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Now That I Think About It…
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:19 pm | Filed Under Site News, Price Guide
I’m all in. Time to take a shot at really changing things.
I haven’t posted in the past few weeks because I’ve been thinking a lot about my last post about how I think blogs will save the card industry. I read the comments, got a few emails, talked to my partners, and then spent some […]
Would We Be Better Without Beckett and Tuff Stuff?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 9:47 am | Filed Under Cards, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, eBay
Ben Henry runs arguably the best card blog on the web - The Baseball Card Blog. If you don’t already read it, you should. The other day he posed an interesting question: in five years will Beckett and Tuff Stuff have price guides that still matter in the hobby?
With its low prices […]
Price Guide Downtime Resolved
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 11:12 am | Filed Under Site News, Price Guide
Earlier this morning it was brought to my attention that our Price Guide was not returning prices for the majority of cards and collectibles. After looking into it, I noticed that almost all eBay data was being filtered out. I was able to trace the culprit to a minor change I made several […]
Baseball Card Values and Prices - What’s it Worth?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:54 pm | Filed Under Price Guide
Since the inception of our Price Guide I get a handful of emails each week asking me what a card or set of cards is worth. The majority of the time it’s for a card that people are having trouble pricing. They turned to our Price Guide as a last resort and still […]
Random Thoughts on a Slow Week
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 8:13 pm | Filed Under MLB, NFL, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, NHL, Donruss
Don’t worry, I haven’t been neglecting this blog lately. There just hasn’t been ANY interesting collectibles news lately worth commenting on. Usually a few times a week I see something and say “I need to write an article about that”. Not so much lately. In the interest of not leaving this blog untouched for too […]
Introducing Price Guide Trends, 14-day Free Trial, and More
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 4:20 pm | Filed Under PR, Site News, Price Guide
Today we launched a significant upgrade to our Price Guide, most notably a new feature called “Trends” that enables you to view previous price reports graphically for items saved to your collection. Below is a sample of the trends for a Carson Palmer McFarlane 13 Variant price report, which shows the previous 10 price […]
Our Pricing: McFarlane NFL 14
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 1:40 pm | Filed Under McFarlane, NFL, Price Guide
To give everyone a flavor for how our Price Guide compares to the more traditional print price guides, we’ve decided to start an “our pricing” series where from time to time we’ll show you how the prices from the SportsLizard Price Guide compare to prices from Beckett or Tuff Stuff for a particular series or […]
Microsoft is Our New Friend
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:57 pm | Filed Under Price Guide, Business
Yesterday afternoon I was upgrading some back-end features on the price guide when I damn near had a heart attack: Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 had identified the price guide as a “suspicious website” and was displaying the following message to everyone:
That’s a bad thing - a very bad thing. About 40% of our visitors […]
June/July Promo - You + Price Guide = $100
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 5:41 pm | Filed Under PR, Site News, Price Guide
Every month we’re giving away a $100 gift certificate to Authentic Signed Sports. In April and May we gave away the gift certificate to random newsletter subscribers. For both June and July we’re giving the gift certificate to one random subscriber to the SportsLizard Price Guide. You don’t have to sign up for a premium […]
Beckett Abandoned Value Guide?
By Adam McFarland | Posted at 11:57 am | Filed Under Beckett, Price Guide
In researching the “competition” for our online price guide, I came across several competitors that do similar things. The most intriguing (both because of who they are and how they do it) is the Beckett Value Guide - essentially integrating Beckett’s checklists with eBay’s data. Occasionally I check the site to see what’s […]