So met Carolj yesterday...

burke23 · April 11, 2010 4:53AM

PSA is doing their first cardshow in MN, and I subbed some baseball's to PSA/DNA. Carol is the one who took my order - very pleasant to deal with. Even found out we grew up in the same hometown in MN.

The auto results were ok - 3 in person ones flew by ok (Johan Santana, Joe Mauer, and Prince Fielder), 3 ebay ones were ok (Pedro Martinez!, Tom Seaver!, and Felix Hernandez!), and 3 ebay ones were not (Longoria, Lincecum and Teixeira). Overall not too bad since that is always a gamble and I bought them cheap a few years back (before Longoria and Lincecum were huge names).

Pete

SDSportsFan · April 11, 2010 6:46AM

This thread is useless without pictures!!!!!!!!!!

(Not of the autographed baseballs

)

Steve

okposo21 · April 11, 2010 6:59AM

can we see photos of the ones that didn't pass?

tunahead08 · April 11, 2010 7:02AM

What's your hometown in MN?

burke23 · April 11, 2010 7:40AM

I will work on photos for the ones that didn't pass.
As for the home town - let's just say I went to Apple Valley High School.

Kneel · April 11, 2010 7:46AM

I look forward to meeting Carol one day....

nam812 · April 11, 2010 7:47AM

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I look forward to meeting Carol one day....

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Why Gio, so she can ban you in person?

Kneel · April 11, 2010 8:01AM

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I look forward to meeting Carol one day....

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Why Gio, so she can ban you in person? >>

Why in the world would she ban me???

And my name is not Gio, why do you keep calling me that?

tunahead08 · April 11, 2010 8:06AM

<< I will work on photos for the ones that didn't pass.
As for the home town - let's just say I went to Apple Valley High School. >>

Ah cool, just wondering as I'm in Minnesota too. We'll just say I cheer for the Minnesota State University - Mankato Mavericks hockey team... that should be easy enough to figure out

purduepete · April 11, 2010 9:39AM

<< As for the home town - let's just say I went to Apple Valley High School. >>

Apple Valley? When I lived in Rosemount, we had "another" name for your hometown (one that I can't say here...

). Just kidding!

I'd be interested to hear how that show went overall. I lived in the Twin Cities area for 17 years, and I can't ever remember a show like that being held (except for TwinsFest).

I hope that it was a success; if they have it again, I would definitely make it back to MN to go to it.

burke23 · April 11, 2010 10:16AM

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<< As for the home town - let's just say I went to Apple Valley High School. >>

Apple Valley? When I lived in Rosemount, we had "another" name for your hometown (one that I can't say here...

). Just kidding!

I'd be interested to hear how that show went overall. I lived in the Twin Cities area for 17 years, and I can't ever remember a show like that being held (except for TwinsFest).

I hope that it was a success; if they have it again, I would definitely make it back to MN to go to it. >>

How can you make a bad name out of Apple Valley? Oddly enough we didn't have the kindest things to say about folks from Rosemount.
As for the show- I don't recall a show here this big...certainly not as big as National or Chicago Sun, but much bigger than the mom and pop 15 table shows that pepper the area. I think it went well, and I would be surprised if they didn't come back.

TurbosHockey · April 11, 2010 11:15AM

Where and when was the show. I live in Mendota Heighst and was hoping to see them.

byronscott4ever · April 11, 2010 12:33PM

The show was in Brooklyn Center. I don't think they promoted the event far enough out. I'll hold the rest of my comments to see what others thought of the show.

stown · April 11, 2010 1:15PM

Pics of Carol or it didn't happen.

Hi Carol!

HoofHearted · April 11, 2010 1:32PM

<< What's your hometown in MN? >>

I was raised in south-central MN -- where I-90 goes through...

Wish I could've met Carol. She's always so helpful.

VikingDude · April 11, 2010 9:46PM

<< I don't think they promoted the event far enough out. >>

I would echo that. Would have been nice to know more in advance to plan a trip.

byronscott4ever · April 11, 2010 10:00PM

I noticed the dealer tags said "1st Annual" so combined with one dealer I heard saying that it was going to happen again, I think it will happen again.

burke23 · April 11, 2010 11:38PM

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<< I don't think they promoted the event far enough out. >>

I would echo that. Would have been nice to know more in advance to plan a trip. >>

I stumbled onto it myself as a dealer at a small show mentioned it. Certainly wasn't advertised like I would have thought - wasn't even on Beckett's website.
I took the pics of the 'bad' balls and will post tonight.

mj23kg21 · April 12, 2010 12:50AM

I was there Friday night and I guess I have mixed feelings as I was expecting much more. I'm glad George had the show and hope they try it again. Next time I hope they are able to get many more dealers to set up. The show felt about 1/10th the size of a normal Sun Times show. The autograph guest were very good and hopefully the dealers did okay. I wish the doors would have opened at 4:00 or so instead of 7:00 on Friday night.

