Just in time for Black Friday rush, trauty has joined top 10 sellers list.

New seller breaks into the top 10
November 13, 2009November Promos & Black Friday
November 5, 2009Get your cards on the site before Black Friday! I believe the word soundsportscards used to describe the weekend after Thanksgiving last year was “sick”. He had 500 cards go in the site just before Thanksgiving and 400 of them sold that weekend.
In order to get your cards on the site before Thanksgiving, you will need to use our Express Processing service, and the cards will need to arrive at our warehouse by Wednesday, November 18th.
25¢ Express Processing for any of the following items
– Any basketball cards
– Any hockey cards
– Any football cards from 2009
* Note that the cards may be delayed if they are not yet listed on Beckett.com
Restrictions
– No more than 5,000 cards per user
– Encased cards, box-toppers, jumbo and graded cards are not eligible for this promotion
– Packages must be postmarked by Monday, November 30th
– Boxes must be clearly marked with your user name and “25¢ Express”
– Follow the instructions for how to ship to us
– Note: There will still be a $3 batch fee per 500 cards.
Learn more about using our consignment service to sell your cards
First-Time Sellers
If you have never sent us cards to sell, you can send us up to 50 cards and we will use the Express Processing services to list the cards for FREE!!!
Restrictions
– Encased cards, box-toppers, jumbo and graded cards are not eligible for this promotion
– Packages must be postmarked by Monday, November 30th
– Boxes must be clearly marked with your user name and “First-Time Seller: 50 Free”
– Follow the instructions for how to ship to us
15¢ Bulk Shipping
The last week of the month you will be able to place a bulk shipment request for 50 cards or more. The shipping fee will be $15 for the first 50 cards and 15¢ for each card after that.
Here are the full details on the bulk shipping option.
Black Friday Sneak Peak
The full details of the Black Friday special won’t be revealed until Thanksgiving day, but you will want to be ready to buy, sell, and ship a lot of cards that weekend.
Getting email to go to aol.com addresses
November 5, 2009At last… I found the needle in the haystack. Wow, what a pain. We got our new email server all configured about 10 days ago, and it seemed to be working great for just about everyone. However, no one from with an aol.com email address was getting our emails.
After many many hours of searching I finally traced down what the issue was. This forum post from tek-tips.com was very helpful.
Quick Summary
AOL required reverse DNS to be configured for the IP address that is sending the email messages.
Full Details
This had all been configured correctly with our old email server, but when we migrated the the new email server, I had to change some of our firewall settings. The email server happens to accept request from a couple different IP addresses. So it was successfully receiving emails that were routed through mx1.checkoutmycards.com, but when it was sending emails it happen to go out through a different IP address.
I realized this by doing a “What is my IP” search and seeing that it didn’t match mx1.checkoutmycards.com. All I had to do was change one firewall setting so that outgoing emails got sent through the same IP address as the one that had reverse DNS configured.
I even created an @aol.com email address just to test the scenario and make sure things worked. Hopefully all of you at aol.com can now receive our emails.
New member of the $100,000 club
November 4, 2009An ex-NBA player’s story
November 4, 2009Here is a story about David Vaughn. Long fall from riches to rags for ex-NBA player Vaughn
Canadian collector launches site Eh!
October 19, 2009Barry from London, Ontario worked together with my brother Toby to launch a new site that combines game data with sports cards. The site is cleaverly named ScoreboardEh.com.
Here is a quick overview of the site’s concept.
ScoreboardEh is designed to highlight the day to day stars of the game and their cards. Each morning I’ll reveal the contents of one pack of cards. I’ll write about the cards I find and the players they feature. I’ll also write about the other cards of the same players that I have available in my ScoreboardEh store at CheckOutMyCards.com.
Here are a few of the cards for sale from ScoreboardEh.



jseau makes appearance in 6 figure class
October 18, 2009I had to do this blog post quick because it is probably just a matter of hours before jseau dips below $100,000 again. With the price and selection that jseau offers, his cards have been flying off the site.

jseau has sold more book value worth of cards than any other seller. Here are the top sellers based on book value sold. He has sold nearly twice as many cards as the next highest seller. Back in August jseau became the first seller to surpass $100,000 in book value sold.
Here are some of the cards he has for sale. You better act quickly because they are sure to sell out soon.

Q3 Stats
October 7, 2009Here are the 2009 Q3 stats.

We are extremely pleased with the growth. We are already starting to max out our warehouse and need to start planning for a move into a larger space.
mocards takes the #2 spot
September 30, 2009mocards just became the #2 seller on the top sellers list.
mocards is also the first seller from outside of Washington state to pass up LowPriceCards. He did this in less than a year. mocards put his first cards up for sale on October 27th of last year. All of his cards have been mailed to us.
October Promos
September 29, 200915¢ Priority Processing for any of the following items
Basketball
– Any cards from 2009-10
– Any cards from 1986-87 or earlier
– Any Topps Chrome
– Any Derrick Rose
– Any Andres Nocioni
– Any Pete Maravich
– Any Dennis Rodman
– Any Kevin Durant
– Any LeBron James
– Any Chris Paul
– Any Julius Erving
– Any Michael Jordan
Hockey
– Any cards from 2009-10
– Any cards from 1982-83 or earlier
– Any Topps Chrome
– Any Alexander Ovechkin
– Any Sidney Crosby
– Any Evgeni Malkin
– Any Maxim Lapierre
– Any Patrick Kane
– Any Bobby Clarke
Restrictions
– No more than 5,000 cards per user
– Encased cards, box-toppers, jumbo and graded cards are not eligible for this promotion
– Packages must be postmarked by October 31st
– Boxes must be clearly marked with your user name and “15¢ Priority”
– Follow the instructions for how to ship to us
– Note: There will still be a $3 batch fee per 500 cards.
Learn more about using our consignment service to sell your cards
15¢ Bulk Shipping
The last week of the month you will be able to place a bulk shipment request for 50 cards or more. The shipping fee will be $15 for the first 50 cards and 15¢ for each card after that.
Here are the full details on the bulk shipping option.





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