🚨 Teamsters Turn San Diego Card Party Into a $150 Union Toll Booth
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) May 23, 2026
Card-show vendors at San Diego’s Card Party say they were charged $150 just to roll their own inventory into the event on carts.
These vendors are not giant corporations. They’re mostly hobbyists, collectors,… pic.twitter.com/V3CuquteDr
Teamsters Turn San Diego Card Party Into a $150 Union Toll Booth
Card-show vendors at San Diego’s Card Party say they were charged $150 just to roll their own inventory into the event on carts.
These vendors are not giant corporations. They’re mostly hobbyists, collectors, and small business owners trying to bring boxes and cases of cards to tables they already paid for.
They expected loading-dock rules. What they say happened instead is that the “anything with wheels” rule was allegedly enforced at the front door too.
This is union power running wild — a $150 toll booth for ordinary people trying to move their own inventory into a show they already paid to attend.
I tracked down the actual written rule, and it is hilariously petty: vendors may only move items if they are “carried by hand, by one person, in one trip, without dollies, hand trucks, or other mechanical equipment.”
— Stu Smith (@thestustustudio) May 23, 2026
If hobbyists and small vendors are being forced to pay $150… pic.twitter.com/5itqCDYVmh
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