Tarrytown, NY Card Show Today

[Prospector234]

I attended the Winter Extravaganza card show today in Tarrytown, NY along with many others. Great show, a ton of buyers and sellers. However, I noticed something very obvious that many of you have seen before. GRADED CARDS.

They are everywhere. Stacks and stacks of them, specifically, base cards. I'm not highly involved in the hobby and remember graded cards were considered a luxury, but not seen as a requirement. The shear volume of graded cards overwhelmed me, though. It seems the new blood in the hobby expect graded cards.

My main concern is the market is over saturated with cards again like the late 80's and 90's. Except this form of saturation is colored refractors, artificial scarcity and graded base/common cards.

With cards being so damn expensive, how do all of the vendors manage in this hobby? Many cards are locked behind glass and for good reason -- they are valuable, but at what point do you say....crap, the prices are too high, i'm pricing out most collectors and losing their interest because of it?

Show Tables are not cheap. How do you survive and make a profit at these large events?

I'd like to know the communities thoughts on this..and I apologize if this was discussed in a previous thread

[ThoseBackPages]

i think its amazing!

[k13]

I thought tables to most shows are rather cheap...

[SupermanBrandon]

How much is a table? I think most show tables are way too cheap, considering the amount of money floating around these days.

[soey10]

Yes tables are cheap. At a show near me they have two separate banquet rooms at a hotel that have about 150 tables. They charge $35 a table. That is $5,250 for the promoter not to mention $2 admission from everyone entering the show. I am not sure how much it cost to rent out the rooms for half a day but I would guess less than half of that.


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[thegreathambino]

I was set up at the show yesterday. A table is $250 and I think a booth was $400 ish.

Agreed that there was a ton of graded. What I notice is when people have graded cards in boxes for you to look thru… which is never really how I thought about graded cards.

To me graded cards are a premium that I assume I’ll be paying higher $ for. I did very well yesterday, doing about 3k in sales from mostly graded baseball prospects (which there wasn’t a ton of … I guess due to it being the off-season?).

Anyways, the show was absolutely packed… great to see. But the glut on base/common graded cards is certainly coming to a head, a good thing in the long run IMO. Graded prospects will still get a premium.


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[gododgersfan]

Nice to see folks attending shows. The glut of base graded cards will work itself out as prices continue to decline. This is actually good as this will basically remove the overnight flippers out of the hobby.

[Skipscards]

Ain’t it great?!

[7nohitter]

Prices like that would cause me to lose my head!

[Prospector234]

Nice to see folks attending shows. The glut of base graded cards will work itself out as prices continue to decline. This is actually good as this will basically remove the overnight flippers out of the hobby.

Solid point. I hope it does weed these people out. I couldn't believe the stacks of graded cards that are valued at less than $30 dollars. Painting a turd gold will not help you. I wish these people realized that as the amount of wasted money is insane. lol

[Prospector234]

I was set up at the show yesterday. A table is $250 and I think a booth was $400 ish.

Agreed that there was a ton of graded. What I notice is when people have graded cards in boxes for you to look thru… which is never really how I thought about graded cards.

To me graded cards are a premium that I assume I’ll be paying higher $ for. I did very well yesterday, doing about 3k in sales from mostly graded baseball prospects (which there wasn’t a ton of … I guess due to it being the off-season?).

Anyways, the show was absolutely packed… great to see. But the glut on base/common graded cards is certainly coming to a head, a good thing in the long run IMO. Graded prospects will still get a premium.


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Thank you for your input! I thought I was seeing things the other day. Stacks and Stacks of base cards....AND vendors charging $50 for base cards that sell for 20 on eBay. lol

[jrd1436]

I attended the Winter Extravaganza card show today in Tarrytown, NY along with many others. Great show, a ton of buyers and sellers. However, I noticed something very obvious that many of you have seen before. GRADED CARDS.

They are everywhere. Stacks and stacks of them, specifically, base cards. I'm not highly involved in the hobby and remember graded cards were considered a luxury, but not seen as a requirement. The shear volume of graded cards overwhelmed me, though. It seems the new blood in the hobby expect graded cards.

My main concern is the market is over saturated with cards again like the late 80's and 90's. Except this form of saturation is colored refractors, artificial scarcity and graded base/common cards.

With cards being so damn expensive, how do all of the vendors manage in this hobby? Many cards are locked behind glass and for good reason -- they are valuable, but at what point do you say....crap, the prices are too high, i'm pricing out most collectors and losing their interest because of it?

Show Tables are not cheap. How do you survive and make a profit at these large events?

I'd like to know the communities thoughts on this..and I apologize if this was discussed in a previous thread

I was at the show as well and met up with other collectors and had a great time talking to people. I personally thought the show was light on junk era stuff which was my main shopping list this weekend. I was also surprised how many dealers/tables had "mystery packs."