The Show at The Oaks in Philly- a Disaster!

[travrosty]

I have seen that too, stratospheric prices on cards, don't know if they ever really want to sell any of them. If the card is nice, i expect it to be listed high, a little over high retail. but some dont even put a price on their cards, they want you to ask about it, thats a clue to me that the price must be sky high.

I went to the national in '91 and tried to buy a few 80-81 topps basketball panel commons and semi-stars, (i know, not exactly vintage stuff,)

but anyway, common cards which would normally sell for 50 cents had 7 or 8or 9 dollar price tags and the semi stars which would normally be a dollar or two had 25 or 30 or 40 dollar price tags. WTH?

I picked out about a dozen of them, thinking that the pricing had to be a mistake and those amounts must mean cents, not dollars, he added them all up and said two fifty. I gave him a 5 dollar bill, and then he looked at me and said "that's two hundred and fifty dollars"

I put them down, said no thanks, and moved on.