Tomorrow morning I will be leaving for Chicago, IL. For the last 3 years I have gone to the National, and have been pretty successful in selling and hustling for consignments. Every trip to the show is a blast. Two years ago it was in Anaheim, CA, and last year it was in Cleveland, OH. The Anaheim show was my company’s first. One of the owners had been there many times before, but for the rest of us it was a new experience. I had never been to a trade show before, and even if I had, i don’t think it would have prepared me for this.

The show is the biggest sports card show in the world. At any moment there are millions of dollars floating around the room all looking for something new. All the major auction houses are there showcasing collections coming up in ther next big auction. This year we have 2 booths and are bringing out a ton of inventory. I will be driving out there with a coworker in a rented van. I looked it up on Google Maps, and it looks like its going to be a 13 hour trip. Luckily I will have an inverter with me and my Palm Treo 700wx is able to be tethered for a broadband Internet connection (I don’t like when people use the term broadband to refer to any high speed Internet connection, I come from an engineering background [well really Computer Science, but close enough], so I like things to be factually correct). Perhaps I will put up a few more blog posts tomorrow, but with my luck, I will be stuck doing work the whole way because something in the office will break the moment I leave.

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Tags: Cleveland,Collectibles,Ohio
Categories: Sports, Work
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