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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Jim VB
I admit it. I'm the fool who still has a subscription to your paper. I had one for years. Gave it up for a few years and then picked it back up last Spring, just to see how you were doing. It's not pretty. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Dan Bretta
SCD is dead to me. I was at the local card shop yesterday picking up supplies...I used to pick up the SCD every time I stopped in. Now with their apparent collaboration with Coach's Corner I will never even give their magazine a second glance. If you can't make it without the riff raff then you don't belong in the hobby. They don't need to reorganize, they need to ride off in the sunset. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: DJ
Word for word, I am with Dan. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Ben
I am relatively new to the card hobby and subscribed to SCD approximately 4 months ago. I have never felt my money was so wasted in all my life. SCD is probably the worst publication I have ever read. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Frank Wakefield
I have bought a very few of these, that were quite old, just to get an old article that was in one. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Fred C
SC-what? A long time ago before the internet, before home computers that was like the hobby mag that provided the most hobby commerce. I subscribed back in the 70s and 80s. I'd pick up a copy here and there in the 90s but I can't remember the last time I bothered picking up a copy of what used to be a great hobby publication. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Jim Clarke
Very well said... I agree almost 100%. I never renewed my subsription after they would NOT let me run a "I Hate Al Rosen Fan Club" ad in the back of the book. I think the only purpose they still have is to send out auction company's catalogs to their mailing list. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: barrysloate
Jim VB- good letter, well thought out. SCD used to be the top of the world, but it is now irrelevant. I think in time it will fold. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Tom Boblitt
Coachs' Corner Auctions........ |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Rich Klein
This post below was made on the daily SABR newsgroups today. I believe the Neft-Cohen encylopedias have been issued every year for the past 20; I know I would pick one up every year. One less book for me to buy this year! SCD has very similar problems. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Mark Steinberg
Tom nailed it... |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: dan mckee
For the past 15 years SCD means "shiny stuff" to me. I stopped getting it years ago. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Paul
I used to be angry when issues arrived late because it meant that I missed out on all the good advertised cards. Now I don't care because nobody advertises there anymore. I still subscribe because I figure 40 bucks a year is worth it for the occasional good article. But I am reconsidering because of the Coach's Corner issue. I've been a subscriber since the early 1980s, but I don't like the idea of subsidizing and legitimizing that outfit. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: RayB
Its too bad really. There was a time when there were actually good articles in it as well. Interviews with current and ex ballplayers were my favorite pieces especially those players that shared their collecting habits. They really need to get back to doing more of that. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Ken McMillan
rank it there with Beckett. Two thumbs down......... |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Alan
I've been reading SCD on & off since the late 1970's. It used to be a great publication. It is now absolutely worthless. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Rick McQuillan
I hate to bash the Post Office since I am a Postmaster, but don't blame SCD for the sporadic arrival of their magazines. Ever since the Postal Service "streamlined" the periodical mailstream a couple of years ago the number of customer complaints in regard to late magazines and newspapers has skyrocketed. Our consumer affairs department has been working on the problem and they tell us that the problem is solved, but judging from the arrival times of my own SCD's, I know for sure that the problem still exists. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Jim VB
True. Any periodical that is mailed from a central location, instead of a local printer suffers some of these problems. Magazines printed regionally (We get Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, People and Entertainment Weekly in our house.) seem to avoid the problem. Small circulation mags (SCD, and Track & Field News for example) suffer. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Ed Ivey
I have never subscribed to SCD. Old Cardboard magazine, to which I recently subscribed, makes my day when I see it in the mail - great articles. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Andrew S.
Jim, that must be the fastest growing community in the US where you live? What has been the main reason? |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Jim VB
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: leon
Not to take this too far off topic, I think we all agree SCD could use some management rethinking, I didn't realize you live in Frisco? I assure you as fast as ya'll are growing, relatively speaking, Lucas is growing faster. We moved here 7 years ago with 1800 folks...now there are probably 7000....and I think we will make the chart within a year or two at over 10000....I think we might need to be over 10000 to make the chart in the first place. We need to get together sometime. Jeff P lives in Plano and he and I get together every so often. My good friend Rich K lives close to us as well as Scott B......take care (I wish we wouldn't grow anymore but it's inevitable).... |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: James Feagin
I'm one of those millions looking to relocate to either the DFW Metroplex or NW Arkansas in the not so distant future. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Jim VB
James, |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: James Feagin
Jim, |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: CN
If anyone from SCD reads this board please stop sending me your publication. Some time ago I recieved an issue stating this was my next to last issue after being bombarded with renewal notices. I still recieve the paper and don't want it. I just got my mail and SCD was there. I don't need to see a picture of Sammy Davis JR,s wedding register on the front cover. What an embarrassment you have become! CN |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Wil Jordan
Jim: |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Lance
Starts a great fire! Other than that, well, uh, I wish I had money back! |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Alan
Maybe there should be a poll on WHEN will it go out of business. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: T206Collector
<<If anyone from SCD reads this board please stop sending me your publication. Some time ago I recieved an issue stating this was my next to last issue after being bombarded with renewal notices. I still recieve the paper and don't want it. I just got my mail and SCD was there.>> |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: DJ
Any truth to the rumor that it can now be made into a paper airplane? When will it go out of business? It's now officially a brochure at 40 pages, most of it is Coach's, a bald orange man and nonsensical, biased reporting. It has to be soon, right? What's the magic number...30 pages? |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: Steve Murray
It'll be gone in two years and I'll take the under. |
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An open letter to SCD
Posted By: DD
My black lab loved the Addie Joss single signed baseball I picked up last year for $4.30. He loves anything tea-flavored. |
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