I stopped by a flea market the other. They had a sign out front that said they had offered games consoles for sale. Being a collector of video games past, present, and future I had been meaning to stop for a couple months now but never had a chance or it was too late in the day to be open. however I eventually managed to stop
To call it a flea market is a bit of a stretch. It was flea market-esque but I would more point to it as a hybrid with a pawn shop. It had the proper grit and grime of both, and that part has never bothered me – but it seemed there was a central cash register so it looked like only one person ran the place. It was smaller then my house and had a small group of lay arounds just BSing about normal things. The other lay arounds seemed to be regulars but from slightly overhearing the discussion it seemed most were always up there, but none of the rest other then the main guy worked there.
I managed to scrounge around and for a place that didn’t specialize in games or consoles he had an ok selection. If the prices would have been correct I would have picked up something. The problem that exists is that almost everything was overpriced. Now this seems to exist because everyone selling at the flea market uses the highest price they could possibly get on e-bay if they sold it there.
The question I have to places like this is why don’t they sell the items on e-bay – isn’t it better to make a smaller steady profit then one lump sum that is the absolute most that someone in California would pay versus someone in the Midwest? This is just my .02 on things that just don’t make sense to me.