2017 Ohio Sports Collector Show April 21-23, 2017

[kailes2872]

I find myself having a love/hate relationship with shows.

I want to talk to dealers and fellow collectors. I want to see and hold the cards before I buy them. I am sometimes willing to pay a small premium to drive home with it that day.

I guess what I don't quite understand is the overhead associated with shows. If we assume 13% overhead for Ebay (I know that some have better deals for high volume), is the overhead for the shows twice as much? 3 times as much?

When I buy a card as an auction on Ebay, am I assuming that I am buying wholesale? or is the $.99 auction price retail?

With the exception of buying a complete set at a show (and overpaying versus an AH or Ebay), I find myself only upgrading commons. For this, it makes more sense to buy 20-30 cards and save shipping from multiple dealers.

For everything else, I just can't pay a 30% premium and if it ever came time to liquidate, get 70% at best of VCP...

[RedsFan1941]

Excellent show and well worth my drive. Large assortment of vintage (I saw hardly any shiney stuff or manufactured collectibles) and though some dealers prices were shall we say unrealistic, the majority were there to sell stuff.

[sterlingfox]

I went on Friday, but still had to look good and hard to find stuff that wasn't super inflated in price. Most dealers there wanted 200%+ of VCP. When I offered a few of them avg VCP, they said they'd rather just keep it (which I'm fairly sure they did, unless they found a sucker).

Having said that, I still found some decent deals. Nothing insanely good, but I didn't pay above VCP for any of it. If I do go back, I'd only go on the first day again.

Also, I was not happy that it took SGC a full 5 hours to re-slab 2 cards with wrong labels and review 1 card when they initially quoted me 2 to 3 hours...the review/bump failed as a final insult

[Tony Gordon]

First time at the show. I thought it was awesome. Large crowds all weekend long. Tremendous inventory in the room. I bought a lot of stuff and found sellers willing to deal. I will be back next year.