Every Sunday there is a local flea market, 98% ****, but sometimes I can score some cars stuff to flip for a few bucks. I'm wearing two sweat ****s and a 10-15 year old beat to hell Carhart jacket. Guy stops me, likes the looks of the jacket and offers me $50.00 for it. Covered the cost of the parts I bought and the year old Carhart was in the van. Sometimes you have to wonder.
LOL Thats funny stuff. I love Flea Markets. I would go there as a kid and disrupt the vendors...e****aly in tools...playin with vicegrips and ****...now I actually realize all those tools and jacks I was playing with as a kid are really nicely priced..LOL>
37, he's probably at home thinkin' what a good deal he got! Not all Carhaart stuff is made in the USA, like it used to be.
Post a picture of this jacket would ya? Ohhh wait...never mind! We can check it out on Ebay next week anyway!!!! LoL
Just curious, has anybody ever found any fleas for sale at a flea market? Sure sounds like a perfect place to get rid of any you might not need at the time. Frank
I have seen dogs and cats for sale.....already equipped with their own supply of fleas.....does that count ??
That is what I love about flea markets:Absolutely NOTHING makes any sense! I used to haunt them when I was actively collecting knives(I still am)and found that flea market people are a really unique breed:They either want WAY too much for absolute trash or next to nothing for treasure. On one search I bought a numbered br*** belt buckle designed(and signed)by Salvador Dali for $5.I recently saw one sell on e-Bay for over $400.00.I can't remember how many pocket knives I've purchased for under $5 that were worth literally hundreds. The only thing I can say about the jacket is to recall the old used car salesman's motto:"There's an ***(or in this case a back)for every seat".
Exactly. A lot of stuff that made their reputation on good old American craftsmanship is now made elsewhere and banking on the quality that used to be there.
Over the course of a couple years I ended up with about 1 and a half Monogram Big Deuce kits. The built up later one is down on the shelf; the one in the original box that had been started and was missing half the body, went on eBay for $90. I had like $35 invested between the two. I used to do that a lot when eBay was still kind of fun, the goal was to see what nice stuff I could find for me and how fast I could at least break even on it. Once I bought a box of trains for $40 for one piece, I sold the others one at a time and was ahead like $20 on it. Stuff like that. Sort of what I do now, except with old cars - Mu buddy let me have an old Carhart of his the other day after I got soaked through twice, I guess I'll have to wear it down there and see if its worth anything... of course when I tell him this story, he may want it back. lol -
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