A spotless West 26th suite with a resident greeting dog, a perfect Google score, and a reputation built on paying fairly for collections.
Forty-nine reviews, forty-nine five stars. Turn 2 Sports Cards & Collectibles holds a perfect Google rating, and reading through how it got there is instructive: an unusually large share of the reviews come from people who walked in to sell rather than buy. Co-owners Anthony 'Tony' Tupek and Chris Hay are singled out repeatedly for transparency about what a card is worth, which is not the reputation most shops earn on the buy side.
The inventory runs sports-first across baseball, basketball, football, hockey and soccer, with vintage and graded material called out specifically in the shop's own listing. Singles and sealed both. Pokemon is stocked too, and reviewers mention bringing kids in for it. The counter handles appraisals, trades and collection buyouts, hosts autograph signings, runs group breaks live on Facebook and maintains an eBay storefront. Inventory rotates weekly, so regulars treat it as a check-back-often stop rather than a once-a-season visit.
Physically it's the newest-feeling retail buildout among Erie card shops — a suite in a small West 26th commercial strip, described over and over as spotless, modern and well-organized. And there's a dog, who greets people at the door and shows up unprompted in the reviews. Erie somehow has two card shops with resident dogs; this is the friendlier of the two encounters, by customer account.
The trade counter's reputation with kids deserves a mention, because it's the detail reviewers keep returning to: the owners treat a child walking in with three cards the same way they'd treat an adult with a binder. That's a large part of why this shop pulls people from genuinely far away — customers report driving two hours out of their way, and traveling in from Ohio and North Carolina specifically to visit.
Hours are the tightest of the Erie group and the most daytime-oriented: closed Monday and Sunday, 10am to 5pm Tuesday through Friday, 10am to 3pm Saturday. It's the only shop in the market that opens at 10am, which makes it the one workable morning stop. The shop also organizes the Turn 2 Sports Card Show, listed on the Erie Events calendar. One address note: this block of West 26th uses an Erie mailing address but sits in Millcreek Township, and the suite is B-2 — some directories list the wrong number.
