My National experience

[john1170]

Not one person other than me and my wife looking at it. It was a pretty dead show if you ask me

[podstock]

John --- baseball cards and sports collecting are luxury items

when you have a down economy and a tanking stock market, people have to cut back somewhere.

if you were fired (and companies have been firing people left and right for the past 3 years; of course McDonalds is hiring you for minimum wage if you need a job badly), which do you do

spend money on food?
spend money on baseball cards?

[john1170]

Originally posted by podstock
John --- baseball cards and sports collecting are luxury items

when you have a down economy and a tanking stock market, people have to cut back somewhere.

if you were fired (and companies have been firing people left and right for the past 3 years; of course McDonalds is hiring you for minimum wage if you need a job badly), which do you do

spend money on food?
spend money on baseball cards?

Ok. Wasn't saying anything about the economy and why people weren't there. Just saying it was a dead show. It was just an observation I made while I was there.

[bootydaddy]

I happen to agree about the crowds. I was there Thurs, Fri, and Sat, and I would have thought Sat would have been much more crowded. Not the case at all. There were some nice deals to be had, but you had to really search for them, since some dealers were looking for pretty close to book prices on their cards. The dealing ones though made it worth while...

[BGray]

Thanks for the post John,

Sorry to hear the show was dead but I guess that made it easier on the people that were there.

You seem a lot like myself with your buys. I'm always a sucker for older wax. :)

Although I never bought one because I'm afraid of getting ripped, I've always wanted to grab a few 86-87 Fleer basketball packs.

:D

BGray

[john1170]

Originally posted by BGray
Thanks for the post John,

Sorry to hear the show was dead but I guess that made it easier on the people that were there.

You seem a lot like myself with your buys. I'm always a sucker for older wax. :)

Although I never bought one because I'm afraid of getting ripped, I've always wanted to grab a few 86-87 Fleer basketball packs.

:D

BGray

Believe me I didn't mind the show being dead. It made for better buys and I don't like it being too crowded. I am also always skeptical about buying unopened older stuff and being ripped but in this case I bought it from The Baseball Card Kid Mark Murphy. Probably the most reputable guy out there with unopened stuff.

[Dark_Angel]

I went to the National on Thursday and it wasn't as crowded as I expected. I also noticed that a lot of dealers wanted close to BV for a lot of stuff, but then I found some pretty good deals.

For example:
02 Fleer Authentix Ripped Jersey Chipper Jones BV$15 for $3
03 Donruss Elite All-Time Career Best Chipper Jones 10/45 (his jersey #) $12
03 Donruss Studio baseball box $55 (from Dave and Adam's)

And the best part about going on Thrusday was that admission was free from 11-1, so I got in free.

[bootydaddy]

Although I never bought one because I'm afraid of getting ripped, I've always wanted to grab a few 86-87 Fleer basketball packs.

Me too, man! There was a guy at the show selling just the EMPTY wax box from that year for $145.00, with three empty wrappers in it! Don't know if he sold it though...I did see a box of 87-88 going for $695.00, and the guy said he would sell it for $625.00, but I didn't have the nerve...

[Texasguy]

I've never been to the national, does it move around from city to city each year? If so, is there a list somewhere that shows where they will be each year?

[bootydaddy]

Texasguy, I don't know of an official list, but I heard the National will be in Cleveland next year, and back in AC in 2006. It does move around each year to a new city...