Fanatics Collect +4

You can tell PWCC took their time with this app as it not only is easy to use and has a great user interface, it’s also extremely easy to find the cards you’re interested in. Great filtering system to easily sift through thousands of cards and bid on straight from your phone.

Plus I’m a huge fan of their flash auctions as I can submit a card midweek to a weekly auction and it will close on that Sunday. Perfect for modern cards 💯💯.

Downloaded the app as I enjoy adding to my collection via online auctions and have used PWCC before. I mainly use eBay and have found their app very easy and straightforward to use. I do want to note I have only used the app since Fanatics took it over from PWCC.

First impression was good. App was easy to download and sign up for. It’s fairly easy to use and find what you are searching for.

I do find it somewhat clunky to use though and bidding is not very user friendly. For example, you can only increase your bid by the amount the app wants you to bid (so $1, $2, etc increment) vs you putting in an amount. You also need to pay the buyer premium so a $20 bid will ultimately be higher (the app does note this). Shipping and handling is a flat fee and starts at $5 and they charge a premium for using credit cards too. Also, they add additional time to the end of the the auction so when I thought I had won my item, it went into an additional bid period allowing the price to change. Lastly, I have not received any updates on my purchase to notify me if/when it will ship or a tracking number. I won an auction on a Sunday night, paid Monday morning and 7 days later still no item. In the meantime, I have won an item from eBay after my Fanatics win, and have already received.

I don’t understand what happened with the grading and pay after they sell through the weekly auction. I’m disabled and don’t have any income the first couple times I submitted went great and paid as soon as I got the invoice. So I submitted 40 more cards and then 55 more after that because I knew the 40 would pay for both submissions and have money left over. It took 50 days to get them back and about 7 days for curation and then I got to wondering about that and they had a hold on them until I pay for the grading. It was a shock because I didn’t have any warning at all on that and that was the big reason for me using PWCC to begin with and now I have all those cards in there and no way to pay for them. I was just wondering if anyone else has this happened to them.
On top of all that it seems like my cards don’t bring the price as some of the cards that sold in the previous auction. Sometimes not even half. I know that the grading companies matter too but not as much as I’m loosing though. I’m done with PWCC as soon as I get my card back.