You might have missed a bit of my point about the sales viability of prewar versus postwar. I don't want to/cannot (because there are no shows left ibn SoCal) set up and sit around a mall show all weekend trying to sell cards. If I need to liquidate I need to be able to move, not work a fulltime retail job. I know from past experience that I can literally pick up the phone and arrange large sales at very strong prices for rare prewar cards. I could not do the same for my postwar higher grade stuff unless I was willing to take a wholesale price from a dealer. If the goal is to maximize returns, taking a dealer wholesale offer when you sell or being forced to incur the costs of sitting shows is not the way to do it.
Another issue as far as rthe hypothesis about selling at shows, the point contradicts the premise of much of the thread--if Ebay is an abbatoir for sellers of these cards, why would show attendees pony up substantially more for the same cards that they can get on Ebay? I saw lots and lots of high grade postwar sitting in showcases at empty tables at the National. Didn't look like a great investment to me for the sellers.
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