Unless they hired
someone to handle the new cards and catch up to speed on cataloguing and pricing, I feel that this will be the 1st year of truly diminishing returns for F&W.
The problem is, WE are very much a minority when it comes to purchasing this tome and in addition, as Bob L. pointed out in a different thread -- we are also down to one major book chain ordering (Barnes and Noble).
The reason I say that, is that in my days at Beckett, we realized there was much more interest in the newer cards then in the old cards. (Granted Krause's presentation of old cards was superior) but one year we missed about 200 cards from the 1993 Topps set. I would venture we received at least one call a day asking about that and finally we were able to print out and send everyone a complete listing of those cards.
Trust me, I think F&W will be fortunate to sell more than 1,500 copies this year in sell through. Frankly the vintage material does not change that often and new additions are not easy and thus the real way to make changes is with the new cards and the players. At this point, Mike Trout is far more interesting than Joe Sewell as an example.Let's face it, Trout's cards may be changing daily while Sewell's cards need a sundial to change prices.
and NO ONE wants to see cataloguing and profitability from that more than me, but guys unless the new stuff is added to the Standard Catalog, it aint happening.
Rich
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