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Jerry SpillmanNo answer yet…
The publishers/editors of the major sports card price guides spend a considerable amount of time, effort and money to produce a price guide that consists of brief set descriptions, checklists and prices of sports cards. Many of the vintage card checklists represent the accumulation of vast amounts of data that have been compiled over a long period of time. The major contributors of and updates to these checklists are listed on the Acknowledgement page of their publications. Most of these contributors are compensated for their input. Many of these contributors are also members of this forum.
Unfortunately these checklists are being appropriated and used as an integral tool in the sports card pricing service businesses. These businesses are now competitors of the sources that publish these checklists and rely on these same publishers for free updates! The publishers of the baseball card price guide catalogs will have to deal with this problem.
Over the years I played a small part as a contributor to the baseball card price guide catalog publications. However only the publications that I came to agreement with have the right to use the Sporting Life Cabinet checklist. I made no agreement with vcp.com. I would like to ask that that checklist be removed from that web site. Thank you.