Collectors:
We recently added the sports memorabilia nd football cards sites, so the hits just keep coming. We also improved search (a query for 1953 Topps will now return cards from the 1953 Topps set) and simplified site navigation. Please check out the new features. And don’t forget to buy some great collectibles while your there !!!
Happy collecting,
Carrington
Yes – its official. Collexpo launched for vendors on January 19. We are busy building up to 20,000 listings from our vendor-partners across Postcards, Sports Cards and Sports Memorabilia. When we get there – buyer marketing starts. It should happen the week of January 26 – very soon! If you or anyone you know like collecting in the aforementioned hobbies, please check out the site www.collexpo.com.
As mentioned before, it is different, but hopefully in a way that caters to experienced participants in the collecting hobbies. Collexpo sets itself apart by offering the following:
Please spread the word about Collexpo. I appreciate your help.
Thanks,
Carrington
We’re starting this blog because the site we’ve worked so long and hard to build is finally launching – economy be damned.
In a matter of days, Collexpo will finally be Where Collectors Meet – to buy, sell and network.
Our first sites will focus on baseball cards and postcards. First about baseball cards: eBay is the place to trade these days, and serious collectors buy on Beckett – but neither is a great solution, or even a good solution. While eBay is a generic marketplace where you might as well be buying socks (or rocks), Beckett is about the most complicated user interface we’ve ever seen. Yes Collexpo has usability concerns right now, but they can be addressed, and even these are miniscule compared to Beckett.
In short, we designed Collexpo as a simplified yet robust service. Everything runs off of a 290,000 baseball card database. Using a simple browser application, one can find any card from 1887-2009 in four short clicks. Once a card is found, a collector can add it to a collection, see if any are for sale or meet other members who have the card in their collections. Vendors can use multiple methods to utilize the database data to produce bulk for-sale listings in seconds. And of course this is all free for collectors.
As for postcards, it is a bit simpler but has the same basic functionality. By nature there are an unlimited number of postcards in existence. Our partner, Ernie’s Postcards, helped us design the site, focusing on listing items as fast as possible. In doing so, we realized that new listings would have to help us build the database of cards organically. So its a slight difference, but everything else works the same.
Collectors will not be disappointed. If that’s you, have a visit starting January 19.
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