Trading with Dealers at Card Shows?

[wondo]

I likey

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by wondo

I likey

Mee too!

My latest column is up and it is on this subject

[ClementeFanOh]

Today I attended yet another local show and traded successfully with a dealer set up there. I acquired a 55 Topps Gil Hodges and a 55 Bowman Roy Campy in new PSA slabs, and a raw 57 Topps Nellie Fox. There was no money exchanged, both parties happy and values very even on both sides. For something SNapolitano claims is a “fantasy”, the trade seemed awfully real Trent King

[Snapolit1]

Adam - enjoyed your blog post on the subject. Fair and balanced as one bogus news outlet likes to claim. Yout point is the same one I made, albeit maybe not in the assholish fashion I did. Regardless of your motives in trading, its always an economic transaction for the dealer paying rent for his table. Very unlikely the dealer is trading with you because he personally wants the card for his collection. He wants to sell it. And sometimes it might make sense for the dealer to engage in a trade for a lesser value card for other reasons like you offer. But the dealer is not trading with you because the trading thing is giving him a warm fuzzy feeling about those days of yore when he and his buddies met in his grandmothers basement in 1976 and traded cards. He's making a business decision. Economics 101.

[ClementeFanOh]

Snapolitano- It's not gonna be that easy, partner. It's also "Econ 101" for
the other party, and the "warm and fuzzy" comment is a non-starter. You're
reach exceeded your grasp on this one, you whiffed. Ignore me if you wish,
you are wrong here.

Trent King