CheckOutMyCards.com Blog

This week DPietrack became the first consignment seller to sell more than $10,000 BV worth of cards. He only started selling a little over two months ago. He is offering great cards at amazing prices, and they have not been lasting long. If you see something you like, you better grab it soon.

This week we also crossed another milestone. We now have 10 sellers that have more than $10,000 BV worth of cards on the site.

SteveSC is one of our top sellers, and when mentioned that this was the first month where he made more money off sales from CheckOutMyCards.com than he did from the card shows he does on weekends, I decided to see exactly how we were doing…

Wow! The site is definitely back up and working smoothly. This week we have been setting records for number of orders and size of orders. Several people have been placing 100+ card orders.

Yesterday we set another record for most sellers in one purchase. Someone from New South Wales, Australia placed an order for 139 cards from 30 different sellers and only had to pay $20 for shipping to Australia. That is absolutely amazing!

All of the cards were Michael Jordan, Tim Duncan, or David Robinson cards.

Here were the sellers involved with the sale.

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!

Engineering a move is always fun… for those that like to dance with the unknown and predict the unexpected. I, on the other hand, am very glad that we are almost done. Due to the recent spike in demand for our consignment service, we had to move much faster than I would have liked, but I am super excited about our new facility and our new ability to grow much more rapidly.

Last Friday we signed the lease, and on Sunday we started moving in. The inventory was successfully moved without skipping a beat. The new location has allowed us to easily have teams of people processing cards. Almost everything was going more smoothly and quickly than expected… until we started to configure the network in our new office.

We were hoping to have the internet hooked up on Tuesday, but Murphy’s Law intervened. Now the latest estimate is that the internet will be hooked up on Friday. At least it isn’t like the old days where it often took 3-6 months to get a decent internet connection. Unfortunately, almost all of our staff will be out of town this weekend, so we may not be able to commence filling orders until Monday.

The office space should be fully furnished and everything should be back to the regular swing of things by the end of next week. Deliveries of office furniture and computers are expect to arrive in the middle of next week.

Status Update for Buyers

• Order Status: Assume that your orders won’t be shipped until Monday April 14.

Status Update for Sellers

• Current Shipments: For those of you that have received an estimate for when your cards will be done being processed, the move has pushed us an extra two weeks behind on processing cards.
• Recent Shipments: For those of you that recently sent us shipments of cards, I hope to send the “Shipment Arrived Notification” emails this weekend.
• Future Shipments: For those of you patiently waiting to send us more cards, we expect to start listing our new shipping location next week.

This evening Alfredo from California purchased 43 cards from 22 different sellers. Shipping was only $10.60.

That is amazing. The entire order was less than $26, including shipping. Here are some the cards purchased.

Here are the sellers that each took part in this historic sale.

1. VinnyH
2. cardsinlimbo
3. jsmatheis
4. KDavvy
5. johnhungerford
6. sharon10
7. timgetsch
8. SteveSC
9. MichaelJohn
10. prestongillespie
11. DavesCards
12. immediex
13. vail271
14. crahawk
15. cody804
16. rustapark
17. iathatch
18. CardMan
19. LowPriceCards
20. scottya124
21. Kral
22. CSCHASE

Over the last two days we added 4,000 cards to CheckOutMyCards.com from 13 different sellsers.

Lots of happy, returning sellers
cardsinlimbo
jammon
rustapark
steve7563
SteveSC
Bobm811
robert
jpenque
BmanBfan

4 new sellers
13800milo

jetsrock55555

jacobbigshow

blueguy

CheckOutMyCards.com is really taking off. We keep getting calls from people that are really excited about the site, and our sellers are starting to enjoy the success.

There are now 7 accounts that have earned more than $1,000 in store credit by selling cards through our consignment program, and there are many more sellers that are getting close.

SteveSC was the first consignment seller to pass $1,000 in sales.

PrestonGillespie was the not only the fastest seller to pass $1,000 in sales, he was also the first seller to have $1,000 deposited in his PayPal account. Preston had more than $1,000 in sales in less than a month.

GoodDeal was the second fastest seller to pass $1,000 in sales. It took him just under 2 months, but he would have done so faster if we had the man power to process his cards fast enough. He has been very patient with us as we are experiencing growing pains.

DKSchultz was only a hair slower than GoodDeal in his race to $1,000. He hasn’t sent us as much inventory as GoodDeal, but with prices that are almost as good as PrestonGillespie, DKSchultz has seen a lot of success.

EaglesCards just passed $1,000 in the last few days. He is another seller that you should keep a close eye on. He currently has less than 2,000 cards on the site, but we are in the middle of processing almost 5,000 more cards for him.

LowPriceCards has a strong lead in total sales. This is the account used for all the cards that were being sold on my previous website, LowPriceCards.com. That site evolved into CheckOutMyCards.com almost exactly a year ago. It was technically the first account to have more than $1,000 in sales, but it isn’t really a consignment seller since the inventory is technically owned by CheckOutMyCards.com.

TimGetsch is primarily my childhood collection. Though it did have $1,000 in sales before any other consignment account, it kind of had an unfair advantage with a 6 month head start before we opened up the system for other sellers.

Some other accounts that are approaching $1,000 in sales include the following.
BFarbman
DavesCards
RobertPeele
Serf77

Earlier this week we had our 2,000th user register with the site. If you haven’t set up your account yet, you can do so here. Create a free account

Here are some other interesting statistics about the site.

• We have 70+ active sellers
• We have shipped to 49 of the 50 states in the US… Come on Vermont
• We have shipped to 8 of the 10 provinces in Canada
• We have shipped to all 6 states in Australia
• We have shipped to 14 different countries

Not bad for less than 1 year of activity

On Thursday James from Fargo, ND set a CheckOutMyCards.com record by placing one order that spanned 16 different sellers. He only had to pay $20 for shipping because we house all of the cards on the site and we do all the shipping at once.

Here are a couple of the cards that were purchased.

In my last post I mentioned that it took 50 days to get from 1,000 to 2,000 unique visitors in a day, and it took 10 days to get from 2,000 to 3,000 unique visitors. Well, it took 4 days to get from 3,000 to 4,000 unique visitors.

Yesterday we had 4,041 unique visitors. That was more than 20% better than our previous best day. CheckOutMyCards.com is really taking off.

On another note, you may have noticed that we now have the Hacker Safe logo on our site.

We have started using the services of ScanAlert.com to help keep our website safe.