FyndIt’s First Year Anniversary

We’ve crossed a milestone in the history of FyndIt! November 11th marks the one-year anniversary of the launch of our website. Thanks to our amazing community of Wanters and Finders, in the past year we have been able to help people find stuff from all over the world!

It has been really interesting to watch the site in action and be able to check out the cool and unusual stuff people are hoping to track down. We get super excited when we see Finds start to roll in that our members have posted in response to a Want. It’s great when there’s a handful of options for a Wanter to choose from. There’s nothing like that awesome feeling we get when a collector scores a rare item in great condition for an affordable price on FyndIt! We make it easier for a Wanter to shop for their hard-to-find items and also make it possible for successful Finders to earn money hunting online and in stores for treasures and collectibles.

 

To get our first year started off right, we held two awesome contests rewarding finalists with near mint signature series CGC comic books. Our Classic X-Men Comic Contest Grand Prize winner earned a NM CGC set of Uncanny X-Men #141 and #142 signed by Stan Lee valued at $1,500. The Grand Prize winner in our Mean, Green TMNT Contest walked away with a NM CGC first issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles signed by Eastman and Laird worth $10,000! Holding the two comic book contests really skyrocketed site traffic and helped us gather a lot of great insight and feedback about how the FyndIt community interacts with the site’s user interface.

Based upon feedback from contest participants and other members posting comments and suggestions to our Community Forums, we’ve turned out several updates in the past year to improve FyndIt’s user experience. We’ve added the option to upload multiple images, streamlined how a user posts a Want or a Find, added the ability to link to smaller e-commerce sites and allowed Wanters additional options for where a Find can be located.

We’re constantly looking for ways to improve our site and help people get their hands on stuff they want to find. We’ve got lots of fun updates in store for FyndIt’s second year and can’t wait to start rolling them out! If you’re just hearing about FyndIt for the first time, like us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter to keep up with the cool and unique stuff people post as Wants and Finds to our site.

 

Get Paid to Find Comics & Collectibles

FyndIt is a site that helps connect people who want stuff with the people who know where to find it. We bring people together to assist each other in locating rare and elusive collectibles and memorabilia online and in stores.

When someone is looking for a hard-to-find collectible, they list it as a Want on our website. What is a Want? Well…it’s exactly just that! Something that someone wants, but just can’t seem to find.

Once an item is listed as a Want on FyndIt, our community of Finders search all over the world for it. Why would they help a stranger find stuff? Because they get paid for it! Each Want offers up a bounty reward to the person who can find the item. Bounties can be anywhere from $1 to $5 to $20 or more! If you come across a Want online or in a store, post it as a Find and if your item is accepted as a match, you’ll earn money! FyndIt bounty rewards can easily be cashed out through your PayPal account.

Check out the most recent Wants listed on FyndIt and see if you can track down any of the comics or collectibles wanted by our members. There are several listed with $10 bounty rewards. If you were able to find even just a handful of items, your rewards would stack up pretty quick!

It’s super easy to sign up with FyndIt! Membership is free. Create an account, verify your email and get started finding stuff for money! Check out or FAQs for more information on how FyndIt works.

FyndIt Updates – Streamlined Wants and Finds

Our crew has been busy working on the back end to bring FyndIt members helpful updates that will improve their user experience! We updated FyndIt with a new release yesterday and would like to invite you to check out the new features. If you are a collector looking for a hard-to-find item, go ahead and post a Want. Our community of Finders will help track it down for you. Perhaps you are someone who knows where to buy all the unusual or kitschy stuff? You’ll want to post a Find to our site and if someone has to have it, they’ll “Want It” and you’ll earn a bounty reward for finding cool stuff!

With this week’s release, we were able to streamline the process of adding a Want or Find to our website. It is now easier for a FyndIt member to enter their item’s information. We’ve moved the additional details section to an “optional” area. Members can now post a Want or Find with just the basic information to quickly get their item up on the site. If additional details are needed, a member can always go back in and edit their post to add more information about the item’s condition or manufacturer. Give the new update a whirl and find out how easy it is now to post a Want or Find.

