Card collectors now have another online marketplace to consider for their buying and selling.

BuySportsCards.com officially launched earlier this month and it's "a specialized marketplace focused on making it as easy as possible to buy and sell sports cards," according to its founder and CEO Conner Walden. So far, the site includes sections for all major sports as well as sections for misc. sports and even multi-sport releases. The site has 0% seller fees right now, which is likely to continue through the first half of the year or potentially longer.

Walden is a 25-year-old entrepreneur who also owns a card shop in St. Louis and he created BSC because he said he "believes collectors, dealers and local card stores deserve a better experience when buying and selling sports cards online."

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Do you consider the details when it comes to the storage of your sports cards and memorabilia?

You should.

We probably all have a closet or a card room we frequent often, but there may be nooks and crannies we don't check often -- sometimes for months in a row. That's Buzz, and Buzz got a surprise this weekend with the discovery of some discolored carpet in the bottom of a closet -- it was from moisture and that's bad for a collector because those white storage boxes are thirsty. They love dry and dark environments -- but they love to drink up every drop of water they can find.

Thankfully, there was absolutely no damage done here -- except damage to one stressed-out collector -- because the details about storage were thought about long ago. Some strategies when it comes to storage saved hundreds if not thousands of dollars in this case.

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A new year is nearly here and Buzz simply has a pair of questions for collectors as we wrap things up for the day and head into 2016 ...

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