The National in Cleveland 2009

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Posted By: boxingcardman

Convention bookings are way down. But why go somewhere with thousands of convenient hotels in all price ranges, magnificent convention facilities, a state of the art airport reached with cheap flights from virtually everywhere, and great food and activities for everyone? Nah...better to go to cities that are the butts of jokes, where the family visits once and then says "never again." I know a lot of dealers say LV is too expensive and there are too many distractions, but (1) that would not distract any real collectors from showing up at the convention floor and (2) it doesn't take into account how many collectors are dissuaded or precluded from going to the crappy venues where we hold the show now by family pressures to take a "real" vacation instead or who simply don't want to go to a second-rate venue in a third-rate locale. No offense to the third rate locale dwellers out there, but I know a lot of guys who are skipping Cleveland this time around because they are sick of bad venues, lodgings and food, relatively speaking.