You are at the flea market of the year. For you it couldn't get any better: The sun is out and it's a beautiful day, you feel at your best and ready to explore. You have enough money in your pocket to make a killing.
Only thing is you don't know how to get the most bang for your buck. Well I'm here as your little pocket elf (so to say)! With this little guide I will help you score the biggest finds of the century!
Just do what I teach and you will be on your way of buying and reselling for more than 50% of the price you bought it for!
1.Haggle,Haggle and Haggle.
Haggling, it's allowed everywhere. This is the basic rule of flea markets. This is asking the seller of your desired item if he could take x for the item when the real value is y which is more than x. Just to give you an example of my expertise, I was at a garage sale a few months back and the woman who was at command was there and i asked her how much a set of golf clubs were. She said they were 5 bucks. Now even though this is a great price for the golf clubs, the house the family lived in was big and extravagant so I'm thinking they're wealthy. So I asked $3 hoping for the best. And She accepted!
2.Don't Show Emotion
This is 1 rule that I even betrayed in my younger years as a hunter. It's like showing fear in front of a tiger. If you ever buy an item from a seller and you know it goes for much more than he or she's asking for it, do not show excitement. It will show them either that you're either really excited about buying this certain thing or your excitement is coming because you know the real value of it. My example of this is when I purchased Final Fantasy 7 for $3 at my local flea market a year ago. When i said "I'll take it" There was a bit of excitement in my voice, and if i remember correctly, the seller did look at me like why is he so excited about this? Well it tell you why. Because it goes for around $70 dollars on ebay! And i did flip it around and I made my profit!
3.If It's Free, Take it No Matter What.
Now you're probably asking me why, well think of it this way. If the seller is giving it away for free and if he or she does not get rid of it, he or she will probably throw it out. Now if you take it and see how you
can use it and you can that's great! If you can't use it! Sell it! It will be really easy to make a profit off of free! For example, I was at a Brooklyn flea market a year ago and the seller was giving away a free PS1 Controller. I took it and I use it for playing my old PS1 games!
4.Make Friends With The Seller
Now this one is not a have to. But think of it more as a want to. If you make friends with the seller, you'll get to know them better and even get discounts! Or get stuff for free!
5.If You Ask How Much It Is And You Know For A Fact That It Goes For Much More Than The Seller's Asking For It, Ask Less.
This,many people don't know about. If you encounter a item in the wild and you know for certain that it goes for much more than the seller is asking, ask for lower. This is called the dumb play. You act like you don't know the value so the seller has no idea of what you know. So for example, back to the Final Fantasy 7 incident. I knew the value of the game was around $70 but he was asking $5. So Obviously, he didn't know the real value either. So to take the advantage i acted like him and asked if i could take it for $3. And i took it!
6.If You're A Kid And You Are Doing These Things It's Even Better.
Now this rule does not apply to everybody, this only applies to kids (obviously), Tweens and Teens. This applies only to them because if this age criteria goes to a flea market and starts using these pointers, the seller who would most likely be an adult would either think they're being cute, they think that the kid has no idea what he or she is doing or the seller probably thinks that they're buying just to use it for it's main use and nothing else, unlike reselling or flipping it for instance.
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