They aren't paying anything for the autograph guests. The autograph guests are done by MAB who pays them for part of the show. The show has gone downhill because collectors aren't motivated to come to the show to deal with the same full-time professional dealers who do the same show circuit and who now have most of their inventories online. The smaller part-time dealers have been completly priced out of the show. You need to have a mix of the big time guys and the small fry dealers to keep collectors anticipating finding the diamond in the rough or just the oppurtunity to see something different. Since the move from Reading, the show is down at least 40 dealers.
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