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Don FluckingerAll right, we're collecting input from the hobby for pricing in the 2010 catalog.
Three main points:
1) Post here: What do YOU think should happen to pricing, considering the economic woes going on right now? I am interested in hearing what you have to say in the comments section...we are thinking long and hard about exactly what will happen in the Standard Catalog, and as you can imagine making an annual guide is difficult because things are so [bleeping] volatile. We probably won't take any one suggestion and run with it, so don't be offended if we don't do exactly what you suggest. But if someone has a market snapshot or a general observation ("Tobacco cards are off 30% and I'm not even buying because I am sure they'll go lower" or "Everything else is down, but tobacco cards are up a little, IMHO") that is very helpful in building a composite picture of the hobby market.
2) Email me: Everyone who contributed input last year will be getting pages this year, too--except on CD and not printed to paper, as we slowly head into the digital age. IF you're interested in contributing updated pricing for a set or two of cards in which you have some expertise, post here or email me back-channel and give me your name, mailing address, email, phone number (in case I or my editor peers have followup questions) and what sets you want to provide input on.
We're looking for pre-WWI, especially old judge input.
If you provide pricing data, you will get a free copy of the catalog.
3) Email me: A lot of you have been emailing me with extra finds and things to list in the 2010 catalog (unlisted items you've bought or spotted on eBay) and I appreciate that so much. If anyone's been sitting on a find you were planning to email me about, do it soon so I can get it in the 2010 book. Production on such a huge book takes so long...and it comes out in the fall...so the deadline is approaching for me to collect all I have and turn it in to Krause/F+W.
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Thanks for all your help, Forum 54 folks. We're in our 3rd year of this system of opening up to people who post here, and for the most part I am impressed & pleased with the quality--and conscientiousness--of everyone who has participated.
--Don Fluckinger
Don Fluckinger
Editor, SCD Standard Catalog of Baseball CArds
Columnist, Online Auctioneer
http://standardcatalog.wordpress.com