All I want to do is talk about Sportlots

[nam812]

Very interesting, I wonder if he bought anything from me? What's his sportlots ID?

[ScottBreaks]

Originally Posted by nam812

Very interesting, I wonder if he bought anything from me? What's his sportlots ID?

Not sure. I searched my orders for the name and nothing came up, but it's out of Chersterfield MO

[bryanscs]

I'm pretty sure the ID is bejack80, out of Grover MO on 3/24.

Btw, I'm pretty sure there was another thread here on Blowout, where the guy showed up, trying to promote his site, it went south in a hurry, and is now banned.

[ScottBreaks]

Originally Posted by bryanscs

I'm pretty sure the ID is bejack80, out of Grover MO on 3/24.

Btw, I'm pretty sure there was another thread here on Blowout, where the guy showed up, trying to promote his site, it went south in a hurry, and is now banned.

Yep, have an order from that user on the same date. Single $0.18 card with budget shipping.

[salthill]

Originally Posted by bryanscs

I'm pretty sure the ID is bejack80, out of Grover MO on 3/24.

Btw, I'm pretty sure there was another thread here on Blowout, where the guy showed up, trying to promote his site, it went south in a hurry, and is now banned.

And yet…
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1513002
Is that an advert, or just news coverage?

[bryanscs]

Originally Posted by salthill

And yet…
https://www.blowoutforums.com/showthread.php?t=1513002
Is that an advert, or just news coverage?

Yeah, I saw that. They probably paid BO to publish that, if I was to guess. Either way, this guy and the site seems super sketchy.

[nam812]

I don't have any orders from that user ID, so maybe he just targeted the larger volume sellers.

[Tiger23]

Originally Posted by longhornjunkie

Yes that's very frustrating. They have said a "key card" feature is coming in a future release. How many times has it happened to you?

How responsive is the site owner to customer requests like this i.e. would they accelerate development if enough complained?

Seems like sellers could take advantage of this situation to bait-and-switch with little recourse.

It’s probably happened 5 times or so in the last handful of months, and usually with small 4-10 card orders where I grab some others due ton combined shipping.

The other enhancement I’d like is when a seller goes on vacation mode, their cards leave my cart. I’d like them back in my cart when they came back. I had around 10-15 cards from a seller for when I decided to do another box order and they are now gone from my cart. The seller is active again, but of course, I don’t recall all of the cards I added

[longhornjunkie]

Originally Posted by Tiger23

It’s probably happened 5 times or so in the last handful of months, and usually with small 4-10 card orders where I grab some others due ton combined shipping.

The other enhancement I’d like is when a seller goes on vacation mode, their cards leave my cart. I’d like them back in my cart when they came back. I had around 10-15 cards from a seller for when I decided to do another box order and they are now gone from my cart. The seller is active again, but of course, I don’t recall all of the cards I added

I was afraid this was happening but was never sure.

Sportlots still has one of the best shopping cart pages around, though, IMO.

Edit: sure enough my cart count was down by about a dozen cards today and I can tell one seller is completely gone. Doh!

[Tiger23]

Originally Posted by longhornjunkie

I was afraid this was happening but was never sure.

Sportlots still has one of the best shopping cart pages around, though, IMO.

Edit: sure enough my cart count was down by about a dozen cards today and I can tell one seller is completely gone. Doh!

I went to check out from a handful of sellers, but 2 I knew I wanted were not there. One is active again and re-found 2 cards, but I can’t recall what others were at the moment. I do agree being able to just add as I search and check out specific sellers is great. Beckett marketplace doesn’t allow it so it’s hard to track what I want on that site

[flyercle]

Does anyone know how sellers are organized when searching through a specific card's inventory? I assumed it would be by price, low to high - but it appears to be sorted by something else.

[bryanscs]

The sellers with pictures are listed 1st.

Next, are the sellers that offer a box shipping discount. The higher the discount, the higher the listing.

