Corridor Cards
My trading-card business in Coralville, Iowa. I run card vending machines, an eBay store and a web shop, selling sealed product and singles to sports and Pokémon collectors.
- My role
- Owner and operator
- For
- Collectors
- Status
- Operating business
- Visit
- corridorcards.com (another site)web shop
- Find a machine (another site)vending locations
- eBay store (another site)
What running it involves
Corridor Cards sells sealed product and singles to sports and Pokémon collectors through three channels. I run all three, and the listing work behind the eBay store.
Vending machines
Card vending machines that need restocking. Keeping them full means knowing what’s in each machine and what’s still in storage.
Web shop
The online shop at corridorcards.com. It’s also where the machine locations are listed.
eBay store
Sports and Pokémon categories. Singles come through the listing pipeline, priced from recent sold listings and shown in exact-item photos. I review and publish every listing.
Where the time goes
A small multi-channel card business runs on repetitive, detail-heavy work: tracking inventory across machines and storage, pricing from recent sales, restocking, and listing, all while keeping the buying experience simple and trustworthy.
How I run it
What you see is what you receive
Exact-item photos and plain, buyer-first listing language.
Structure before automation
Product names and SKUs are built from structured fields (brand, set, variant, type), never typed freehand. That’s what made automation possible later.
Tools I built for it
In regular use
Corridor Listing Pipeline
Turns a batch of photographed cards into checked, priced eBay drafts, then stops so I can review and publish each one.
In development
Operations dashboard
An internal dashboard for sales, slot-level inventory and restock planning.
What it has to respect
- Physical operations. Machines, restocks and storage happen in the real world.
- Time. Every minute spent per card matters.
- Trust. Buyers need to see exactly what they’ll receive.