What’s your thoughts on the Xenia show? I’ve heard good feedback about. I’m considering making the two hour trip on the 14th. Enjoy your videos keep up the good work
I'm not sure. Personally, I like the designs and the lack of logos is not very distracting. Don't know if that is the sentiment others have towards it.
So, the show we setup at 2 weeks ago, before we got setup on day 1, within 20 minutes of vendor setup starting. Boston breaks and dynamic breaks were walking around offering 120% of the highest comp for downtowns, kaboom and Prizm CJ Stroud color psa 10's. They were offering 110% for almost any football case hit from the last couple years and 100% for any notable football player. I literally couldn't get setup bc so many of these "buyers" were coming by. A half dozen dug through my pelican cases and pulled out stacks to be set aside. I say all this, to point out that the days of below comp sales on notable players,cards and case hits are OVER! If you want the prices to go down, then stop buying into breaks. I sold my over 20 of my best cards an hour before the show opened! All went for OVER comps.i also never took under 90% of comps all show long and you know what, all the lowball cards that were offered on, ended up selling. I think the market is at a place where close to comps is where the customer is going to buy at.
Great comment, I'd venture to say that reason those breakers paid that strong is because they need the cards more than you did. If they want people to join their breaks with repacks, those repacks better have some cool cards. Otherwise, there are dozens of other breaks to join with better cards to hit. I had a guy come up to me at the Spooky Nook show two days before this one asking if I was willing to "sell at a bulk discount" of 80-82%. I'm not willing to, nor do I need to do that. Sometimes I feel like the repackers don't understand that I don't have to have a fire sale on my cards every week, that's coming from someone who relies on the cards for their income. Most dealers are not in my shoes, they could earn $0 from the hobby and still be okay. We have certainly reached a point where the good stuff is going to fetch a premium until something changes.
@JBCards-nn9zi I had hundreds of people try to show me a low comp and offer me lower or try to buy a thousand dollar stack for $800. I turned every single one down . Amd at the end of the weekend, all my best stuff was gone! Over half my 3 cases worth of inventory. Now I'm not saying I didn't make some deals with old stuff or things that don't get a lot of looks, but all my football and in-demand cards I held out and it worked. Best margin yet at 38% for the show after all my expenses. And it's bc I didn't take a single low offer.
@@averagejoe7638 Good for you for holding your own on the lowball deals. I had a guy rack up $950 in cards, and he wanted to know what I’d do for him. I told him let’s just call it $900 even. He looked at me and said I gotta be at $750 for this to even work for me. When I told him I couldn’t even come close he said good luck selling cards and walked shaking his head. I sold everything he wanted by end of show at sticker or close to. The trend is shifting.
Man I don't know if I could ever stay sane If I was on the dealers side. Dealers pay for tables, take time, and effort to set up. Then guys come to your table to sell and expect 100% on comps. I understand you guys have to make money when I come to dealer tables to sell, so have to have some room or the math doesn't make sense. Props to you for always being paitent and respectful to everyone.
Thank you, it certainly wouldn't do me any favors to be rude to anyone, I try to keep it at "thanks but no thanks" and go on about my business. Buying is much more difficult now than it was even a couple of years ago.
Next to baseball, they are my favorite sport to sell. I have never really been beaten down on prices for my wrestling cards like what happens on the football stuff.
I gotta laugh when you told the guy it sells for $40 you offered $30 which is fair and then he ask can you pay $40 😂. Then he says “I’ve had the card forever”. You just can’t make this stuff up. I don’t understand why guys turn down fair offers and expect comps when they are on the other side of the table.
Same psychology block as some dealers who won’t sell at 100% of high end of comps because they’re in it for too much. Like I don’t understand the viewpoint that they’ll trade out of the card at a loss but won’t accept cash at a loss. Objectively the same value in cash is always better than the same value in trade, but somehow based on a past mistake they’ll intentionally make a present one
That is a big challenge of being a dealer in 2024. There are some guys locally who always come up looking to sell who have the same cards over and over. It's at the point where I don't bother looking anymore.
This is his entire channel pretty much. Many people enjoy it like myself because we like to learn and mend to our mistakes. If you want more cards and less talking I recommend you watching someone like CardCollector2 or Trike145.
You mentioned that there were value boxes at trade night... is that common at Trade Nights for shows? I am a value box guy and I have stayed away from Trade nights because it seemed like it was all showcase stuff. Thanks for the videos, learning a lot.
Yes to a degree but depends what it is. I dont think it would ever be worth going to one with a value box and thats it. I would take some of the more expensive cards out, price them and then bring the value box if anything. If its a bunch of 5-10 dollar cards it rough to make deals at these.
Yes and no. Some dealers had their value boxes out since they were more or less set up for the show the next day already. There are a lot of people who walk around with a bunch of lower end cards. Sometimes seeing all of the Zion cases can be deceiving because having a case like doesn't always equate to high end cards being in there. If you want $5-$10 cards, there will be people to trade with at almost every trade night. If you're looking more for quarter or dollar boxes, that might be a little more challenging. Hope that helps.
That was a good format to summarize several shows in one video, very insightful. Nice job on that margin, sounds pretty good to me for the amount of cards you deal.
Ran into a guy at a show like that recently. Had a sign up that he was looking for Bryce Harper rookies. I have a ton. Took in a really nice one. PSA 10. Comps around $500-$550. I told him $500 was all I needed. He said that was fine. I selected a raw card that comps for $320 in PSA 9, and a card that comps at $160 at the highest and told him that was fine. Didn't want to be greedy. He literally turned to me and told me, "I can tell (the raw card) is a 10. You think I'm dumb?" --- I just picked up my card and told him to have a nice day.
