See, I posted in the Beckett forums a couple weeks ago when I was giving away THE ENTIRE BOX of cards TRISTAR sent over…. and went there last week to post and could not login. I reset my password 3 times and emailed support twice regarding the issue and never heard anything back.
Well wouldn’t you know today I got a response from Customer Service at dear old Beckett Media. It reads as follows:
Thank you for your email. Our records show that your account was suspended for running a free box promotion on the boards to get people to come over to your site. That is why you are unable to login to Beckett.com.
Customer Service
Beckett Media
Nice. So I get a free sponsored box of product and get “punished” by Beckett because I wanted to give the product away to you guys and gals – the people that actually BUY and COLLECT the product. I don’t know call me crazy but that doesn’t seem like something the “#1 Source” in the hobby should do to it’s fellow collectors and the people who help support their company. What do you think? I for one will be canceling my subscription and will no longer support this company in any way shape or fashion. Oh and BTW, in case you were wondering I did the same thing at Tuff Stuff on their forums and DID NOT get banned.
Un F@$*&ing believable. Scratch that. Totally believable.
Once again Beckett exists to serve theri best interest and not the collectors who put them where they are today.
I was kinda of indifferent about Beckett before but now I completely agree Beckett sucks. In a business aspect it make no sense to anger your most passionate customers/ the influencers. It is yet another company who doesn’t understand blogging/ social media.
I got back to collecting because of baseball blogs like wax heaven, bad wax, and yours and I really believe if baseball/ collectible cards were to have a future is it because of the blogs and social networks.
Rant over.
Well, it’s clear. You’re obviously a terrible person. Why would you want to giveaway a free product of baseball card to its collectors?
Wow, if that’s not a stinking load of crap, I don’t know what is.
So basically, they are allowed to market themselves (unsuccessfully) by any means necessary, but god forbid you try and market yourself. I understand you were just trying to give away free cards, which is noble and awesome, but it’s still marketing. Not that I have a problem with that at all, everyone needs exposure.
Oh, and nice use of alliteration in the post title.
That is complete BS!!
Thanks for the support guys.
I got into collecting baseball cards beacause of baseball cards and other collectors. Not because of Beckett magazine, they can go F@#$ themselves. You at Beckett are not more important than the community of collectors itself.
Bloggers unite!
Ross,
Feel free to tell about your giveaways on CardInformant.com. We may not have a huge crowd of message board posters, but the site is growing daily and traffic is way up compared to other sites.
~Bill
that’s just appalling.
Thanks Bill – Ill check it out for sure.
Tuff Stuff is top notch and their magazine is better than Beckett’s too!