CheckOutMyCards.com Blog

This month we jumped up 5 spots on the Seattle Startup Index that is published by the Seattle 2.0 Blog.

• We debuted in the January 2008 index at #74.
• In the February index we jumped 8 spots to #66.
• Now, for the March index we jumped 5 spots to #61.

I noticed that no site that was ranked below us jumped above us. That is cool. We are growing faster than our nearest peers.

Thank you for visiting our site and helping us to become the fastest growing sports card website on the internet!

Last night I got a request from Jane at Forbes.com for some high-resolution images of a handful of players.

With our large arsenal of high-resolution scans, it was fairly easy to pull together the request. Late last night I sent the images, and this afternoon the article was posted.

The Biggest Draft Flops Of The Past 25 Years

Here are the images from CheckOutMyCards.com.

Brien Taylor

B. J. Wallace

Brian Lawton

Neil Brady

Here is a great post on a handy trick I told some buddies at Microsoft.
http://blogs.msdn.com/access/archive/2008/01/14/easy-drill-through-with-macros.aspx

Here is a screen shot of one of the many places we use this technique in the inventory tracking system we use for managing the data behind CheckOutMyCards.com.

As a front-end development tool, Microsoft Access provides an incredible balance of power and rapid development that allows us to move quickly with changing demands. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is currently our back-end database for both our in house inventory management system and our ASP.net web site.

I just got a notification that our site has been reviewed on KillerStartup.com. I don’t know who wrote up the review, but they did a great job.

Here is their take on why we might be a killer startup.

The site gives card collectors and sellers a great opportunity to facilitate the buying, selling, and looking process. There are tons of rare cards, so it’s a great first place to search for that card you’ve been dying to get your hands on for years. It’s a great alternative to looking for cards on ebay and has the potential to become a favorite site for sports enthusiasts.

Here is their overview of the site.

CheckOutMyCards is a way to buy and sell sports cards. Offering baseball, basketball, football, golf, hockey, racing, and even poker cards, it’s a one stop shop for sports card enthusiasts. With those who have an extensive collection of cards and want to make some money, they have the ability to purchase store credit, send them to CheckOutMyCards, letting them do all the research to find their true worth. The seller then sets prices for the cards and they are in turn displayed on the website for purchase. For avid collectors, there are thousands of cards available and you can search for them based on player, set, card, and year. You can filter your search according to age, book value, etc. Cards are scanned in high quality resolution, both front and back, so you know exactly what the card looks like and what condition it’s in before you buy it.

Here is the full post.
http://www.killerstartup.com/eCommerce/Checkoutmycardscom—Buy-and-Sell-Sports-Cards/

I guess you can go to the site and flag us as a killer startup. This is the first I have heard of this site, but I am pretty impressed so far.