We're Going to the Show Just Collect is always looking to purchase more vintage cards and collections for inventory to offer to our large and growing customer base of more than 40,000 clients. Attending card shows and conventions allows us to view a lot of material that other collectors and dealers are looking to sell affords us the opportunity to purchase more cards to eventually offer to our customers. Many people think that baseball card dealers set up at shows with the sole purpose of selling cards to
Where Do you Get Your Collections? Regular readers of our blog know that we've discussed this question many times, but we still get asked over and over again about where and how do we find so many great collections. Just like the old joke about a visitor on the streets of New York City asking a stranger, "How do you get to Carnegie Hall?" and the person that was asked responds "Practice!" We've practiced and practiced and our specialists are quite skilled
We Are Busy -- Buying, Buying, Buying! We are very diligent about making sure that we post stories about the collections that we buy and have been able to do so almost weekly. During the calls and email that we get daily at our Somerset, NJ office, one question is, "How do you find so many collections to write about?" The answer is really pretty simple. We advertise a lot and we answer every inquiry. And if that were the only answer,
"I've Got it All" It isn't every day that we get contacted about a collection that consists of every regular issue Topps card produced from 1951 to the present. Oh, don't get me wrong, we get contacted about some pretty incredible collections, but usually they are pretty centralized or specific to a tighter range of collecting. But when we hear someone say that they've got a run of all of the Topps sets, it usually tends to
What Makes a Collection What actually constitutes a collection? Does a collection start with the very first card? Or is it a collection once you've added a second card. Whether it is merely one card or hundreds of thousands of cards, a collection is a collection. There really isn't a definitive answer aside from . . . to each their own. Similarly, we're asked what sort of collections we are looking to purchase. How big do they have to be? Is there