Gone are the days when you had to visit the local sports card store for buying hockey player cards and having to wait until the released card versions actually reached the local hobby stores. In the Internet age, the entire buying and selling of sports cards has become virtual, resulting in the card being shipped to you and everything is carried out online. In the earlier days, the options were limited to the local card store or grocery store or 7-Eleven, but today, you have the official websites of the card manufacturing companies featuring their products, and, hordes of online retailers and auction sites to cater to your needs and help you find the rare hockey card you want. Whether it is a Topps set of cards or those of Upper Deck, they are easily available on the company’s website and this gives options for hockey card collectors to choose their type of hockey card. Vintage or current, your hockey card can be found online.

Apart from these, there are hordes of online retail outlets that sell hockey player cards, both individual as well as sets, at very reasonable prices. A list of these sites can be easily available by using a search engine like Google or Yahoo. Retailers like Collecting Sports Cards, Sports Card Attic, Dick & Jane’s Sports cards are good options to check out, if you want good bargains. Also a look at the price guides and their online lists will give you some more information about the cards. In fact, online price lists like Beckett also sell card sets at bargain prices. Look out for special offers and deals online and you may be the lucky one to get hockey cards at great discounts.

Finally, of course, you have the online auction sites like eBay which is a good place to buy and sell hockey cards. Here you have the flexibility of choosing the best bargains, as you may find more than one seller for a particular card. Also you have the choice of buying individual cards, also known as singles, as opposed to packs. This would not only be less expensive but also ensure that you buy only those cards you need and are not saddled with other useless cards or duplicate hockey cards.

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After your initiate the search by entering in a hockey player name and, optionally, the hockey card year, HockeyCardChase.com will display search results for you. Typically, results will have prices and values, some will display the vintage hockey card you searched for.

On the left column of the results is a list of hockey card dealers and retailers of sports cards. The right side of the page will show the results of your hockey card search.

To see dealer results of old hockey cards, click on the name of the online sports card retailer. The hockey player search that you initiated will be displayed from the dealer’s website. Click on the next hockey card dealer if there are no matching player cards. For any match, the hockey card will be displayed in the right column of the results page. Usually a price or value will be displayed with the player card, but not always.

If you find a hockey player card that interests you, click on the image or link to the hockey card. The page will refresh and take you to the dealer site to purchase the hockey card or to send an email for more information.

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Finding hockey cards that you were interested used to be a frustrating exercise of searching stores, opening packs, contacting dealers and going to sports card conventions. Now, if you need a specific hockey card for your player sports card collection, you can find it, with HockeyCardChase.com.

Starting your search for that elusive hockey card for your sports card collection starts with a name. Once you know the correct spelling of the hockey player you are interested in, just type the name into the player field. The hockey card search engine will be based off of the name you enter here, so be sure to spell the name correctly. Looking for that vintage hockey card only needs a first name, last name or both. Obviously, if you enter the hockey player’s first name and last name together, the search results will be more relevant.

If you need a hockey card from a specific year, you can type in the year. This is optional and not required to use the hockey card search engine. Please note that you need to enter all four digits and not just two for the year.

That’s it. When you click the search button, HockeyCardChase.com will search the Internet for the old or modern hockey card that you are looking for.

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HockeyCardChase.com is finished with the initial beta of the site. Whether you are searching for old Gordie Howe cards or Wayne Gretzky or Joe Sakic cards, the search engine for hockey cards is now working. Player cards with values and prices are being displayed in the search results. Sports card dealers and online hockey card retail shops are stored in the database and showing up in the results.

With the close of beta, we will now be posting blog entries centered around hockey cards and the hobby of collecting sports cards. Please feel free to write us with your suggestions by clicking on the contact us page.

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During this beta period, we have made a few changes to the search for your favorite hockey player cards.

Most notably, we have added a few new hockey card dealers to the search results. So, this change should dramatically improve your results for sports cards. We placed Ebay in the number 1 position as they seemed to have the largest inventory of current and vintage hockey cards.

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The hockeycardchase.com hockey card search is now working. You can use the search engine to find old and rare hockey cards from across the Internet.

When we launched the beta a couple of days ago, there was a database bug that caused an error shortly after the launch. So, any search for a hockey player was not working correctly. The bug has been fixed, so you can now search, find prices and values and look for your favorite hockey card.

Please continue to use the beta site while we continue to improve the design and other features. Hockey player cards should now be findable.

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