We often lament that there are less kids in the hobby today but having organized the Toronto Card Show for a number of years now I've often noticed that there are a lot of vendors who have literally been around for decades with hardly the same numbers following in their footsteps.
I was 13 years old when I was setting up at card shows, we had a group of teens at the last show that had a lot of fun and will setup again, and we have a young rising star who has become a regular at the ripe age of only 21. Still, there is a big gap between the number of vendors over and under the age of 40. I'd like to see more collectors under the age of 40 give setting up at a card show a shot.
Setting up at a card show can be a daunting task but I'd like to make it easier with the New Young Vendor Start-Up Program at The Toronto Card Show.
If you're under 40 and you setup at a card show for the first time and don't make enough money to cover your table, that's OK so long as you had fun and hopefully learned something. I'd like to make it easier at the beginning by offering new vendors under the age of 40 an opportunity to setup at the show at a low introductory rate on a rising rate scale over the course of 3 shows. So while you're learning, your costs are low, and then you can establish yourself into a regular or semi-regular vendor over the course of a few shows without any risk and very little investment.
If you're interested in setting up at The Toronto Card Show and think this program might be right for you, go to http://www.TorontoCardShow.com/dealers.html and e-mail me with the subject line: New Young Vendor Start-Up Program
You just might be one of the well established vendors on the scene 20 years from now, just like many are today who have been setting up at card shows since the 90's!
I was 13 years old when I was setting up at card shows, we had a group of teens at the last show that had a lot of fun and will setup again, and we have a young rising star who has become a regular at the ripe age of only 21. Still, there is a big gap between the number of vendors over and under the age of 40. I'd like to see more collectors under the age of 40 give setting up at a card show a shot.
Setting up at a card show can be a daunting task but I'd like to make it easier with the New Young Vendor Start-Up Program at The Toronto Card Show.
If you're under 40 and you setup at a card show for the first time and don't make enough money to cover your table, that's OK so long as you had fun and hopefully learned something. I'd like to make it easier at the beginning by offering new vendors under the age of 40 an opportunity to setup at the show at a low introductory rate on a rising rate scale over the course of 3 shows. So while you're learning, your costs are low, and then you can establish yourself into a regular or semi-regular vendor over the course of a few shows without any risk and very little investment.
If you're interested in setting up at The Toronto Card Show and think this program might be right for you, go to http://www.TorontoCardShow.com/dealers.html and e-mail me with the subject line: New Young Vendor Start-Up Program
You just might be one of the well established vendors on the scene 20 years from now, just like many are today who have been setting up at card shows since the 90's!
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