Chicago 2025 National Announcement: Providing 75 tables for first-time dealers

[Exhibitman]

Finally! I have been grousing and writing about the need to expand the show into other rooms at Rosemont to accommodate the expansion of the hobby, and this is a good first step.

I'd still prefer to see them move services like grading and nonsense like breaks, vlogging areas, and so on, to the ancillary rooms and put the additional dealers into those areas of the main floor instead.

[IndyDave]

I will be curious to see the vintage / modern breakdown of these new dealers.

I suspect there will be a lot of modern in that 75.

Also curious how this impacts the staging queue for admission.

[bcbgcbrcb]

Agree with Adam. I guess these 75 will come off the already existing waiting list with no one making special application now after hearing the news. I assume that there are already more than 75 dealers with applications on file?

[parkplace33]

Originally Posted by bcbgcbrcb

Agree with Adam. I guess these 75 will come off the already existing waiting list with no one making special application now after hearing the news. I assume that there are already more than 75 dealers with applications on file?

Oh, I imagine that list is in the hundreds.

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by parkplace33

Oh, I imagine that list is in the hundreds.

It took me years to get off the waiting list so I would tend to agree.

[4815162342]

Originally Posted by Aquarian Sports Cards

It took me years to get off the waiting list so I would tend to agree.

How do these relatively new YouTube dealers get these large (and sometimes multiple) booths?

[Exhibitman]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

How do these relatively new YouTube dealers get these large (and sometimes multiple) booths?

Blackmail?

[Aquarian Sports Cards]

Originally Posted by 4815162342

How do these relatively new YouTube dealers get these large (and sometimes multiple) booths?

A lot of them are in the Whatnot Pavilion which is basically a subletting model that Whatnot controls.

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by Exhibitman

Finally! I have been grousing and writing about the need to expand the show into other rooms at Rosemont to accommodate the expansion of the hobby, and this is a good first step.

I'd still prefer to see them move services like grading and nonsense like breaks, vlogging areas, and so on, to the ancillary rooms and put the additional dealers into those areas of the main floor instead.

Working for a corporate I can assure you that would not be a popular move for those people who are paying significantly more than the vendors. We learned that first hand at the 2023 Burbank Show. Rob and his team learned that and fixed that for the 2024 show to their credit.

However, the breakers, the vloggers (media type), the stage where people do live web casts and people whose monetary rewards are not dependent on show traffic, yes those people can be in a different area. And so can the autograph area move as well if needed

Rich

[Leon]

Seventy Five new dealers is a great start.
I think they said there were over 200 people on the waiting list, when they spoke at the Net54baseball dinner a few years ago.
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