OAKS Philly Show this weekend....FREE admission FRI & SUNDAY

[cfc1909]

just back from the show -lot of fun-nice meeting David Adkins and Adam G.

It was a nice hang out with the tables set up in a box Mckee had 4 tables set up McDaniel had 3 more and Luckey had 3 more all set up in a box with plenty of room in the middle for everyone to visit and hang out. I think Ken Cohen had a set up in there too.

Adam W. -Boxingcard-John McDaniel has a really cool picture for you to check out-an original poster of Frazier and Ali fight.

David-I really enjoyed checking out the Doc Adkins collection

[skelly]

I thought that the show itself was quite good. A nice mix of just about everything. If you wanted some high end older stuff it was there. If you needed commons from the 1970's for a quarter or so to complete sets that was also an option. I just can't get over how light the attendance seemed to me, and I was there for a huge chunk of time on Friday while my wife went to King of Prussia. I remember going to the Reading show about 4 years ago( I guess that's know as Ft. Washington ) and there was some juice to it. This show just seemed so dead, even a few dealers were walking around, didn't even really bother to man their tables. I hope I'm wrong, but I just can't see shows lasting other than the National. A few years ago I felt like there was still that core of people that would only buy in person, not on ebay, etc... Nowadays it seems like the only stuff that sells at shows is oddball material that is hard to find or commons out of the dime/quarter boxes. Thoughts? I'd be curious to hear a dealers point of view on this.

[ValKehl]

I drove up to Oaks and back yesterday from Virginia, stopping en route to pick up another collector in Maryland on the way - left home at 5:30 a.m. and got back home at 11:00 p.m. I keep thinking I'm getting to old to do this, but I guess I'm too addicted!

I greatly enjoyed chatting with Ken C., Leon L., John M., Dan M., Jim R., and Ted. Z. (hope I didn't forget anyone) and seeing all their fabulous cards at their tables. I made a comment to a guy walking the aisles wearing a VATECH Hokies sweatshirt (I'm an UVA Wahoo) - turned out he is Net54er Adam L., and we ended up doing a trade!

I agree with most of skelly's comments above re this show. There were numerous empty tables. I heard several comments about their being dealers who weren't there on Saturday because the promoter of a competing local show threatened to exclude them from his shows. I believe I learned in school way back when that monopolies are a no-no in our free enterprise system. Frankly and unfortunately, I think there are currently too many shows in the Philly area for them all to thrive in this day and age.
Val

[basesareempty]

I think the problem with this show was that the autograph lineup was not very strong and didn't have any top end signers to draw in the large crowd.

[danmckee]

Actually an autograph line up shouldn't matter, i want card collectors attending not autograph collectors. I think there is a market for the one on one face to face deal arena amongst vintage card collectors, I just don't have the answer.

Reading was an awesome show but was ruined when David Hunt took over.

I like David but he single handedly ruined the vintage card show in Philly.

Oaks show this weekend was the worst attended show I have ever seen. It was embarrassing. Luckily I did well with a few big sales but I think total attendance actually through the door was about 17 for the weekend.

Very sad to see a tradition fail.

It was great to see friends like: Val, Ken, Ted Z, Jim R. Wonka, Leon, Pete G., Bagger (Dave S.) Chandy, Phil S., Scruffy, Alberry Moore (thanks for the Washington Times trade), Mickey Foxwell, Larry Dean, Scott at SGC, Al Rosen, Dave Czuba, and many more!

[MooseWithFleas]

Had a good time, enjoyed the free admission . Sad to see nearly 50% of the dealers packed up by 1-2 o'clock on Sunday.

[danmckee]

1 or 2 O'Clock on Sunday?? I am surprised they stayed after Saturday. Imagine being there for 2 or 3 days and only seeing 12 customers walk by and only 4 of them stopping at your table, it was painful..

I only came back Sunday to see Leon who was in from out of town, otherwise I was DTFR on Saturday night.

it was a sad situation