Anyone on here sell at local Flea Markets?

[Srt42004n]

Just curious I inquired to a local flea mkt around town here all indoor it runs $128 a month for 4 days a week, but thats just a bare spot if you want electric its $200...idk why such a jump but Im thinking of setting up there to make some extra money anyone else do anything similar? Ive had success at yard sales selling grab bags but its mid of winter in PA...so please chime in I am just trying to get some pro's/con's obviously id have anything worth more then $10-15 in a locked case but just getting a feeler for some others and if its worth the time....we have no LCS locally so Id want to start off stocking supplies and some of the self feeding retail boxes and prob some mid range hobby packs... again I am not looking to become a millionare just to make an extra $4-500 a month doing something fun and promoting the hobby locally...

[SportCardBuffet]

Good luck with that, I used to hit up Flea Markets from time to time for cards, never seemed to be a good place for the hobby to be. Maybe it's just me or things have changed but unless your coming across a bunch of clueless people I'm not sure you'll be knocking a few hundred like your thinking.

[HadWayTooMuch]

Flea markets in the early 90s late 80s were the place to be. Our local market had sometimes 20 or 30 card dealers, and this was before insert mania.

Things have changed now and we're all looking for something for nothing so I'm sure the market is not nearly as strong. You probably have to be dirt cheap to make any money.

Then again, for $8 a day, all you're going to lose is a month worth of time. If you have it, why not? Which market is it?

[lobo_hacker]

-I always seemed to have better luck finding comics stuff at my local flea market versus sports stuff. Not sure why, but the comics/collectibles dealer always had a good amount of interesting items.

Depending on the set up and resources available, be careful what you put out there. Cards are easy to conceal, and unless yer gonna have someone watch the booth directly all the time, i've seen some markets/malls that would make a common thief salivate, cameras or not.

Good luck.

lobo_hacker

[Hallco]

I have in the recent past put some low end cards(.25-$5.00 max) on a flea market table and they have sold. Really common stuff from the 90s will sell for a buck or 2 if you have players that non-card collectors have heard of(MJ, Griffey Jr, etc...). I usually brought some "better" cards but didn't have them visible in the event that more serious collectors would be there and ask. Good luck if you decide to do it! :)!

[Srt42004n]

I have in the recent past put some low end cards(.25-$5.00 max) on a flea market table and they have sold. Really common stuff from the 90s will sell for a buck or 2 if you have players that non-card collectors have heard of(MJ, Griffey Jr, etc...). I usually brought some "better" cards but didn't have them visible in the event that more serious collectors would be there and ask. Good luck if you decide to do it! :)!

Yea and like i said i have had success selling $1/$2 grab bags at yard sales the Flea Mkt offers a little bit of advertising but id push for a spot near the entrance so people will have to walk by plus as I said Im not going to go put my entire collection out for people to look at im talking little $5-10 autos and a 2400 count $1 box + Grab bags and some retail gravity feed boxes..

[SportCardBuffet]

Yea and like i said i have had success selling $1/$2 grab bags at yard sales the Flea Mkt offers a little bit of advertising but id push for a spot near the entrance so people will have to walk by plus as I said Im not going to go put my entire collection out for people to look at im talking little $5-10 autos and a 2400 count $1 box + Grab bags and some retail gravity feed boxes..

In that case I guess nothings wrong with a 1 month test drive