In addition to streamlining Wants and Finds, we’ve added a new feature to our Want posts that allows the Wanter more control over where an item is found. Some of our Wanters are internet sleuths and have searched the inter-webs high and low for that thing they can’t possibly live without. When they can’t find it online, they turn to our community of Finders for help. The idea is that our Finders live all over the world and have access to brick and mortar shops that carry all kinds of items that are not available in the Wanter’s hometown. We’ve added a new feature that allows a Wanter to specify if an item can be found online or only in a store. In the case of our Wanters who are internet sleuths, they are already searching online for their item, but specifically need help searching for it in a store at some far away location. The newly added feature helps potential Finders narrow the item down and prevents both the Wanter and the Finder from doing double work searching for the item online.

In addition to the two newly added features, we’ve continued working on squashing pesky little bugs to improve the user experience. You can keep up to date on all of the awesome stuff we are doing to improve the site by reading our latest Release Notes.

We’d love to get your feedback about the new features! Create a free account at FyndIt and post a Want or Find. Feel free to contact us directly at support@fyndit.com or post your thoughts to our Community Forums.

FyndIt Updates – Anywhere Finds and Multiple Photos!

The team at FyndIt has been working hard over the past few weeks to bring some exciting new features to the site. We believe these awesome upgrades will greatly improve the user experience and enhance a member’s ability to connect and discover hard-to-find collectibles and memorabilia with other community members.

Prior to the new release, online Finds could only be discovered through eBay, Amazon and Etsy. We’re happy to announce that Finders can now enter an online Find from anywhere! We listened to your feedback and wanted our members to have the ability to link to smaller e-commerce websites that offer specialty products.

Another cool new feature that we are really excited about is the improvements we’ve made to adding pictures to your Wants and Finds! You can now add multiple images making it easier to capture the overall condition of an item. A picture says a thousand words, and now you can add a thousand images! Well…ok, maybe you wouldn’t want to go haywire and add some crazy number of pics, but we are not going to limit you if you need to capture and convey several different angles of an item.

In addition to our super handy updates, we’ve also squashed some bugs with this new release. You can keep up to date on what new product features and updates are rolling out to FyndIt with our Release Notes.

We’d love to have you give our new updates a test drive and tell us what you think in our Community Forums. Get started with a new account at FyndIt. All you need to come up with is a username and password. Once you verify your email address with us, you’ll be on your way to getting help finding something by posting your first Want or making money by posting your first Find and earning a bounty reward if your item is accepted as a match.

Want of the Week – Back Issues of Dynamite Magazine

Dynamite was a children’s magazine published by Scholastic from 1974 until 1992. It was available for purchase through Scholastic’s book club, by subscription and on newstands. The magazine featured what was going on in pop culture at the time in addition to games, activities and other fun stuff for kids.

A FyndIt member and collector of Dynamite magazines has posted several issues on our website hoping that someone can help them track down hard-to-find back issues. They are offering a $10 bounty reward to anyone who can help find the specific issues listed. At FyndIt we connect people who want stuff with the people who know where to find it.

If you know where to locate the following various issues, log onto FyndIt and create an account. Post your Find and if the magazines you discovered are a match, you will receive a bounty reward of $10 for each issue found and accepted. You can easily cash out your bounty rewards to your PayPal account.

See if you can track down the following Dynamite Magazine back  issues; #121 Supergirl, #129 The Cosby Show, #137 Kirk Cameron, #139 Whitney Houston, #140 Head of the Class, #147 Debbie Gibson & Tiffany, #148 Corey Haim & Corey Feldman, #159 New Kids on the Block, #160 Candace Cameron, #161 Will Smith, #162 Macaulay Culkin, #164 Beverly Hills 90210 and the very last issue published in 1992 #165 Julia Roberts & Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Try your hand at other Wants posted to FyndIt and see if you can make a match and take home the bounty reward.

