On 3/15/07, an agreement was finalized in which Trading Card Central acquired Sports Card Sheriff. The agreement includes the SportsCardSheriff.com domain, the software that powered the site and all data (files and databases) related to the site. At that time, the transfer of ownership also started.

Effective early this morning, the SportsCardSheriff.com domain is now owned by Trading Card Central. In addition, the domain has been updated to temporarily forward all visitors to TradingCardCentral.com. Throughout the day, many or all of you should find this to be the case if you visit SportsCardSheriff.com.

As many of you know, the SportsCardSheriff.com site has been down since 12/15/06. At that time, SportsCardSheriff.com had reached over 9000 total members and over 1,000,000 total posts. Based on those numbers, the site was obviously an important resource for collectors.

Therefore, our plan is to fully restore SportsCardSheriff.com in the near future so that collectors have the opportunity to access all of the information (topics, posts, PMs, transaction histories, etc.) that they lost access to in mid-December.

Moving forward, we will then begin a well-defined and clearly communicated process of unifying the SportsCardSheriff.com community and TradingCardCentral.com's Collector Zone community. Feedback from the members of both communities will play a vital role in this process.

Our goal is to establish Trading Card Central as the leading resource for trading card collectors. By combining the resources and communities of 2 of the 3 largest non-corporate trading card sites, we are confident that this goal will be reached. By doing so, collectors will benefit from a more centralized resource to support their hobby and a more powerful, collective voice within the industry.

We look forward to working with and supporting the members of both communities as we begin this exciting time at Trading Card Central.

Bob Williams
President & CEO
TradingCardCentral.com

Congratulations Bob! Even though I've been here for a short period of time, its one of the best online communities I've been a part of.

Really nice Bob!! TCC will have more and more members!!

monopoly time!!..woohoo!!!!!!!!!

Nice 'pick-up', Bob!

I gotta question. If TCC banned members are on SCS, what's gonna happen to them?

Also, are you gonna have like a SCS Team?

WOOOHOOOOO!!!

Mojo to the Max!!

Bob bought SCS, now it's my turn: I buy Vermont!

Wow, this is so interesting, I have like 50 questions! But Ill wait to ask as Im sure they will be answered in the future.

I think this Shows that Bob really does care about trading cards and the people who trade them.

Kudos Bob

Well congratulations on the takeover of sportscardsheriff.com Bob and fellow members of TCC!

TCC is going to take over the world!



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Well maybe not.

I'm same with Buff i got so much i want to learn about this but for now i'll just say this:

sweet

Here is my first question:


Eventually, if you go to sportscardsheriff.com, will it re-route you to TCC?

It does right now.

Too many questions, young man! Now just celebrate!
I guess so...

Thanks Cody, Im at work, so I dont have time to be trying out other web sites

The beat goes on,

yeah the beat goes on.


Congrats Bob, nice move on your part to unify the 2.

CONGRATS TCC and Congrats to you, Bob!
A great move for the growth and future of this, the GREATEST Community of Collectors on the Web!

Please click here for an official topic where we'll have Q&A about this acquisition. Feel free to ask any questions.

-Bob

Ohhhhh yeah.

One time my brother and I merged our yard sale baseball card table with my neighbors. We dominated the block that year.

Though this may be slightly different. . .

That is awesome, Bob!

I'm going to go ahead and copy these questions and will then reply to them in the Q&A topic. Please see that topic for answers.

-Bob

Congrats are in order for Bob_TCC !!!!....much to do and accomplish in 2007


-Ken

Interesting move,
After scs went down completely I oft wondered what I'd do If a couple of my main Hobby sites just dropped of the internet (I've since backed up alot of info

I'm sure many will be floored & happy scs is coming back. It will be interesting to watch scs's progression once it returns, then the unification of the 2.

Onward & Upward TCC...
Best Wishes

As a reminder...

Please click here for an official topic where we'll have Q&A about this acquisition. Feel free to ask any questions.

-Bob

Nice Pick up Bob! I assume this one is PC and NFT!?

That's a correct assumption.

-Bob

PLEASE don't change the format on tcc much easier to move around on tks

sweet...looking forward to my transaction count zooming up and recovering my trade lists!

The TCC layout and approach will remain the same.

-Bob

Yes. We understand that many of you have data on SCS that you were really hoping to recover.

-Bob

Bob, was this a steal, mail or a pull

Nice job Bob and good luck!! Guess I need to find my username and password for Sports Card Sheriff..lol...

Wow!!! Great pickup Bob!!! As a member of SCS I was frustrated with the instability of the site. The one good thing I can say about SCS though is that if it hadn't gone down I would never have found the best trading site on the planent!!!!!!!

TCC Rocks!!!

We're glad that you found us as well!

-Bob

Very much so, this is great news. I've been waiting for this news ever since that little teaser note you made about "a big announcement"

I said before and I,m saying again there a NEW SHERIFF IN TOWN...
ITS TCC...
CONGART AND THANKS
TooTallToma

I tried really, really hard and managed to resist using that line.

-Bob

All the maple syrup you can eat!! YUM!

Congrats to you Bob! Well done! It's also great to see how many members here are so passionate about this site, too.

Now you people see what I saw when I came here for the first time - a site owner with a totally professional attitude. He envisioned of a centralized/unified hobby community at a time when TCC was in the early stages of growing. We are all witnessing the first steps of the realization of that vision.

Rumors are that The Doc plans to discuss Trading Card Central's acquisition of Sports Card Sheriff as part of this week's hobby news. Click here for a discussion topic related to tonight's The Doctor Wax Battle Show which is live from 7-10 PM EST.

-Bob

Thats great news, I cant wait to start trading with all the new members !!! Congrats Bob !!!

TCC = super collector site now

I'm watching Doc's show now. Doc went over the article above and noted that SCS was a central place for the hobby and TCC has acquired it. Didn't catch the beginning of the show so don't know if he mentioned it before.

I don't think so... I started watching it early and I think he said nothing before

I'd had some good experiences there before it went down.

This is a good thing.

Ok Then I buy Norway.

Another member indicated that there was a brief "teaser" comment near the beginning of the show and then he covered it in more detail during the part that you saw.

By the way, this news was also part of today's issue of Trade Fax. I'll have the text of that mention later today.

-Bob

Here's the text in today's issue of Trade Fax:

Trading Card Central has acquired SportsCardSheriff.com. The site will temporarily forward all visitors to TradingCardCentral.com. According to TradingCardCentral.com President & CEO Bob Williams, the plan is to fully restore SportsCardSheriff.com in the near future so that collectors may access the information they lost access to in mid-December when the site went down. He said the company will then begin the process of unifying the SportsCardSheriff.com and TradingCardCentral.com's Collector Zone communities.

-Bob