Posted By:
bruce DorskindA final comment.
Any show, regardless of venue, would have to be able to draw a certain number
of dealers to be a worthwhile economic investment.
In turn, said dealers would like to see a certain number of collectors.
The suggestion was the following
1. Charity Dinner-- the attraction would be baseball..,perhaps at the Museum
of the City of New York (where six great collections will be featured- this
could be a charity event which would benefit cancer or kids from abused
families (Joe Torre's charity) and the Museum. $250 is inexpensive
for a charity eventin NYC. A number of Board Members raised the black tie
question- we did not.
2. Eliminating cabbage patch dolls, lots of common local 90's stuff is a long
way from excluding what someone called the backbone of the hobby. Whilst
we may collect PSA 7 and PSA 8 where possible, we certainly can't expect
to limit tables to dealers who only sell rare E cards in PSA 6, 7 or 8.
Even the Reading show had relatively few tables of 1990's and 2000's stuff
and almost no toys and dolls- compare that to Westchester, NY for example.
3. Auction- if you want to attract collectors and investors from outside the
group of usual suspects, it is imperative that one market very interesting
material- in this case- rare cards or items with a special significance to the
history of baseball and/or the history of New York would appear to make sense
It is amazing that someone reads a thread, then creates his/her own
interpretation and everyone responds to comments (i.e. black tie event) that
were never made in the original post.
By no means do we limit this over reaction to our posts...nearly every thread
fosters an over reaction because someone states that the original post
contained a certain controversial or politically incorrect thought and then
a whole cadre of people react to words that were never written.
Thank you for your interest and for listening.
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