Sending to COMC with the new tariffs

[ozsportscardcollector]

Any thoughts on what happens here?

You can still go ahead and send to COMC if you are in Australia (unlike PSA) but if you state that you have 3K worth of cards that should incur a $300 duty based on the 10% tariff. COMC being who they are will not tell you this before you send so you may get a nasty surprise when they have your cards.

Do you just under-declare? Send 100 cards worth $3,000 and just put $200 on there?

The tariffs affect the value of the import (your cards) not the service amount. As PSA now puts an automatic $500USD value on the lowest card that means if you send them 6 cards you will have to pay a $300 duty ( 6x$500= $3000 and they have to collect 10% of that for Big D).

 

[1980bust]

Yeah i've been wondering the same thing re: COMC. Might wait to see how things shake out before sending a batch.

RE: PSA, i've read that the tariffs aren't applied to a local rep or something like that? So for example if you send directly you're in trouble, but maybe Cherry has some kind of regional deal with PSA that gets around them? I dunno, need to look into it some more.

 

[ozsportscardcollector]

I thought that too. They could just send it it to an individual/ group submitter in the US - which is what they may have done all along. That will be a bit cloak and dagger now, though. Not strictly kosher if you are doing that for the purposes of evading the tariff.

Going direct to PSA from outside the US is all but finished as it stands.

The comc bit concerns me as they are just the sort of company to take your cards and figure the details out later even if that means you are seriously out of pocket. However, at least with comc you can put down the the value of the cards. Not be locked in for $500 a card like PSA. Maybe they are counting on people figuring that out themselves.

 

[GarnettFan4Life]

Just hold off for a bit - they’ll probably remove the tariff in a few months. Hopefully

 

[ozsportscardcollector]

Looks like its business as usual for Cherry with regards to grading. They must not go directly to PSA/BGS.

I can't work this tariff thingy out. You can't send direct to PSA but you can send it to an agent based in the US and thus avoid the tariff? That seems like a big loophole which undermines "Big D's" policy. I might give him a bell.