Yup, it's Monday.
I haven't done one of these segments in a long time so figured hey, let's do this.
So, I just want you to grab a cup of your favorite warm beverage in your wife's mug, or your own,
then walk over and sit down in your most comfiest chair, take a breath, relax.
Yeah, I used Jessica's mug again.
Let's just talk in this NEW segment.
So, I recently went to a card show again, my second one in thirty years (I will certainly be posting on this) and noticed one trend......OVERPRICING!
It was really disappointing to walk into a card show and find $2 cards marked up to $20. There were lots of that and plenty of wax flippers especially for Pokemon. They were charging almost two times what they got them for.
I am all for letting sellers price what they want to sell them for, but do they actually sell anything? And what about the poor kids-sometimes literally-going to these shows trying to find their favorite Pokemon or favorite sports player and the prices are jacked way up? They most likely go home with nothing or way overpay for something a simple eBay search would have landed them the card cheaper for.
Now, I don't have a lot of money and went there with basically not much too spend and I found it really hard at each table to even spend anything. Though, in the end I did because well, I went to a card show. As I said earlier, I will go on more about this and show off my cards in another post.
For today, are you finding this same kind of thing at your local card shows? How do you think they can resolve this? How do you shop at these?
Let me know below and hope everyone has a Magnificent Monday.
*Coffee Card Blogger Out*
Well...like you I didn't have the funds to do it but I went anyway to the monthly show on Saturday at the mall picked up a couple singles at first $.40 thought i was done *impersonating of Steve Harvey * show me that you went home after spending only $.40 *buzzer sound & back to normal voice* nope found a table had some wantlists items spent $30 on a stack then the dealer convinced me to buy 2 3200ct boxes of the stuff I went through started 4 new sets from the stuff for $35 *back to Harvey voice* show me went home then *buzzer strike 2 & back to normal voice* I was starting to leave when I forgot to stop at Barnes n Noble for my May Beckett then I shouldn't had done being again not working since Subway let me go (I didn't feel like posting about it yet but stay tuned for it) bought 2 blasters of 26 Heritage pulled in 1 box a Cal Raleigh GU & a Deckle Edge of his record breaker hit card(Deckle Edge is ft anyone want lmk) as well a Brent Rooker on card Autograph total amount spent at B&N $75 i still need to pay a personal loan in 2 weeks a car load in 4 weeks another house payment in 5 weeks I wish I could find some place to work at night & get hours like I was getting at Dollar General & get paid reasonable everyweek so I can afford going to shows anyway my 7th coffee from Sunday is telling me I need to get to bed so I'm not cranky working at school job in the morning then filling out more applications afterwards hoping to get interviews sorry for my long read but kinda had to get it off my chest since a few friends I have are long distance card collecting people like me & a few only will talk to me over the phone sometimes well gotta run have to be up in 8 hrs for school night all
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