New Burbank Sportscards Cover Story Video

[BBCgalaxee]

First off, it's great to see a report regarding cards which isn't negative.

Secondly, that's DEFINITELY not how I pictured the store.

Every year I see Rob at the conference and often he gives a speech.

I assumed he had a big store with a gigantic back room, not an "office" looking store. But with 95% of his sales from online, it makes sense.

Still though, a great piece and very interesting.

 

[nerdherd020]

I assumed he had a big store with a gigantic back room, not an "office" looking store. But with 95% of his sales from online, it makes sense.

Their previous location was a store and was pretty big, and always had customers going through their few hundred 5000-count boxes. Wish it was still that way but wouldn't work given how much their inventory has grown over the last several years.

 

[olerud363]

Rob's description of a typical card collector describes me almost exactly: 38-42 years old, lifelong sports fan, probably started collecting when they were 12 or 13 (a started when I was 14).

Pretty interesting video. I agree with some of the comments about their scanner. Looks like it could damage the cards as they go through or when they fall into the tray.

- Rodrick

 

[Austin]

Rob's description of a typical card collector describes me almost exactly: 38-42 years old, lifelong sports fan, probably started collecting when they were 12 or 13.

Me too. Spot on.

I like Burbank's website's ease of finding cards I need for sets, but their minimum price per card of 25 cents is too high, especially when I need 30 cards for a 1994 Topps set or something.
But I understand you're paying as much for labor as for the actual cards, and that's why the price is so high.

I usually just buy cards for my sets from the eBay dealers who have the "pick 20 cards from X set for $1" Buy it Now auctions.
I've never had a problem with those and I've bought hundreds of cards for my sets that way for a nickel each.

 

[bigunitcards]

I've order from them around 6 times, the largest order was for 500+ Randy Johnson singles. All pulled & shipped next business day. No missing cards, no mis-pulls. Their high rise slotting system doesn't look all that efficient if they're pulling 100-200 orders a day, but they obviously have a system that works. It would have been interesting to see inside a 5k box & see how they keep things in order inside, like are there tabs for each insert type etc. The waiting area boxes for new cards makes a lot of sense, it is probably much easier to wait until you have several hundred of a Year/Brand and upload the inventory all at once.

 

[MansGame]

This bit totally avoided it if it's true but didn't they get the vast majority of their inventory from some billionaire card collector from Hawaii or something?!


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[predatorkj]

This bit totally avoided it if it's true but didn't they get the vast majority of their inventory from some billionaire card collector from Hawaii or something?!


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I doubt it was the vast majority but they did pick up a big collection supposedly.

 

[sabrgeek]

That Hawaii collector passed on a while ago. Rob was at the National and picked up at least 12 3,200 ct boxes of cards for which he paid 35 cents or less. His biggest issue was getting them shipped back.

 

[MansGame]

That Hawaii collector passed on a while ago. Rob was at the National and picked up at least 12 3,200 ct boxes of cards for which he paid 35 cents or less. His biggest issue was getting them shipped back.

$0.35 a card or what?

 

[sabrgeek]

35 cents or less per card. SOrry typed faster than my brain.