Five Really Cool Things You Can Do With the New SportsLizard

1. Get all your sports collectibles news in one place with Collector’s Voice Subscriptions.  We pull headlines from the best independent blogs and collectibles sites on the web and deliver them to you in a daily email.  We also offer a RSS feed for those interested in subscribing with a feed reader.

2. Search results and [...]

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Since launching SportsLizard in 2004 there’s been a whole lot of content published.  I’d like to think most of it’s been pretty good, but there are a handful of articles and posts that I consider to be great reads for anyone who is involved in the hobby in any capacity.  I’ve added a “Best of” [...]

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Last week I was interviewed by Mike over at CardScape.net regarding the economy and its impact on card values.  I thought he asked a bunch of good questions on the topic.
Here’s a quick excerpt:
Does a down economy affect card values?
I think it has to. Cards are a commodity item, an unnecessary expense, and when faced [...]

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It took a bit longer than I had hoped, but I’m happy to finally announce that the new SportsLizard.com is up and running!  There are so many new features that I’m not exactly sure where to start.  I’m planning a few more detailed posts where I’ll dive in to some of the more not-so-subtle changes, [...]

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Today I received a newsletter from Tuff Stuff. Upon opening, I was greeted with the following:

See how it says “To get the free pricing right now, click here.” Well, I clicked and was brought to this:

So I clicked again and was brought to the F+W Publications Tuff Stuff Back-Issue Store, where I could add [...]

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Aside from buying boxes of cards for things like my pack searching experiment, I don’t often buy cards anymore. My peak card collecting days were as a boy, from around 1987 to 1995, when I was ages 5 – 13. From there I moved on to SLUs, McFarlanes, and later custom McFarlanes. [...]

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Tuff Stuff launched a “new” website today. It’s pretty much exactly what you’d expect from Tuff Stuff – waaaaay behind the times with lots of sloppiness, confusing navigation, and a progressively worse design. For example, click on the “Shop” link to visit Tuff Stuff’s shop and you’ll be greeted by a web developers [...]

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No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the planet.
I’ve been diligently using my free time to work on revamping SportsLizard. This whole Beckett fiasco (the site sucking, not the fixed box breaks) has only made me put more emphasis on providing a product that’s free, easy to use, and helpful to collectors and [...]

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…SportsBuy.com

From their press release:
“The name change complements our position as the largest dedicated exchange for sports collectibles. This is just the first step in a complete overhaul of our company’s online presence,” said SportsBuy.com’s new CEO Wesley Hein. “Over the next few months we will undergo a comprehensive technological upgrade involving new infrastructure, new features [...]

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I promised to post updates on the planned site overhaul, so I figured I’d share the new logo that was designed over the weekend. I also got a long way on the web design side of things. The site follows the “modern” look of the logo and mimics a stack of sports cards [...]

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