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Posted By: RIch Klein

It has to do with 2 factors:

1) New wax sales, which is one of the very few things in the business that the amount of $$$ spent on said product can be reasonably accurately gauged.

2) The shows/shops and how many people came to them. I promise you the only time I ever feared for my life in a show was at Trade Show Night of the 1991 National. I ducked into the cafateria (sic) with a couple of dealers from Arkansas and none of us left for several hours until it calmed down.

However, I would assume with all the big $$$ being spent on all the catalog auctions; I bet there is as much if not more $$ being spent today as in 1991; it's just spent a lot differently as everyone realizes that having 800 1990 Topps Ben McDonald cards is probably not the way to save for your child's college fund.

Regards
Rich