Did COMC just kill their business model?

[swarmee]

So the Dean's Cards thing was not even announced until the cards started showing up on site; I reported it here on the main board a few weeks ago. Their rationale was that some sellers had "war-chests" that they were amassing, but didn't want to take the 20% hits, so adding Dean's Cards allowed them to buy other cards to take off site.

It doesn't make a ton of sense, because you're still losing at least 20% of value converting your store credit into Dean's cards as well.

The other thing that it harmed was the fact that Dean's cards with the black background made other sellers' cards look washed out or pale in comparison. I'm still using the site heavily and mailed in another 400 cards which will be added to the site in the next six weeks. Will Dean's accept offers on their cards? If so, it might mitigate the initial prices if they're willing to haggle. But yes, all of a sudden having 50 unique cards on site and going to 3, some sellers were going to feel like they submitted cards no longer worthwhile to have submitted.

We'll see if it's half-baked or not.