Find of the Week – KISS Garden Gnomes

These are not your average run of the mill garden gnomes! FyndIt’s Find of the Week is a group of hard-core garden gnome rock stars. Do you know a KISS fan who also loves garden gnomes? This hand painted set of gnomes would make the perfect gift for that headbanger with a heart for little forest people. Find out where to score this set of KISS Garden Gnomes.

 

Do you know where to find cool and unusual stuff online or in stores? You could earn money finding kitsch items and posting them to FyndIt. You never know, something you find could be the one thing that someone else has been looking high and low for! Post your great discovery to the Finds on our site and if someone is interested in the item you posted, they will pay you a little coin to find out where to get it.

FyndIt’s Mean, Green TMNT Contest Week 4 Finalist!

Congratulations to BigFatMama5 for qualifying as the Week 4 finalist in FyndIt’s Mean, Green TMNT Contest!

Her Want for a Kellog’s Star Fox Video Game Watch from the 1990’s scored the most points during the last week of FyndIt’s TMNT contest. FyndIt is a service that helps people locate hard-to-find collectibles. BigFatMama5 posted her Want in hopes that someone can help her track down a very special Star Fox watch that was only redeemable through Kellog’s cereal company with two proofs of purchase and a small fee for shipping and handling. There are several Star Fox watches from the 1990’s that are listed on eBay, but these watches were released by Nelsonic after the Kellog’s promotion and they have a different button interface. If you know where to locate a working Kellog’s Star Fox watch from the 1990’s online or in a store, help BigFatMama5 rescue her most prized possession from her long lost childhood! Click here to post your Find and if it’s the watch she’s looking for, you could earn a nice bounty reward for your efforts!

Help other collectors find rare or elusive memorabilia by clicking on the Wants and checking out the listings. You never know, you could Find something someone is looking for and earn some money by helping them out!

Now that all of the weekly finalists have been selected for FyndIt’s Mean, Green TMNT Contest, the judges are busy reviewing the  contest entries and will be announcing a Grand Prize winner of the near mint CGC TMNT #1 comic signed by Eastman and Laird soon. Stay tuned…

FyndIt’s Mean, Green TMNT Contest Week 3 Finalist!

Congratulations to our Week 3 Mean, Green TMNT Contest finalist, Evo_Shandor for his qualifying Find Tales to Astonish #1!

Evo entered his Find in our TMNT contest in hopes of winning the Grand Prize a near mint CGC first issue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book signed by creators Eastman and Laird worth $10,000!

There are only a few more days left of the contest which ends on August 16th! Try your chance at a piece of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle history and post your best Want or Find to enter the contest.

What’s a Want? A Want is something you’re looking for. When you can’t find something on the internet or in a store, our community of Finders can save you time and money looking for it!

What’s a Find? Something that you’ve seen that you think someone else might want. You can go about this two ways, finding the exact thing someone wants or you might just list something interesting that you’ve found online, or in a store that you think someone might want.

Entering FyndIt’s Mean, Green Comic Contest is easy! Ready the contest rules and click Accept. Create a username and password at FyndIt. Verify your email so that we know you are not a mutant. Create and post your most interesting Want or Find.

Each week the judges will choose a weekly finalist. At the end of the contest, the judges will choose a Grand Prize winner out of the four weekly finalists. You still have a few days to win this awesome TMNT comic! Enter the contest here.

FyndIt’s Mean, Green TMNT Week 1 Finalist!

The first week of FyndIt’s Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Contest has gotten off to a great start! We have seen a lot of cool and unique contest entries posted as Wants and Finds on our site.

Congratulations to paladin who scored the top score for Week 1 of FyndIt’s Mean, Green TMNT Contest  with the qualifying Want Looking to Find an Album Containing The Mystery Song I Heard at Camp. It looks like this melody has been stuck in his head for over two years and he hasn’t been able to track down the artist or the title of this elusive tune. He is willing to pay a $5.00 bounty to whoever can help him find the song described in his Want.

