Got a deal at flea market !

[VINTAGE-SLOTCARS]

I like going to the local flea market on Sundays. Today there was a guy that buys storage lockers selling his items. Just as I got to his table he dumps out a small bag of various magazines. I picked out 4 mini 14 mags, 3 ruger mk3 mags, 1 high power mag, and 2 ppk/s mags. He said 24 dollars for those. I paid him and said thanks!!! Has anyone else had a good flea market deal recently?

 

[rcmodel]

Nothing like that deal.

Ever!!!

rc

 

[WestKentucky]

My mom once bought 40 pounds of mixed stamp 38 and 357 brass, a press, 6 sets of dies, and 2 coffee cans of .270win brass. Along with a few other items. She saw the brass, asked about it and said the guy asked if she wanted the lot or just the brass. She asked for prices on both as she dialed my number. Best 60 bucks ever spent. That was in 2002 I think. My grandma once ran across an RG 32swl (I know all about RG) at a yard sale for 5 bucks in the late 70s. It's in my collection now, actually in its original box stored inside her jewelry box all inside my safe. My wife ran across a whole Rubbermaid tote of GI mags when I got my ar. Guy wanted rid of them and sold her the whole box for $100. A year later we had Newtown and they all sold for 8 to 10 bucks each.

I keep going and looking but keep coming up empty. My best find to date is a set of custom 1911 grips for 10 bucks which didn't end up fitting my pistol. Screw location was wrong, but it worked on the llama I got a few years later.

 

[Jackal]

$10 first Gen USMC Kabar that I sold for $300. $15 water filter that sold for $265, stack of rusty guns (shotguns/pistols) for $75, sold for $450 cleaned up. Garage sales around here can be awesome, but only 2-3 per year like that.

 

[Steel Horse Rider]

I picked up my original Pacific reloading press as well as a powder dispenser at a garage sale for $10. I also picked up a 1939 Japanese Arisaka bayonet in mint condition at an antique show for $50. It takes good luck, fortunate timing, and the ability to recognize what you are looking at.

 

[Ks5shooter]

Got a sealed 8lb jug of Red dot for 10 bucks.Womans husband left her and left the Red dot. She was scared to have it in the house.

 

[scaatylobo]

Fleamarket a few decades back .

I saw a rifle on a table,the guy looked a bit burned out.

I asked to see the rifle and he offered me a toke of his bud .

I refused nicely.

The rifle was a A3-O3 and he asked me for 55.00 dollars for it.

I threw the money at him and RAN to my car.

Kept it for a few years and sold it for a pistol.

 

[Cee Zee]

Flea markets are hard work. You can find some great deals but you have to walk by 500 tables of people hawking stuff for double it's value to find those good deals. I've bought some stuff at incredibly good prices at flea markets and I've wasted my whole day on nothing too.

Bought a Ruger LCP mag for $10. They run about $30. I've bought lots of tools for way less than they should cost. If you find someone that's just cleaning out their garage especially if they weren't the ones that used the tools you can find some great deals. Bought a 5 gallon bucket of impact sockets for $5 once. That was freaky. I bought a table saw for $30. It should have cost 10 times that much. It's just a matter of being the first guy to ask sometimes. I've bought tons of tools for bargain basement prices at flea markets but I've bought just about everything I could ever want. I don't have expensive shop tools (I have a few I guess) but I wouldn't use most of them if I had them.

I find it hard to find good deals on firearms at flea markets. Best deal I ever saw was a pristine SKS about 5 years ago for $150. They were selling for way more than that in bad condtion at the time. I smelled something fishy when the guy wouldn't let me take the dust cover off to see if there was an obvious problem so I let it go. The guy was probably hiding something because he packed up and left in about 2 minutes after I said no.

Oh yeah. I did find the deal of a lifetime. I probably would have got life if I had bought it. A guy offered me a crate of SKS Norinco's for $115 each. I had heard the BATF was hanging out that day. It had to be a setup. Nobody sells those rifles for that price any more. I asked him if I could buy one and he walked off. The guy didn't have anything with him. He didn't even have a table. He was a customer, not a seller. You have to watch your step at flea markets. There are a lot of guns at the flea market near where I live and apparently the BATF is a regular visitor.

