A one-man counter on the Peach Street strip in Erie, mixing sports wax and Pokemon with a sideline in custom sports plaques.
The full business name is Dave's Sport Cards & Sports Plaques, and that second half is the part nobody else in Erie offers. Custom sports plaques are an unusual sideline for a card shop, and they've been part of the operation long enough to end up in the signage. It's a small storefront on the Peach Street retail corridor, far enough south that most people assume it's out of town — it isn't, the Erie city line runs further down Peach than the strip malls suggest.
Inventory splits between sports and TCG. Sealed hobby and blaster boxes anchor the sports side across baseball, football and basketball, with singles in the cases. Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic: The Gathering fill out the rest. The pitch that shows up repeatedly in reviews is box pricing: customers who track eBay closely report the shop's boxes running only ten to fifteen dollars above online, with the obvious advantage of walking out holding the product instead of waiting on shipping. The owner will negotiate.
Be aware this is an owner-operated counter and the experience is polarizing in a way the other Erie shops aren't. At 4.3 it carries the lowest rating of the city's card shops, and the reviews split cleanly: some describe a warm, comfortable atmosphere and a seller happy to work on price, while others found the counter standoffish and left without buying. Both accounts appear often enough to be real. Regulars suggest engaging directly rather than browsing silently.
What this shop is not: an events venue. There's no confirmed play space, league night or tournament schedule, so don't arrive expecting to sit down and draft. It's a buy-and-browse stop, and it does have an online store and takes pre-orders for anyone who'd rather reserve than gamble on stock.
Hours are tight and strictly daytime — 11am to 5:30pm Monday through Friday, 11am to 4pm Saturday, closed Sunday. Reviews on the shop stretch back to at least 2012, putting it comfortably past fourteen years on the corridor, and its listing status is confirmed operational as of 2026. For anyone working a Peach Street shopping run, it slots in easily between the bigger retail stops.
