Festivus: The "Airing of Grievances"

The 23rd of December is Christmas Eve Eve. It's also more importantly it is the day we all look forward to over any other day in the calendar. There are many things to do on Festivus: but the most important is the Airing of Grievances. 

Today's post is that and I would like to castigate and denigrate, in short, to celebrate the absolute suckitude and horrificness of COMC. COMC Sucks. COMC is the worst company with which I have ever dealt in what we like to call "the Hobby". Ever. 

1st Grievance: Watermarking. Their watermarking is obnoxious. I'm sorry: you do not own copyright of the cards that you sell. You have no business watermarking your cards.

2nd Grievance: Their pricing is exorbitant. 

3rd Grievance: If you watch an item they don't seem to offer you offers.

4th Grievance: Shipping. Their shipping costs are inconsiderate and way over-priced for the "service" that you get.

5th Grievance: Shipping time. JUST SHIP THE FUCKING CARD. Don't tell me there are 205,783 cards before mine and don't tell me it's going to take 23 days. You suck.

There are probably other grievances that could be listed. If I'm missing one, please feel free to comment!

This was the last card I bought from them. 1932 Stollwerck chocolate Aus dem Tierreich Heron. 

I wanted it desperately because a) it's a heron and b) it's chocolate and c) it's cool.  And I absolutely hated to buy it from them which is why I watched it for a few months. I bought it directly from their website because it was cheaper than via eBay. However, it might have been faster to buy it from eBay because I think it's clear they give preference to that platform and especially for purchases made through eBay live. There is no way eBay would allow them a 1 month turn around in shipping. 

Anyway. I bought it on a given day in October and the estimated shipping date was in early November. Roughly two weeks. Fine. Not bad. Not ideal at all. But whatever. When it didn't ship on time they sent me a $5 voucher to cover shipping on my next order. No. Not good enough. I wrote to ask "Hey, could you please just reimburse my shipping on THIS order?" Silence. They ignored it. And I asked because I knew there would never be a next order. 

Anyway... Then it didn't ship for two full weeks after that originally scheduled shipping date. Why offer estimations when you can't fulfil? I wrote to cancel the order a few days later if it couldn't be shipped by the end of that week. They wrote back to say they can't basically ship on demand like that and ignored my request to cancel the order outright. Ignored my request outright. COMC your customer service is and business model is awful.

Needless to say when the card did eventually arrive I wrote to them within a couple of minutes of opening the envelope to have them close my account and delete my information. I had had a terrible experience with them this summer and this was the final straw. COMC is dead to me.

Other grievances that I am reminded of at this time of year. Snoopy is awful. 

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