Home› PSA Set Registry Forum
Options

I just think this is kind of cool . . .

detroitfan2detroitfan2 Posts: 3,314 ✭✭✭✭
in PSA Set Registry Forum
Check out this Al Kaline auction:

All of Al

I just love the setup of this listing. The run of Kaline pictures is very nice.

image

Comments

  • Options
    bobsbbcardsbobsbbcards Posts: 3,254 ✭✭✭
    That is very cool! Thanks for the link.
    bobsbbcards PSA Registry Sets
    bobsbbcards SGC Registry Sets
  • Options
    JonBJonB Posts: 495 ✭
    WOW
  • Options
    pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    nice
    ·p_A·
  • Options
    jimtbjimtb Posts: 704 ✭✭
    The way this guy set up his auction is fabulous. We can see the front and back of the cards. This should help his sale price.
    Collecting all graded Alan Trammell graded cards as well as graded 1984 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer Detroit Tigers
    image
  • Options
    peterredshoespeterredshoes Posts: 98
    Far and away the best setup I've ever seen for collection pictures on eBay. It pays to have some web design skills sometimes...

    Peter G.
    Always looking for PSA 9 or better Alan Trammell basic set cards. Visit my Trammell card web site at "www.trammellcards.com"
  • Options
    DirtyHarryDirtyHarry Posts: 1,914 ✭✭
    Awesome. Thanks for the link.
    "A man's got to know his limitations...." Dirty Harry

    Unfocused, impulsive collector of everything ...
  • Options
    marzmarz Posts: 1,601
    That is a great display and proper advertising.
    live each day like it's your last but don't count on it!
  • Options
    DataDriven05DataDriven05 Posts: 164 ✭


    The work he put into the listing definitely paid off, as well as, the allure of getting an entire player set in one shot. The seller ended up getting 88% of SMR for the lot before shipping and insurance.

    Year SMR
    1954 535
    1955 175
    1956 260
    1957 100
    1958 100
    1959 45 -- This was an 8oc so I used the SMR for a 6
    1960 60
    1961 45
    1962 45
    1963 100
    1964 75
    1965 35
    1966 90
    1967 50
    1968 60
    1969 45
    1970 90
    1971 22
    1972 50
    1973 155
    1974 23
  • Options
    Steve1124Steve1124 Posts: 198 ✭
    Terrific set! I would love to know HOW the seller set that up! Did he just use the regular eBay facility? The way you can click on the card and see the front AND back is superb! I think the lucky buyer got a great deal!
  • Options
    jimtbjimtb Posts: 704 ✭✭
    I'm a little surprised that this set didn't go for more. I wonder if this had been listed after Christmas if he would have gotten a better price?
    Collecting all graded Alan Trammell graded cards as well as graded 1984 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer Detroit Tigers
    image
  • Options
    Steve1124Steve1124 Posts: 198 ✭
    My guess as to why it didn't sell for more, may be a combination of things: First, i noticed quite a barrage of quality items for sale lately! That, in combination with Christmas coming, and limited funds for hobbying, just depleted resources for such things.
  • Options
    FavreFan1971FavreFan1971 Posts: 3,105 ✭✭✭
    Below is his source code for the 1954 card.

    <TD width=80 height=135 alt="1954"><A HREF="http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/c/jcosyn/Tigers/Kaline/Cards/Pick.htm?1954"><IMG SRC="http://bellsouthpwp.net/j/c/jcosyn/Tigers/Kaline/Cards/1954t.jpg"></A></TD>


    When you have the auction open click View and then options and you can see this code. It is standard HTML with a little Web Development on his home page at www.bellsouthypwp.net/j/c/jcosyn. Looks like he took the front and back and merged it into one scan, then cropped it to show just the front of it on the auction itself. You can see that by the width and height below. The hard part is the Pick.htm in the first line. You can see the date 1954 after pick.htm that and on his web site he has 1954-1974. So what ever card you click on you will get that card instead of any other year. Man, this guy has done a nice job.

    I know it sounds confusing but I have played around with this for a bit and I am close to getting it to work.

    If those #'s I will try to post a few cards this way and see if it works. If you want my results drop me reply here or email me ebayfortroy@hotmail.com.

