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Forgettable Shows...
Reljac
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This past weekend, I went to a Baseball Card show. It's been awhile since I'd been to an ordinary show. It was one of the larger listed in the area with 30 tables. I thought what the heck, I'd like to see what I might find out there, so I drove the hour and a half to check it out...
To my disappointment I found that the 30 tables equated to only 6 dealers.... of the six dealers only two had display cases with cards, and only one had any unopened material (1 box of allen & ginter and 1 box of Topps baseball), and only 1 had a card that was more than 5 years old that they were selling for more than $1....
The remaining dealers were selling frames or glossy pictures like those you'd get signed, or the silly wall plaques that are slightly larger than a card with a players name engraved on them and a crappy card within them.
Anyone else have any equally bad show experiences? Have shows really gotten this bad (other than the large shows like Tristar/national/etc)? I'm a bit reluctant to check out the 20 table show coming up that is an hour from me now.
To my disappointment I found that the 30 tables equated to only 6 dealers.... of the six dealers only two had display cases with cards, and only one had any unopened material (1 box of allen & ginter and 1 box of Topps baseball), and only 1 had a card that was more than 5 years old that they were selling for more than $1....
The remaining dealers were selling frames or glossy pictures like those you'd get signed, or the silly wall plaques that are slightly larger than a card with a players name engraved on them and a crappy card within them.
Anyone else have any equally bad show experiences? Have shows really gotten this bad (other than the large shows like Tristar/national/etc)? I'm a bit reluctant to check out the 20 table show coming up that is an hour from me now.
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I'm sorry this happened to you.
Ish, sounds like a horrible show.
1 dude with alot of really good vintage ungraded but priced like it was graded.
1 guy from a card shop in Fort Wayne that sells unopened at mediocre prices but much lower than local Indy dealers.
2 guys with decent graded vintage and some newer stuff (hey I'm one of those guys).
A bunch of guys killing themselves trying to move newer inserts to finanace their next case bust.
At least 2 guys with super high end newer stuff priced way over ebay (the guy from Fort Wayne does this as well).
The rest about 10 tables full of 25cent to 1 dollar cards with maybe 1 display of 5 to 25$ cards in it.
Most of the guys walking the floor seem to think $5 is alot to spend on cards.