Fanatics Buying Card Shows?

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Originally Posted by calvindog

Fanatics is a shallow, soulless, empty husk of a company. My office is ten mins from the Javits Center and I had zero interest in going. It just smelled of hucksterism and shiny modern stuff. As everything else they do does.

Well put. I could see the ghost of P.T. Barnum darting around from pillar to pillar.

Rich, I am a "legit" reviewer of the show; i was there on a press pass from SCDaily. I just did not happen to have the same opinion as some others. The 'Hobby' is multifaceted. There are many perspectives from which to view things. How much money was made overall is one metric. It is not one I focus on. From my perspective as a collector/dealer/writer of and about vintage cards and memorabilia, the show was a big, expensive nothing-burger. Had I been interested in ultra modern cards and 'experiences' like watching Tom Brady's security team shove its way through the crowd so He could buy a few cards on air from a lucky vendor, the show would have fulfilled my expectations.