Sadly, many of the modern collectors will flee once the cards start falling in price and will chase the next shiny object.. if we are lucky, they will come back to the hobby in another 20 prn30 years. Hence the cycle. Same I saw happen in the 80s to 90s and some people just came back during Covid.
As bigfish wrote, the National is more about meeting the collectors and dealers than finding some "score". Most of those are bought up and marked up before the show opens Wednesday. Sometimes an extreme rarity pops up and someone is lucky to grab it.
However, with the advent of ebay and the new "flippers" cards aren't even In sellers hands yet and they are already listed. It would be tough to find a card at the national which was not listed in ebay/Facebook even minutes prior.
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