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04-03-2013, 07:48 PM
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A few random thoughts
One -- my local card store *Triple Cards in Plano* has a Wednesday trade night. Usually his regulars just trade amongst themselves and they usually end up buying extra boxes or supplies or whatever. For the owner, that type of trade night works but unfortunately he has never figured out a way to increase that for more collectors.
The local show I set up at is really too small for a trade area. Some of the bigger shows back in the day used to set up trade areas and the sounds of silence from those areas tended to be deafening. Usually the real action involved buying and selling and involved the dealers. I never really liked to trade as a dealer, I preferred back in the day to buy cards and then if you wanted to buy something from me you had money to do so and if not, you had money to buy from other dealers. Just easier that way for me. Rich 
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04-04-2013, 06:49 AM
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IMO trading, by definition would of course reduce sales.
BUT jike josh said, having a "trading day" maybe once a week or once a month, would likely increace the traffic into the store, which inturn could get you more regular loyal clients comming back over and over, and therefore more sales. So, i could help if its done on a limmited basis.
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