A card show is about as perfect an experience as I have in my life. Virtually nothing goes wrong during a show and happy bunnies dance overhead during my entire stay. I suppose something could go wrong. Perhaps you unexpectedly spot an expensive item you've been wanting for years and don't have the money for it. Maybe somebody buys a card right before you were going to buy it. But, in short, just about my only concern at a card show is that I will buy cards that I have already. It happens almost every time. Fortunately, it almost always involves little discount box purchases that don't amount to much cash. I'm on guard for this regular occurrence at shows and brace myself for it. But what I never of think of at shows is "what cards are on their way to me while I'm at this show?" We "trade-through-the-mail" collectors think we're so smart, but sometimes that can backfire. One of the items that I bought at the card show a couple we...
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