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ASTROBURN
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After not being to a card show in over a decade, I had high hopes for the one held at the Cow Palace this weekend. Tables upon Tables of cards filled my mind as I dreamed of going from quarter box to quarter box, looking for anything I could add to my PC. And since this was being put on by TriStar, and held at the Cow Palace of all places, I assumed it would live up to my expectations.
Boy was I wrong.
Now I am a special collector, specializing in one player. That already hurts my chances of finding stuff for my PC. Second, my player was a Star in the 90's to early 2000s. Almost a decade has passed where he was relevant. But still, after hearing stories of hits from other members card show finds I thought I would be able to add to the legendary tales of the card show.
Nope. Nada. Nuthin.
I would have to guess that there were close to 40 venders. About 10 of them specialized in vintage. Another 10 or so was just memorabilia. Around 5 were football only. So this leaves me around 15 tables of actual baseball cards to dig thru. Which leads me to my biggest peeve of the day:
If you are going to have dollar boxes, or quarter boxes, where the customer has to dig thru cards, why is it that hard to seperate them by sport???
Sure, dollar boxes are great, 3 and 5 dollar as well. But nothing frustrated me more than looking for my player in a box with other players that arent even in the same sport. I shouldnt have to sort thru football or basketball cards to find baseball cards. I'd say that only 2 or 3 tables actually had them seperated by sport. Otherwise it was just a bunch of flats, all mixed together. Simply absurd.
Back in the day, I could go to a card show and each and every table was clearly divided by sport. And believe it or not, back then vendors would actually have them already sorted by player! Only one table at the entire show actually had rows of cards seperated by player. It was a treat to find this vendor, and a privilage to go thru his nicely divided cards. Granted, he didnt have any of my player, but he did have some for my best friend's PC and that was cool enough for me to give him thumbs up.
Nevermind that it cost ten bucks to park. Nevermind that it cost 12 to get in. The fact that I left with just these items at a Big Card Show event in the year 2013 makes me realize that people are right in saying that the internet has killed the brick and mortar sports card market. I would much rather spend a few hours on ebay or comc than go to any other card show if they are all going to be like this from here on out.
I'm sorry about the rant. Am I the only one that walks away basically empty handed from a card show these days?
Ok, not totally empty handed. Wasnt expecting to find the latest Chris Jericho figure there, but I did need some pages and I did get two cards. One for BiggioBrooks, and the other for me. Which was a waste since it turned out that I already had it. :/
Boy was I wrong.
Now I am a special collector, specializing in one player. That already hurts my chances of finding stuff for my PC. Second, my player was a Star in the 90's to early 2000s. Almost a decade has passed where he was relevant. But still, after hearing stories of hits from other members card show finds I thought I would be able to add to the legendary tales of the card show.
Nope. Nada. Nuthin.
I would have to guess that there were close to 40 venders. About 10 of them specialized in vintage. Another 10 or so was just memorabilia. Around 5 were football only. So this leaves me around 15 tables of actual baseball cards to dig thru. Which leads me to my biggest peeve of the day:
If you are going to have dollar boxes, or quarter boxes, where the customer has to dig thru cards, why is it that hard to seperate them by sport???
Sure, dollar boxes are great, 3 and 5 dollar as well. But nothing frustrated me more than looking for my player in a box with other players that arent even in the same sport. I shouldnt have to sort thru football or basketball cards to find baseball cards. I'd say that only 2 or 3 tables actually had them seperated by sport. Otherwise it was just a bunch of flats, all mixed together. Simply absurd.
Back in the day, I could go to a card show and each and every table was clearly divided by sport. And believe it or not, back then vendors would actually have them already sorted by player! Only one table at the entire show actually had rows of cards seperated by player. It was a treat to find this vendor, and a privilage to go thru his nicely divided cards. Granted, he didnt have any of my player, but he did have some for my best friend's PC and that was cool enough for me to give him thumbs up.
Nevermind that it cost ten bucks to park. Nevermind that it cost 12 to get in. The fact that I left with just these items at a Big Card Show event in the year 2013 makes me realize that people are right in saying that the internet has killed the brick and mortar sports card market. I would much rather spend a few hours on ebay or comc than go to any other card show if they are all going to be like this from here on out.
I'm sorry about the rant. Am I the only one that walks away basically empty handed from a card show these days?
Ok, not totally empty handed. Wasnt expecting to find the latest Chris Jericho figure there, but I did need some pages and I did get two cards. One for BiggioBrooks, and the other for me. Which was a waste since it turned out that I already had it. :/
