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Originally Posted by Brent G.
Dave, was it the overproduction and the resulting change in the economics what made you get out?
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I'm sure it had something to do with it, but it was mostly me being a teenager and turning into an adult at the time, with all of the responsibilities that came with that.
The local shows were also getting pretty stale and listless by that time. Working two jobs, taking college courses and juggling a girlfriend (future wife), didn't make me too excited about setting up at a show and struggling to make table fees on my days off.
I liked busting boxes of new stuff (and old stuff) and trying to make my money back, but also loved oddball older material that nobody else seemed to care about...and I never had any interest in being the "new card dealer", with stacks of expensive and often money losing unopened boxes on my table.
...and I don't think it was really the "overproduction" of the traditional sets that got to me. It was the constant introduction of new issues in all the major sports by all the various companies that eventually killed it for me.
I remember really liking OPC Premier (especially the Hockey) and Stadium Club when they first came out, and then within a year I began to dread when they were coming out again.
Mostly though, life got in the way, and my high school brained plan of making a living being a weekend warrior card show guy, was busted wide open for the bad idea that it was.