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Ron Burgundy, reporting live from the Chicago Sun Times Show......
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Hallo gents, hope all is well. Wanted to file a brief report after day one of the Chicago show. Overall, vintage is in the room but I'm having to do more digging than last year, when I found quite a bit of stuff. One of PSA's biggest submitters beat me to some nice 57's and I wanted to clobber him, but oh well, Burgundy will get over it. My strategy is different than past shows, as I'm tired of rooting through box after box to find NM-MT 60's commons that are barely worth the price of the card + grading fee.
Deals can be made. Because of the economy dealers are having to back off of their rigid pricing schemes. I've gotten some good stuff cheap.
I'll be back with more later tonight or tomorrow! Throw some questions my way if you want, I'll be able to post some from the show.
Deals can be made. Because of the economy dealers are having to back off of their rigid pricing schemes. I've gotten some good stuff cheap.
I'll be back with more later tonight or tomorrow! Throw some questions my way if you want, I'll be able to post some from the show.
Ron Burgundy
Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
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you did not wear the roller skates with the rocket boosters, as i had suggested......shame on you.
wish i was there, post some blazers for us, will ya?
I have picked up some nice stuff, some of it will be going straight to PSA to see what they think...............
Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
<< <i>.......some of it will be going straight to PSA to see what they think...............
[popcorn]this oughta get interesting[/popcorn]
<< <i>Hallo gents, hope all is well. Wanted to file a brief report after day one of the Chicago show. Overall, vintage is in the room but I'm having to do more digging than last year, when I found quite a bit of stuff. One of PSA's biggest submitters beat me to some nice 57's and I wanted to clobber him, but oh well, Burgundy will get over it. My strategy is different than past shows, as I'm tired of rooting through box after box to find NM-MT 60's commons that are barely worth the price of the card + grading fee.
Deals can be made. Because of the economy dealers are having to back off of their rigid pricing schemes. I've gotten some good stuff cheap.
I'll be back with more later tonight or tomorrow! Throw some questions my way if you want, I'll be able to post some from the show. >>
As someone who has not been to a show in over 10 years, what is a show this size like? About how many tables/dealers? Are these dealers like the local card shops and want full book for modern or 90's cards that would be lucky to grade a 7 or 8?
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If you're looking for hard to find '90's inserts, or oddball '80's issues, there's almost nothing to choose from. Also no '91 Desert shield, '96 TC BKB refractors, or anything else that I was really hoping to find. You could probably make a few bucks by binder diving for NM-MT vintage commons, but I didn't go that route. I was looking for non-GU, non-autoed high end modern cards, and from that perspective the show wasn't worth attending.
Just curious - when did you start referring to yourself in the 3rd person?
I haven't been to a show in 5 yrs - good luck.
How about some pictures.
mike
<< <i>Ron
Just curious - when did you start referring to yourself in the 3rd person?
I haven't been to a show in 5 yrs - good luck.
How about some pictures.
mike >>
I believe Ron Burgandy was the name of the lead character in 'Anchorman', so when Tom refers to himself as 'Ron' he's making a play on the occupation held by the man who made the name famous, since reporters refer to themselves in the 3rd person quite a bit (almost as often as NFL cornerbacks, if that's possible).
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<< <i>Just got back from the show, and a fine dinner out with two board members (Jason and Russ, 'morgoth' and 'onefastalon' respectively on the boards). For my purposes, the show basically sucked. Lots of EX-MT 1956-1974 at full book prices, lots of '09 Greg Jennings refractors at full book plus, and lots and lots and LOTS of trash. By trash I mean real flea market stuff- '92F Tom Glavines, '88T Eric Davis', etc. etc. I saw more 'ten cent boxes' than I ever have before at a major show. I also had a guy who wanted me to haggle with him over the prices in his 'blowout box', although at least that was entertaining.
If you're looking for hard to find '90's inserts, or oddball '80's issues, there's almost nothing to choose from. Also no '91 Desert shield, '96 TC BKB refractors, or anything else that I was really hoping to find. You could probably make a few bucks by binder diving for NM-MT vintage commons, but I didn't go that route. I was looking for non-GU, non-autoed high end modern cards, and from that perspective the show wasn't worth attending. >>
So no 1991 Donruss Elite?
You have never taken me out to dinner.....
Eyebone
<< <i>Hallo gents, hope all is well. Wanted to file a brief report after day one of the Chicago show. Overall, vintage is in the room but I'm having to do more digging than last year, when I found quite a bit of stuff. One of PSA's biggest submitters beat me to some nice 57's and I wanted to clobber him, but oh well, Burgundy will get over it. My strategy is different than past shows, as I'm tired of rooting through box after box to find NM-MT 60's commons that are barely worth the price of the card + grading fee.
