrore.ca!

OHHH! 

That's you! 

 We are looking forward to getting them to you when you are ready.

Thank you kindly for using our layaway plan.

Steven

Just a quick update,

Just got my first shipment from baseballcardstore.ca, even though it was mostly hockey cards. I am very impressed. Everything was in very good shape. I was able to find a lot of cards to fill holes in my collections, came packaged very well, and I took a chance on some cards I was unfamiliar with and decided I would like to collect the rest of the set. 

I give baseballcardstore.ca a great big thumbs up, and will continue to make orders with them in the future. Kudos