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Originally Posted by Knightlax5

I spoke to multiple dealers on Friday. The reason their cases were empty at 3 pm on Friday was because repackers came in and bought entire show cases out at 95%. I don't blame dealers for selling at 95%.

This bears the question of will this be the case at the national. I fear if you don't have a dealer badge to get in Wednesday morning or Tuesday, most worth while deals will be gone before the general public can see them, at least for modern. I'm very nervous the repacking racket will creep in to vintage and pre war.

Interesting. It was puzzling to see dealer cases with less than a dozen cards displayed. There was one dealer with one case on his table with I swear six cards displayed. Given the table cost, it was puzzling why he did not have additional inventory. I don't think it will be a major issue at the National. Those who repack don't have bottomless funds and the National is what 3,4,5 times larger than CSA?

The number of graded cards in bargain bin boxes was surprising as well. Are the TPA's opening packs and grading every card? There were gem mint cards of players I had never heard of. Every card no matter the level of talent seems to be sent in for grading. One dealer had an offer of $100 for 30 plus graded 1983 Topps cards. I did the math, 30 cards at an average of $15 or so to grade and offered up at $100. My toxic side of being a future dealer almost scooped them up but I quickly came to my senses.