I went to a card show in Atlanta... (I’m old)

[jimjim]

So I went to my first card show in close to 2 years yesterday in Atlanta. It is a 3 day show so I thought it would be worth dragging myself down there. Boy was I wrong! The show is big and the room was packaged. But it was 99% new and shiny slabbed modern cards. There were maybe 10 vendors with vintage but even those cases were mainly full of modern from the past few years. Not the usual crowd of dealers I have seen pre pandemic at the recurring small monthly show we have here in Atlanta. No autographs, tickets, ephemera. Minimal unopened. Lots of young dealers, so that is good. I saw about 3-4 people walking around professional filming themselves for I assume their YouTube page or Facebook. Lots of people wearing shirts with their catchphrase or ‘breaker name’ on it. One guy had a grab bag bin and I was about to buy one for my son until I realized the grab bag was for unopened packs and the price was $50! Lots and lots of graded cards. Almost no raw. I heard one dealer offering his services (for a fee) to a customer to inspect the customers cards prior to submitting to psa to make sure his cards were 9 and 10 worthy. I guess I am officially old, as I had absolutely no interest in any of this and left without buying a thing. Not sure if money was changing hands that much, as I saw lots of chatter and people showing off their ‘hits’ from the past year but not much cash being thrown around.