Then you have every other seller, sorted lowest to highest by price, by condition.

[longhornjunkie]

Originally Posted by bryanscs

The sellers with pictures are listed 1st.

Next, are the sellers that offer a box shipping discount. The higher the discount, the higher the listing.

Then you have every other seller, sorted lowest to highest by price, by condition.

Mind blown... I could never figure out why sometimes it seemed random.

[flyercle]

Originally Posted by bryanscs

The sellers with pictures are listed 1st.

Next, are the sellers that offer a box shipping discount. The higher the discount, the higher the listing.

Then you have every other seller, sorted lowest to highest by price, by condition.

Thanks a ton! Really going to push my luck here, but do you know what the levels are for the box discount check marks next to each person? As an example, is a blue check 100% off, Green 75% off, and Red 50% off normal shipping rates? Just trying to understand how they are calculated as I am thinking about amending my box shipping rates.

[bryanscs]

I'm not sure how each color is calculated.

If I were to guess, blue is 85%-100% off shipping, red is 70%-84% off, and yellow is 50%-69% off.

[frenchquarter]

Hold your mouse curser over the check mark. It will say

Red - Very large discount on box shipping - whatever that means?
Green - Large discount
Blue - Significant discount

BryanSC is probably pretty close on the %'s, but I can't find anything that pins it down.

[nam812]

Originally Posted by frenchquarter

Hold your mouse curser over the check mark. It will say

Red - Very large discount on box shipping - whatever that means?
Green - Large discount
Blue - Significant discount

BryanSC is probably pretty close on the %'s, but I can't find anything that pins it down.

I have a green check mark and it went to green when i set my box shipment price to just slightly less than half of my budget shipment price at each pricing level.

[flyercle]

Thanks Bryanscs and frenchquarter for the clarification. I was looking all over the user guides to no avail. This definitely helped clarify!

[tribefan26]

Originally Posted by bryanscs

I'm pretty sure the ID is bejack80, out of Grover MO on 3/24.

Btw, I'm pretty sure there was another thread here on Blowout, where the guy showed up, trying to promote his site, it went south in a hurry, and is now banned.

Yep, I received a very odd order from this buyer - at the time I was wondering why somebody ordered the card he did. I returned from travel yesterday to get the letter.

Sportlots isn’t perfect, but they aren’t bad enough I want to move to somebody that obtained my info under false pretenses.

[nam812]

Lots of orders (not very big ones though) this month so far, hope it continues. Is everyone else experience an uptick in amount of orders in April so far? Probably because baseball season started?

[flyercle]

Originally Posted by nam812

Lots of orders (not very big ones though) this month so far, hope it continues. Is everyone else experience an uptick in amount of orders in April so far? Probably because baseball season started?

I'm in the same boat as you. Orders by # are way up, but cards sold is down a bit. Glad to hear someone else is experiencing the same.

[ScottBreaks]

Originally Posted by nam812

Lots of orders (not very big ones though) this month so far, hope it continues. Is everyone else experience an uptick in amount of orders in April so far? Probably because baseball season started?

Last month was actually my biggest month so far. Had several large orders of 50+ cards. This month so has been pretty decent, bunch of smaller orders. Nothing near what I was seeing last month card quantity wise.

[timber09]

Originally Posted by nam812

I don't have any orders from that user ID, so maybe he just targeted the larger volume sellers.

Looks like he bought one $0.18 Al MacInnis card from me with budget shipping so I am guessing I have the same letter at the Post Office waiting for me.

Doesn't sound like subtlety or tact is a strong suit for this proprietor.

[ScottBreaks]

Checked my incoming mail for today and it looks like I have a second letter coming today from him.

[longhornjunkie]

Originally Posted by ScottBreaks

Checked my incoming mail for today and it looks like I have a second letter coming today from him.

At what point is this harrassment? I'm not a seller, so no skin in the game, but I'd be pissed.