byronscott4ever · April 12, 2010 1:13AM

One dealer told me he thought Friday night should have been free. He said that there were 600-700 people there Saturday and he would have liked to see about 1,500. He was from NJ so I'm sure he's used to bigger shows. I bet if they had set up shop at TwinsFest to promote it, many more people would have been aware of it. Even their print advertising was kind of plain and not eye catching. Poor Mr. Mint probably didn't get the unopened '52s he wanted, ha ha. I think they should set it up further out from TwinsFest, pick a weekend where the Twins are not playing and get it in Beckett, SCD, etc. There seemed to be too much high-end stuff there and not enough actual cards for my liking. I heard one guy come in at opening on Sunday and said something like "that was a nice 15 minutes" as he was done looking and for $6 admission, that's a shame. I liked that you could see the signers and I thought they had a nice lineup and pricing on the signers as well and of course, having PSA there was nice.

clayshooter22 · April 12, 2010 1:56AM

I'm in Woodbury and I never heard about it until I read this post.....odd?

byronscott4ever · April 12, 2010 2:06AM

I found out about it on signingshotline.com and had to research it a bit to find out about it and this was only a month ago. I asked them about advertising and was told about two weeks out they would start advertising but I think they erred in their approach.

burke23 · April 12, 2010 2:30AM

<< I'm in Woodbury and I never heard about it until I read this post.....odd? >>

Nope - I think most folks stumbled onto it from avenues other than a straight advertisement for the show. The dealer I overheard prior to the show stated the promoter was only advertising two weeks out (to confirm byronscott's post).

I will state a lot of the tables were non-card based (memorabilia/photos/jerseys) so that was disappointing. And no love for 80's basketball

But still a decent showing I think - enough to warrant a second (hopefully bigger?) show.

Mr. Mint did look lonely, but I am not sure if he was there to buy or just people watch (he certainly had no cards out to sell).

byronscott4ever · April 12, 2010 2:40AM

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<< I'm in Woodbury and I never heard about it until I read this post.....odd? >>

Nope - I think most folks stumbled onto it from avenues other than a straight advertisement for the show. The dealer I overheard prior to the show stated the promoter was only advertising two weeks out (to confirm byronscott's post).

I will state a lot of the tables were non-card based (memorabilia/photos/jerseys) so that was disappointing. And no love for 80's basketball

But still a decent showing I think - enough to warrant a second (hopefully bigger?) show.

Mr. Mint did look lonely, but I am not sure if he was there to buy or just people watch (he certainly had no cards out to sell). >>

I think they could have used bigger type in their ads to hype WHAT it was rather than to list WHO who was there--it just looked too plain. I agree about the memorabilia tables and also think they could have drawn more local dealers although I'm not sure how the tables were priced. TwinsFest draws in a huge amount of dealers so there are people around who sell stuff. I talked to my local shop and he said he saw a guy with junk trying to sell to Rosen and we speculated that Rosen must get that a lot. The NJ dealer was complaining that he wasn't selling any acrylic cases but just dollar stuff but that's probably a statement about his prices ( his and everyone else's regular toploads were more expensive than my local shop), the economy, and the demand for that type of product. He did have someone call him looking to sell him Beanie Babies. He said he buys them all (few exceptions) as long as they are all clean and no bent tags and will pay 65 cents cash each for them. If only the people who jumped all over these a few years back could have known about that future conversation.

TurbosHockey · April 12, 2010 4:03AM

Well if they do this again next year I would like to attend. I guess I should read the paper more closely.

stown · April 12, 2010 7:08AM

<< Pics of Carol or it didn't happen.

Hi Carol!

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burke23 · April 12, 2010 7:30AM

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<< Pics of Carol or it didn't happen.

Hi Carol!

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Sorry man - would have been creepy if I had taken a pic of her.

corvette1340 · April 12, 2010 7:52AM

ms paint a picture of her from your own memory.

ROCKDJRW · April 12, 2010 7:55AM

Typing about such meeting on a message board is only slightly less creepy so snap away!

SportsModerator2 · April 12, 2010 7:56AM

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<< Pics of Carol or it didn't happen.

Hi Carol!

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Sorry man - would have been creepy if I had taken a pic of her. >>

Yes, it would have so thanks for not doing that. It was nice meeting you and others at the show.

Hi Stown.

Reading this post it seems many did not know about the show so I wanted to remind everyone to check our show schedules periodically as we add shows and sometimes drop some.

For those of you in OH I just wanted to let you all know we'll be in Strongsville this weekend taking in card submissions and offering PSA/DNA autograph authentication.

Carol

Link to Shows

burke23 · April 12, 2010 7:56AM

<< Typing about such meeting on a message board is only slightly less creepy so snap away!

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Especially the focus where I talk about subbing the baseballs to PSA/DNA - come on, you know it the subject was to drive folks in here...success.

johnny1976 · April 12, 2010 8:21AM

The only reason I found out about the show was because Vito posted about it. I really wanted to go on Friday to get Mike Modano's auto, but couldn't make it.

VikingDude · April 12, 2010 10:16PM

Maybe there should be a separate subject in the "Sports Cards & Memorabilia" section for Sports Cards & Memorabilia shows. Not a thread within a one of the existing subjects (like the BST forum or the Sports Cards & Memorabilia forum) but a whole new grouping. I could see the same for the Coin forum as well.

