Thanks for the suggestions
I don't see anything here that hasn't been discussed nearly every year in recent history.
It all comes down . . . wait for it . . . to dollars and cents.
F+W ownership is no longer the hobby-oriented bunch that ran the company from 1952 through the mid-1990s. Each book has to meet certain revenue and profit expectations or it is history.
I'm guessing that in this hobby/economic era that bottom line has gotten awful thin. Nothing that does not jump out at management asimmediately adding sales is extremely unlikely to get the green light if it requires additional payroll or programming resources.
I can tell you that, while it is not explicitly stated, the retail value of graded cards is factored into pricing to a much greater extent than used to be the case.
I also know that the data base that holds the vintage card data does have many more grade heads available than the currently published NM, EX and VG, but there is no expeditious way to fill in those blanks, and the print program is currently structured to print only those three grades. This is the "fix" I would most like to see implemented.
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