National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore August 1-5

We will be at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Baltimore (http://www.nsccshow.com/) on Thursday, August 2 and Saturday, August 4. We went in 2007 and 2010, and it an awesome experience.

We're looking forward to meeting so many friends and collectors at the show. If youa re planning on going, please drop us an email as we'd love to meet up.

36,000 baseball cards added today

The SportsCardDatabase community has been hard at work supplying our database with so many card entries for our catalog. This week we approved and properly categorized over 36,000 new baseball cards.


One of our key priorities for 2012 is that we continue to work toward getting our catalog fully up to date and complete with all major issues in the 4 major sports. We're getting there and we thank you for your support.

Lots of Good Stuff Going on

It has been a really long time since we've posted on the SCDB blog - Sorry everyone.

We have been working hard on the site adding features and more card listings to our library. Here's some of the new cool stuff:

• Thousands of New Members - it has been great to see so many people joining and using the features.
• Deal Finder - automatically finds popular items selling for below their value.
• Download Your Collection - you can easily download all the cards you track on the site into Excel format.
• Your Collection Stats - you can see stats about the cards you are tracking on the site.
• Added More Cards - we've added over 100,000 new cards in the past 2 weeks for baseball.
• Optimized Pricing Algorithm - there was a major enhancement to the logic in our pricing algorithm, now providing even more accurate pricing guidance.

So there is plenty of great stuff in the works and we are all excited to make SportsCardDatabase the best resource in the world for sports card collectors.

Follow the great deals on Twitter

We've created a twitter account where we will posting great deals we find across all the marketplaces on SCDB:

Twitter name: sportscarddb

This is a free and easy way to have us help you find great prices on great cards - as comparison shopping works!


Our first great deal is the rookie card of newly elected Hall of Famer Brian Leetch for $0.18 in NM condition.

1989 O-Pee-Chee #136 Brian Leetch

Big Server Upgrades

SportsCardDatabase has been consistently growing since our launch. In fact, you guys have been so active that the data in our database has grown by 20% in size over this month, not to mention all the images you have been uploading. That is great news, and I can not tell you all how much I appreciate your contributions. Thank you.

When you combine the potential of this site with the substantial growth of SportsCollectors.Net, I wanted to put us in place to take them to a whole new level. While the site is performing nicely and doing well, I have decided that it is time to make a pretty major upgrade to the hardware that powers our site.

I have plans to add some cool stuff on both sites for a while (that no other site has even thought of), and I didn't think our current platform could handle it. So last week I bought some much bigger and more powerful servers, so we have some great things in store for SportsCollectors.Net and SportsCardDatabase.

Yesterday I finished migrating our site to the new servers. You may notice that things are running faster and that we have been working to add more features.

New Features on SportsCardDatabase

We've been hard at work adding all sorts of new functionality to the site. Since so many of you have signed up and enjoy looking up cards/values and shopping for deals, we've been inspired to keep adding more things to help you enjoy this hobby:

Tracking your Collections and Wantlists
This came out about a month ago and so far the feedback has been really encouraging. It's really easy to find the cards you have/want, and add them to your profile.

The Watchlist
We were inspired here by eBay's very useful watchlist, except ours is much better. We figured it would be so much better for collectors to keep track of their auctions and buy now listings across many sites all in one place.

My Favorite Cards
This is a quick way to build a list of cards you are interested in tracking and see their values.

User Profiles
We've added the ability for collectors to create basic User Profiles about their collecting interests, showing off their collections, and showing their wantlists. There's lots more to come in this area.

My SCDB Dashboard
Here is tne one easy place to see a quick overview of all of your activity on SCDB. As we continue to add functionality, we'll add to summary items to this area.

Improvements to our Pricing Engine
As more and more of you look up cards, we analyze more data and can do better analysis. We are constantly evaluating our algorithms to find the optimal price determinations. We've made two small, but important optimizations thanks to your help.

New Homepage
The old was pretty plain and boring, so we cleaned ours a little bit.

New Partnerships
We've been working with more sellers, dealers, and marketplaces to bring even more items to SCDB. This will make shopping even better and bring in more data for determining pricing guidance.

As always, we are asking everyone for their ideas. While we are excited for the start we have going, we are nowhere near making a dent in our feature list - so we'll keeping working hard to improve the site.

Thanks for all your support and encouragement.

Comparison Shopping Works, rookie cards of HOFer Adrian Dantley for 18 cents

I  love our partner site Sportlots, a marketplace that features over 25 million sportscards for sale. I have found some pretty fantastic deals on there over the years, but their search isn't always the easiest to use.

Many of you know just how much I love collecting vintage cards and rookie cards of Hall of Famers. So I am always on the look out for good deals. 

The Comparison Shopping functionality on SCDB really makes it easy for collectors to find the best deals anywhere on the internet. While I was testing out our new My Collection feature, I found a deal I just could pass up:

1977 Topps #56 Adrian Dantley Rookie Card for $0.18 (and I bought 2 of them at that price). This card has SCDB  market value of $4.13 in Ex-Mt condition, so I think I  got quite a deal (scans below).

Now I know what you  are thinking, you got a good price on the cards but you must have paid $3-6 on shipping. The beauty of this deal was that I only paid $0.62 in shipping for these cards. So the total came to $0.88 delivered for both.

While I am excited to tell everyone about my great deal, but the message I want to get across is just how easy it is to use SCDB's comparison shopping to help you find great prices on cards and improve your collection.

We are working on some more features that will make it even easier for you to find  deals on the cards you want and get alerted when they are available at the prices you  want to pay.