Off-Topic Forum

Anyone familiar with Sportlots got any tips for entering inventory.  

I go to the add inventory area, select the year, Brand, Sport and then put the dot in Create New Inventory and hit Next.  Now I have to swin throught the giant list of sets for that Brand and select the set and then scroll to the bottom of the page and hit Get Cards.  Then I have to go through the list of cards in the set find the card I'm adding put a 1 in the quantity, give it a price, mark if it is a Auto, relic or what it is SN to, then go to the bottom of the page and click Inventory Cards.  It will add the cards to my inventory and take me right back to the first page where I have to start over again with the next card in the next set.  

There has to be a better way to do this, its making me seriously reconsider using Sportlots to sell cards.  Its also making me look at my roomates fluffy cat and think it would be really satisfying to punt it across the room.

Just a minor tip, as I've been coonsidering it for about a year, but I keep reading that your should set your store to 'vacation' mode while you are still loading everything

Depending on what set you are trying to add to.. You can add multiple cards at one time..  Ex: Card No.'s  1 -9 -12 and the quantity for each that you have. When you hit the inventory cards button it should take you to the next page.. It shows the first 100 cards of the set on the first page. If the set has more than 100 cards it should take you to the next 100 cards in the set 101-200 etc. etc.

It's fairly time consuming if you are doing 1 or 2 cards per set. A bunch of commons from the same set can be knocked out quickly if you leave them at .18 cents. If you hit the tab button it will go from one quantity box to the next 

After adding inventory you can try hitting the back button a few times to get you back to the same sport/year search. Sometimes it will work sometimes not.

You don't need to select brand, just search on sport/year and use the search function on your browser (ctrl+F) to find what you're looking for.

Alternately, if you're loading a bunch of one player or set or a single card use the "player search" box. All you need to select on the left side is the sport--the year and brands don't matter. It won't pull back searches with thousands of results like "2020 panini" but if you search "1997 Topps jeter" or "2003 stadium club" it will work.

If you're adding a single card you can enter a card number and player name and it will pull back any results with that player name and card number. Pre and postfix may not always be added so best to stick with card number only. For example "jeter 53" will pull back all Jeter cards with the card number 53.

The fewer the search terms the better. For example if you type in "1998 Collector's Choice Star Quest 53 Derek Jeter" it won't pull back any results because Sportlots doesn't put an apostrophe in "Collectors" and StarQuest is one word. So chose safe search terms that you know are correct... "1998 choice jeter 53."

Also, the Tab key is your friend to quickly navigate between the quantity fields.

I agree with doogie_13's tip below.  You need to have a decent amount of cards listed in your inventory before yo gou live (I'd suggest at least 10,000 cards).  Otherwise you won't have anough sales each month and a good chunk of your sales revenue will be lost to fees.

So do they charge me a fee every month to list items for sale or is the percentage they take higher if my sales aren't at a certain level?

No charge to list items but the percentage is higher if you don't see a minimum amount that month.  If you sell less than $5 in a month, they take 75%.  $5-$25 is 50%, $25-$50 is 35%, $50-$100 is 27%, etc.  So until you get a lot of stuff listed, stay in vacation mode until you're ready to go live.