Gas prices and buying cards

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by steve B

On a more card related note.


What I think might happen going forward slowly at first is the shipping costs will make brick and mortar hobby shops come back.
But not as traditional single hobby places.

More like what some were in the early 80's.
My town had a full time card store, but also had a fabric store with an added antique shop that began carrying cards.
And a couple places that carried a few.

Now, there's a place in the next town over that is an ice cream stand that has converted a section of indoor seating/ordering into a card shop. And not a fancy one, but a more old fashioned place that has boxes of commons to go through along with some slightly better stuff in that $5-50 range. Exactly the stuff that isn't really practical to buy on Ebay when shipping could get much higher soon.

So I can combine trips, take the kids for ice cream, and get some cards while we're there.

That's the sort of thing I think is going to become far more common.

Like a Pizza Hut and Wingstop sharing a space. If they make us share space with comic book people, though, there will be blood.

[Cliff Bowman]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Like a Pizza Hut and Wingstop sharing a space. If they make us share space with comic book people, though, there will be blood.

Speaking of comic book people, comic book prices have gone insane, I have no doubt my vintage comic collection is worth way more than my baseball card and baseball memorabilia collection which I have spent more on.

[Snowman]

No. Next question?