An issue not to be missed.

Star Trek Connections on the cover. Three promos inside: A Charlie Brown Christmas Peanuts Playpaks by Cryptozoic P2, Pirates and Privateers 4 by RR Parks P2, Craniacs Series 3 P7 from Ira Freidman.

Received mine today

I received my copy.
My most sincere thanks and appreciation for all.

Just got the new issue. I am crying.

Thank you, Harris, Alan and everyone else who ever contributed to NSU.

My subscription is paid up until August 2026. Will I be getting a prorated refund?

That doesn't sound good. What's going on?

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Originally posted by andynova:
Just got the new issue. I am crying.

Thank you, Harris, Alan and everyone else who ever contributed to NSU.

My subscription is paid up until August 2026. Will I be getting a prorated refund?

The final issue of NSU, sadly. According to the cover

It is indeed the final issue, the end of an era.

It has been a privilege running the price guide for the past 9 years. I was truly honored. Another dream realized and I'll never forget it.

Being that I've been active within the organized trading card field for 50 years, I will have much to convey about this subject when the proper time arrives.

You did good work, Matt. I have an idea how much time you put in to get the guide together every time.
Research is often a thankless job. Thank you.

Jess

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Originally posted by BeckettBible24:
It has been a privilege running the price guide for the past 9 years. I was truly honored. Another dream realized and I'll never forget it.

Well, this sucks. Harris, I hope you land another job soon. Magazines in general are undergoing all sorts of problems right now.

Will Card Talk shut down as well? There's a great deal of valuable information in the posts here. If it meant the difference between staying and canceling the forum, I'd pay an annual subscription.

Very Sad news, certainly an end of an era. Thanks to the Tosers for starting the Magazine and to Alan for editing it for so long and to all the writers for their contributions.

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Oh wow. I got the issue, pulled out the promos, and didn't even look at anything else yet. So sad!

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Originally posted by Ted Dastick Jr.:
Oh wow. I got the issue, pulled out the promos, and didn't even look at anything else yet. So sad!

Same here. Work has kept me busy, so hobby reading has taken a back seat the past couple of weeks. Very sad to hear this news.

I've yet to get the latest/last issue - subscriptions always lag a bit to the UK. I thought there would have been some announcement here about the demise.
I'd like to thank Harris for his visits to the UK that made NSU real rather than just a mag I'd pick up now and again if I saw it.

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Originally posted by andynova:

My subscription is paid up until August 2026. Will I be getting a prorated refund?

I think we'd all like to know that.

Sad to see the end of one of the greatest things that ever happened to this hobby, a reliably on-time, high quality publication that was instrumental in increasing the growth of non-sports cards during the boom years and helped to keep them going during the leaner times.

I've always considered my collection of back issues to be an indispensable reference tool, and this forum, as well.
Thanks to all who have contributed to one, the other, or both over the years.

Has anyone heard anything from Beckett about refunds? Their silence over the closure of the magazine and the refunding of prepaid subscriptions has been deafening!

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Originally posted by hammer:
Has anyone heard anything from Beckett about refunds? Their silence over the closure of the magazine and the refunding of prepaid subscriptions has been deafening!

Yes, this news is several days old now. It's surprising that nothing official has been said here or elsewhere from Beckett about the closing of the magazine and tidying up of the loose ends. Nothing here, nothing on Beckett's page, nothing on the NSU Facebook page.

Hello everyone. As some of you regulars may know, I have been off Card Talk for more than a year now. I thought back then it would be my very last post because I had kind of moved on. I continued to read NSU. I still monitored this website occasionally. I still bought new/old autograph cards and non-sport boxes that I liked. I still enjoyed parts of the hobby, just not enough of it to keep up or care to talk about it. I am well and I hope you are all well too.

I just saw this thread and had no idea that this was indeed happening. It's depressing. Simple as it was, waiting for the next NSU had become a habit with me, as I'm sure it was a habit with all of you. So, I feel I have to post one last time by way of official mourning.

I guess part of it is just the death of paper magazines and that Beckett never seemed to put that much effort into promoting NSU after it got it. The non-sport hobby certainly seems to cost enough. The collectors seem to be there. You would think the market was healthy. But maybe we just never really recovered from the pandemic and the changes it brought to the collector base. And maybe the whole thing is just one big pyramid scheme. Maybe that's what it is to the investors and the flippers and the speculators. Not to the true non-sport card collectors though. Not to us.

Somebody could write a whole article about the WHY of it, but it looks like there might be nowhere to print it. Who knows how long Beckett stands? We should have known something was up when they couldn't print a 2025 Non-Sport Almanac. Who knows how long Card Talk is active after this? It is the end of an era, that much I do know.

I want to take this final opportunity to thank the Toser family and all the writers and editors who worked on NSU over the years. I wish them the best and all of you reading this the best. It's been a great ride. I no longer feel bad for having retired from the scene, as there is now nothing left of the scene.

That just means we will have to remember the glory days and smile. Now I'll quit while I'm ahead, as this is a subject that has kept me rattling on too long already. Best of luck to you all and for one last time, Vaya con dios everyone.