Price guide

[ValKehl]

I have long wished that someone or some group would produce a vintage catalog/price guide that is more comprehensive/thorough than, that has more accurate pricing than, and that has better and more illustrations than the Standard Catalog. I could see this being successfully accomplished via a collaborative effort by OC and VCP with lots of assistance/input from Net54 members, and hopefully, it would be a modest commercial success.
Val

[Rich Klein]

The price for that book for the amount of copies you would end up selling would be at least $69.95 if not more.

get a couple of thousand people to pay for the book up front and you'd have a chance.

Sounds great; but the biggest cost in publishing is turning on the presses. Believe me, I'm all in favor of what you are all suggesting -- the economics don't work


regards
rich

[mintacular]

How about you go to the website, "checkmark" all the years/sets you are interested in receiving, and then SCD sends you your own customized version with only the era/sets you desire. You could be charged per page or whatever. Maybe the user could manipulate the order the pages are organized and create choose their own cover/back

[Rich Klein]

Lets you check on any set/player per sport and is actually very fairly priced for all the information that it provides. You can even do speficic card searches at very cheap prices as one shots. It's a really good deal.

Regards
Rich

[powderfinger]

Hello Everyone,

A few days back, Frank referred to Egan's Handbook to U.S. Early Candy and Gum Baseball Cards. Where does one find a copy of this book? I've looked around the internet a bit, but haven't been able to find many references to it, much less a copy.

[Fred]

I haven't bought one of the big books in a few years. I used to cut out the new stuff and toss that section in to the trash and I'd tape the cut cover on to the portion of the book I kept. This cut down the size of the book considerably.

One question - as I mentioned earlier I haven't purchased a copy for a while - does the big book price guide take into account the "PSA book value" of a card? Or is the book value of the best condition material much lower than the PSA guide prices?

[ValKehl]

Hi Rich - I appreciate and agree with your comments and insight. Personally, I'd pay up to $100 or so in a heartbeat for such a book. And, I'd probably purchase a new edition every other year or so, as I have done with the Standard Catalog over the years.
Best, Val

[steve B]

A bit late to this one, been away a few days.

The idea of a Kindle or some other reader version seems very poor to me. While those things may be ok for light reading of stuff you'd never read again, I'd hate to use one for reference for a couple reasons
1. I use my big book regularly, browsing Ebay. I can pick it up and look up most anything pretty quickly. And I use it as intended- just a guide- rather than a real time tracking of prices. Having to start another device to check if a card I'm not totally familiar with is actually a short print wouldn't work for me.
2. With a reader you don't actually own anything except the reader. The "book" can be deleted at any time. Ironically this was done recently with a few books, including 1984.

Beckett OPG? Really? They offered me a free month of OPG if I signed up for a newsletter email. Close on a decade later, and I'm still waiting.....I still get the email, hardly ever read it. It's mostly month old sports news. (or older) Articles about the very obvious- Lebron James is a really good basketball player- And links to videos of guys that yell more than the home shopping channel guys opening packs. If the price guide is just as good I'm glad I didn't spend any money to not get it.

Other hobbies manage to support multi volume catalogs, multiple levels of detail in catalogs, and some very expensive catalogs. Some of the multi volume ones are even published by Krause.

Steve B