Friday, December 6, 2019

lousy day for cards

Today has been a really frustrating day for cards.

1. I lost an ebay auction for the simple reason that I forgot to bid on it. (8 of the 10 cards would have been people missing from my collection).

2. I dropped my smart phone on the oversized rookie card I pulled from a blaster of 19-20 Upper Deck yesterday, leaving a big scratch on the front. (luckily, I was able to scan and post it before that happened)

3. I wanted to do a surprise PIF and forgot to mention it was supposed to be a surprise, so the recipient ended up finding out about it.

4. COMC either swiped a card or lost it, but I had been looking forward to getting my first autographed lady hockey player card when my order arrived next week. Instead, no, they say sorry but I don't get my card. How convienient that the other copies of the card on there are more than I had paid for mine...it can't be replaced because it's serially numbered and had a unique patch.  I hope it's inpetitude instead of shady business. I suspect they sold it on Ebay for more than I paid for it. 
I'm getting really close to being done with COMC. Them not delivering what I paid for might just be the last straw. 

Oh, and did I mention, I also had a root canal this morning, where the novacaine wore off during the drilling, and am hurting in 9 different places? In addition to the usual pain that I live in 24/7? (I mean different in both number of places and places that don't usually bother me...much) Ugh. It's getting harder and harder for me to pretend I'm happy, and now today the one thing that brings me pure happiness is not. 

I'm not touching any other cards today. 

Thanks for letting me vent. 

EDIT: UPDATE: COMC is making it right. I was really in a bad frame of mind with them and I let them know on Twitter...but they replaced the card for me. I am surprised but very pleased with the outcome.

9 comments:

  1. I'm glad COMC is going to make it right for you Billy. I bought a Brett Hull OPC Rookie for $18 on their site and it ended up being a fake. I called and emailed them like crazy and they completely ignored me. Sounds like I should have gone the twitter route.

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    1. Sometimes the squeaky wheel gets the grease...
      It shows me that COMC cares more than Panini because going public with issues with them has led to nothing.

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  2. Bummer of a day. Hope this weekend sparks card joy. Glad COMC made it right.

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    1. I plan to spend most of the day labeling the Rangers cards I got in that huge stash in November. I have scanned almost all of them, so many the scanned and waiting to be labeled stack is starting to get wobbly. After that I got bunch of car stickers as an early Christmas gift from a database member and I plan to scan and edit them. May not even finish in one day, there are so many.

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  3. That's a huge bummer but it sounds like they are doing the right thing.

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    1. Yes, they are replacing it for me with one with an even more colorful patch. I am very pleased with how they are handling this, less so with how I did.

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  4. Man... I'm sorry to hear about your rough day. That whole root canal situation must be so frustrating. I'd be super annoyed if they didn't give me more novacaine. Glad to hear that COMC took care of you. I think there's only been one time when they didn't ship me a card... but they took care of the problem within a few days. I think my issue with them is that they now charge 9% sales tax on credit. But I guess that's not their fault. Hope tomorrow is better for you!

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    1. Thanks! The tax thing is on politicians, not them.

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  5. Sounds like your day was similar to my last couple of weeks, hopefully it'll have ended after just a day for you.

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