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Originally Posted by Jewish-collector
All shows, regardless of size, have changed since the Covid boom. There is less vintage cards (in all sports) and very little vintage memorabilia (in any sport) to speak of. Most of the dealers are selling the shiny stuff and recently a lot more Pokémon. Depending on your perspective, the shows are better, worse, or the same as pre-covid shows. The National may or may not have a little more vintage cards & memorabilia than the typical show.
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Also, when someone posts about admission, remember the costs to rent many places have also gone up considerably since 2020 and thus the promoter has to recoup the cost one way or the other.
And I can tell you there may be other factors as well, I have a little 20 table show for my synagogue and although as a member I don't have to pay rent as it's an official function, I still had to add $1 to the suggested donation to help offset the cost of our security. (yes a synagogue has different issues on that but, as we saw with several high $$ thefts at some big shows, you need to have extra help at everything nowadays)