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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;baseball21, post: 5453064, member: 76863&quot;]They all have been especially more midsize ones.&nbsp; There&#039;s sort of a lot of issues at play.&nbsp; One of the issues that sort of gets ignore is there are just simply to many &quot;major&quot; shows that go on.&nbsp; You could basically go to at least two a month if you wanted to during winter, Baltimore and long beach would be back to back weeks etc.&nbsp; You could argue that different sides of the country so different customers and fair enough, but if a dealer does well at Baltimore (and there are Cali dealers that go there) a week isn&#039;t going to exactly be the best length of time for them to reload.</p><p><br /></p><p>More importantly though shows require at least some travel, sure FUN is no pun intended FUN as it&#039;s an excuse for a winter vacation down south but flying to Baltimore (barf lol) in the winter for the best show of the year not really one the wife/husband and kids would be thrilled with.&nbsp; You can either spend the money traveling or you can put the airfare/food/hotel/taxis etc money towards more coins with the internet.&nbsp; You&#039;re also missing out on less and less stuff as more and more stuff ends up online and many of the better/best collections get sold online first.&nbsp; A significant amount of stuff you see in show cases came from auctions and eBay.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Demographics in general was going to phase out most shows anyways.&nbsp; I don&#039;t mean from lack of future collectors, but future collectors grew up with the internet and use smart phones and everything and have much less aversion to buying things online.&nbsp; There is a place for shows and some will go one for a long long time, but the expensive shows will get cut down either by choice or by the market forcing them[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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