  • Options
    jimtbjimtb Posts: 704 ✭✭
    Farvefan,
    I'd like to see it!
    Jim
    Collecting all graded Alan Trammell graded cards as well as graded 1984 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer Detroit Tigers
    image
  • Options
    cosyncosyn Posts: 18 ✭
    Thank you for the compliments. Detroitfan2 emailed me during the auction, but I wasn't able to get registered on the forum until tonight (I probably deleted the original email with my password along with my 200+ spams a day). I have done a lot of reading on the board over the last few days, and I think I might like to become an active member. When I first checked it out a few days ago, the Nolan Ryan thread was at the top of the front page (as I have learned it often is), and I'm a big Nolan Ryan fan as well as a Kaline/Tigers/Wolverines/sometimes Wings/sometimes Lions fan.

    As far as the auction layout, I had actually developed all of the HTML and javascript stuff a couple years ago as a way to display my cards on the Internet. I'm a software engineer, and even though at that time my web development was even weaker than it is now, I managed the ability to display images in a table, which is all the main auction listing was. The same table is at my Kaline card page. The images there are just resized from the main scan images down to 80 pixels wide. The detail view page is actually a little lazy because I used IFrames, which I think are only supported by Microsoft's Internet Explorer, but I decided I could live with only an 85%+ market share for the people I expected to view my page. image

    Anyway, the key to the detail view page is the dropdown box that allows you to select any year and view the front and back of that card. I handled this by setting the Value property of each dropdown item to the name of the .jpg file I used for that card. I used a separate image for the front and back of the cards, because I want to be able to display just the front sometimes, rather than joining both sides into a single image file. I named the fronts Ryan68.jpg, Ryan69.jpg, etc. For the backs, I used Ryan68b.jpg, Ryan69b.jpg, etc.

    Then, the javascript code to handle the onchange event for the dropdown box (which executes every time you pick a different year in the dropdown) just updates the source of the image file for each of the front and back images.

    It's not rocket science, but it's fun and useful.

    I promise not to be such a techy geek every time I post.
  • Options
    cosyncosyn Posts: 18 ✭
    Oh yeah, I also used the same setup to display my Nolan Ryan cards. It helps that Kaline (21 cards) and Ryan (28 cards) both fit into a nice even arrangement of 7 cards per row.

    I laid out my Ryan collection into a format I liked, and had my brother build me a frame to hold them. He was just getting into wordworking then, and is now building furniture and stuff for himself, but I think he did a pretty nice job of implementing my vision.
  • Options
    calleochocalleocho Posts: 1,569 ✭✭
    welcome to the forum!

    really cool stuff with the scans!
    "Women should be obscene and not heard. "
    Groucho Marx
  • Options
    softparadesoftparade Posts: 9,271 ✭✭✭✭✭
    hey, all that stuff is chinese to me, the blue collar slob that I am. You sound like a great addition to the board! image

    ISO 1978 Topps Baseball in NM-MT High Grade Raw 3, 100, 103, 302, 347, 376, 416, 466, 481, 487, 509, 534, 540, 554, 579, 580, 622, 642, 673, 724__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ISO 1978 O-Pee-Chee in NM-MT High Grade Raw12, 21, 29, 38, 49, 65, 69, 73, 74, 81, 95, 100, 104, 110, 115, 122, 132, 133, 135, 140, 142, 151, 153, 155, 160, 161, 167, 168, 172, 179, 181, 196, 200, 204, 210, 224, 231, 240

  • Options
    jimtbjimtb Posts: 704 ✭✭
    cosyn, Welcome to the boards! I must admit that you lost me on your set up explanation as well, but is sure looked cool! Are you happy with the final price for the cards?
    Jim
    Collecting all graded Alan Trammell graded cards as well as graded 1984 Topps, Donruss, and Fleer Detroit Tigers
    image
  • Options
    cosyncosyn Posts: 18 ✭
    Yeah, I'm happy with the price. I noticed that the ending bid was exactly $25 higher than the second (which means the maximum bid was higher), and I was hoping for some last-second bidding to jump it up, but I really didn't know what to expect. I haven't been active in the market lately, I did most of my buying a few years ago, so I just took my chances. I'm really glad that the buyer has said he plans to keep the set together for his kids (if he ever has them), and that he and his father were Kaline fans.

    While I'm sure I've made some good investments now and then, I do think baseball cards should be for the enjoyment of fans.

    Actually, it made it easier for me to sell my set because I had this "virtual set" on the Internet. I knew I could always look at "my" cards, even if I can't hold them and claim them anymore.
  • Options
    Steve1124Steve1124 Posts: 198 ✭
    cosyn-

    i think i'm just going to hire YOU when i'm ready to sell my cards! image
Sign In or Register to comment.