Good shows/shops in Las Vegas area?

[the 'stache]

Brad, the BST is a great place to start if you're looking to expand your collection. Just be sure to exercise due diligence. It only takes a few minutes to look at a member's history, and it's worth your time.

If somebody's been a member of Net 54 for a while, and they've done prior transactions on the BST, you should feel confident in proceeding. The members of the forum do a pretty good job of policing that section, and if somebody's caused trouble (ie not followed through on their end of a transaction), their privileges will be revoked. If it's a newer member, I'd check their history to see if they've done any transactions here, and how those went. I'd also look at their EBay id if they've made that known. If I can't find the answers I need, I either won't enter into a transaction, or if I do, it will be a small transaction where not a lot of money is being exchanged.

I've followed these rough guidelines, and have never had an issue. If you look at my signature, I've done several transactions, and all of them have been great.

If you're looking for dealers, the 'dealer sites' portion of the vintage links is a good place to start:

http://www.net54baseball.com/forum/c...tagelinks.html

Also, Old Cardboard has a list of vintage dealers. There are a lot of dependable sellers on that list.

http://oldcardboard.com/ref/ebay-sel...ay-sellers.asp

I've been to Vegas many times, but I'm not aware of any vintage dealers in the area.

Hope this helps!

Bill

[marvymelvin]

How do I check a net54 members history?

[the 'stache]

Click on their user name, and view their public profile. Then, go to the statistics tab, then click the links for 'find all posts by', or 'find all threads started by'. That's useful to see if they've been active on the BST.

[the 'stache]

Another thing you can do, Brad, is do an advanced search.

Go to search, select advanced search. Then, under search by user name, start typing their name in. That user name will show in a field with other users. Click the specific name of the user you want. Underneath that you can select to find posts by that user, or threads that user has started. Then, go down to 'search in forum', and click the Net54baseball buy/sell/trade, and make sure also search in child forums is checked. That will show all the posts made by that user, or the threads started by that user, on the BST. I believe that defaults to the last year. If not, you can change the date parameter on the left side under 'find posts from'.

You can also specify to search one of the sub forums only, like the T206 BST, for example. Instead of highlighting the Net 54 NST, you can click the T206 BST, and it will look only in that specific board.