Monday Feb 23, 2009
New VIP Stores Coming Soon
The site-wide overhaul will soon be coming to the SportsBuy VIP storefronts. If you are a seller you will soon be hearing from us about how to set up your new storefront. If you are interested in becoming a seller contact VIP-AT-sportsbuy-DOT-com. But what does this mean for buyers? That's the best news of all.
The new storefronts will have:
- Improved graphics
- Improved search functionality
- More information on the seller you are buying from
- Tools for sellers to add more pictures, video and links for an overall improved user experience
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Monday Dec 29, 2008
Baseball Cards! and other new pages to help you find what you are looking for
Let us know what you think of our new baseball cards product page. As part of our redesign we've created specific pages for key categories. In addition to baseball cards, we've got all of the other professional sports (e.g., football cards, basketball cards, and hockey cards). We've also created pages for wax boxes, rookie cards, and even golf cards, tennis cards and many, many more.
Of course if you know what you are looking for you can always go right to it by using search. But for those times where you haven't zeroed right in on it and instead are just looking at, say, New York Yankees memorabilia, then you can use one of these new pages.
Sunday Dec 21, 2008
Last Minutes Gifts Needs; Here's a Tip
Unsure what to buy for someone? To be honest, you are going to be late so you might as well take your time and buy something nice. We suggest that you pick their favorite team, go to the team page (for example the New York Yankees) and scroll around until you find that perfect card, game used or autographed memorabilia. They won't mind it being a little late when you show that what they have is rare and can't be picked up on Christmas Eve at the local Wal-Mart.
Happy shopping.
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Wednesday Dec 10, 2008
Sportscard Outlet Facing the Challenging Economy Head On
It's no secret how bad things are in the overall economy and for those involved with selling discretionary items it's even worse. Some sellers of sports cards and memorabilia have decided that the best way to make it through is by becoming even more aggressive with their selling efforts. We agree. This is why we've continue to invest in new technology including a new hardware platform and new features such as team pages, player pages, community features, and much, much more. Everyone of these investments has had a positive ROI so you can expect to see many more such improvements over the next several months.
The fact is that even with the tough conditions, and with consumers being particularly discriminating with their expenditures, there are still legions of collectors looking for good buys. And the sellers that are doing the best job of rising above the din are the ones making the best sales. A good example, is Sportscard Outlet, who in their 15 years of selling sports cards and collectibles have clearly learned something about how to succeed when things are tough. The Sportscard Outlet is a SportsBuy Gold VIP seller who has been particularly aggressive on their pricing and have recently announced free shipping on ANY item. In addition to helping make near-term sales, stepping up like this sends a message to the industry that they are committed to growing their business despite the downturn. It is this type of effort by Sportscard Outlet and the other sellers on the site that are similarly stepping up that is going to help keep this industry relevant no matter what obstacles are thrown our way.
Follow this link to see what they are selling and remember that there is are no shipping fees.
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Thursday Nov 13, 2008
Licensed Merchandise Now Available of Your Favorite Teams and Players
Whether you are shopping for the sports fans on your list or just doing something nice for yourself, make sure to check out the 25,000+ jerseys, t-shirts, pullovers, etc. from the SportsBuy Team Fan Shop.
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Sunday Nov 02, 2008
A New Way to Navigate On SportsBuy
SportsBuy.com has just added a new method for finding the sports collectibles you are looking for. In addition to being able to search by category, text and seller, you can now go to a specially-designed team page that pulls together everything we have of that team. (The image below is from the Boston Red Sox Team Page.)
You will also find one or more videos as well as links to fan merchandise of that team. Over the next month "Player Pages" will be added which do the same thing but for an individual player.
Not surprisingly, the most popular team page this past week as been the Philadelphia Phillies as fans gobble up whatever they can find to celebrate their Series win.
Monday Oct 27, 2008
SportsBuy's Live Customer Support Goes to Hollywood
When you call SportsBuy's live customer support you are quite possibly talking to Mak. When Mak isn't helping you resolve issues, he is an actor and can be seen playing T-Dawg in this recent Comedy Central clip.
Fans of The Shield will also have seen Mak facing off Vic Macky as a "One-Niner".
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Saturday Oct 25, 2008
You want sports posters? We got 'em
SportsBuy.com is now featuring a wide selection of sports posters with major sports--current and past players. Follow the link below to see what is available.
Follow the following link for this Phillies Stadium poster as well as baseball, football, basketball and hockey posters: Phillies Stadium
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Wednesday Oct 22, 2008
SportsBuy Server Upgrade
This evening (Wednesday 10/22) at 11pm PST, we will be bringing the site down for 3-6 hours while we transition to our new hardware platform. Based on internal testing on the new servers, we expect a remarkable increase in searching, browsing and transacting on SportsBuy. While unexpected, it is possible that the transition involve a few glitches. If you find anything amiss please report them to us as quickly as possible so we can address them.
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Saturday Oct 18, 2008
SportsBuy.com is now on Facebook
SportsBuy.com news and information can now be found on Facebook. If you are on Facebook then search Sportsbuy (or go to this link) and join up. If you are not on Facebook here is a great way to gain a lot of friends out of the box with the same passion for sports card collecting as you.
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