Sport Card Auctions Opens Offering a Way for Sports Card Collectors as Well as Dealers to Participate in Online Auctions
Online sports card auctions are too expensive is what Greg Hansen has believed for years. “If I could build a site that didn’t have the listing fees, the true collectors could re-enter the market. It would also a good alternative for dealers to not only sell items that they couldn't sell locally, but they could buy cards that were popular in their region for re-sale.” Hansen’s solution was to launch a new online auction site dedicated solely to sports cards. In April 2005 he launched www.sportcardauctions.com.
(PRWEB) May 19, 2005 -- Online sports card auctions are too expensive. That’s
what the founder of www.sportcardauctions.com, Greg Hansen has believed for years.
Many true collectors are driven from the market by the costs associated with the
big online auctions. Hansen’s solution was to launch a new online auction site
dedicated solely to sports cards in April 2005.
“When online auctions
first started they were free. I would list hundreds of cards that I didn’t
collect so that I could buy more of the cards that I wanted for my collection,”
Hansen states. “I could always find a buyer; everything sold even though I may
have to re-list it several times,” he adds. When online auctions started
charging listing fees he found that it wasn’t economically feasible to list
items that he wasn’t sure he could sell. “I quit using online auctions as a way
to make money to buy more cards. It really caused my collecting to
suffer.”
That’s when Hansen got the idea for his site. Hansen remembers
that the idea came to him one day when he was working in a lumber mill. “If I
could build a site that didn’t have the listing fees, the true collectors could
re-enter the market. It would also a good alternative for dealers to not only
sell items that there wasn’t a local market for, but they could buy cards that
were popular in their region for re-sale.”
Hansen teamed up with the
domain administrator from his ISP, Elijah Ethun, and started to build the site.
“I’ve been very pleased with what Elijah has done with the site,” says Hansen.
“He has a lot of good ideas and an eye for detail.”
Sportcardauctions.com
plans to make the site even better. “We’re adding content that interests
collectors. The hobby is fun and has a wonderful history. We want people to come
back to the site not only for auctions, but for the information that the site
provides.” They also plan to give users the opportunity to win some of the
hottest cards on the market starting with a PSA-10 1986 Fleer Update Barry Bonds
card. They plan to start the contest in June 2005 and run it through the World
Series in October. Football, Basketball and Hockey will follow.
Based in
Post Falls, ID, Sport Card Auctions is designed to provide an alternative to the
expensive online auctions. The goal is to provide collectors and dealers with an
online auction where they can list as many cards as they’d like without having
to pay listing fees. For more information, visit http://www.sportcardauctions.com.
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