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A vendor working a trading card convention in San Mateo, California, over the weekend was handed a rare anime card to appraise and realized he had seen it before—in a Facebook post warning collectors about a $30,000 deal gone wrong.

If you love perusing flea markets and secondhand stores for kitchen-upgrading treasures, you know you sometimes just want vintage servingware that adds charm to the kitchen; brands don’t matter, it’s all about what patterns match the room’s aesthetic and will look lovely on a shelf or wall. But you might consider learning especially sought-after brands in…

NEWS ICV2 INSIDER TALKS: MANGA SPOT’S KURT HASSLER AND JIM KILLEN ON THE FUTURE OF MANGA Two Retail Veterans Discuss Trends and the Importance of Bricks and Mortar Posted by Brigid Alverson on October 12, 2026 @ 5:57 pm CT

According to Emmett Abels, social and brand strategist for Stern Pinball, the world’s largest manufacturer of pinball machines, a good pinball city is one where people can easily find machines to play. “Having pinball that’s available to anyone who wants to play it. I think having many places like that in one city is probably…