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Baltimore Comic-Con will Still be a 3 day con, Sept. 2-4, 2016

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MK Ultra

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I suck at names, who are you again? I know your Emily's husband but I forgot what your name is? :baiting:

 

 

You're

 

That's a different name. (shrug)

 

I don't think I can pull off the pulp fiction, "'You're ain't no name I've ever heard of. Do they speak English where you're from?"

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Logan510

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No one should go to this con.

 

Ever.

 

It sucks.

 

There is nothing to buy at a good price.

 

 

The con is good, the area is beautiful. It's wading through the endless swath of homeless that gets me down.

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No one should go to this con.

 

Ever.

 

It sucks.

 

There is nothing to buy at a good price.

 

 

The con is good, the area is beautiful. It's wading through the endless swath of homeless that gets me down.

 

Don't go to New Orleans.

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I always try to provide some info from the Cons I set up at and Baltimore will be no different. I did pretty well on my onsite grading (other then a few WTH did I miss books) so that was a big plus. I loved splitting a booth with Murph since he is just a cool laid back guy and always fun to talk to. Hanging out with Hector and other board members was also great and the people really make the weekend.

 

In terms of how the weekend went it was really a bad experience all the way around. I found the buyers at Baltimore were either looking for 4 or 5 keys books (got a 1st squirrel girl or HOS 92?) or they were just crazy frugal. Couple guys said "you have the lowest prices on X or Y books - can I get 20% off?" I did horribly and will definitely not be back next year unless it's to do some slabbing and buying. Did WAY better at Wizard Cleveland for slightly more money so I'll just stick to the local shows for the time being. The show was well put together and there was a lot of buyers but I just didn't have the right books to make it a good show for me.

 

I didn't buy a single book all weekend except for a couple foil Suicide and Harley Quinn exclusives that Hector got me. Too busy the set up day and there just didn't seem to be any books calling my name (but it may have just been the funk I was in from not selling much).

 

Sorry you got the shaft, I set up at Baltimore 3 years ago and had the same experience.

 

I ended up grossing about $1700 for the entire show...I remember trying to tell you not to get a booth at Baltimore months ago (tsk)

 

There are two ways to make money at Baltimore:

1) Blow higher priced books out well below FMV.

 

Even if you want to flat out get rid of your stock, option 1 is not good because the area is "very frugal", as you noted.Set up at a Carbo con and find a NY dealer, if you want to go that route, the majority of buyers in NYC aren't lowballers.The economics in NY are a world removed from Baltimore.

 

Baltimore is basically a dumping ground, the majority of books from the 60's to 90's were printed in the north east coast, in or around NY.

 

Local economics for selling books in MD sucks for several reasons.Basically, the glut ends up at a con like Baltimore and with so much of it, the competition forces all of the prices down.

 

2) Have a customer base that will fly to the show to buy higher end books from a few dealers along the lines of dealers like Greg Reece, Gator, Al Stolz etc

 

For smaller dealers, Baltimore is good for 2 things-.Buying books and having books slabbed onsite.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I did mention to Murph at the show that you had recommended I skip the show and laughed that you were probably right. I did about $1,600 in sales but had to skip out on Sunday due to my Grandmother's funeral on Sunday up in Deleware but Murph said Sunday was dead sales wise. But I sold $225 in books to Murph and a $250 slab that is very hot (1st Teen Titans in 4.5) that I had to come down to 10% under GPA to get the sale. Take those two out and I barely did $1,100 in sales and it cost $750 to set up at. Definitely not a Con I'm going back for seconds. I thought I had a bad Con down in Heroes last year when I did $4,500 in sales. Heck - I made $700 in sales in a 5 hour local Sunday Con this year.

 

I don't say it often but I wish I would have listened to you CAK.

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I generally don't discount much if at all. I base my pricing on my cost most of the time, not necessarily gpa etc. , though I'm typically around FMv ...my goal is to net about 10% (seems to be a very fair margin)

 

We had a great sales show ...in fact Sunday we had a buyer counting out 5 figures of $100 bills to buy an af15 until his wife stopped it doh!

 

I found there to be a lot of buyers in Baltimore and it did help that I had 3-8 copies of high demand books (like hos92, new tt 2, dd168 etc). We also sold a bunch of timelys , ga DC , multiple copies of sa keys , hulk 181, ba12, etc

 

It's quickly becoming one of my best annual shows and I really appreciate everyone's patronage

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Logan510

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No one should go to this con.

 

Ever.

 

It sucks.

 

There is nothing to buy at a good price.

 

 

The con is good, the area is beautiful. It's wading through the endless swath of homeless that gets me down.

 

Don't go to New Orleans.

 

I love New Orleans, it's not the same.

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I didn't see a lot of homeless people.

 

Maybe they migrated somewhere else this year.

 

 

Last year they were lined up outside the convention.

 

Most were sleeping next to churches or further away from the convention center. I saw many, but nowhere near the level I saw in Seattle earlier in the year.

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I didn't see a lot of homeless people.

 

Maybe they migrated somewhere else this year.

 

 

Last year they were lined up outside the convention.

 

Most were sleeping next to churches or further away from the convention center. I saw many, but nowhere near the level I saw in Seattle earlier in the year.

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I've never seen so many homeless people walking between cars at stop lights before. Cleveland must have outlawed that practice since I never see it done here.

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I suck at names, who are you again? I know your Emily's husband but I forgot what your name is? :baiting:

 

 

I suck worse at names. I called you Ramon! lol

 

Sorry Hector

 

I call him El Gato. He pounces in...buys books and leaves without ever seeing or hearing him.

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