CheckOutMyCards.com Blog

Congratulations to john9172 for sending us item #1,000,000 and winning the $100.

This was totally random, but it is fitting that item #1,000,000 happened to be a Shaqille O’Neal rookie card. It was added to the site the same week that Shaq was traded to Cleveland, where the National Sports Collectors Convention is being held later this month.

I think I might get it framed and bring it to display at the national. We just finalized out travel plans for the national. Steve Hollander, Dave Elmore, and I will be attending the national this year. We are now working on the promotional materials and specials we want to run.

If you will be at the national, you will want to make sure to swing by our booth to take advantage of our show-only specials and to introduce yourself to us. We will have opportunities for users of the site to volunteer at our booth and share their experience with people attending the show. Keep an eye on the blog for more details.

Major Milestones

Item #1,000,000 added 6/29/2009 1:42:04 PM by Jade Aspiras from john9172

Item #100,000 added 8/22/2007 10:19:36 PM by Tim Getsch from LowPriceCards

Item #10,000 added 6/20/2004 8:19:19 PM by Tim Getsch from LowPriceCards

Item #1,000 added 3/16/2004 by Tim Getsch from LowPriceCards

Item #100 added 3/16/2004 by Tim Getsch from LowPriceCards

Item #10 and #1 do not exist.

I know it is early, but the first 6 days of June have been very good for business. Maybe the baseball season is getting into swing.

I was looking at our stats and noticed that May of last year was the first full month in our current warehouse. Then I noticed that CheckOutMyCards.com generated more revenue in these first 6 days of June than we did the entire month of May last year.

Hopefully this is a reflection of things changing in the economy. Thanks for spreading the word about CheckOutMyCards.com and making it what it is today. Please continue to let people know what you think of our service, and continue sending us your feedback. As fellow card collectors, we loving finding ways to help all of us enjoy collecting sports cards even more.

I have no clue what was so significant about yesterday, but we did manage to break our single day record for revenue. No specials, no promotions, just a normal Thursday, but yesterday beat out the day after Thanksgiving which had our huge flat shipping special.

Hopefully this is a positive sign regarding the economy, but I am sure it is way to early to tell. In any case, it is really nice to see this the same week we had a couple new employees join our team.

Here are the 2009 Q1 stats. Thank you so much for continuing to help us continue the record setting trends!

* Page Views are based on Google Analytics.
* Cards Added tracks the rate at which we upload new cards into sellers accounts. It does not track when the sellers started setting asking prices.
* Total Sellers is the total number of users that have sent us cards and set asking prices on their cards. Many sellers have sold their entire inventory and do not currently have any more cards for sale.
* Total Accounts only counts users that have created and activated their accounts. It does not count people that have purchased cards off of the site without creating an account.

Congrats everyone! Just a few hours ago we passed last month’s sales total making this the 10th consecutive month of growing sales.

In April of 2008 we didn’t see growth in sales because we moved to our current warehouse. Prior to that we had 8 consecutive months of growth.

Here are the stats that we will be printing on our next round of business cards.

We just recently broke into the top 100,000 sites per Alexa.com.

CheckOutMyCards.com Alexa Traffic Details

As I alluded to yesterday, we were about to set another record.

On Wednesday we blew away our previous best day by 45%!
On Friday we be blew away Wednesday’s record by 34%!!!

In the last four days we have done more business than we did for the entire months of November and December combined last year.

We had several sellers let us know that they sold more than 100 cards just yesterday.

I looked at the number of cards requested to be shipped, and we had 10 times more cards requested to be shipped yesterday than our previous best day!!!!

I am speechless.

On a personal note: I only worked half days on Wednesday and Friday. I am really proud of the team that is taking care of things when I am not there.

When we announced the Black Friday special of $3 shipping on Wednesday we immediately started setting records. Account holders started buying up cards and getting them ready to be shipped on Friday.

On Wednesday we did 45% more business than our record setting day from two weeks ago.

Today, we are just about to beat Wednesday’s record and it is not even 4:00PM. Let’s see how much we can beat our record by.

We are making the mail man work for his money.

Here are the packages that arrived today.

It is probably closer to 15,000 cards than 10,000 cards. Looks like people really like our new pricing.

Here is a photo from a few weeks ago. This was what happened when our last promotion ended.

It was two weeks ago that we adjusted our fee structure. We got some very helpful feedback from several sellers, and we were able to tweak the fee structure to make the fees work for as many buyers and sellers as possible.

Today I am happy to let you know that we set a record for total sales in one day. The growth of the site over the last year has literally blown me away.

By 9:00 PM today, we exceeded the total sales from the entire month of October last year.

There is still a chance that by the end of the day we will surpass the sales from the entire month of November last year. That is mind boggling.

I need to thank all of my amazing employees. They have been working so hard the last few weeks to process the record number of cards that have been sent to us. Also, I need to thank all of the sellers and other members of the site that have been spreading the word about CheckOutMyCards.com. This kind of growth is only made possible by each of your efforts.

I want to thank each and every one of you for helping this dream come true! It is really working. The concept is really working.