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 Posted - August 19 2013 : 03:17:43 AM
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It's a Great Train Expo traveling show. I was thinking of doing it as part of a vacation, because with my van it's easy to throw a table's worth of stuff in the back and go have some fun and pay for some of my expenses that way. Anyone been to it in years past can tell me how it is? People spend money down there?
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Posted - August 19 2013 : 12:36:41 PM
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I can't really answer your question since I'm a buyer and not a seller, and I'm frugal (i.e. cheap!), but if you make it down this way then, drop me a line, it'd be cool to meet another forum member!
Glenn
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Posted - August 19 2013 : 1:49:43 PM
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GTE used to go to Denver Had lots of fun but They not coming anymore 
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Posted - August 19 2013 : 10:25:17 PM
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I figured most of you would be buyers, but you might remember if it was busy or if a lot of people were carrying bags.
I did okay last year same weekend in Columbia SC but it was a combination of being the only guy with a lot of HO and having one guy with money come back about four times to buy stuff - who also was from out of town, I never sold so much P&LE stuff before.
They tell me they see 2000-2500 people typically there, which is kind of mid-sized for a show; I'm not sure how the local economy is to gauge what kind of sales I might see. (here in NY, similar sized shows attendance-wise in Albany and in Buffalo, the one I do about 50% better in sales because Albany with all the state gov't jobs has a somewhat better local economy going; even though that show is only one day).
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 Posted - August 20 2013 : 10:34:37 AM
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I do the BYOB when go to train, toy or antique shows
BYOB = bring your own bags hehe
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Posted - August 22 2013 : 06:58:00 AM
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| I mean carrying bags full of things they'd bought.
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Posted - August 31 2013 : 8:01:55 PM
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There is a TECO show in Colorado Springs Sept 13,14,15
At the Freedom Financial Services Expo Center.
Sat night is an auction Starting at 5 PM.
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Posted - September 02 2013 : 11:27:05 PM
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I've been to the GTE in Winston-Salem. I guess the best way to explain it is: decent.
My brother calls it the DTE (Decent Train Expo). Economy is so-so. I buy cheap, junk locos and under table stuff, so GTE is not so much for me. Haven't been to the Winston-Salem GTE in about 3 years. I don't recall seeing a lot of people carrying away bags of stuff. Occasionally, I'll see someone buy an old boxed train set. The vendors with all those nice,new, retail, boxed train items, didn't seem to do much business.
I have seen this one guy, he is at nearly every train show I"ve been to in NC for the past couple of years. He really drops the cash. Sometimes he buys entire tables of stuff and totes them away on a hand truck.
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Posted - September 04 2013 : 11:53:14 AM
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| Well, I don't expect to get rich and retire there, just trying to gauge what I might sell. It's probably worth doing, it would pay for itself.
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Posted - September 23 2013 : 9:25:53 PM
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| This will be this coming weekend. I got a spot, so I hope some of you come and bring money to spend. Weather looks to be nice both days. I have a ton of blue box Athearn and MDC kits/builts to put out.
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Posted - September 26 2013 : 5:13:39 PM
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I intend to attend.
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Posted - September 26 2013 : 6:08:23 PM
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One rule guys..........you GOTTA show what ya come out with at the end of the day! 
~John
Many have tried to, and failed, ya just can't repair stupid...
Do NOT try to Idiot-Proof anything!!!! God, will simply create a better......IDIOT!
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 5:21:08 PM
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I attended this show yesterday and here's what I got. I didn't intend for my purchases to follow a theme, but...
Mantua-Tyco Spreckles Sugar hopper:
It's in really good shape, and all there.
Tyco Union Pacific hopper:
Someone put metal wheelsets on this one.
Tyco CB&Q hopper:
I found this one in a junk box without any weights. I found some weights for it in an adjacent junk box.
Bachmann Morrison-Knudsen hopper:
Bachmann Rock Island "The Rock" hopper:
I also picked up two boxes of Atlas brass 22" curves; didn't see any good reason to photograph those!
P.S. My wife accompanied me to the show and got this for herself:
A Budgie Models London taxi cab. It looks to me to be about O scale, but don't hold me to that!
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 5:30:48 PM
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hi gmoney,some nice pieces,not sure if this will help but budgie taxi`s are 1/43rd approx,which is roughly o scale here in uk,ken
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 5:51:47 PM
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Hi Ken,
Thanks for the info on the taxi cab; I was hoping you might be able to tell me something about it! I thought I should mention its size since it may not be obvious from the pic.
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 6:08:12 PM
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budgie went bust years ago,but the moulds and boxes are still turning up,the taxi being one,under various other names,made in uk, india,and china,yours is original buy the looks of it,does yours say anything other than budgie on underside,ken
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 6:49:30 PM
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It says what's on the front of the yellow box in your picture:
LONDON TAXI CAB
MADE IN ENGLAND
FOR - H. SEENER LTD
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 7:53:30 PM
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| then its the real deal,afraid that they are not rare here,but it might be in usa ken
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Posted - September 30 2013 : 8:06:59 PM
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Rare would be cool, but that really doesn't matter. My wife just likes anything British.
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Posted - October 05 2013 : 08:27:14 AM
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The attendance on this show was miserable. Maybe 700 in two days. The promoter told me 2500 was typical. I suspect it was poorly advertised. So it's likely my first and last GTE show. I sold more last year at the one-day Columbia show that had an equally small attendance. None of the dealers were that happy with it.
I mean, just before packing up on the second day I found three pretty nice Hot Wheels red-lines in a dollar bin on someone's table. How bad is it when something like that doesn't sell instantly on the first day? I got about $40 worth of cars for $3. And the Gilbert HO cabooses I found for stupid cheap, too. I will probably do better with the eBay stuff than I did at the actual show. One guy had a dollar bin and I bought it out for $20, then sold about $17 of stuff to other dealers. Then I looked on eBay to see I ended up with 25 pieces of an item that's selling fairly regularly for $5 a shot.
I had fun, don't get me wrong, but I would rather have had more fun selling twice as many things.
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