productive day at a card show

not for buying a single card. the hollywood park west coast show is running again, used to have decent stuff. even tik showed up 1 time a few years back. this time i went because sgc is setting up for the first time. submitted a few cards (fingers crossed). the CS rep bryan was very friendly and helpful...as is most of the sgc staff, they're very personable.

...and even got to shake hand with the great anthony (griffins) of LTS/N54/AIMOO/CU/etc/etc fame! that's a good (or great?) day.

I love the smell of a card show in the morning

Quan

I thought about going to the show but the last two were horrible. Most of the dealers were marking their cards up 20-30% of market value. I don't understand how these dealers are able to make a living when they are competing with the internet. Anyways, how was the card selection at the show? Anything cool? The last Hollywood Park Show I went to I was able to hold a T206 Eddie Plank.

Also, If you are ever in San Diego shoot me an email and we can meet up and talk cards!

Jeff

Hey Quan, last time you had a chance to meet with Anthony, you bailed.

E, I reminded him of that. He couldn't get away this time since I snuck up on him.
Nice cards Quan, but I think you should've put both of them in for grading, the 2nd one would've looked great in that black matte.

ha yea anthony did blindsided me when i was at the sgc table. even the sgc rep brian had nice things to say about anthony, it was impressive. the crossover was $100 per at that tier, so i felt it wasn't necessary since the cards are staying in my personal collection. sgc was nice enough to bump the other cards to the 1 day service too, so i did the 1.

jeff i went on friday afternoon and the dealers were lighter than the other times, maybe they haven't set up yet. same prewar vintage people, could've been less. i didn't really look too hard. seriously i was more interested in the '89 fleer update boxes and '89 donruss the rookies. i don't remember if griffey was in the fleer update set so i passed at picking one up for $3

What cards were you looking to cross? They must have been great cards because price of same day submission at the National was $35.

I know what you mean though.....seeing guys like Anthony and Elliot is always quite a treat.