I feel like the majority of the people who are on the “pro trading” side of this argument have never set up at a major show and dealt with the people who are trying to trade.

For every 1 person that understands the dealer needs to make money, doesn’t want to waste anyone’s time, understands values AND has desirable inventory…there are 100 that do not.

If you spend a lot of time trying to make trades instead of selling cards, you aren’t going to last long as a dealer. If you’re just there to hang out and add items to your collection, more power to you but that’s not the majority of dealers.

At the National, 99% of the people who wanted to trade had undesirable and hard to move stuff. This is the norm.