Deals can be made. Because of the economy dealers are having to back off of their rigid pricing schemes. I've gotten some good stuff cheap.
I'll be back with more later tonight or tomorrow! Throw some questions my way if you want, I'll be able to post some from the show. >>
Went today. You are correct in stating that vintage was the name of the game. For those of us who grew up on the 1980s and later material, we were left out in the cold. Anyway, my main intention was to get autographs. Went to get Mike Schmidt, Brooks Robinson, and Ralph Kiner. Left with Schmidt only as I decided against the others. Schmidt was a pretty quiet guy. Very nice auto and a free inscription to boot.
Another good thing is that my son got some pretty nice SpongeBob SquarePants plush toys (SpongeBob, Patrick, and Mr. Krabs) and I got card supplies at a great price
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Buying Vintage, all sports.
Buying Woody Hayes, Les Horvath, Vic Janowicz, and Jesse Owens autographed items
<< <i>Boo.
You have never taken me out to dinner.....
Eyebone >>
I will be up in May, mon ami, and we will work to rectify that!
Show was disappointing in some regards. Pricing was better but dealers were grumpy and trading and their buying was off IMO. Too many tables of autoed cards and new stuff and not enough non high end (afforadable) graded vintage. When you can't find common HOFs from the 60s but row after row of E cards and Ramly's is odd to me.
Alot more graded football than I have ever seen. I was still unable to get any of the last 28 cards I need for my graded 71 FB set. It seems 1969 is the unsaid cutoff for "vintage" football.
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<< <i>Boo.
You have never taken me out to dinner.....
Eyebone >>
I will be up in May, mon ami, and we will work to rectify that! >>
It is all good, Boo. Just kidding with you (as I am certain you know).
Sorry to hear the show did not yield much for you. You did not miss much up here last week BTW.
Eyebone
On the bright side, there were more tables set up than at the last one.... but that didn't equate to more 'quality.'
I was after a few '75s (baseball) to complete a set, but I knew going in that I had little chance of seeing PSA 8+ commons... so not too disappointed.
I did pickup a hand full of high-grade raw singles though, mostly low-pop hard-to-find commons... so my over-all spending stayed pretty low.
I did pick up a NICE '79 Topps Ozzie Rc that appears to be a solid 8 with an outside shot at an 8.5 or a 9... for the $5 special, it was worth a shot.
Steve (BBCE) did NOT have a booth this year... that was kind of a bummer... but oh well.
...and, I'm sorry to report... I was not able to find any Chris Sabo's this year.
Getting a chance to run into a board member is always nice too, Thanks Again Boo!
... but still, MY favorite part of the Sun Time's Show has always been Giordano's afterwords! There's nothing like it around Indy that I've found!
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Also, the one time I was in Chicago for the National (possibly 2003?), there was a Mexican restaurant near the convention center named Maria's that I remember being very good. I wonder if it is still there.
Good luck on the cross-over.
I've had so many "interesting" conversations with Boo - if he invited me to dinner? It would consist of a bag of Cheetos and an RC cola.
Seriously, he's one of the more astutely intelligent people I've talked to here over of the years at CU.
mike
I enjoyed the show, probably scanned each table 5 or 6 times over the weekend... although I spent most of my time in the back doing signings for a side-venture I've been doing for 5 years now. Overall, was a little disappointed with the quality of product available... quantity was definitely there. I know it's football and basketball season right now, but if you collect modern baseball... quality items were few and far between.
Unfortunately for me, the main dealer that had product I was looking for was 707 Sportscards. Nothing beats finding cards to fill several holes in my collection and having to walk away empty handed because I couldn't recognize the favor they were doing for me by haggling down to only 25-50% above market price... ughh!
Was able to pick up another STL Cardinals T206 (Steve Evans) for my team set... a probably 9 (minus a slight surface wringle that i'll probably drop it to a 6) Jerry Kramer rookie... a 2009 Bowman Chrome Percy Harvin autographed rookie... a PSA 10 Pacific Brett Favre rookie for my registry set... and the following three cards to now put my PSA 8 Hank Aaron Basic registry set and 50% complete!!!
<< <i>Anyone see Felicia there? >>
I can't imagine she attended. Shes liquidated a large part of her collection recently to focus on a business venture.
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There were some tables with boxes of 50-cent modern cards. I picked up quite a few black refractors, X-fractors and old Frank Thomas inserts.
<< <i>It's weird that Steve (BBCE) wasn't there considering that the show is so close for him.
Also, the one time I was in Chicago for the National (possibly 2003?), there was a Mexican restaurant near the convention center named Maria's that I remember being very good. I wonder if it is still there. >>
Steve wasn't at the show last year either. I think he once told me that he only does the National and Philly.