Poll: BUYERS preferred National Location

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Originally Posted by rand1com

+2. No chance of dealers voting to go to Vegas.

Chicago is by far the best venue for dealers.

I have done multiple Nationals in Cleveland, Chicago, Atlantic City, and Baltimore and Chicago is the best even though I am roughly an 11 hour drive from all of them.

I am 30 hours from Vegas. No way I am driving 10 hours a day for 3 days each way and no way I am shipping a cargo van of goods to Vegas either.

Then we can count you out. The thread is asking for buyer's preferences, not seller's.

From a Buyer's perspective I find it amusing that many East Coast guys grouse about having to travel. Many are willing to drop 5 or even 6 figures on sports cards and memorabilia once they get there but balk at having to lay out a few bucks for a plane ticket. A three or four hour drive is fine but not a flight of similar length. Let's face it, the point of this poll is essentially meaningless to many here unless the convention is held in their neighborhood.

I would have no objection to there being a second major convention out in the southern midwest or west if it can't be the National. Ideally for me it would be in the Spring rather than the dead of Summer. I've attended the National in Anaheim and it was fine. I am certain that there will be dealers that won't want to take the time or trouble to go west of the Mississippi. C'est la vie. I am also certain there will be plenty to buy and I would have a good experience. I suggested KC because it is a three hour flight from either coast. For many of us that is no more and probably less that what we already have come to expect. For those from the Illinois midwest to the Texas south it is even less. There are many collectors from those regions.