Event Coverage overheard things at the swap meet

So my brother and I are walking around at the Jefferson swap meet on Friday, walking through I hear a guy say to another "look at all of this ****". I don't know if he was showing the other guy his **** or talking about somebodies table. My brother and I were laughing about it and I thought it would make a fun thread. What have you overheard that was funny or stupid?

 

At the Barrie swap meet:

“ there’s a lot of **** here I don’t need”

Buyer: will that bumper fit my car?
Vendor: what car do you have?
Buyer: ‘62 Biscayne
Vendor: that’s what it came off of


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My friend selling parts:

Vendor: Make an offer I don’t get insulted easily

Buyer: $10

Vendor: I said I don’t get insulted easily, not I don’t get insulted at all




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Friend of mine, George, who has since p***ed on, always put the final, reasonable, price on an item and had little patience for someone trying to bargain him down. One time a guy wanted a five dollar mirror for three dollars and would not go away. Finally, George picked the mirror up and slammed it on the table, breaking it. "Now, you can have it for three dollars" he said. The guy got the hint and left.

 

It was running when I parked it!

 

Every 283/327 is a corvette.

 

My brother overheard a guy asking about a gas sign, the guy says $800 and the guy looking at it says "Mike and Frank need to be kicked in the balls"

 

Me: What's that 3rd member from? (as the seller unloads)
Seller: I don't know just cleaning out the garage for a friend.
Me: I wish I knew what it fit.
Seller: I just want to get rid of everything today.
Me: I'd like to help but I'd have to buy it cheap to get it off your hands.
Seller: Make offer.
Me: $40
Seller: OK
And this concludes by me walking away with a 59 Chevy 3rd member with 4:11 posi

 

One year our group put up a sign at Jefferson that said , You can make any offer But we reserve the right to laugh.

 

Saw this on a sign: "We screw the other guy and p*** the savings on to you".

 

selling bike parts with a friend, we put up a sign

prices firm but bring your old lady by and we'll ****er

 

I do stuff like that all the time, After I break sumthim I tell em, now it's worth what ya offered.

 

I see what you did there.

 

You got some K.Y. Jelly to go with that offer?

 

A guy with his two buddies looks at a pair of fog light on my table, $30. They come back an hour later, he offers $20, I counter $25. Before the guy can speak, his buddy starts yelling, "GODDAMIT, JUST SELL 'EM FOR 20! HELL, LOOK AT THE CHROME, YOU'RE LUCKY TO GET ANYTHING. JESUS!" and on and on.

I walk out from behind my table, the guy stops yelling. I look him in the eye, spread my arms and say in singsong voice: "Somebody needs a hug." His eyes get big, he shuts up and backs up a step. "Here I come," I say, then calmly walk forward and throw my arms around him. "It's OK," I say. The other two guys burst out laughing. and then so does the guy I'm hugging. "****," he says, "you saw right through that."

We agreed to $25.

 

My friend Tony did the same thing with a side window for a car.Tony said 10.00 and the guy says 5.00 he picks up the gl*** and drops it and says ok 5 now. Tony ran a wrecking yard and allways had fair prices.

 

Whenever I hear these stories about guys breaking something in response to an offer, I figure there's got to be more to the story. Someting about the exchange must have got under their skin other than just the offer. Because if you're gonna break something every time you get an offer it, you're going to have a booth full of broken stuff in about 2 hours.

 

At the old Harrah's meet in Reno, I had a very nice late 40s Ford tail gate for $25.00. It had 3 little holes drilled in corner for tag. Even had most original paint. A guy walks up and takes his boot toe and flips it over. Then he said. I think you priced that wrong. I picked it up and said you are right. I added a one in front of the 25 and laid it down. He started *****ing and said it wasn't worth 25.. then he said he would take it and wanted it for 25. I didn't back off and held to $125.00. His buddies were laughing their *** off. He came by several times and at the end of the day his buddy came and got it. Laughing, He said he was buying it with the guys money and the tail gate was the last part he needed for his truck. He said the guy could be a jerk and he got a lesson that day.

