East Coast National - this weekend

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Snapolit1

Unfortunately not a great place to buy anything really nice.

Sorry to hear nothing has changed in the over 16 years since I've worked this show. I worked so many shows there and never once found anything to buy (seeking autographs only, however). Colleagues and I always dreaded having to work any event held at this location.

[packs]

I keep going but I haven't bought something at a Westchester show in probably 15 years. I've also seen the same case sitting in front of the same guy pretty much every one of those years. It hasn't yet dawned on some people that their prices are the reason they haven't sold anything in a decade.

But they keep coming too.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Nor has it dawned on the customers to stay home. You couldn't get me to that show at gunpoint.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by BillyCoxDodgers3B

Sorry to hear nothing has changed in the over 16 years since I've worked this show. I worked so many shows there and never once found anything to buy (seeking autographs only, however). Colleagues and I always dreaded having to work any event held at this location.

I'm confused as to why you could never buy ANYTHING at this location. Was it the prices being high in your opinion so you couldn't make an easy flip? Is your want list so advanced that you need the major auction houses to come up with items for you? Or is there some other reason? Hard to believe you could never buy ANYTHING there

Rich

[packs]

I don't have a problem finding things I would buy at these shows. My problem pops up when it comes time to pay a reasonable price for them.

I don't think the problem is limited to one or two posters either. The problem seems to be universal and unending as I happen to see the same cards in the same cases in front of the same dealers for all of time.

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by packs

I don't have a problem finding things I would buy at these shows. My problem pops up when it comes time to pay a reasonable price for them.

I don't think the problem is limited to one or two posters either. The problem seems to be universal and unending as I happen to see the same cards in the same cases in front of the same dealers for all of time.

Same mentality you see every day on ebay.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

Originally Posted by Rich Klein

I'm confused as to why you could never buy ANYTHING at this location. Was it the prices being high in your opinion so you couldn't make an easy flip? Is your want list so advanced that you need the major auction houses to come up with items for you? Or is there some other reason? Hard to believe you could never buy ANYTHING there

Rich

It's a combination of everything you mentioned, but especially what Packs mentioned regarding the same dealers with the same merchandise, year after year. Same with the big National.

[packs]

It really gets to be absurd when you see a guy who priced their card at $2,000 four or five years ago, failed to sell it in that time, and now has a nice new $4,500 sticker on it instead.