The Beckett Blog

Excellent snapshot of what’s coming to dealer shops and mailboxes in a few short days!
Great work!

Looks Great, cant wait to get the first issue with everything all in one magazine! Now that that’s done, how about a preview of the new website?
Nice to see the new changes actually occur, unlike UD’s “supposed” changes to thier redemption program. Keep up the great work guys!

Wow, looks like a lot of great content in there!

I like the opportunity of seeing the new magazine and I would like to see this done EVERY month before they ship so we could tell what articles will be in there.

wow, looks AWESOME.

now i don’t have to buy the baseball, football and hockey separate.

i can get all of them in one magazine.
lots of reading.

nice.

I hope you guys at Beckett are smart enough to put the price of the magazine the same in Canadian funds now that our dollar is at par with yours and not overcharge like most US magazines do. It’s a disgrace and a total ripoff !!!

I think this change is needed and it looks fantastic.

Also, I think it’s kind of funny that more people are in approval of the magazine now rather than when it was first announced.

Jean-Pierre
We are working on making the change to the Canadian price but it’s a very complicated process. I’m currently talking with all our distributors to make the market correction but it takes some time for the process to get approved in all channels. In the meantime, enjoy the new Beckett and just know that we haven’t forgot about you north of the border.

I THINK THIS NEW BECKET’S SUCKS I DON’T CARE ABOUT BASKETBALL – HOCKEY-GOLF – FOOTBALL AND MOST OF ALL AUTO RACING. I WILL NOT RENEW
MY BECKET’S IF THIS IS THE WAY IT WILL COME

Hi guys,
The first thing I did before you reviw was to see if Beckett and Tuff stuff had be purchase by the same company. I researched it and found I was all wet, and that I had made an error, your still owned by Apprise.
So I hope this works out, but I have been buying Beckett Baseball for so long,it may take time for me to adjust.
I never could adjust to Tuff Stuff before because Beckett was the premier magazine for baseball pricings.I hope you keep yout identity,you have made changes to a master piece.
Sid Tuck
Moore S.C.

So, is it still out on the second Tuesday of the month? (Saw someone said they already had it on the boards…)

I like the new format, but was very disappointed to not see pricing on the biggest sport in the world market – soccer.. I know that it is not number one here, but Upper Deck is making MLS soccer cards, but not golf, wrestling, or tennis. I am sorry, but as a collector for over 40 years, I do not understand. However, overall, keep up the good work.

this mag is very stooopid…only have 1 year worth of pricing.. WFT????i wont be redoing my subscription.. good going beckett you just lost a customer.. with many more to follow

Bad, very bad. I have subscribed to Beckett BB/BKB and used to subscribe to BFB since ‘99. Horrible decisions by the New Regime at beckett. First the glossy, then the ‘06 RC Rolodex, and now this one year pricing. I am stuck with my remaining issues I paid for BB/BKB with an inferior product. I am not getting what I paid for. New world values being thrown down our throats by noobies who probably have never collected. Beckett’s image, trustworthiness, and quality is now bunk IMO.
I used to enjoy getting my monthly issues and leafing through each and every issue.
This I cannot. This is not Beckett. This is a greedy and manipulative regime running this fine publication into extinction. Just as the card companies forced out DonRuss and then issued DR like products. Isn’t it bad enough that they destroyed the hobby, now you are destroying what used to be THE staple of collecting?
Another arrogant and self centered effort to crap on the people who actually keep you working.

hey beckett, seems like the mag is on the fence w/ alot of subscibers feeling good and bad about the whole thing. from the looks of it it seemed almost like a good idea except for the lack of pricing content. i am not excited about this and as many of your subscibers have said it really does look alot like TUFFSTUFF. i wish that you could get the online pricing for the same price as this frankenstien of a magazine. even if you could get three priceguides for the price of this magazine. think about it in your thinktank and help us out.

