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Jason LI tend to have an increased level of buyer's remorse at shows...it is far easier to buy things remotely. Unfortunately, the advent of Ebay has been killing off the "social" and "event" aspects of the hobby, while providing benefits such as access, liquidity, and more accurate pricing (generally).
And I would be willing to bet that is a part of why the dealers/sellers at shows mark up their items so high at shows - to avoid feeling seller's remorse and the fear of letting an item go in a much smaller subset of the market with far less perfect pricing information.
You combine the two and basically what you now have at a show are a group of people behind the tables who are reluctant to sell and a group of customers in front of the tables who are more reluctant to buy. Hence...the shows are dying. a shame.
Add to this the practice of dealers not having prices on their inventory, and I don't even want to START a conversation...because if you find a talbe with twenty things you like, what are you gonna do, stand there and quiz him about each item, hoping to remember them all>???!!! Stupid. Put out the prices as reference points and let's start going to town!
anyway, enough of the Friday ramble...