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jimetal7212
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 1:55 PM | |
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When the sky is coming down When you feel like you're going to drown When you know the end is all that you've been looking for When the pain is too much to bear When there's no one who will care
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RonEaston
Posts: 968
Joined: Nov 2019
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 7:10 PM | |
I imagine enjoying sifting through it one time and then never going back...
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I'm mostly organizing over adding right now.
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Bowersbird
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Joined: May 2020
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 8:03 PM | |
It would depend on the volume of cards and my mood. I don't frequent any card shops, but I do go to record stores, and flipping through some dollar bins is a good time in my book. So, I'm perfectly willing to do a bit of digging to either stumble upon something already on my wantlist and/or end up leaving with something I never saw before. If the store's inventory wasn't huge and everything I found was a flat price, I'd probably stop in now and then to pick up some cards. But if there's an overwhelming number of boxes to look through, no good place to sit/comfortably stand when I'm looking, or I have to haggle over prices, then yeah, it would probably be a once-and-never-again kind of place.
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althib
Posts: 995
Joined: Jul 2019
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 8:26 PM | |
You described my LCS. Tons of stuff is sitting there, because he doesn't have enough space in the backstore to go and move boxes, plus he shown me videos from offsite storage. A few years ago I offered my help when he moved in this new location, but he has passed on my offer. He always says that he will organize it when he will get some spare time, but actually it is almost like playing a Tetris game with just a few empty lines left. At least, he doesn't get rid of his inventory after two or three seasons as many stores seems to do now. The new stuff and pre-overproduction era cards are in the front area, but it is now always easy to find it back too. On the other hand, I agree that's hard to get free space when one's getting 12-15 monster boxes of new cards each season.
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SET BUILDER: Baseball ◉ Hockey ◉ Misc. Sports ◉ Non-Sport & Oddballs PC: Felipe Alou ◉ Derek Aucoin ◉ Steve Begin ◉ Jennifer Botterill ◉ Kevin Dineen ◉ Laurent D.-T. ◉ Bob Kudelski ◉ Manon Rheaume ◉ P.J. Stock
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pianojazzman
Posts: 186
Joined: Sep 2020
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 9:45 PM | |
I'd walk right out of the store... I'm too anxious to withstand chaos, same reason I don't do Black Friday or anything like that, you could give the stuff away for free and I wouldn't go.
God bless online shopping!
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If your response to "Opening Day" is "for what?"... We cannot be friends.
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TheToddFather21
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Joined: Oct 2016
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:15 PM | |
I have one like this locally as well. There are many 5000 count boxes all sorted by team. Nothing is priced. So I pick out a stack of what I want and sometimes I get a good deal, sometimes I don't. If things were organized more, I could find what I am looking for easier. If things were organized by price say 0.10, 0.25, 0.50, 1.00, I would buy more because there are cards that I would buy for a quarter and not 1.00. Probably my biggest pet peeve is things without prices. I get it that this particular dealer is probably more focused on the higher end and unopened stuff because that is what seems to drive the market now adays. But IMO these high end breakers that pull their autos, 1/1s and are not interested in base cards and then put all their base cards into a box and won't sell them, or won't give a fair price to people who are actually interested in them, or make it impossible to search through them are killing the hobby for me.
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jimetal7212
Posts: 4,385
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| Sunday, May 14, 2023 10:41 PM | |
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When the sky is coming down When you feel like you're going to drown When you know the end is all that you've been looking for When the pain is too much to bear When there's no one who will care
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Retroboysaz
Posts: 147
Joined: Mar 2019
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| Wednesday, May 17, 2023 3:54 PM | |
I’m the same way!!! Chaos = “unknown treasure”….
unless the seller thinks everything is gold. Went to one Junk shop in Oklahoma that was pure chaos, but everything (antiques not cards) I pulled out to ask about he told me how valuable it was and threw out a price more than double market value….
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I'm not a hoarder, it's a "collection".... Joseph
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cardcollector65jw
Posts: 1,220
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| Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:39 PM | |
I would rather walk into a crazy lcs that has boxes everywhere than walk into my lcs that has a showcase with mostly slabs priced $500+ and two shoeboxes that are priced as marked. My lcs has made me not care about collecting because they never carry common cards, or any more common parallels, so as a set builder why would I go back? If they had a bunch of boxes that I could sit and look through for hours then that would be great.
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When life has you down buy a pack of cards and realize you overpaid.
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jimetal7212
Posts: 4,385
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| Tuesday, May 23, 2023 9:48 PM | |
I'm with you. A year ago I was visiting family and drove past a shop. Stopped in and that's all it was, slabbed BS and high-end boxes. Yeah, no thanks
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When the sky is coming down When you feel like you're going to drown When you know the end is all that you've been looking for When the pain is too much to bear When there's no one who will care
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