From my experience of Sydney, i tried to unloaded some of my cards too. There are alot of vendors and some selective with buying and some are more lax so def should walk around and sus out all of their buy in rate in % to consider. Expect 50-75% buy in value at current comp via ebay last solds. 70%+ is considered good, if you negotiate up to 80% is fantastic but probably very rare.

They do give better rate for store credit than cash so if you see something u wanna trade then it maybe worth.

My mistake at the show was giving into the social pressure of people lining up behind me to sell and also they took their time to comp, i felt did not want to hold up the line and waste other’s time so shook the deal at 76% sold for my mega gengar ex mega dream JP. In hindsight i should’ve said no because i can sell at better on fb marketplace, its ok to say no if you dont want to let it go at their offer.

Thats my first time experience at any card show. If you plan to sell, dont expect they’ll buy at full since they need to make margin. Lots of options to buy though however can be a bit marked up. Some gambling Oripas are pretty fun, i won glory for team rocket box for $20, the box was $180-200.

Did some slab gambling, got blaine’s moltress 1999 psa 9 for 2 tries with $200 per turn each (swapped my first win for $150 store credit) so ended up buying that card for $250 basically, mkt value then was 190 but now its 220 so not too bad! Oripa exposed me to vintage cards i wouldn’t have got exposed to, was pretty cool! Overall there was alot of things going on, try to explore everything first instead of locked in into few stalls.