Buy/Sell/Trade Forum

I'm a multi time past purchaser as well. There's a difference between finding cards on my want list versus finding cards i may be willing or interested in buying.

Finding stuff on my want list means being able to search for very specific items. Even if I broaden it to say Leafs cards on my list I still have to scan everything. Previously where you could at least search by team it was much easier.

Searching for cards I might be interested in taking is fine, in particular if you remove the sold out stuff from the view.

From a technical perspective I don't know the details of your backend , but if you could figure out a way to enter the details once (made up example so don't tell me the # is wrong please). So have created a record with the details Upper Deck 2022 card #147 Morgan Rielly Toronto Maple Leafs and then just edit the inventory quantity you have as you catalog/acquire cards it would reduce the work of tagging every card.

It may even be possible to automate loading that if you can. So for example do a spreadsheet with the details of the 120 2023 Timmies cards and then load that up.

I agree that this site would most likely work better in so many ways than an independent site. I know it can be time consuming to load things here and much of the work already done on the other site would be wasted. I also know that part of the problem at your end is to be able to quickly locate a card being asked for if listed on this site. Sorting an dorganizing the millions of cards you have into Year/Company/Set/Card # is not realistic in the short run. I had submitted a New Feature that would display the Comment field when looking at a card but there was opposition to this idea as some use it for personal notes that they do not wish to have revealed to the public. If this had been inplemented, the problem of locating cards through an index system would be facilitated.

This site would do much of the work that is being mentioned above.

1. There would be no need to scan any cards as almost all of the images are already here.

2. Matches would be automatically done for those looking to purchase.

3. Searching sets would be so easy to do as all the cards listed for sale would be in your For Sale/Trade part of your collection.

I think that if you started loading into this site what you have not yet loaded on the other site, you would soon be swamped with offers. Many members use the match alerts and as soon as they start seeing some from you, they would start searching for more. They could do this on your other site as well.

I know I have searched on your site but it is painful when looking for specific cards even when searching sets. Once a person manages to find 40+ cards to buy, they also have to add them to their collection here so that they don't get offers for the same cards. Using the site here makes the transfer of cards from the want lists to the collection faster for the members.

I really wish you would consider using this site to list what you have. I think if you did, I would become a very regular customer as the prices you list are still some of the best when looking to complete sets.

I concur with Bruno.

However, I have some questions.

Let me preface it by saying that I have attempted to find specifics on the site, and did not find enough to warrant a purchase.

That said, how much of the traffic on your site is the same as the traffic on TCDB? If it's 60%-75% (or higher), you'd be better served to port everything here (and then direct the other percentage that you get from elsewhere to here).

How hard is it to get organized? I realize you have millions of cards, and I'm talking a smaller scale when I dealt with the 35-40K I had from my best friend when he moved. It contained baseball, basketball, hockey, football, and some mixed non-sport and multi-sport releases. Using a couple extra boxes to begin with, I sorted them out by sport, then once they were together, I sorted them out by year/set. When I didn't have the room to pull everything out, I sorted what I could, boxed it (with some papers inbetween to help with year identification), and filled in when the next sort happened. Again, I know this was only 40K cards, about 1/12th what you have, however, it was still an operation that was scalable. (In fact, the first sorts by sport remained in each of the boxes they were already in, just finally separated.)

Is this your business or a side project? Either way, if you're serious about moving product, get serious about it. If it's a side project, shut things down for a month or so and get it organized where you can bang out a ton of stuff. If it's your business, you may need to spend every waking hour to get your product seen.

Do you have an "outlet" for the "overstock" product you have? If you see that you have a glut of 1988 Donruss and Topps (or the like), and you have no need to list more than 10 (or 20) here, but you have 80 of certain cards, can you move them in bulk in another method? If you were able to reduce your "unmovable" stock, you'd have better access to your stock that sells. (Or store the overstock off to the side until the "normal amounts" start selling, then start bringing them into the regular stock - if you haven't shed it all.)

