[JollyElm]

Couldn't go to the recent show Mark Macrae was a part of, but the shows I go to out here still have a ton of ungraded material. Made some great purchases of nice cards (Yeah, right! They'll all come back in low grade when I inevitably send them off to be graded.) a few months ago when the seller (who has always been very Dean's-esque in pricing) still had the old price tags on his cards from before the pandemic, so they were decent bargains, and I acted quickly. He told me this was his first show in a couple of years.

That was good, but overall, the people who sell the ungraded stuff have them priced in the stratosphere. Basically what you would pay for a high grade version of the same card sitting in a NM or better PSA slab, even though it's only a mid-grade card. Very depressing.