I Remembered Today Why I Stopped Going To Coin Shows

Harry213. In response to the points you made above, what I find strange is that the Long Beach show takes place over a 3 day period (Thursday, Friday, and Saturday) where in the past (my first Long Beach show was in 1976) I seem to recall (and I could very well be wrong) it ran from Thursday to Sunday and I think the first day was dealer to dealer only (but once again..I could be wrong). Most working people work from Monday to Friday which means they can only attend on the weekend. I recall back in the day, people complaining that they went to the show on the last day (Sunday) and that there were lots of empty tables, which was of course discouraging to them. I also understand the dealers wanting to make planes, and whatever, but at least back then the working stiff had Saturday. Now the back end has been eliminated and Saturday looks like what Sunday used to look like. I never made the assumption that "this is THE reason for losing devotees," I said this MAY be ONE of the reasons they're losing devotees. I they have family or other commitments that limits their participation, perhaps they should advise the show promoters who could then make clear that these sellers would not be there on the final day (though I don't think promoter would be very excited about that as it would serve to cut back on attendance). I'm assuming (once again) that the reason for the loss of Sunday is because more and more dealers were leaving on Saturday and that day became extraneous, so they cut it out and added Thursday for the public. Perhaps this is a chicken or the egg scenario. The dealers leave on Saturday or early Sunday because of lower attendance, but maybe the reason for the lower attendance is the result of the dealers leaving early. As I said previously, i"m retired and I plan on going on Thursday, but I have that luxury being retired.

There are a couple of nice shows around here in central Ohio. If you want to set up in them, you WILL be there all day Saturday and at least till noon on Sunday. If not, you don't get to come back. The big boys did complain once and boycotted the next show. The people who ran them just sold the spots to other dealers and the big boys missed out on their sales.

They can say what they want for public consumption, but I am a dealer and I talk to the other dealers, and the ones that got left out ( and this was a few years ago) complained profusely when they found out that they ban was for real. Since then, most people pretty much obey the rules. If you want to buy on Sunday, you better be there early and move real fast. However, you will find some real good deals.