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Went to a show yesterday....a new trend??

yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭
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So I went to the weekend vintage show in Albany, NY yesterday. Im working on finishing up my 70s sets so I was looking to put a dent in my lists. It's been a while so I dont know if this is a new trend or just coincidence but most of the guys who were carrying 70s commons had them by team, not by numerical order. It was an absolute b*tch going through the cards because I only had the numbers listed and not the player/teams with my numbers. Since when did people start selling their 70s commons by team? Is this the most common way dealers are selling now? I guess they are more to the team collectors than the set builders? I think I wasted 2 hours of my day because I had to check each and every number to what was on my list. I dont want to go to a bigger show like White Plains only to run into the same issue and wasting a ton of time when I could be looking at more interesting items. I guess its no big deal if they are by team as long as I know the trend and I can have my lists by team.

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  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    At least people have vintage... Just went to a show yesterday in phoenix and one dealer had a bunch of vintage, all graded t205's and t206's... everything was graded psa 4-5 and priced 10-50% higher than BECKETT for mid grade cards...

    And then one guy had a few vintage cards, vg pete rose rc, vg koufax etc... I asked about them just to see prices and again... priced OVER BECKETT... What the hell is this? The rose has bad corners and was 20-80 centering and this guy wanted $1100 for it... Do they even sell any cards...
  • jivanjivan Posts: 1,009 ✭
    i was at a show on long island and all the 70's cards were not by # or team, but by players uniform number
    always looking for 1969 graded basketball
  • WalterSobchakWalterSobchak Posts: 2,096
    That would suck, particularly if they were not at least organized by card number within the teams.
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  • TreetopTreetop Posts: 1,474 ✭


    << <i>And then one guy had a few vintage cards, vg pete rose rc, vg koufax etc... I asked about them just to see prices and again... priced OVER BECKETT... What the hell is this? The rose has bad corners and was 20-80 centering and this guy wanted $1100 for it... Do they even sell any cards... >>



    Its seems many dealers at shows aren't really looking to sell to collectors, there looking to sell to suckers...
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  • perkdogperkdog Posts: 31,204 ✭✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>And then one guy had a few vintage cards, vg pete rose rc, vg koufax etc... I asked about them just to see prices and again... priced OVER BECKETT... What the hell is this? The rose has bad corners and was 20-80 centering and this guy wanted $1100 for it... Do they even sell any cards... >>



    Its seems many dealers at shows aren't really looking to sell to collectors, there looking to sell to suckers... >>




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  • miconelegacymiconelegacy Posts: 3,052 ✭


    << <i>i was at a show on long island and all the 70's cards were not by # or team, but by players uniform number >>



    That's funny!
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  • otwcardsotwcards Posts: 5,291 ✭✭✭
    I usually collate my cards alphebetically using the third letter of the players' middle names. Works for me...
  • DCanfieldDCanfield Posts: 548 ✭
    At least Jeff is putting on a vintage show. Maybe nothing like the days at the Polish Community Center. I'm in SW FL now and there is NOTHING HERE!
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  • yankeeno7yankeeno7 Posts: 9,251 ✭✭✭


    << <i>At least Jeff is putting on a vintage show. Maybe nothing like the days at the Polish Community Center. I'm in SW FL now and there is NOTHING HERE! >>



    Yeah, it is nice Jeff has kept it going but he will never make the money that Ed Keetz made in the hey day! lol
  • jrbolesjrboles Posts: 566 ✭✭


    << <i>I usually collate my cards alphebetically using the third letter of the players' middle names. Works for me... >>



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  • jeffcbayjeffcbay Posts: 8,950 ✭✭✭✭


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    << <i>And then one guy had a few vintage cards, vg pete rose rc, vg koufax etc... I asked about them just to see prices and again... priced OVER BECKETT... What the hell is this? The rose has bad corners and was 20-80 centering and this guy wanted $1100 for it... Do they even sell any cards... >>



    Its seems many dealers at shows aren't really looking to sell to collectors, there looking to sell to suckers... >>



    I've often wondered why most dealers at shows and card shop owners seem to dislike the idea of professional grading companies. I think I understand now. They just try to sell raw cards at mint prices, when in fact they are closer to EX to NM. You're right when you say that it seems like many dealers aren't looking to sell to collectors.
  • Sean1125Sean1125 Posts: 3,479
    Yeah.... Whenever I go to card shows I always seem to do very very well... I really know why now, my stuff is half or less of the other guys prices, some guy has a bunch of signed baseballs that he literally priced ALL of them at 4x ebay, he's got a bird SP rc, alcindor rc, and erving rc that are all ex at best and he's been demanding full book on them for atleast a year that I've seen him at shows, when I asked for a price on all he said he would take 10% off of book - his autographs are all unauthenticated and expensive, for example his musial ball with no COA is $300.... I believe I heard one other dealer say the guy hasn't sold a single item in the past 6 months and he wonders why.
  • Mickey71Mickey71 Posts: 4,259 ✭✭✭✭
    One guy has a bunch in alphabetical order. Doesn't make much sense to me.
  • fiveninerfiveniner Posts: 4,111 ✭✭✭


    << <i>At least people have vintage... Just went to a show yesterday in phoenix and one dealer had a bunch of vintage, all graded t205's and t206's... everything was graded psa 4-5 and priced 10-50% higher than BECKETT for mid grade cards...

    And then one guy had a few vintage cards, vg pete rose rc, vg koufax etc... I asked about them just to see prices and again... priced OVER BECKETT... What the hell is this? The rose has bad corners and was 20-80 centering and this guy wanted $1100 for it... Do they even sell any cards... >>




    Its a big joke for sure.Its the same on Ebay some dealers are way overpriced and they sit there for months.
    Tony(AN ANGEL WATCHES OVER ME)
  • ezyshooterezyshooter Posts: 711
    I don't know if it's a knew trend but i do know dealers who do the same thing. There are people who are just Team collectors. There are alot of hockey fans who collect just Montreal, Toronto etc.. so i would imagine it would be the same for all other sports.
    Personally i think it's because it's faster to sort into teams then into putting cards in numerical order. I know i wouldn't want to sort 1,000 of cards in numerical order when you are not going to make much money off of the cards to begin with. Where i live, if it's not a higher dollar star or rookie the dealers don't even bring the commons because they usually just sit there collecting dust.
    Might be different at bigger shows, don't know.
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    Steve
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