The 40th edition of the National Sports Collectors Convention came to an end late Sunday afternoon in Chicago with hundreds of dealers packing what's left of their inventory and heading for home. As usual, Sunday's crowd of buyers was much lighter but overall the National proved to be a big draw with strong traffic throughout the show's first four days. Show … [Read more...]
Notes: Brady Responds; Burbank Busy; Crosby Card Catches $80K; 2 Rice Rookies in One Pack
What did Tom Brady think of the $400,000 sale of that 2000 Contenders Championship Ticket card? He (or his social media person) responded on Instagram... Brady will actually add some straight cash to his bank account next month when he does another private signing for TRISTAR Productions. Autographs start at around $1,000 each. When Burbank … [Read more...]
Burbank: True Collectors Driving Sales
Baseball cards a dying business? Not if you know some of the numbers being done by just one major online dealer. Burbank Sports Cards reports that it is now selling about 657,000 cards per year or 1,800 per day. Not all of those buyers are leaving feedback, but according to Marketplace Pulse, Burbank now ranks tenth among all eBay sellers in total feedback ratings. The … [Read more...]
Notes: BBCE’s Big Buy at Burbank, Inside Fleer in the 90s
A whopper of a transaction went down between two of the hobby's biggest dealers Thursday. Baseball Card Exchange has reached an agreement to buy out a massive unopened box and factory set inventory from Burbank Sports Cards in southern California. According BBCE, the buy includes: - 22,000 unopened boxes and factory sets (1987-2012) - 250 factory sealed … [Read more...]
Business: Burbank Hits 2 Million Cards; Upper Deck Signs Shaq
Burbank Sports Cards, which bills itself as the "world's largest sports card store", reached a milestone over the weekend. The company’s eBay store now has two million unique items listed. Remarkable, considering that just 22 months ago, they had…none. Owner Rob Veres, who has owned the business since the late 1980s, says he invested in several high-speed scanners and new … [Read more...]
Beckett Accelerator Aimed at Helping Sellers Move Singles Easier
Beckett Business Solutions, headed by Burbank Sports Cards owner Rob Veres, has revealed a little more about a new piece of software aimed at enabling sellers to cross-post their entire inventory of singles to eBay and the Beckett Marketplace. Rich Klein wrote about the project late last year. It’s been in development for a long time and eBay is heavily involved in the … [Read more...]
Rich Klein: Beckett Business Solutions Aims to Aid Collector, Shop Owner
Recently, Beckett Media hired long-time hobby dealer and store owner Rob Veres to spearhead a project using the trade name Beckett Business Solutions. Having known Rob for nearly 20 years let me assure you that no one has a better feel for what retailers both big and small go through on a day to day basis. Although what Rob has done is basically unique in today's business, … [Read more...]
Volume Business Keeps Burbank Sports Cards Busy
He didn’t have a want list nor was he wearing a dealer badge but he was one of the guys spending a lot of money at the National Sports Collectors Convention in Chicago this summer. He had no booth space but worked the room, snaring large boxes of cards that other dealers were more than willing to sell. He was purchasing to re-sell later via his southern California shop or … [Read more...]