Shit - hopefully not too much damage to anyone's bottom line. I did notice a few suss sorts wandering around with backpacks and wondering what was going on.
Agreed re discrepancies in pricing. Had similar experience at a few places, couple of the more well known places that were just making up prices based on what it sold for on Ebay lately rather than what was advertised.
No, this occurred at the June show I think.
Family of Dad, Mum and young son apparently swiped a few dozen cards out of boxes included a Nick Daicos auto out of the guys with the back stall.
Dad tried to make a run for it at the end when confronted.
I think the Daicos was recovered.
**Unsure of when this occurred in June, as I had left by around 11:30am. Was just told by a few stall holders.
In terms of pricing, I came armed with about $5-$10k in high end cards willing to trade at fair recent comps, but of the 4-5 cards I was interested in, everything was 2-3x comps. It wasn't even 20-30% higher (you can generally work with that and negotiate), it was multiples. They obviously bank on someone eventually paying close to this every now and then.
As for the ATM's, there's an easy solution which wont cost a shitload in hire fee's each time (which means higher ticket prices) - I get most people want to deal in cash, but it's really no different to facebook sales. You can get setup for card payments with a square card reader for under $100 these days from officeworks.
Organizers should really make it a requirement for stall holders, like most local markets do for stall holders.. You need a cashless card reader to have a stall.
