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G.A.tor

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  1. G.A.tor
    Given that cons are generally fri-sun and I have a small local cu, no bank runs
  2. G.A.tor
    Who is that handsome devil in the blue hat? the picture is blurry for a reason
  3. G.A.tor
    then to the store, where we load all the long boxes back to the sales floor and "eagerly" await the next show!!! thank you for taking a look... rick
  4. G.A.tor
    did I mention the rain...ugh...
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    so, after getting out of the con, and driving 6+ hours home, the next morning you are faced with the task of "unloading" from the con... and if you are really lucky, it will be raining!!!!
  7. G.A.tor
    You never know who you might see drive by you while loading out.
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    if you are lucky, and have had a good sales show, then you take home less than you brought!!! we are approx. 1 hr after con has ended , knowing we have a 6 hour drive in front of us!
  9. G.A.tor
    waiting for handtruck to return, so we can take another load...it is about 30 minutes after cons end..
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    tape the lids down (helps if you dump the hand truck not to have to pick up sprawled out books on the floor...again, from experience!)
  12. G.A.tor
    once all wall books are back in their respective boxes, the tearing down of the gridwall begins.... all the while, a member is lidding all the long boxes and getting them staged to be loaded back in the van... it is 15 minutes after con has closed at this point...
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    and unlike at the beginning of the con, where you can spread out, this all has to be done in the tight confines of your booth...
  15. G.A.tor
    so, after another long day, the con gets ready to come to a close...and the mad scramble to get your van in line to get to the back docks begins... we typically have one member go line up in the staging area about 1 hour before con ends, that way, we are among the first 50+ that get in to unload... and so the "break down" begins...
  16. G.A.tor
    and viola, ready for the day's action!
  17. G.A.tor
    we have to restock, condense, etc, as the show moves along...
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    wash, rinse , repeat...a 14 hour days is done and off to dinner and bed...only to get up next morning (typically day 3 or sunday) and do it all over again... the display gets tweaked as books sell from day to day...
  20. G.A.tor
    and then starts day 2....
  21. G.A.tor
    I used to display 8 feet of silver age slabs and 8-12 feet of golden age slabs... as the market changes, so must the convention dealers... I now have 8 feet of modern-bronze raw keys, 4 feet of bronze keys, 4 feet of silver keys and 4 feet of gold keys... you have to adapt ...
  22. G.A.tor
    then some golden age....
  23. G.A.tor
    into silver age keys....
  24. G.A.tor
    transition into slabbed bronze from raw...
  25. G.A.tor
    in this case, I changed from fanning the books out (called spine-ing) to shingling stacks of some copies...all alpha numerical