Again, I acknowledge that I don't have experience with an inventory the same size as yours. And my personal inventory was only one sport when it was closing in on that number, so I may not fully grasp what you are facing, but I do know that without some sort of change in your efforts, nothing will change.

I agree with Dan and sandyrusty.   You are in a catch 22 position, a lot of cards and only 2 people working on them.  

There are only 2 ways to get people cards that they want/need/willing to get.

1.   They make a list, and you look through it.  You find them and do a deal.  Do not think you want to do that!!

2.   You make a list and have them to look through it and make an offer and a deal.   It appears you are making a list by posting pictures of the cards on your site.  Like noted a 20-cent box at a show.    It is good for a show but not so good for the internet nowadays.  Just IMO.    There are a lot of sites out there to sell on, but you have to do the work pay the fees and higher your prices.  They are a lot of trading site also.

Do you really know what cards you have?   How organized are they?    Your video shows what appears to be boxes of cards no or few markings on them.  Are there unopened boxes and packs?  It appears you have no cards listed here.

Without really knowing some of this stuff it is hard to give you an idea on how to go about it.  But my 2 cent.

I would set up my base here with the single cards.  My understating is that there is an area that you can put a note to show where you have it stored.  I may be wrong.    I would use your site to sell your boxes, packs and other stuff you may have not list here along with Bulk sales.   In your profile you may want to show you are only selling and the way you prefer doing it. (like on your site).   You also can use your site to point to this site for singles as this site buying is not on top of most member's mind.   I have pointed to this site many times on other sites, and it has worked for me and got a few new members for us.

Where to start is up to you.    I would start with the better cards even if they are the same price.  That way you move more cards and get some money or by sets if they are in order. 

By looking at your video it appears you have your work cut out for you and Nancy.    No matter how you go it will take a lot of work to move that many cards.   It might as well be here.  I'm being selfie as you may have a card that I need.

Out of 5 million you should have at least one for me, but I do not want to go through that many to find it.  If you chose to make your site, your base.  You need to update it so we can find cards easier.   IMO

My 2 cent for what it is worth.

I will certainly look into it, the "somewhat quick method" I have employed in the past is to use b - - - - t and type in minimal details for the actual card to pop up then copy/paste it, the long part is the umpthundred different color schemes and having 2 of these 3 of those etc..

Like a Mosaic Prizm  Pink Camo and many other pink prizmy options come on Panini?

No, unfortunately until i start adding more card descriptions the search bar is very useless, 

Best at this time is click full catalog, scroll down a bit to where it says products, to the right of that it says sort by drop down the menu and select date new to old and it will show you the most recently added items to the set. or click the following link will take you to that - https://baseballcardstore.ca/collections/all?sort_by=created-descending it's a work in progress as we recently removed the entire inventory from the site to restart from scratch.

Awesome, really appreciate that input,

We are not helping the sites ability to search by not giving it more info than just an inventory position identifier, and will certainly be implementing improvements in many areas shortly.

Thank you!

Not certain what you mean by that, i do use the database when i bulk upload from the same set so similar to what we see on Eyay in multi card you pick listings. 

Or are you suggesting using the database here on TCDB?

I did give it a go but as i mentioned nobody was reaching out so a month in i gave up

We've thought of something like what you are saying, and Nancy the better and more tech saavy half thinks that if we uploaded every checklist (or at least as needed) and hid them that the site may implode, like you suggest if I understand enter it once so that we don't have to do it 10 times.

Thank you for your input and partnership over the years!

Don't know what size following you have on any of the social media but perhaps taking the cards into lots of 40 or 80 by team or maybe by  player and having a nightly auction vis a vis the following:

Monday night hockey by team say 10 teams ( tune in next monday for the next ten teams)

Tuesday night football  by team (same as above-mentioned next week for next teams)

Wednesday baseball (and so on)

Thursday racing and or non sport or others golf, polo ,tennis, wrestling etc.

Perhaps this will move more cards to those seeking to build teams but you can also change it up to player lots or sets by year and company (factory sets, or bulk lots) on the 4th week to help move more. As noted by other respondents within this thread,  the key is, eyes on product. They can't buy what they can't find in the search.