jeroc10- agreed on the fewer BKB collectors in general, but the slow traffic on here is not the case elsewhere.
Xtreme- I totally agree on your list of packages, it sounds like the premiere and VIP packages that I have found on that other place that I believe I have even seen you posting lately.
I am not saying that they have to copy that other forum, but the packages that they sell make sense. You get things like less advertising when browsing the forum, card cash to use in contests among other things, you also get more storage in your inbox and an the privilage to save outgoing messages. All of that is included when you upgrade your membership.
They make money with advertisers on that forum that have nothing to do with sports cards. Why can't beckett use the "FREE" org privilage to drum up traffic and then advertise more than just online auction houses and sports card websites??? If others can do it then Beckett can, right?
My biggest frustration with Beckett is that you have no ability to free text a trade offer and you must have the cards in your ORG to trade. Well that sounds like one more step and inconvienience to myself when I want to post new cards for trade. Others traders that found those other places to post and trade feel the same way now.
I don't see how it being mandatory to add your cards to the organize if trading makes it any safer to trade??? I have seen another trader (on this forum) that lived close by post that he had some of the greatest cards I would have ever seen, but he can't post pics. I then go to meet the guy and guess what?, HE IS FULL OF "stuff".
I can add a Michael Jordan LOGO autograph to my organize, but that doesn't mean that I have it. If a card is in a bucket it doesn't mean that I have it either, but seeing a picture of a card that you claim to own makes it more believable that you have it in your possesion when I am trading with you.
Traders that have left here can see right through Beckett's ploy to force us to use the organize and then charge us for it.
It is what it is -and unfortunately beckett has lost the near monopoly they once had on pricing sports cards, now they want a bigger piece of the pie to get some of that back and collectors aren't buying into it.
If you can't tell by my second rant, I really miss the way things were on this site when the traffic was there and I got to read new threads and trade threads every few hours vs now every few days.
Xtreme- I totally agree on your list of packages, it sounds like the premiere and VIP packages that I have found on that other place that I believe I have even seen you posting lately.
I am not saying that they have to copy that other forum, but the packages that they sell make sense. You get things like less advertising when browsing the forum, card cash to use in contests among other things, you also get more storage in your inbox and an the privilage to save outgoing messages. All of that is included when you upgrade your membership.
They make money with advertisers on that forum that have nothing to do with sports cards. Why can't beckett use the "FREE" org privilage to drum up traffic and then advertise more than just online auction houses and sports card websites??? If others can do it then Beckett can, right?
My biggest frustration with Beckett is that you have no ability to free text a trade offer and you must have the cards in your ORG to trade. Well that sounds like one more step and inconvienience to myself when I want to post new cards for trade. Others traders that found those other places to post and trade feel the same way now.
I don't see how it being mandatory to add your cards to the organize if trading makes it any safer to trade??? I have seen another trader (on this forum) that lived close by post that he had some of the greatest cards I would have ever seen, but he can't post pics. I then go to meet the guy and guess what?, HE IS FULL OF "stuff".
I can add a Michael Jordan LOGO autograph to my organize, but that doesn't mean that I have it. If a card is in a bucket it doesn't mean that I have it either, but seeing a picture of a card that you claim to own makes it more believable that you have it in your possesion when I am trading with you.
Traders that have left here can see right through Beckett's ploy to force us to use the organize and then charge us for it.
It is what it is -and unfortunately beckett has lost the near monopoly they once had on pricing sports cards, now they want a bigger piece of the pie to get some of that back and collectors aren't buying into it.
If you can't tell by my second rant, I really miss the way things were on this site when the traffic was there and I got to read new threads and trade threads every few hours vs now every few days.