CheckOutMyCards.com Questions, Suggestions & Testimonials

[timgetsch]

Hello Blowout Cards community!

Many of you have met me from the other Checkoutmycards.com thread. I am Tim Getsch, founder of CheckOutMyCards.com. I am glad to announce that we have formed a partnership with Blowout Cards.

We are working together to build an ecosystem for card collectors. To kick things off, you can now use store credit earned from selling cards on CheckOutmyCards.com to buy Blowout Cards gift certificates. You can then buy boxes & cases from Blowout Cards, break your boxes, keep the cards you want, and send us the rest to earn more store credit. You can use some of the store credit to buy other singles that you need, to buy more Blowout Cards gift certificates, or to get cash.

As a fellow collector, I am excited about the potential here. I have already used some store credit earned by one of my experimental accounts to buy a $1,000 Blowout Cards gift certificate. Many of the cards I buy from Blowout Cards will go right up for sale on CheckOutMyCards.com.

I would like this tread to be used as a place to post any questions, suggestions, or testimonials about CheckOutMyCards.com. I love to see excitement about new cards listed on CheckOutMyCards, but please do not use this thread to advertise your cards for sale.

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Though I may not be able to respond to posts on a regular basis, I will be keeping an eye on this tread. Your feedback counts! I am not only the owner of CheckOutMyCards.com; I am also the primary developer of the site.

I look forward to hearing your feedback.
Tim Getsch
CheckOutMyCards.com Founder & CTO

[CardCache]

First off, I'd love to say thank you for giving the COMC buyers and sellers who use this forum a place to pose questions and give feedback and suggestions. I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say we're excited about your new partnership with Blowout Cards.

One question I do have is this. Was there consideration given to allowing users to purchase custom amount Blowout Cards gift certificates, instead of the current 3 level approach? I do realize keeping the credit in $50, $250 and $1000 lump sums benefits Blowout Cards, as purchases will always end up being an odd amount and the leftover will be used for future purchases on the site.

I would have loved to have seen a sliding scale approach though, where the user could buy any amount of gift certificate (equal to the total of their future blowout purchase, for example) while taking a small hit on their COMC credit of course. Was this ever discussed as an option?

Thanks again for allowing us this opportunity to give our feedback!

[h4auto]

are you going to update the Shipping special or actual have bulk shipping rates at the end of the month?

[otmack2o]

Tim, what is the expected turnaround time on "cashing out" for a Blowout gift certificate? Will the code be automatically emailed to the user? Thanks!

[bigmon80]

First thanks for doing this and this is a great idea. Love the site Tim and plan on continuing to send in more cards every few months.

My question is if there is going to be a % taken from our COMC money or will all of it go straight to a BO gift certificate if that is what we choose. Which is gonna be the route I will always choose.


Thanks

[CardCache]

From this post:

$50 Blowout Gift Certificate = $60 in COMC Funds (16.7% "hit")
$250 Blowout Gift Certificate = $290 in COMC Funds (13.8% "hit")
$1,000 Blowout Gift Certificate = $1,150 in COMC Funds (13.0% "hit")

Originally Posted by bigmon80

First thinks for doing this and this is a great idea. Love the site Tim and plan on continuing to send in more cards every few months.

My question is if there is going to be a % taken from our COMC money or will all of it go straight to a BO gift certificate if that is what we choose. Which is gonna be the route I will always choose.


Thanks

[timgetsch]

Originally Posted by h4auto

are you going to update the Shipping special or actual have bulk shipping rates at the end of the month?

This is one of the advantages of communicating directly with the owner and developer.

I just updated the site to make this a permanent special. The last 7 days of each month we will offer bulk shipping.

We simplified the pricing. It is $15 for the first 50 cards and $0.15 for each additional card. Enjoy!

[timgetsch]

Originally Posted by CardCache

First off, I'd love to say thank you for giving the COMC buyers and sellers who use this forum a place to pose questions and give feedback and suggestions. I'm sure I speak for many of us when I say we're excited about your new partnership with Blowout Cards.

I am really grateful for this forum, and we are also very excited about the long term potential of this partnership.

Originally Posted by CardCache

One question I do have is this. Was there consideration given to allowing users to purchase custom amount Blowout Cards gift certificates, instead of the current 3 level approach? I do realize keeping the credit in $50, $250 and $1000 lump sums benefits Blowout Cards, as purchases will always end up being an odd amount and the leftover will be used for future purchases on the site.

Yes, it was considered, but I wanted to keep it very clean and simple to start with. We are always open to suggestions, and we may consider adding this. One thing to note is that you can always supplement a purchase on Blowout Cards with additional money. If you want to buy something for $68, you can use a $50 gift certificate and put $18 on your credit card.

Originally Posted by CardCache

I would have loved to have seen a sliding scale approach though, where the user could buy any amount of gift certificate (equal to the total of their future blowout purchase, for example) while taking a small hit on their COMC credit of course. Was this ever discussed as an option?

We have discussed many future plans. One of them is being able to order any Blowout Cards product directly from the CheckOutMyCards website. This will take some pretty significant development work and coordination, but it is something we are open to offering.

Originally Posted by CardCache

Thanks again for allowing us this opportunity to give our feedback!

You are welcome. These are great questions.

[mwheeler27]

Tim,

I have a question...

Is there a way to search for a group of cards, and eliminate at least your own cards from the search list? For example, I'd like to search the COMC site to buy Sportkings cards, but when I type in "sportkings", most of the cards are mine. I'd love to be able to leave my cards out of the search in order to be more efficient.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your time,

Matt
mwheeler27

[timgetsch]

Originally Posted by otmack2o

Tim, what is the expected turnaround time on "cashing out" for a Blowout gift certificate? Will the code be automatically emailed to the user? Thanks!

We haven't done that much plumbing yet. For now it is the same as a PayPal deposit. I will be manually filling these requests a couple times per week. So, the site says to allow 4 days for delivery, but you can call us if you need it sooner than that.