CheckOutMyCards.com Blog

Today all of the headaches are finally gone.  Every card will be disappearing from Dan Dearing’s account one by one throughout the afternoon and evening.

If you wanted to purchase one of them at 8% of book value (or 8% of his asking price on N/A cards), you have a few hours left because we do not have the ability to instantly take all the cards off the site.  Unfortunately, this is the only window — and the sale ceases a week shy of its last potential ending date.

We apologize for all of the stress the DDearing sale may have caused with the site slowdown, but are very relieved that the slowdowns due to this will not hamper any of your sales over this holiday season.  To all of you that participated in the sale, our hope is that you received some sort of benefit and that you enjoyed participating.  Once the site is updated and can handle these types of sales, everyone — including the staff — will be very happy!

Warm wishes throughout the season,

The Staff at CheckOutMyCards.com

The website problems are continuing to get worse as the site traffic grows daily.  This is an indicator that our improvements planned for early 2011 are heavily justified.

In the case of the DDearing Sale, Dan is unable to adjust prices on the bulk-price editing tool as it is not configured to handle the inventory changes below 90% off.  To give you an example of Dan’s day, it takes more than 5 hours to download his inventory and make price adjustments.  Today he was unable to make any changes as the tool is not working properly.

During this busy holiday season, we may not get the chance to properly make the changes in the editing system.  Thus, until Christmas, we have created a way for you to still get the savings on the inventory.  It is fortunate that currently all of the asking prices are at 10% of book so the calculations are simple:

Today 12/16 all offers of 90% will be auto accepted (9% of book)

12/17 all offers of 80% will be auto accepted (8% of book)

12/18 all offers of 70% will be auto accepted (7% of book)

12/19 all offers of 60% will be auto accepted (6% of book)

12/20 all offers of 50% will be auto accepted (5% of book)

12/21 all offers of 40% will be auto accepted (4% of book)

12/22 all offers of 30% will be auto accepted (3% of book)

12/23 all offers of 20% will be auto accepted (2% of book)

12/24 all offers of 10% will be auto accepted (1% of book)

We have no idea when all of the inventory will be gone so please make your purchases quickly.  Please call the office when you need assistance in making a large purchase if the site is timing out and giving you an error message.

Thank you for your understanding and support,

The Staff at CheckOutMyCards.com

The DDearing sale is running again, after a temporary delay the past couple days. We apologize for this inconvenience and don’t expect any more hiccups along the way.

As of tomorrow, the cards will be listed at 90 percent off. For future reference, if someone tries to add all of the remaining cards in this account and the system times out, we will facilitate the sale.

Thanks again for your patience as Dearing re-ignites this first-ever ‘countdown’-type sale on COMC!

Lately we have noticed we have been getting a few questions about due dates so we thought we would try and answer a few questions about how the due dates work, why CheckOutMyCards due dates have been behind lately, why some orders finish faster than others, and how you can get your orders up as fast as possible.

How do the due dates work?
Here at CheckOutMyCards.com we use estimated due dates from 2-4 weeks for standard processing. These due dates are our best estimate of how long we think it will take to process your cards but are not a guarantee how long it will take. Please keep in mind these due dates are based on a few factors like how many orders are ahead of your cards, how many cards are in those orders, how many cards are in your order, how long they will take to sort, and how hard they are to identify. All cards start our process based on the date received but along the way some of these factors will effect if that actual due date will be met on time or if it might be required to take a little more time.

Why has CheckOutMyCards due dates been behind lately?
In December a major snow storm blew threw Washington state which then turned into major flooding in January that shut down our area and kept most CheckOutMyCards.com employees home for more than a week. Even through the shut down we have continued record growth in sales and the amount of cards to be processed.

Why do some orders finish faster than others?
We find out along the way through that some cards take more time than others.

What makes my order take more time than others?
There are many reasons for what makes your order take longer than others.
Here is just a few:

• Were your cards sent in screw downs or top loaders?
• How long will it take to sort them?
• How hard are they to identify?
• How hard is it to find pricing information for them?

What can i do to get my order get processed the fastest?
Using the express service is the best way to get your cards processed the quickest but if you are using the standard standard service here are some tips:

• Clearly mark your user name on or in the package.
• Carefully count the cards and include that count with the package.
• Take all of the cards out of any screw down and top loaders and follow our instructions for how to ship the cards to us securely.
• If you feel like you can securely get the cards to us without any penny sleeves as well, that is the best.
• Try grouping all of the cards that are from the same set together.
• If the cards are all over the map, try to group cards from the same player together.

Thank you to all our our amazing customers for all of your understanding and patience,
CheckOutMyCards.com Team

We are doing our best to get caught back up after a major snow storm that shut down Seattle for nearly a week. We will not be able to make it to the Jantzen Beach Show. Sorry for the inconvenience. See you guys next week at the Meridian Park Show.