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Originally Posted by eastbayak
Some solutions:
1. Pick-up such cards at local card shows in Canada
2. Drive down to NY and attend card shows in NY (picking up such cards there)
3. Make friends with vendors from NY-based card shows. Ask to use their mailing address and offer them a fixed price per card/order to hold such cards for you (until you pick it up from their home or next NY card show)
For #3, you can try to work off-eBay deals to save 13% eBay tax too. Those $500 cards could be hundreds of dollars cheaper.
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That's the thing, #1 isn't really an option. Card shows up here are like 5% baseball, and 75% of that is either ultra modern (2022/23), Blue Jays, or Vintage; three areas that I don't collect. So the pickings are super slim for the area that I collect in (largely 1998-2018). I just went to the Toronto Card show this past weekend and looked at every single vender and found 1 card that I wanted.
like right now my main wants are:
2014 Betts Walmart Blue PSA 10 rookie
2014 Ramirez Chrome AUTO Black /100 raw rookie
2017 Judge Railing SP PSA 10 rookie
2018 Soto Bowman's Best AUTO raw
There is a Ramirez card on eBay. Listed at $1400. I have it more at around a $900 value (these are CDN prices btw). There is also a Judge on eBay but it is priced at $700 and I have it more like a $500 card.
I do plan on making a road trip down into NY sometime next year to try my luck down there for some cards I am looking for, but at the same time, my list of cards I want is super small and specific so I am not confident I'll be able to find them. Just have to be patient and wait for something to come up on eBay that doesn't have a stupid Buy It Now price.