SGC Collector Magazine

[thekingofclout]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

Just as a suggestion -- the next time this happens (if it does again); you might want to make sure all the subscribers (like myself) knows about the delay. Keeping consumers informed is very important in business.

And I wil bring up my constant aggravation with PSA here as well. I actually paid for a sub to SMR -- and never recieved any renewal notices; to me that was throwing away money on their part.

Trust me, I understand from my years in publishing that for both SGC and PSA the publishing is very secondary to their primary business of grading cards; but one should remember some people just like to read about cards as well.

Regards
Rich

A couple of years ago, I sent in a check for like $40 to subscribe to Beckett Elite, and more than 3 or 4 months went by with nothing. Granted, I knew this was a quarterly Magazine, but after still another couple of months goes by and finally that piece of crap they call Beckett Baseball Card Monthly shows up in my mailbox!

After a few attempts, I finally get through to someone in Customer Service and was informed that they no longer print Beckett Elite so they sent me the POS Beckett instead. I again told the women that I don't want the POS BB monthly and why didn't they just send my check back with a letter of explanation? Not their policy. I guess their policy is to tell ME what I should buy and to shut my pie-hole and say THANK YOU SIR, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER!

"Alright well, just a little tale" (a classic De Niro scene/line for anyone that might be a fan of the movie "This Boy's Life").

Best, Jimmy

BTW... I did find a use for the Beckett as I would rip out a page, roll it into a ball, and let my dog chase it and shred it. So there you go, Beckett has some value after all.

[tinkereversandme]

How does one obtain these magazines? I have two in my possession that were sent to me by SGC (don't know how or why) and they are several years old.

They were fantastic reads (as I slowly move from collecting autographs to cards) and I learned a great deal about T205 backs which got me to begin collecting the set.

Is SCD still around? How many pages are they down to? Used to love that magazine as well, but the advertiser/s and an unanswered complaint made me turn my back there...many, many years ago.

Regards,
Larry

[barrysloate]

Somebody I was recently speaking with told me SCD is now 36 pages.

[Jim VB]

It's really been 36 pages for years. They just used to have an additional 28 pages of Coach's Corner crap.

It's better this way.

[Rich Klein]

I spent a lot of my last couple of years at Beckett working on Elite; and trust me, I truly enjoyed the time I spent on Elite. Unfortunately when I was laid off, most of the interest in Elite probably left as well. Oh well, too bad because the magazine was a great aesthetic (sic, unless Barry says the spelling is fine) pleasure for everyone who read that magazine. And yes, if you loved Elite, there was probably no other pubication at Beckett that would please you.

And as for Barry's comment; ever since Coach's Corner left SCD the average issue is less than 40 pages.

Regards
Rich

[barrysloate]

Rich- spelling is perfect!

[tinkereversandme]

36 pages, which means that probably 10-12 of it are articles and pages not dedicated to advertising revenue...why don't they just give it up? What's the purpose at this point? I am one of those who grew up with the magazine and I don't feel bad for it's demise as they did this to themselves. From what I understand, the subscription rate is like $22-24 and you don't think any of us would pay less than .50 cents a week just to read something on the couch for even twenty minutes?

Regards,
Larry