horrible decision on becketts part!! I only collect football and this new guide only contains like 4 or 5 pages of football pricing and ONLY has current year sets!! As a dealer this forces me to not only buy the monthly so I can get up to date new card pricing, BUT, now I also have to purchase the Plus magazine so I can get current prices on all of my non-current year cards!!! Talk about squeezing every (*&*(& penny out of us you can!!! Not only that but now realistically football cards that arn’t NEW releases only have 2 opportunities to go up in value because as we all know the plus magazine only comes out once every two months and the regular football season is only 17 weeks long. I see this causing all non-current year football card prices to become very stagnate. As a dealer I give this beckett a major 2 thumbs down and hope the format is either changed back very soon or they extend the new format to include prior year price listing and drop some of the fluff, which is mostly what this huge magazine is. Somewhere along the link Beckett seems to have forgotten what they are, a price guide.. not a fluf guide! So far in my shop I’ve sold one of them and heard nothing but complaints from people about this format and had several customers break it open to check it out only to hand it back to me and say no thanks.

Guess what, I can’t get online pricing while I’m walking around at a freakin card show! And no you don’t have something to fit every collectors needs! Notice how the comments are getting more negative now that people are actually seeing for themselves what a piece of junk this magazine is! It’s a cheap version of a Tuff Stuff without as much pricing. Beckett should be ashamed to call this a price guide as the majority of the magazine isn’t even card price listings anymore. Fire all editors and staff and get some people who know what this magazine SHOULD be!!!

I don’t think anyone is confusing the new All Sport Beckett with the bi-monthly Plus version, OR the old monthly one-sport magazines. I think we are generally upset that our sport no longer gets the same amount of coverage now.

Take football for example. You only have the current season in the issue. From the pre-season until the Pro Bowl is approximately 6 months. That’s just 3 issues of the Plus version, and 6 issues of the monthly, but since it takes approximately 2 months for a new set to be listed, that means it may be up to 2 months before it hits the All-Sports, and 4 months before it’s listed in the Plus version! What about players Tony Romo and Ryan Grant who come out of nowhere to get intensely hot all of a sudden? Your guides will not… no, CANNOT keep up with the volitile market. By the time the corrected pricing is reflected in the Plus version, the season is over.

Honestly, this was a bad move on Beckett’s part. I’m not sure why specifically they felt they needed to change the format, but all of the dealers I have spoken with have said something along the lines of, “I hope they change it back soon,” or “It won’t last,” or “I haven’t sold as many (if they sold any at all)”. I know they won’t, but I’m certainly hoping Beckett changes back to their old format and fast. I hated New Coke, and I hate the new format.

I just received my Beckett all sport in the mail yesterday and it is awful. What upsets me is that my subscription was renewed with this trash instead of receiving the bi-monthly versions of football and basketball which I already subscribe to. I want to see the older cards priced since I don’t keep up to date with the newer cards. Sure it may have more info than tuff stuff, but common it is a pure ripoff that is more up to date. If I wanted this I would buy tuff stuff and most likely I will. I would rather support an out of date publication than this refuse. Hope a new company swoops in and picks up the pieces, because to me it is a train wreck. We should of at least had a choice of what we receive. If I wasn’t clear this sucks.

Being a football only collector myself , I would have no use for this new product . Best of luck , it really does look like a glorified TS . I would like to see and hear some of the changes (if any ) that the rocket scientists at Beckett have planned for the one sport only subcriptions . Like Football Monthly . Since the amount of magazines are cut in half ( 6 ) I would expect to see a decrease in the subscription price for the consumer ( me ). One; it is not being shipped every month ( S/H ) . 2 ; Less overhead for Beckett ( Adv. etc……. ) Are there going to be any new sections of interest that you will be bringing to the table for these issues ?? Also would like to know the changes you have added to your staff including all the new graders , authenticators , you picked up from GAI during their vacation . Also , what kind of incentives for this issue and the Football Seasonnally (6) will you be bringing to the Chicago Show in late march , for consumers like me to be attracted or lured to your enlightment ?