Ungraded vintage at shows?

[jayshum]

I guess I am lucky and spoiled to only live about an hour from the Philly Show which makes me used to seeing a large amount of raw vintage cards at a show. I didn't realize that other large shows didn't have the same amount of raw cards available.

[Chris-Counts]

While shows in California are few and far between, there's always some ungraded vintage around, especially if Mark McRae is set up at the show.

[G1911]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

While shows in California are few and far between, there's always some ungraded vintage around, especially if Mark McRae is set up at the show.

And a mountain of 1975 Topps Mini's

[Baseballcrazy62]

Strongsville show is almost all vintage. One of the best shows in the Midwest.

[rjackson44]

i see tons of it ?

[BobC]

Originally Posted by Baseballcrazy62

Strongsville show is almost all vintage. One of the best shows in the Midwest.

And been around as the longest running continuous vintage and memorabilia show in the country, ever! It has actually been around longer than the National, by a couple of years. Hopefully, following Paul Fusco's passing a few years ago, and the brunt of the pandemic for a couple of years after that, the new promoter of the show will continue with the emphasis on vintage and not have the show start switching over to the modern side.

Now if they could only bring back the days at the Strongsville show when they also used to have a live, cash only, auction every Saturday evening after the show closed for the day, that would be stupendous. And the best part was they held those auctions around the indoor pool of the motel/hotel. You could sit around the pool, bid, hob nob, and get drinks from the bar all at the same time. Now that was an auction!!!

[rugbymarine]

Originally Posted by jayshum

I guess I am lucky and spoiled to only live about an hour from the Philly Show which makes me used to seeing a large amount of raw vintage cards at a show. I didn't realize that other large shows didn't have the same amount of raw cards available.

I have the same thoughts reading threads like this. Valley Forge is 20 minutes from work for me, so I just leave work a little early and head down on Friday evening. No expensive lodging. Not a long drive. Just lots and lots of vintage cards.

[JollyElm]

Couldn't go to the recent show Mark Macrae was a part of, but the shows I go to out here still have a ton of ungraded material. Made some great purchases of nice cards (Yeah, right! They'll all come back in low grade when I inevitably send them off to be graded.) a few months ago when the seller (who has always been very Dean's-esque in pricing) still had the old price tags on his cards from before the pandemic, so they were decent bargains, and I acted quickly. He told me this was his first show in a couple of years.

That was good, but overall, the people who sell the ungraded stuff have them priced in the stratosphere. Basically what you would pay for a high grade version of the same card sitting in a NM or better PSA slab, even though it's only a mid-grade card. Very depressing.