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Originally Posted by luciobar1980
For the record and to clarify my original post, I don't hold it against any shop owner for focusing on modern. It totally makes sense. If I owned a card shop I would definitely focus on modern in store and then sell vintage online. I was just surprised at how down on vintage that owner seemed to be. And unrealistically down, the way he talked about Mays card being worth $20. He sort of vaguely lumped all vintage Mays card together and said they aren't worth what they used to be. And clearly that's just not true.
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As is true elsewhere in multiple other walks of life - either he was deliberately lying to you, or he was genuinely uniformed. I've gotten some very nice deals in the fairly recent past on prewar HOF in person - and in retrospect I think it's because the dealer was mainly a modern guy, and didn't realize how on-fire some of that stuff was. They make mistakes like everyone else.