Nearmint's Vintage Football Card Blog

I made a few improvements to the eBay Sports Card Finder last week:

• All of the search controls are on top now, rather than in the left column, so you don’t have to scroll to see the bottom ones. I changed most of the controls to pull-down menus to save space.
• I added a Submit button so you can set all of the search criteria before doing the search. Previously the page sent out a search each time you changed an option. That got annoying if you were changing a few of them.
• I added options in the Grading menu to let you search for cards graded PSA 7 and higher, PSA 8 and higher, and so on. There are similar searches for SGC cards.

The purpose of the page is to do eBay searches tailored for vintage sports cards. For whatever search criteria you choose, it creates the appropriate eBay search strings behind the scenes. For vintage baseball sets it searches for both the set name and set number, for example: if you choose 1910 Mello Mint, it searches for E105, as well. If I’m aware that a set has been reprinted, the page filters out the reprint cards for that set. The page shows auctions, fixed price listings, and store listings all in the same table. It also shows the seller for each listing, so you don’t have to open the listings to see if they’re from your favorite or not-so-favorite sellers.

Like normal eBay searches, the page depends somewhat on the accuracy of the listing titles. If someone has a baseball card listed under football cards, the page won’t find it if you do a baseball card search.

Check it out and see what you think. I haven’t tested every set, so if you find a problem, just send me an email. I have not completed the basketball sets yet, but I can do that quickly if someone asks.