Blowout Cards & ThePit.com partner on Forum info posts

You can look for even more information and chatter on the Blowout Forums very soon.

Blowout Cards, the leading online retailer of trading cards, and ThePit.com, a long-running bid/ask marketplace, revealed today that they have entered into a partnership where ThePit will provide content and market data to enhance discussion on the Forums in exchange for the opportunity to incorporate links to its related item pages.

"The Blowout Cards Forums have for many years provided the most active space to discuss important issues and build community within the card collecting hobby," said Blowout’s Tom Fish. "Veteran collectors use our Forums to delve deeply into fields they are passionate about, while newcomers to the hobby explore potential areas of interest and build their knowledge by engaging with more experienced hobbyists. ThePit.com’s Forums postings will explore in detail the most popular modern sports cards and we expect that this will inspire further Forums discussion.”

Mark Humphries, General Manager of ThePit.com, echoed that statement.

"We are pleased to share our Total Market Value rankings and related athlete and card commentary with the Blowout Forums community," Humphries said. "The increasing interest in the card market has created a need for collectors and speculators to better understand the relative value of popular cards. ThePit’s Total Market Value analysis considers, for a particular card, the total value of the entire population of investment-grade Gem Mint examples. This allows for rankings and the fun, spirited discussions that follow as fans and collectors debate the values assigned by the market to their favorite players and cards."

Blowout was founded in 1999 and ThePit arrived in 2000. Blowout's industry-leading Forum is visited by more than 40,000 collectors around the world, while its main site includes a hobby blog updated daily, more than one million boxes in stock -- from all areas of the hobby -- as well as live online box breaks, active social media channels and promotions designed to help collectors enjoy their hobby at the lowest-available prices. ThePit, which is based on Oxnard, Calif., is the only trading card marketplace to offer free insured storage, no fees for trading within its system and “Sell Now” options for more than 8,000 listings. It also has executed over $46 million in transactions in that time.

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