At FyndIt, we help people find all sorts of stuff from mystery songs to comic book memorabilia to vintage auto parts. If you are looking for something you just can’t seem to find, post it as a Want on FyndIt and our community of Finders will help you track it down. Found something totally awesome that you know someone else can’t live without? Post it as a Find on our website and you could earn some money helping others find stuff!

If you didn’t catch the first week of our TMNT Contest, you still have three more weeks to enter to win a CGC near mint first issue Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book signed by creators Eastman and Laird worth $10,000. Post your best Want or Find to try and get your hands on the Grand Prize! Each week the judges will choose a weekly finalist. At the end of the contest, the judges will choose a Grand Prize winner out of the four weekly finalists. You still have a chance to win this awesome comic! Enter the contest here.

Entering FyndIt’s Mean, Green Comic Contest is easy! Ready the contest rules and click Accept. Create a username and password at FyndIt. Verify your email so that we know you are not a mutant. Create and post your most interesting Want or Find.

There are three more entry weeks that you can STILL participate in! The contest runs till August 16th.  Don’t miss out on the comic book that inspired the upcoming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movie!

Check out the TMNT Contest FAQs for more information.

X-Men Comics & Memorabilia Wanted on FyndIt

The wait is finally over and X-Men Days of Future Past is in theaters! The FyndIt website has seen a lot of traffic from X-Men comic memorabilia collectors over the last few weeks.

We thought we would take a look at some of the best X-Men Wants posted to FyndIt. A Want is an item posted by a collector that they need help finding. If you are a fan of X-Men  or all around comic book junkie, you should click on some of the X-Men Wants below and see if you can track any of them down. Post your X-Men Find and if your item is accepted as a match, you could earn a sweet bounty reward for your efforts!

Wanted: Uncanny X-Men 125 CGC 9.8 White Pages (Newsstand Edition) 
Description: I’m a serious Uncanny X-Men fan, had collected many between #121-175, and unfortunately, family had to move and our stuff was put into storage for many years, did not see my comic box for a long time. Would like to get this issue of a nicely centered Uncanny X-Men #125 in CGC 9.8 White Pages (Newsstand edition ONLY, which has the issue number within a box on top left of cover, not within a diamond like the direct editions have. This edition also has a full UPC barcode which is not crossed out like the direct editions have). An image of the type of edition I’m looking for is shown, although that is a lower grade copy.
Price Wanted: $300.00
Bounty Reward: $25.00 (You could win this if your Find is accepted!)

Image via marvel.wikia.com

Wanted: Giant Size X-Men #1
Description: First appearance of the new X-Men team. Item must be in great condition and complete. I personally have been collecting X-men comics since I was eight years old. I own Uncanny X-men issue 143 to current. This would be a huge addition to my collection.
Price Wanted: $300.00
Bounty Reward: $0.50 (You could win this if your Find is accepted!)

Image via marvel.wikia.com

Wanted: X-Men #1 (1963) Comic Book
Description: I’m looking for the original X-men #1 comic book released in 1963. Comic must be in good condition and complete. I have been collecting X-men comics since I was eight years old. This rare and incredible comic would be the best part of my collection if added.
Price Wanted: $300.00
Bounty Reward: $0.50 (You could win this if your Find is accepted!)

Image via mycomichop.com

Wanted: The X-Men #40 Mark of the Monster
Description: Looking for a copy of X-Men meet Frankenstein in good condition.
Price Wanted: Not Specified
Bounty Reward: $0.50 (You could win this if your Find is accepted!)

Wanted: Uncanny X-Men #150
Description: This was my first comic book. Looking for one in good condition.
Price Wanted: $3.00
Bounty Reward: $0.50 (You could win this if your Find is accepted!)

Image via marvel.wikia.com

There are plenty of other comic memorabilia items wanted on FyndIt. Check out the most recent Want listings and see if you can find stuff!

FyndIt’s Classic X-Men Comic Contest runs through Sunday, June 1st! Enter for your chance to win a set of CGC mint Uncanny X-Men #141 and #143 comic books signed by Stan Lee! Check out the contest rules and FAQs.