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Originally Posted by dasiegel

Well I see your point but those #s also assume that your were paying near ebay prices for those cards. If it costs $5000 to set up for the weekend (I don't know the setup cost or if most dealers do it for the whole event) then it really doesn't make sense for low or mid level dealers to even do it. But if a dealer is good enough at buying singles that are well under current ebay and have enough volume to setup, big sales at the National are more likely then anywhere else as well as connections with big private buyers, dealers, etc. It might be worth it.

I have set up at small shows before and it wasn't worth it for me. 6 hours of my weekend to make $3-400 and pay $60 for the table told me I was better off on forums or the bay. But some guys at those shows make a few thousand between singles and box sales and it was worth it for them especially because it beats the foot traffic of owning a store or the time it takes to list a million things on ebay, then package and ship.

Long story longer, it depends on the seller but buyers have the same attitude. they aren't gonna pay for a flight, take a long drive, pay admission etc to pay over ebay. With all the tables there they will just go to the next one because in my experience plenty of people hover around those prices.

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