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You're correct and I appreciate the vibe and comments but Trolling . . . No. Reading Beckett almost daily as I do and "Customer Appreciation" striking a nerve, absolutely, about $5k spent in grading and no registry worth of nerves, not to mention numerous wasted hours on the registry that is now non-existent.

If I wanted to troll, I would be posting the same on SGC, PSA, Net54Baseball, Venezuelan Topps Baseball Card Forum, and lowly Facebook. All you will find there, are positive comments about Beckett and specifically about Beckett Grading.

This is not a sarcastic question . . . as a Beckett Moderator, do you know who is in charge of the registry or what's happening with it? I've met Mark Anderson a few times, great guy and I highly respect him. He was very kind in responding to a note a sent him in March but seemed somewhat powerless as far as the registry is concerned. Sounded then like a database rewrite issue. With no updates of any kind, though legitimately goading and even begging for over a year, frustrations, like mine, naturally boil over.

1. you dont have to go all over the place to be trollin'. that thread wasnt meant for that kind of comment...come on, you know that. it just wasnt appropriate.

2. im not a mod.

3. mods dont work for beckett, they arent paid (i think they are given an opg subscription, but that's a pittance, really)

4. mods dont know any inside info, unless they are given it by beckett staff. that usually does not happen

5. so therefore, mods arent going to know tech details, deadlines and such

6. after reading what the it staff hasnt written in the pastt year, the dev and gui guys, and after some conversations ive had with beckett folk, i believe that the entire website is being redone. i also believe they are understaffed, and are suffering from moving goalposts.

actually, ill just copy what i said in the "when is the matchmaker feature going to happen" post:

<i>they recognized they had serious issues with how their databases interacted, and how search worked (org versus opg). i think - even though there has been no word on this, and im only going by what ive read on the boards and been told by pm by folks at beckett - there is a full effort to re-develop the site entirely. after talking to dev folks and gui guy, i think it is the only conclusion that makes sense

also:

i think they are probably understaffed, and are having to deal with moving goalposts. because it takes so long, new ideas are throw in, and then everything has to be done over again, and rinse, repeat

ive been in these kind of situations, and everyone gets screwed in them, from management, it folk, and customer</i>