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| Yes, that needed to be said - the value of the back issues especially after decades. Our memories might be a little hazy now so it's great to be able to go back to 2001 or earlier to confirm something mis/half-remembered. NSU outlasted its competition covering years beyond the others. I thought it was a great opportunity to buy some back issues from Card Addict several years ago. It was generous of him to offer them for a small price when it's much easier to just dump paper in the recycling can. quote: Originally posted by chesspieceface:
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.
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| I can only hope Beckett just needs more time to work out all the details of shutdown and make sure subscribers are sent the overpayments. I hope Card Talk continues. If Beckett decides to just let it go, someone will still have to maintain it. quote: 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!
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| It's great to hear from you, Raven. I have missed hearing your angle on things. Yeah, magazines are on the way out though the shelves are still full at Barnes & Noble so many are still holding on. I see a local Safeway (grocery store) has cut way back on the magazine selection and it no longer sells books other than puzzles/crosswords. Yeah, the pandemic was a weird curve for everybody to adjust to. Yes, there are still a lot of collectors but many of them now just want to know what their cards are worth rather than enjoying their collections whatever they're worth. I get a kick out of the idea that a card I got from a bargain box 20 years ago is now worth $100 but 20 years from now it might have slid back to $2. Whatever. I liked having that card and still doubled my money. I'm glad you're still picking up cards so maybe you'll come back to visit sometime if the board is still here to write on. If it does disappear, maybe I'll go over to Blowout and be the old man ranting to the kids to stop treating cards like an investment. While you thought you were so smart, you should have been buying gold. quote: Originally posted by Raven:
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.
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| Other than NSU I will be lucky enough to still receive two subscription card magazines, one from the Cartophilic Society of GB (6 per year) and the from the dealer LCCC (12 per year). Admittedly neither have much about current cards emanating from North American manufacturers however that reflects the readership being mainly from the UK and collectors of cigarette and UK/European trade cards judging by the content of the articles in the magazines. I am also lucky enough to have all but one edition of NSU (the one missing being an alternate cover version) so I have quite a lot of editorial material to refer to if I need it at any time.
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| Someone posted that Star Wars Insider magazine is also canceled. That was around since the 1990s |
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