Because it seems like the show threads just get buried and it would be great to have one that has upcoming shows and reviews of past shows, etc.

stown · April 12, 2010 10:20PM

<< Hi Stown. >>

jeffcbay · April 12, 2010 10:32PM

Snap... I didn't realize PSA was going to be at the Strongsville show. I wasn't planning to attend, but I think I have to now! This will save me some cash on shipping my sub!

minnesotahusker · April 13, 2010 12:15AM

Wow, I didn't realize we had so many Minnesotans here. I probably drove through your town on I-90 yesterday as I drove back to Rochester from Nebraska. So are we talking Worthington, Jackson, Blue Earth, Fairmont, Albert Lea or Austin?

mj23kg21- ready to play some ball? When's our first game?

mreuter · April 13, 2010 12:26AM

<< Wow, I didn't realize we had so many Minnesotans here. I probably drove through your town on I-90 yesterday as I drove back to Rochester from Nebraska. So are we talking Worthington, Jackson, Blue Earth, Fairmont, Albert Lea or Austin?

mj23kg21- ready to play some ball? When's our first game? >>

Did you go through Sioux City? You were close to me also.

mj23kg21 · April 13, 2010 2:03AM

<< Wow, I didn't realize we had so many Minnesotans here. I probably drove through your town on I-90 yesterday as I drove back to Rochester from Nebraska. So are we talking Worthington, Jackson, Blue Earth, Fairmont, Albert Lea or Austin?

mj23kg21- ready to play some ball? When's our first game? >>

I am ready to play. Weather has been great lately! I believe our first game is first week of May.

italianstallionyankees · April 13, 2010 6:27AM

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<< 

<< I'm in Woodbury and I never heard about it until I read this post.....odd? >>

Nope - I think most folks stumbled onto it from avenues other than a straight advertisement for the show. The dealer I overheard prior to the show stated the promoter was only advertising two weeks out (to confirm byronscott's post).

I will state a lot of the tables were non-card based (memorabilia/photos/jerseys) so that was disappointing. And no love for 80's basketball

But still a decent showing I think - enough to warrant a second (hopefully bigger?) show.

Mr. Mint did look lonely, but I am not sure if he was there to buy or just people watch (he certainly had no cards out to sell). >>

I think they could have used bigger type in their ads to hype WHAT it was rather than to list WHO who was there--it just looked too plain. I agree about the memorabilia tables and also think they could have drawn more local dealers although I'm not sure how the tables were priced. TwinsFest draws in a huge amount of dealers so there are people around who sell stuff. I talked to my local shop and he said he saw a guy with junk trying to sell to Rosen and we speculated that Rosen must get that a lot. The NJ dealer was complaining that he wasn't selling any acrylic cases but just dollar stuff but that's probably a statement about his prices ( his and everyone else's regular toploads were more expensive than my local shop), the economy, and the demand for that type of product. He did have someone call him looking to sell him Beanie Babies. He said he buys them all (few exceptions) as long as they are all clean and no bent tags and will pay 65 cents cash each for them. If only the people who jumped all over these a few years back could have known about that future conversation.

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Funny story I saw a dealer at a small local card show buying them up for $1 a piece and reselling for $2-$5 a piece lol

Pretty good I think on something that had production run of 10 million or so on each beanie back in the day!

Ryan

minnesotahusker · April 13, 2010 8:10AM

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<< Wow, I didn't realize we had so many Minnesotans here. I probably drove through your town on I-90 yesterday as I drove back to Rochester from Nebraska. So are we talking Worthington, Jackson, Blue Earth, Fairmont, Albert Lea or Austin?

mj23kg21- ready to play some ball? When's our first game? >>

Did you go through Sioux City? You were close to me also. >>

Yep we always go through Sioux City. Almost always eat at the McDonald's just east of the mall at the request of our 3 year old daughter. That area has grown by leaps and bounds since I last lived around there. Lived in Northeast Nebraska (Norfolk) and went to school at USD in Vermillion.

perkdog · April 13, 2010 8:15AM

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<< Hi Stown. >>

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SoFLPhillyFan · April 13, 2010 8:48AM

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<< Hi Stown. >>

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Suck up.

vladguerrero · April 13, 2010 10:53AM

Well this is weird. I met Carol about a year ago at the national, we talked, and she said she was from MY home town which isn't yours!??? She must have been putting you on....

elsnorto · April 15, 2010 12:41PM

I imagine Carol to basically be Jessica Alba's twin.

Only with a sportscards fetish.

And without a restraining order against me.

Thank you in advance for not ruining this dream for me, Pete.

Snorto~

burke23 · April 15, 2010 1:25PM

<< I imagine Carol to basically be Jessica Alba's twin.

Only with a sportscards fetish.

And without a restraining order against me.

Thank you in advance for not ruining this dream for me, Pete.

Snorto~ >>

Ha - the funny thing is I told her I would be happy to tell the board she looked like Giselle Bundchen's hot sister...she nixed that. Modest, she is.

So met Carolj yesterday...

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