Observations on the current state of the hobby from a show this weekend - Page 273

ThoseBackPages · 07-05-2025, 03:21 PM

burn it all

LVDan · 07-05-2025, 03:37 PM

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burn it all

corockies · 07-05-2025, 03:39 PM

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If there’s a fire and you can save your cards or your child, and you pick your child, you’re not a true collector.

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You can always make another child. You cannot make another 1/1 Autograph Superfractor until printers and AI get better.

here2havefun · 07-05-2025, 04:43 PM

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Haha I almost spit out my drink reading this. Love it! Don’t forget to add the Finish Jet-Dry rinse aid. Definitely helps with the surface.

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My wife years ago placed a freshly baked warm brownie, on a paper towel, onto our coffee table for me to eat. I was organizing some cards on the table, and she just happened to place the brownie right on top of a raw baseball card. I didn't notice until minutes later, after the brownie wetness had bled through the paper towel and onto the card. Thankfully, it was just a Jeff Blauser Fleer rookie card.

To this day, if I get a really cool card in and show her, she says "that'd make a great brownie plate!".

True collectors use their cards as food plates.

bigunitcards · 07-06-2025, 07:41 AM

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It is Day 3 of the Dallas Card Show this weekend and there have been no posts.

It is over folks.

It should be renamed the Dallas "BUYING 85-90%" Show.

Completely jam-packed and nearly impossible to maneuver around. #firehazard

If a dealer had 3 display cases on the table, one had a guy & his case plopped down on it, going thru all his cards he's trying to sell to them. The 2nd case had the dealer's take-out lunch container on it while he ate, with 0% attempt made to not cover half the cards with the top half of the styrofoam lid. The 3rd case was intake, where all the cards they had bought get put, usually 10% full. Only takes a moment to to scan the 9 cards you can see & move on.

I'm being cynical and funny, but that's really what that show seems to be - just a blood drive where all the donors sit down at an open chair to unload their slabs.

jmarascojr · 07-06-2025, 07:48 AM

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It is Day 3 of the Dallas Card Show this weekend and there have been no posts.

It is over folks.

Check the "Mow Your Lawn" Thread, some of us went out and touched actual grass

89Giants · 07-06-2025, 11:51 AM

Went to a show in northern California. It was packed, parking lot full, and at times you couldn't walk though the aisles. This is a problem at several shows ive been to- not enough space for the customers to even go down aisles. I'd say it was 50/50 pokemon/sports. A few I pickups made it worth my time. Bill Cartwright was there signing his book and would sign your cards for free.

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ThoseBackPages · 07-06-2025, 12:54 PM

Looks great!

Boo · 07-07-2025, 11:24 AM

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Originally Posted by 89Giants

Went to a show in northern California. It was packed, parking lot full, and at times you couldn't walk though the aisles. This is a problem at several shows ive been to- not enough space for the customers to even go down aisles. I'd say it was 50/50 pokemon/sports. A few I pickups made it worth my time. Bill Cartwright was there signing his book and would sign your cards for free.

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Looks to me like the jammed in as many tables as possible into a small room.

hermanotarjeta · 07-07-2025, 12:47 PM

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Looks to me like the jammed in as many tables as possible into a small room.

They forgot to take into account the card boi girth as well.

Boo · 07-07-2025, 12:54 PM

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They forgot to take into account the card boi girth as well.

The poor guy in the blue shirt in the top left picture is trying to squeeze through but I think he's stuck.

JoshMN · 07-07-2025, 01:01 PM

It's only a matter of time before the maker of Wegovy sponsors the National.

Big35Hurt · 07-07-2025, 01:02 PM

Any reports on the BO factor?

89Giants · 07-07-2025, 01:27 PM

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Any reports on the BO factor?

There was a few times I walked past guys who bad such a potent smell I nearly fell over.

hermanotarjeta · 07-07-2025, 01:33 PM

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The poor guy in the blue shirt in the top left picture is trying to squeeze through but I think he's stuck.

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There was a few times I walked past guys who bad such a potent smell I nearly fell over.

Fortunately, the tight spaces and surrounding thicc bodies prevented this from happening!

I don’t think it could happen in there even if you tried!

eastbayak · 07-07-2025, 01:33 PM

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Any reports on the BO factor?

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There was a few times I walked past guys who bad such a potent smell I nearly fell over.

PuddleMonkey, please start taking showers again.

seanbros55 · 07-07-2025, 01:39 PM

I haven’t been to a show in a long time and have never brought stuff to sell, but I was planning to bring a bunch of graded Devers cards to sell at a Bay Area show next weekend.

I really dont want to lug my big Apache case around all day. Any recommendations on toting around 20-30 slabs in a way that’s convenient and non-intrusive for dealers? Trying not to be a peli-boi opening up on top of dealers’ display cases…

kipgen · 07-07-2025, 01:41 PM

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Originally Posted by seanbros55

I haven’t been to a show in a long time and have never brought stuff to sell, but I was planning to bring a bunch of graded Devers cards to sell at a Bay Area show next weekend.

