Beckett

[warr10r]

I spent a frustrating day trying to track down a copy of a December hockey Beckett. In the end I came up empty handed.

Where do you usually buy yours? Even my local hobby shop stopped carrying them. Is Beckett attempting to move to a mostly online price guide and phasing out magazines?

Anyone who subscribes to the online price guide, can you share any pros and cons of the service with me? Debating whether I should just use the online or check out a few more book stores. Does the online give you a digital copy, like a pdf file for if you pay for one month?

[Drewk86a]

In the US, Barnes & Noble carries Beckett, though I rarely use their prices as a determiner of actual value. Beckett BV can be skewed and is not reliable. Actual sale prices are a better picture of a card's true worth.

I usually check eBay for recent sales. Also COMC.com has a nice historical price feature for members which displays if a card has sold recently, how many have sold, and what the sale price was.

[pwaldo]

Beckett has been scaling back their magazines all over the place in the US. Before they would be everywhere but now you have to track them down to find them. So it would probably be even worst in Canada. My advice would be to skip the magazine if you are looking for BV prices and instead spring for the online price guide.

[piper1]

With the Online Price Guide you get the BVs as soon as they are available. I would avoid the aforementioned Ebay advice unless you are trying to give your cards away instead of trading them.

[flemingc04]

I believe Shoppers Drug Mart usually has them. They are also at Chapters. I know I do see them here and there in stores but I also don't buy the magazine. I only just subscribe to the online price guide which doesn't include a few things that the magazine version does but they still publish many articles online.

[iginlafan77]

I have a digital subscription on my Ipod newsstand.

[warr10r]

Thanks for the input everyone. I think I may have to use the online price guide.

If I were to pay for a one month subscription, would I be able to access the values after that month? For example, if I were to pay for December and I wanted to look at the December values in January, would it allow me? Would I be able to save a pdf version of December prices to my computer?

[hang time]

You can copy and past until you are blue in the face but there is no way to export anything. The day you subscribe you have 30 days or 31 to access anything hockey. You'll get all the prices whenever you want. New products are typically posted within 15 days or so...

Cons

The site goes down for maintenance many evenings between like 1am and 5 am. If you're not a night owl it's no big deal.

The longer you subscribe the more you'll save. You can pay $9 a month or whatever it is...if you buy 3 months access it will be $25, 6mon $45 or so, and so on...

The online subscription also gives you access to their trading and organize feature which is useful when it works but regularly has technical issues. Also, there aren't many members left to trade with because they continue to raise their prices and most people got fed up with their service!

[RGM81]

Check your closest Wal-Mart too - they usually still carry them.

[subban7677]

Sometimes they have decent deals for the digital copy. I paid $25 for a 1-year subscription. Can view it on both my smartphone and tablet. Much easier to cart around in my pocket this way too.