Jun18th

Blogs - How I Think the Card Industry Will Be Saved

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 7:21 am | Filed Under Cool Sites, Cards, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Authentication

Way back in 2004 when I started SportsLizard I couldn’t find too many other sites where collectors spoke their minds.  In the past four years my role in the industry has changed.  I went from collector, to collector who owned a collectibles business and wrote about it, to business owner who rarely collects and spends […]

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May28th

Would We Be Better Without Beckett and Tuff Stuff?

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 9:47 am | Filed Under Cards, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, eBay

Ben Henry runs arguably the best card blog on the web - The Baseball Card Blog. If you don’t already read it, you should. The other day he posed an interesting question: in five years will Beckett and Tuff Stuff have price guides that still matter in the hobby?
With its low prices […]

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Apr29th

Beckett Announces Major Site Overhaul

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:45 pm | Filed Under Beckett, Tuff Stuff

Feeling the pressure of sites like NAXCOM and facing a perception that card collecting doesn’t have a place in today’s day and age, Beckett is finally attempting to bring the cards and collectibles industry into the 21st century with a major site redesign.  Let’s face it: all collectors use Beckett in some fashion - forums, […]

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Apr2nd

Does Upper Deck Fix Beckett Box Breaks?

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:04 pm | Filed Under NFL, Cards, Beckett, Upper Deck, Business, Box Breaks, Videos

After their recent Box Buster Video of the new 2007 Upper Deck Exquisite Football, many collectors think that the answer to that question is a resounding YES.

In the video you’ll see that Beckett’s staff has an extraordinary pull that makes you wonder about the box that they’re opening. Out of 12 cards, they pulled:

An […]

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Jan9th

Beckett Condenses Magazines in to One

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 8:10 am | Filed Under Beckett

According to the baseball card blog Beckett has decided to move to a monthly magazine starting in March of 2008, abandoning their famous single sport magazines.  Here’s a copy of the image on the baseball card blog.

I spent a while looking around the Beckett.com site and was unable to confirm this announcement…which I suppose is […]

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Oct18th

Random Thoughts on a Slow Week

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 8:13 pm | Filed Under MLB, NFL, Beckett, Tuff Stuff, Price Guide, NHL, Donruss

Don’t worry, I haven’t been neglecting this blog lately.  There just hasn’t been ANY interesting collectibles news lately worth commenting on.  Usually a few times a week I see something and say “I need to write an article about that”.  Not so much lately.  In the interest of not leaving this blog untouched for too […]

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Aug28th

Scam Artist Busted on Beckett Forum

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 10:40 am | Filed Under NFL, Beckett, Authentication

This thread on Beckett from last week is probably my favorite of all-time. Here’s how it went:

Guy posts fake Ciatrick Fason logo patch card on eBay numbered 322/699
Card gets pulled off eBay because Upper Deck says it’s a fake
Guy complains on Beckett forum, hoping to sell it there.
Hard core collector who has a photo […]

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Jul5th

Topps Shoots Down Beckett.com Article

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 11:52 am | Filed Under Topps, Beckett, Upper Deck, Business

Remember last week when I said that Upper Deck “claimed that they will be able to overcome any antitrust issues that may arise from having one company own both baseball licenses”? I was surprised that they would make that claim, and apparently they didn’t. That statement came from the Beckett.com article that I […]

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Jun22nd

Upper Deck Looking to Help Young Collector?

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 12:29 pm | Filed Under Beckett, Upper Deck, Business

The following letter was sent to Upper Deck from the older brother of an unidentified collector:

Upper Deck publicized the letter on Beckett in hopes of finding the young man from Georgia. One would think that after leaking the letter to the public that UD would be looking to send the young man a nice […]

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May31st

Beckett Not Learning From NHL Mistake

By Adam McFarland | Posted at 5:55 pm | Filed Under Beckett, NHL

Does anyone else remember when Beckett screwed up last year by declaring the Carolina Hurricane’s Stanley Cup Champions on their cover BEFORE they actually won? Here’s what I wrote back then:
Before Carolina’s Game 7 win in the Stanley Cup Finals the other night, they were already proclaimed champions by Beckett Hockey Magazine. Sixty […]

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