I really dont want to lug my big Apache case around all day. Any recommendations on toting around 20-30 slabs in a way that’s convenient and non-intrusive for dealers? Trying not to be a peli-boi opening up on top of dealers’ display cases…

I have a slab binder that works great, plus people always seem to get a kick out of it and it's much easier to look through than a case

Rage · 07-07-2025, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by seanbros55

I haven’t been to a show in a long time and have never brought stuff to sell, but I was planning to bring a bunch of graded Devers cards to sell at a Bay Area show next weekend.

I really dont want to lug my big Apache case around all day. Any recommendations on toting around 20-30 slabs in a way that’s convenient and non-intrusive for dealers? Trying not to be a peli-boi opening up on top of dealers’ display cases…

I have a few slim Slab boxes similar to these which are pretty convenient for storage and transport:
https://ebay.us/m/hs2SVu

seanbros55 · 07-07-2025, 02:43 PM

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I have a few slim Slab boxes similar to these which are pretty convenient for storage and transport:
https://ebay.us/m/hs2SVu

Just picked one up. Thanks!

PuddleMonkey · 07-08-2025, 01:41 AM

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PuddleMonkey, please start taking showers again.

Hey you're not the boss of me don't tell me what to do!

Big35Hurt · 07-08-2025, 06:52 AM

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Originally Posted by 89Giants

There was a few times I walked past guys who bad such a potent smell I nearly fell over.

I could pretty much smell the first picture you posted, and it was not pleasant.

theshowandme · 07-08-2025, 08:17 AM

I changed my mind. I will be going to the National for a few days this year.

kyle1707 · 07-08-2025, 08:59 AM

Was at local show Sunday
Lots of people buying low end stuff
No wax

Saw Layton open 5 case dynasty break for 45000 dollars

Could not of been 10 k in cards

Also was at dicks and target yesterday. There had to be 200 blasters sitting

No clue how gambling keeps going. Such awful value

And for first time in 5 years. I feel that nobody wants most retail boxes

hermanotarjeta · 07-08-2025, 09:16 AM

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Originally Posted by kyle1707

Was at local show Sunday
Lots of people buying low end stuff
No wax

Saw Layton open 5 case dynasty break for 45000 dollars

Could not of been 10 k in cards

Also was at dicks and target yesterday. There had to be 200 blasters sitting

No clue how gambling keeps going. Such awful value

And for first time in 5 years. I feel that nobody wants most retail boxes

Retail has hit that critical point where production is so high and the price is so high that the value of anything you pull out of retail has disappeared. Anything that is decent is impossible to pull and if you’ve pulled it, you’ve already spent too much money doing so.

Dynasty has also reached the point of living up to its name - die-nasty.

Degenerate gamblers are paying close to $1200 for the Ohtani player spot in a single 5 box case break. If the odds for any Ohtani are in the range of 1 in 30 cases, you’re spending $36,000 just to get one.

Going ten straight cases without hitting an Ohtani, which is very common, you’re out $12,000 with nothing to sho for it.

Don’t tell me it’s not degenerate gambling.

07-05-2025, 03:21 PM	#6801
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07-06-2025, 11:51 AM	#6807
89Giants Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Northern California Posts: 821	Went to a show in northern California. It was packed, parking lot full, and at times you couldn't walk though the aisles. This is a problem at several shows ive been to- not enough space for the customers to even go down aisles. I'd say it was 50/50 pokemon/sports. A few I pickups made it worth my time. Bill Cartwright was there signing his book and would sign your cards for free. Sent from my SM-S936U using Tapatalk __________________ Collecting Barry Bonds and SF Giants Tradelist: http://samstradingpost.com/trader/bonds25.aspx

07-06-2025, 12:54 PM	#6808
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07-07-2025, 01:01 PM	#6812
JoshMN Member Join Date: Jan 2022 Posts: 1,587	It's only a matter of time before the maker of Wegovy sponsors the National.

07-07-2025, 01:02 PM	#6813
Big35Hurt Member Join Date: Aug 2015 Posts: 9,628	Any reports on the BO factor?

07-07-2025, 01:39 PM	#6817
seanbros55 Member Join Date: Oct 2016 Location: From the 508 to the 707 Posts: 5,394	I haven’t been to a show in a long time and have never brought stuff to sell, but I was planning to bring a bunch of graded Devers cards to sell at a Bay Area show next weekend. I really dont want to lug my big Apache case around all day. Any recommendations on toting around 20-30 slabs in a way that’s convenient and non-intrusive for dealers? Trying not to be a peli-boi opening up on top of dealers’ display cases…

07-08-2025, 08:17 AM	#6823
theshowandme Member Join Date: Nov 2020 Location: Northern Virginia Posts: 5,075 theshowandme nova_cards	I changed my mind. I will be going to the National for a few days this year.

07-08-2025, 08:59 AM	#6824
kyle1707 Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 20,514	Was at local show Sunday Lots of people buying low end stuff No wax Saw Layton open 5 case dynasty break for 45000 dollars Could not of been 10 k in cards Also was at dicks and target yesterday. There had to be 200 blasters sitting No clue how gambling keeps going. Such awful value And for first time in 5 years. I feel that nobody wants most retail boxes