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Posted By: warshawlaw

My only regret from the three I've been to is not having enough money at the time to go for some of the bargains I saw. The best part of the National is the bargains. In 2000 at Anaheim there was a table in the back run anonymously by Superior where they were disposing of their rejects from acquisitions. Really blowing out great stuff. They had the entire end of the row and hundreds of boxes of cards marked at like 20% of retail, and they were bargaining down from there if you bought in bulk. Some of you probably remember it--you had to engage in a scrum to get through to the table. I was pulling out $80 cards and paying like $10 for them. Unfortunately, I did not have anywhere near the cash I could have used to really buy hard. Some dealers were spending thousands in cash on boxes of stuff culled from the piles. To give you some examples, I bought a nm-mt 1969 Gordie Howe card (a $50 card) ticketed at $15 and bought for $10, a couple of nice ex Obaks for $10 each, a Koufax Exhibit card for $4, etc. I was at the show all days and spent probably 80% of my time there at that one table.