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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;illini420, post: 698425, member: 19423&quot;]So yeah, I planned on being there around opening, but pulling out of my carport I immediately realized I had a flat.&nbsp; Lovely... Fortunately I was able to get out the compressor and air it up.&nbsp; Seemed to be holding air well enough to limp to Costco for a quick fix. Definitely buy your tires at Costco!!! Not only are they relatively cheap, but they are open on Sunday to fix issues like this!!!!&nbsp; :thumb:&nbsp; Not only that, they replaced the value stem for FREE :thumb::thumb:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyways, made it to the show around noon and met up with BNB.&nbsp; Also was able to meet acanthite.&nbsp; Always cool to meet up with forum members and put some faces to the names/avatars here :thumb:</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Overall, the show wasn&#039;t that great in my opinion, I&#039;d maybe give it a C-.&nbsp; It&#039;s a small show to begin with, which isn&#039;t bad in and of itself as sometimes there can be some great deals to be had at the Van Nuys show.&nbsp; However, the dealers there today just didn&#039;t seem motivated to buy, sell or trade.&nbsp; Everything offered to them in trade or to sell basically couldn&#039;t be sold to them because they would tell you that they could pay at most 10%-20% back of bid (even CAC coins in PCGS/NGC slabs) because they can only sell around bid these days given the current market.&nbsp; Of course, everything in those same dealers&#039; cases was priced well above even the ask prices and when asking about purchasing any of the coins they were of course unwilling to sell at the lower prices they are basing their lowball buy offers on.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>It became pretty clear to me that most of the dealers were pretty cash poor right now and were only buying coins that they could rip.&nbsp; Fair enough, but please don&#039;t basically lie to me when making offers for my coins.&nbsp; That sort of general attitude didn&#039;t really make me want to spend lots of money at the show either given that the dealers just didn&#039;t seem to want to deal.&nbsp; </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Of course, my analysis and grade for the show may have been slightly influenced by my 2-3 hour ordeal with my flat tire immediately before and the fact that I was missing the first half of the Bears game to be at the show <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; I&#039;m sure the Buena Park show next weekend will be much better![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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