 

At Moultrie, I had five 35 Ford wire wheels. They were very good parts, having been straightened back in the day and no rust. I put a sign on them : $50.00 each or best offer over $300.00. It was a good way to get a conversation going. This engineer looking guy with two young kids was looking at them. He measured them every way you could. Then he would walk away. He came back several times and finally said he was building a Ratrod and they would work. He then asked if he offed $300.00, would I take it. I scratched my chin and told him that if he was serious and took them now, I would accept his offer. The whole time, his little kid was yanking on his sleeve and the guy told him to shut up. He paid me $300.00, loaded the wheels in his fancy cart and went down the isle. The kid stopped him and I saw the kid holding up his fingers and showing dad how good his math was. Dad just turned and looked back at me and shook his head, but then went on. never saw him again. Do the math!

 

we were at a meet a few years back, I see a 400 ****** on the ground with the yoke sticking about 3 inchs out,,im explaining too me friends how its a truck unit and needs machining as we walk away the owner says(( hes such an ***hole. it came out of a 55 not a truck))

 

I was selling at the Pomona Swap Meet last year. I had a hand held ship to shore radio on my table for $40. Pretty cheap for it. Anyone who owns a boat with a radio knows that you only need one radio for ship to shore.

NOW....This guy and his young son, about six years old, are walking by and the kid notices the radio and thinks it's a cool thing to have..."DAD! Look! A boat radio. We should get it."

Dad...."Huh? Oh. That's a neat looking radio."

Son...."We should get it dad. We could talk to people in boats."

Dad...."No way. He only has one radio and you need two to talk to other people."

I didn't want to take the radio home so I gave it to the kid. No big deal, right? His idiot dad put's it back on the table and say's "thanks but no thanks, one radio doesn't do anything."

I told the dad that a boat only needs one ship to shore radio to talk and since this is a hand held radio that it can be used on land in their driveway. You'll never guess what the dad said next...

Dad...." It's a ship to shore radio for a boat. I don't have a boat and I doubt if anyone else has the same radio to talk with."

 

Heck, half the fun is the ****ering over the price!

 

Everything is original on this car. The tires, they still have the 1937 original air.

 

You guys who get upset and break your own items because someone wants to haggle with you have a mental disorder. I hope you don't go to gun shows.

 

"Headlights never been on high beam."

 

Pawpaw would sell something to somebody and say "I'll give you a driveway guarentee. I guarentee it'll make it to the end of the driveway. Even if I have to hook to it and drag it there". Got some pretty colorful looks and comments out of that one. It was always great when it was a teenage kid.

 

@ spring Jefferson, heard coming out of my mouth: "Why the hell do I come here every year?" "That was the best cold $3 hotdog I've had all day." "I slept 3 hours, & I'm still drunk from last night." "Does every vendor here have golf clubs for sale?" And, finally: "For $4 I could have gotten a whole quart of ice cream, instead of a big bar."

 

What do those headers fit?
What do you have?
'65 Chevelle.
That's what these fit.

I never leave a swap meet without hearing "what's it fit?, What ya got?"

One I did. Set of 4 mag wheels, had them at $150 (years before they got popular again). Guy stops buy and offers $100. Told him need $150 and he walks off. Half hour later he stops again and says $105. I said $175. He starts screaming they are marked $150. Told him they were older now and worth more and every time he tried to talk me down I would raise the price (he was a ****, I knew him, he worked with me). He stomps off. I add to my sign, $150 except for ****, they are now $200 for him. Half hour later he shows up and asks what it would take to buy them and I point at the new addition to the sign. He stomps off and I add $25 to my sign. This went on all afternoon. We were loading up and he shows up again. "seriously, what do you really need for them?" I point at the sign which now says $350. He pulls out $200 and holds it out. I take it, he takes the wheels. I walk into work Monday morning and he's telling the guys he talked me down from $350 to $200. Boy genius.

SPark

 

Just listening to people at swap meets and flea markets can be great entertainment all by itself.
Good luck.Have fun.Be safe.
Leo