What’s going on with Cardboard Connection?

[fabiani12333]

What's happening to Cardboard Connection is happening or going to happen to many other prominent online media sites. Ad rates have tanked and investor money has dried up.

[Hollywood42]

This is really sad. CC used to be my gold standard

Originally Posted by Hardcore

They might as well shut down this site...

check this out.. for hockey set coming out this week

This was a link made before the checklist was coming... by Trey
https://www.cardboardconnection.com/...t-hockey-cards

it has all of the subsets parallels and odds... just waiting for the checklist

now here is a page for the same product just published by Billy... (lol... the CEO... doing grunt work )
https://www.cardboardconnection.com/...klist-and-odds

what a hack job..lol
and missing so many subsets and no odds.... just pasted from a spreadsheet and looks like they got tired of doing it after like 2-3 pastes and still published the crappy link

time to pull the plug... looks like they cant hire anyone who wants to keep up their old standards...
if there is someone who needs a job... they do have a link on the homepage.. good luck if you do

[theshowandme]

Cannot imagine running a company where one persons departure is this big of a deal

Terrible

[kyle1707]

I would pay 10 bucks a year to be a member if they went that route

If money is the issue for all of this ?

I use the site all the time

[here2havefun]

Originally Posted by CicadaMound

Trey is CURL

[mfw13]

Originally Posted by theshowandme

Cannot imagine running a company where one persons departure is this big of a deal

Terrible

It was never really a "company"....it was a website built by one person as a labor of love, who then sold the website to a third party and had an (apparent) falling out with the new owner(s) and left.

I don't think there were ever more than a few employees...i.e. Trey and a couple of assistants.

[PuddleMonkey]

Originally Posted by kyle1707

I would pay 10 bucks a year to be a member if they went that route

If money is the issue for all of this ?

I use the site all the time

Yeah, it was my way of finding new sets to collect.

[rwperu34]

Originally Posted by theshowandme

Cannot imagine running a company where one persons departure is this big of a deal

Terrible

Originally Posted by mfw13

It was never really a "company"....it was a website built by one person as a labor of love, who then sold the website to a third party and had an (apparent) falling out with the new owner(s) and left.

I don't think there were ever more than a few employees...i.e. Trey and a couple of assistants.

I mean I only use it for the checklists, but I'm surprised they have/had more than one employee. I mean maybe a few freelance writers could contribute, but the day to day operations of that site do not seem very complex...although more than the new guy can seem to handle.

[MrPostman]

Originally Posted by TheGZA

Wow, that stinks if the site as we knew it is gone. Any good, comparable other sites for what CC did that anyone can recommend?

I found this today, havent checked any other products, but 2024 Topps Series 1 appears to be pretty comprehensive.

https://cardsmithsbreaks.com/full-ch...baseball/full/

[dodgerfanjohn]

Originally Posted by MrPostman

I found this today, havent checked any other products, but 2024 Topps Series 1 appears to be pretty comprehensive.

https://cardsmithsbreaks.com/full-ch...baseball/full/

They actually run some of the better break videos on you tube(from a guy that doesn’t buy into breaks and just wants to see what new products have in them).

[Shankweather]

Originally Posted by MrPostman

I found this today, havent checked any other products, but 2024 Topps Series 1 appears to be pretty comprehensive.

https://cardsmithsbreaks.com/full-ch...baseball/full/

People will go to the ends of the internet looking for checklists instead of going to Beckett.

https://www.beckett.com/news/2024-to...aseball-cards/

[Bosoxfan5990]

Originally Posted by Shankweather

People will go to the ends of the internet looking for checklists instead of going to Beckett.

https://www.beckett.com/news/2024-to...aseball-cards/

I actually prefer Beckett or TCDB to CC...

[nmordowitz]

CC was better for certain items -
For example Upper Deck sets - CC listed what tier each card was in so you knew how hard it really was to hit a card of a particular player - many other sites I had seen (this is going back a few years) didn’t do that.
Once I got used to using CCi- I didn’t switch out - now I guess time to find a new site.

[fulltritty]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

I actually prefer Beckett or TCDB to CC...

I prefer Beckett as well. I like that they break the release out into teams since I only care about what new Yankee cards there are in each new set to collect.

[bub838]

Originally Posted by Bosoxfan5990

I actually prefer Beckett or TCDB to CC...

Same. Beckett is more organized to me.

[oldgoldy97]

CC was typically first to post about new products. Beckett seemed to get their info from CC.

[base set]

Haven’t seen anyone mention this…Ryan Cracknell, the current editor of the Beckett site, used to so the same thing at Cardboard Connection before Beckett’s editor moved on. Say 6-7 years ago, I forget. I did like when Ryan ran CC he would often post a curated set of links to whatever sports card thing he may have recently discovered on the web. Once he moved over to Beckett I haven’t seen anyone do quite the same thing in that regard.

For me, all such sites and the different peeps were fine with me and I use them in a somewhat random fashion. They all seem like a labor of love of sports cards, to me.

[PeteD]

Originally Posted by kyle1707

I would pay 10 bucks a year to be a member if they went that route

If money is the issue for all of this ?

I use the site all the time

This.

[JoshMN]

I think people are pushing back on monopolies in all walks of life, and this is the moment for "Big Checklist" to take some of that medicine. CC monopolized the space, and it was only a matter of time before the Justice Department had the time to investigate and level the playing field in the Checklist business.

[oldgoldy97]

Well they updated with Prizm basketball. The write up is a horrible mish mash of blasters and hobby.

Just axe the whole site.

[kingofsnake]

Guess I can delete this bookmark - another one bites the dust.

[cardozo]

Beckett posting checklists and team sets basically put websites like Cardboard Connection and Group Break Checklist out of business.

[LVDan]

Originally Posted by JoshMN

I think people are pushing back on monopolies in all walks of life, and this is the moment for "Big Checklist" to take some of that medicine. CC monopolized the space, and it was only a matter of time before the Justice Department had the time to investigate and level the playing field in the Checklist business.

Ah yes Big Checklist…

[finfangfan]

My main collecting interest is nonsports and Cardboard Connection was always a great source for new set previews and checklists. A shame it’s going downhill.

[pac_rat_76]

I just tried them for Topps series I. Thought they used to have all that info up right away but not this time.