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Post by redjimmy1955 on Sept 9, 2024 12:37:13 GMT
Just curious who intends to visit those preYork bandit meets?? I'm pretty much retired now and since I live an hour or so away, I'm intending to drive up once or twice to attend.
Hope to bump into some of us Forumites.
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Post by healey36 on Sept 9, 2024 12:51:48 GMT
Just going to the meet on Friday...never been to the resurrected "bandit" meets.
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Post by superwarp1 on Sept 9, 2024 13:28:05 GMT
Just curious who intends to visit those preYork bandit meets?? I'm pretty much retired now and since I live an hour or so away, I'm intending to drive up once or twice to attend. Hope to bump into some of us Forumites. I'm sure Eddie G will chime in but the bandit meets are a shell of their former glory. With the Eastern division adding Thursday and now opening the fair grounds to sellers before the meet, doing their best to kill those meets, I wouldn't think they are worth it. I'm sure others will chime in. I haven't been since 2019 and I'm sure they haven't gotten any better.
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Post by david1 on Sept 9, 2024 19:04:56 GMT
Never been to a bandit meet even though I live two hours away but I have been to 80 straight York meets.
Dave
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Post by JDaddy on Sept 10, 2024 2:35:15 GMT
I have also done really well at the bandit meets. Parking lot is where the deals are. If you are into tinplate there are some good deals. New last year was a pre-York meet at the Purple hall. Very good deals there too. found my ZWL new in the box there for 500 bucks. My suggestion is hit both! Sounds like TCA is going to have an auction at the TCA museum in Strasburg. Very dynamic times so be prepared to move around a bit.
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Post by old97 on Sept 12, 2024 2:04:10 GMT
When they tried to kill the bandit meets it took a little of the fun out of going to York.
The Saturday night auction was also fun in the past.
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Post by eddieg on Sept 13, 2024 18:22:23 GMT
The auction was Friday night. I had a lot of fun at those auctions. I would put things in the auction and get more for them than the the price I had on my table.
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Post by eddieg on Sept 13, 2024 18:31:09 GMT
About the bandit shows, the Purple hall at the fairgrounds, and inside the Wyndham hotel are packed with tables Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Post by JDaddy on Sept 13, 2024 19:15:20 GMT
Eddie - yes thank you for clarifying.
I favor the parking lot vendors at the Wyndham, although the Purple hall at the fair grounds is a close second now.
One year at the Wyndham a sell brought a large Tupperware bin of track one bin contained over 50 Ross switches - no. 5's and 8's for only 5 dollars a piece! I bought everyone I could and upgraded my Gargrave switches on the layout and sold the rest on Ebay. I think the profits payed for my trip.
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Post by trainman9 on Sept 15, 2024 14:25:15 GMT
When I first began going to York n 1995 I made a point of going out on Thursday and going to all of the bandit meets. It was a time when if the weather cooperated the parting lots were packed with sellers. Inside the hotel venues you could find all the major and minor dealers from all over the country.
Then came the expansion of the York meet starting on Thursday at noon. It took a few years but the bandit meets are a far cry from the glory days. Now, you have the firehouse and maybe one hotel but the parking lot shows are gone or severely diminished. Could this have been one of the reasons that some of the major dealers no longer attend or leave early. Who knows!
The ED is attempting to extend the meet by opening up the Purple hall in advance of the start on Thursday and to further the down fall of the bandit meets. Perhaps it will succeed and perhaps not.
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Post by superwarp1 on Sept 15, 2024 15:03:09 GMT
When I first began going to York n 1995 I made a point of going out on Thursday and going to all of the bandit meets. It was a time when if the weather cooperated the parting lots were packed with sellers. Inside the hotel venues you could find all the major and minor dealers from all over the country.
Then came the expansion of the York meet starting on Thursday at noon. It took a few years but the bandit meets are a far cry from the glory days. Now, you have the firehouse and maybe one hotel but the parking lot shows are gone or severely diminished. Could this have been one of the reasons that some of the major dealers no longer attend or leave early. Who knows!
The ED is attempting to extend the meet by opening up the Purple hall in advance of the start on Thursday and to further the down fall of the bandit meets. Perhaps it will succeed and perhaps not. When it comes to dealers going to the show it’s more of an expense than anything else that’s keeping them from going
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Post by trainman9 on Sept 15, 2024 20:57:12 GMT
Expense for a dealer going to York was not an issue when you had 10K in attendance. They made money. Lately, with the attendance down and the cost to travel up I can see why they don’t want to make that investment.
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Post by curtis on Sept 16, 2024 2:18:21 GMT
Expense for a dealer going to York was not an issue when you had 10K in attendance. They made money. Lately, with the attendance down and the cost to travel up I can see why they don’t want to make that investment. But some of those dealers did not sell at the shows and now do not attend.
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Post by trainman9 on Sept 16, 2024 13:33:02 GMT
Expense for a dealer going to York was not an issue when you had 10K in attendance. They made money. Lately, with the attendance down and the cost to travel up I can see why they don’t want to make that investment. But some of those dealers did not sell at the shows and now do not attend.
The dealers on the other hand like Trainworld, Nicholas Smith, and others either no longer attend or only in October or in the case of Trainworld they don’t bring anything to sell or if they do they leave early. Let’s face it the ED York meet is a shadow of its former self and I don’t think anything they might do would change that. Like many others I long for the days when you had so many people that it was hard to get through some of the halls.
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Post by superwarp1 on Sept 16, 2024 14:03:51 GMT
Early 2000's when if you didn't make your hotel reservations a year in advance you were traveling 45-60 minutes outside York just to attend everyday. Now it's easy to get a room even during the week of.
York is a giant swap meet, back to it's roots. It is what it is.
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