Indication when Private Signings are Completed Thursday, December 28, 2023 Posted by jaygross Comments: 1
Private signings on SCN are quite popular, as there have been over 150,00 transactions related to them in our Trade Manager since we first launched the feature in 2010. These signings have provided collectors with great opportunities to get autographs from players that do not sign so commonly or via TTM. Thank you to all of our promoters and members who participate in them and for all of the helpful feedback.
In 2021, we made some important upgrades to the Private Signings functionality. And while those changes have definitely been helpful, we listen to our members' feedback on what else we can do.
Common Frustration - The date on signing passed, now what?
One common trend we have heard is that there hasn't been a standard way for promoters to let members know that signing is complete and that items are being sent back. This leads to a lot of frustration and confusion from both sides of the transaction.
Introducing Completed Signings for Promoters
Today we have added functionality that allows promoters to mark there signings as completed for all signings with a date after 12/1/2023.
Once a signing has a date of signing that is in the past, a button will appear as shown below:

Clicking the button will take the promoter to a page where a completion date for the signing can be submitted:

Please note - submitting a completion date will automatically send a message to all members with a transaction for that signing that the signing is complete.
Once a signing has a completion date submitted, that date will appear on the signing page for all members to see (boldly highlighted in the yellow box):

When promoters go to the Manage My Signings page, they will see the status containing Approved+Completed:

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2 Million Successes on SportsCollectors.Net Wednesday, November 15, 2023 Posted by jaygross Comments: 0

Way back in 1998, I came up with the idea of creating a database for collectors to track when they mailed out a letter to athletes asking for an autograph. I went on to launch autograph request tracking as the key feature on SportsCollectors.Net in 2000 and it has been such a helpful tool for collectors. So many of us have been able to track my own successes and failures, and see how our collections grow.
 Functionality that allows collectors to track autograph requests
Earlier this morning the SCN community hit a pretty significant milestone with 2 million successes tracked in our system. For context, the community of 1000's of collectors enter an average of over 300 successes each day. It still sometimes blows my mind that so many folks enjoy using this system and what we have accomplished as a group.
The 2,000,000th successes:
player: George Karl
date sent: 1/27/2021
date received: 11/14/2023
duration: 1021 days
received/sent: 3/3

Thanks to the community:
To show our appreciation, I am extending the subscription of 100 members by 3 months. We will be randomly selecting 100 active subscribers who have entered 10+ successes in the past 90 days. If you are selected, you will receive a message from us with the details.
I'd like to thank everyone for all your contributions and for making SCN what it is today, you are all amazing.
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Happy New Year 2023 Sunday, January 1, 2023 Posted by jaygross Comments: 1
2023 is here and I want to wish the SCN community a Happy New Year.
Community stats

In 2022, we have seen great growth again with over 100,000 new successes entered in our database and over 1,000 new subscribers. It's always exciting for me to see collectors enjoying our hobby and I'd like to thank you all for the contributions to our community.
Some 2022 highlights for me and my collection:
- I sent out the most requests and got more mail back in 2022 than I have in any previous year:

- We added Completed Set functionality to the site and I finished my 4th set this week.
I have been working on the 44 card 1993 Pro Line Portraits set since they came out in 1993. For about 5 years Wilber Marshall (Super Bowl champ linebacker with the Bears + Redskins) was the last card I needed. I had never seen this card signed up until this month and he is not exactly easy to find these days, so I quickly acquired when I did. This is my 4th completed signed set.
- I went to card shows this year - after years of not going.
The National Sports Collectors Convention was in my home state of NJ, so I spent a full day attending my 4th National.
 
For over 30 years, there has been smaller local show in North Jersey (Garfield, NJ) that runs on Sundays twice a month. I got to attend it a few times this year with my son (now 11) this fall and got to meet some long time SCN members there.
- I made some more progress with my multi-signed card collection (It is definitely getting tougher, especially on those 1980 Topps basketball tri-cards):
For 2023:
- I spent a bunch of time in 2022 working on making performance improvements and on the administrative functionality for the site. I am hoping to roll out some fun new features for members in the upcoming year.
- I am planning to try to trade more cards + autographs this year and write to more players
- I am really close to finishing 2 more sets and I am still on the hunt for the following signed cards:
-- 1992 Pro Line Portraits Al Davis
-- 1977 Topps/ O-Pee-Chee Glossy Inserts (Round Corners) Ken Dryden
-- 1977 Topps/ O-Pee-Chee Glossy Inserts (Round Corners) Denis Potvin
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