Burbank Card Show-Vintage dealers?

[Lorewalker]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

Where did you see a list?

IG

[DodgerMike22]

The Frank and Sons show used to be pretty decent. This was years ago. I went about a month ago and there was, if I remember correctly, only 2 tables with vintage (post-war) cards. The rest was modern cards and a mostly 70’s & 80’s toys, and Pokémon cards. Pretty disappointing from what it used to be.

[Exhibitman]

IG. Heh, us dinosaurs expect a dedicated web site.

As commons go, I am bringing a few thousand 1975-76-78-79-80 football commons. I got cleaned out of 77s at the show last year and haven't replenished.

Also, guys, a little perspective on the pre-show bitching, or, to quote my friend Vintageball (Robert Silverman): "your worst day at a card show is better than your best day at work."

[doug.goodman]

Perhaps this a a dumb question, but why is it called the Burbank Card Show?

Seems a bit like twitter.com being called "X formerly known as twitter".

Doug "If it actually was in Burbank I would go" Goodman

[doug.goodman]

Maybe, taking a cue from the Angels, it should be called "The Anaheim Card Show of Burbank".

Doug "just a thought" Goodman

[bcbgcbrcb]

My vintage is mostly from mid-late ‘60’s to ‘80’s, which ends up being older stuff than 80-90% of the tables down here. Back in 2021, I invested quite a bit of money in the modern card scene (basketball RPA’s, football RPA’s and baseball 1st Bowman Chrome Autos) to fit in with the masses and attract attention at my booth at the local card shows. If I told you how much of a blood bath it has been, and still is, I probably couldn’t emphasize the point enough. But far worse than that is the much greater losses on just about everything from the ‘70’s, 80’s, 90’s and early 2000’s, all HOF rookie cards from the 5 major sports. 1960’s and older not nearly immune either, just not as bad as everything that came after that.

[Exhibitman]

Burbank Sports Cards runs it. Started in Burbank at the convention center last summer with 200 tables and instantly got sold out and overrun.

Sounds horrible, Phil. I guess your buying price points were too high. Buying shiny crap at retail isn’t investing, it is riverboat gambling. If you want to make money off of that crap your entry point has to be next to nothing or you have to get in and get out fast. There is too much of that stuff to buy and hold.