anyone else seeing swap meets becoming flea markets more & more ?

1967coronet · Mar 6, 2017

Just spent Sunday at the Lincoln NE. swap meet, I have been going for years to that one.
In the past it was always one of the better ones close to me, I have a few others that I go to that have been getting more like flea markets over the years.
But not Lincoln until this year, or mabey I just noticed and hadn't before.
I seen more vendors with used clothes , toys , jewelry , used kitchen ware , ect ect.

I just wonder if its getting like this nation wide ? or is this just a Midwest thing LOL ?

tnfastback · Mar 6, 2017

Yep........I was at one back in the Fall and was thinking the same thing.

YY1 · Mar 6, 2017

Started with the chinese tool tables.

Then those "as sen on TV" wire strippers and polishes.

Next was people putting a kitchen sink out with their parts.

Then automobile related toys, which tuned into transportation related toys, and now just toys, whech opened the door for everything else.

69 GTX · Mar 6, 2017

Yes all the above and stuff drug out of a ditch that should of been left there! Records, t shirts, signs,

Dreamcatcher · Mar 6, 2017

1967coronet said:
Just spent Sunday at the Lincoln NE. swap meet, I have been going for years to that one.
In the past it was always one of the better ones close to me, I have a few others that I go to that have been getting more like flea markets over the years.
But not Lincoln until this year, or mabey I just noticed and hadn't before.
I seen more vendors with used clothes , toys , jewelry , used kitchen ware , ect ect.

I just wonder if its getting like this nation wide ? or is this just a Midwest thing LOL ?

I used to go to Lincoln when I lived down that way and the last few times it wasn't very good, I was just at one yesterday in Rapid City and there wasn't even a hand full of car parts. But it was more like a garage sale. Not worth the 5$ to get in the door. Personally I think it is do to the shrinking number of parts for vintage cars.

erickson · Mar 6, 2017

I was at Indy last weekend, I thought it was better than the last years. I found some good deals and sold a lot of parts

Moparsmitty · Mar 6, 2017

I've definitely noticed that there is a lot more non-automotive stuff at the swap meets around here. I think that the organizers of some of these events have purposely gone this route to try to attract a larger audience. I've talked to a lot of guys that won't go to the biggest swap meet around here anymore just because it's such a waste of time. Half of the meet is non-automotive crap and the other half is almost all Ford/Chevy, and even most of that is crap. I can't remember finding a decent Mopar piece at a swap meet around here for a few years now.

furyus · Mar 6, 2017

Same i Florida. Baby dolls, crafts,lamp shades, etc. But no Mopar stuff.....

747mopar · Mar 6, 2017

Same in Ohio, it always irritates me seeing all the garbage scattered out on tables at car shows or swap meets..... It's not bad here but always at least a couple lots wasted on it.

PRND21 · Mar 6, 2017

I'd say Indy was 95% Mopar parts. A couple of tables with Girl Scout cookies and the guy with the tables full of Chinese tools, but mostly swap meet and parts vendors.

727 · Mar 6, 2017

Went to the Carlilse, Pa Mopar show last year. Didn't see anything but mopar parts. Maybe I was blinded by sheer number of used parts.
It was the redneck version of Mecca.

Kern Dog · Mar 6, 2017

I see the same thing here in California. I also agree that it is a matter of the event organizer trying to fill the spaces and keep the money flowing. I don't CARE to see tool sales, Die cast cars, household stuff like dishes, pots and pans, electric dog polishers....

dan juhasz · Mar 6, 2017

Blame it on the internet, it doesn't pay for vendors to lug all that stuff and not sell. On the east coast it is the Carlisle specific events or I don't bother.

odcics2 · Mar 6, 2017

I saw an old, beat up toilet seat, tagged, "Toyota bucket seat". Noticed later that it has sold.

anyone else seeing swap meets becoming flea markets more & more ?

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