 

[Deltaboy1984]

I got assorted tools and knives but no guns. Best buy been a barber's Black Arkansas Stone for 3 bucks.

 

[g.willikers]

VintageSC,
You started this thread just to make some of us feel bad, didn'tcha?
We live where retirees go to roost and they have mostly divested themselves of the stuff that used to fill their attics and garages.
No fun.
I once got a Bear wooden recurve for $20, though.

 

[VA27]

Picked up 20 GI M1 Carbine mags in the wrapper for 5 bux each.

 

[Hunterdad]

Only thing in flea markets around here are old movies, broken car audio stuff and beef jerky. You guys got it pretty good.

 

[Gun Master]

Trade Day = Flea Market ?

Poor, married, and in college, I took an old model Stevens Double 12 gauge, with hanging up firing pins to see if a could make a good trade.
I found a table with abused military pistols, and assorted firearms, of which I remembered a Luger, P-38, and many others. I had previously owned both. I asked "the man" how he would trade with me for the P-38 and my Stevens ?
The P-38 was in VG condition, Nazi proof marks, and all parts matching serial numbered, with "cyq" code.
He said my gun and $5.00.
I just about dropped my teeth, even though they were attached. Back then, a good conditioned Stevens was worth $50. A P-38 in that condition was worth $65 and up.
I literally did not have the $5, but I would have given it to him and ran, if I had it.
I had a used (but looked like new) 12" Bowie Knife with leather sheath, which I did pay $5 for. I asked him if he'd take the knife in place of the $5 ?
He said he would. I left the shotgun, knife, and the camp grounds, very quickly, while hugging my P-38 (and my wife) very closely !

I still have that P-38 and my sweet wife !

Not recently, but that'll have to do !

 

[walleyepw]

Rarely find good flea market buys. To much junk being sold.

 

[newfalguy101]

With the internet, its getting more and more difficult to find really low prices, people often times will get online and see what their stuff is "worth" ( usually looking at asking prices NOT sold prices.... )

There is a monster garage sale at the end of next month, we usually go and fill the car with stuff at about 25% of what it would cost us new............the trick is to ID the people who dragged their stuff out to GET RID of it, versus the guys who drag their stuff out year after year to make money.

 

[oneounceload]

Bought a like-new K-22 Model 17 6" for $200 less than anything found on-line.........works great

 

[Rembrandt]

Picked up a Herters turret press and assorted reloading stuff......$5 at a garage sale.

 

[ol' scratch]

I typically do better at auctions and garage sales

I got $1600 worth of reloading equipment, calipers, neck turning equipment and gun smithing equipment for the equivalent of a $500 trade at a garage sale. He was happy and I was happy.

 

[joem1945]

Best deal I ever got was a basement full of reloading equipment for $1000.00. Four or five nive presses, reloading dies for just about everything and powder drops. Trash bag full of opened powder containers. Dumped the powder as I didn't trust what it was. Kept what I wanted and sold the rest for $1400.00.

 

[Hardtarget]

When I go to flea markets or yard sales...they think highly and dearly of every piece of rust on the tables. I've never come away with anything worth hauling home.

Mark

 

[newfalguy101]

I have done pretty well at garage/yard sales, and even a few times at auctions, but have yet to land a real "whale"

 

[Twiki357]

Too bad that flea market wasn’t in Arizona instead California or you could have also gotten the little thingies that they go into.

 

[AR-15Nutt]

at a gun show 2 or 3 years ago i got this for $3.00 silver camel coin. mine was a "proof", with some minor blemishes, the lady at the table thought it was just another challenge coin, which she had many, but this one was the only silver one, it was badly tarnished, but a little vinegar/water solution made it bright and shiny.

 

[oldbear]

Has anyone else had a good flea market deal recently?

Nothing like you picked up. In fact the one flea market we like to frequent seldom has any firearm related items.

I did though pick up a very nice piece of green sea jade with a silver dragon attached to it, for $7.00 not to long ago at the flea market.

 

[Starter52]

I once picked up a full box of GI .45 ACP ammo for $4 at a flea market. It was headstamped in the 1960's and worked just fine.