Post your Garage Sale/Flea Market/Antique Mall Finds Here 59 59

[littledoom]

After racing to put my name on the official estate sale list at 1am I’m 10th. I’ve been in my car the whole time and when I come out at 6am there’s a completely different list with my name nowhere on it! Not so cool. (I would have been 25th!). I calmly explain to the estate sale promoter the situation (I show him pics of my name on the original list and my box) and he adds me. Cool. I join a conversation w my friends for a bit only to see my name scribbled off by my competition! (What was he thinking?! Lol). I talk to the promoter once again and he adds my name once again. Cool! (I must be some hot shot threat) lol. I got 225 comics for $375. Less than $2 each as he put it. The promoter helped me out. Stand up guy. Straight shooter.

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 6/25/2022 at 7:12 PM, littledoom said:

After racing to put my name on the official estate sale list at 1am I’m 10th. I’ve been in my car the whole time and when I come out at 6am there’s a completely different list with my name nowhere on it! Not so cool. (I would have been 25th!). I calmly explain to the estate sale promoter the situation (I show him pics of my name on the original list and my box) and he adds me. Cool. I join a conversation w my friends for a bit only to see my name scribbled off by my competition! (What was he thinking?! Lol). I talk to the promoter once again and he adds my name once again. Cool! (I must be some hot shot threat) lol. I got 225 comics for $375. Less than $2 each as he put it. The promoter helped me out. Stand up guy. Straight shooter.

shame about the competition, but yes, good of the promoter !!!!

That's some effort!!

 

[Haljordanfan]

What shape is the GL 59 in? 

[grendelbo]

On 6/25/2022 at 6:12 PM, littledoom said:

After racing to put my name on the official estate sale list at 1am I’m 10th. I’ve been in my car the whole time and when I come out at 6am there’s a completely different list with my name nowhere on it! Not so cool. (I would have been 25th!). I calmly explain to the estate sale promoter the situation (I show him pics of my name on the original list and my box) and he adds me. Cool. I join a conversation w my friends for a bit only to see my name scribbled off by my competition! (What was he thinking?! Lol). I talk to the promoter once again and he adds my name once again. Cool! (I must be some hot shot threat) lol. I got 225 comics for $375. Less than $2 each as he put it. The promoter helped me out. Stand up guy. Straight shooter.

Exciting haul!

[littledoom]

On 6/25/2022 at 5:49 PM, Haljordanfan said:

What shape is the GL 59 in? 

Not great. Low grade. I've never owned it, so I'm holding onto it

[Haljordanfan]

On 6/26/2022 at 1:29 AM, littledoom said:

Not great. Low grade. I've never owned it, so I'm holding onto it

Nice. Just asking as that was the book that stood out to me. Nice pickups! 

[Jesse-Lee]

Just got back from the local antique fair they hold a few times each summer - I've found some great stuff at this show in the past, but it was a huge bust this trip unfortunately. Only a couple of booths with any comics at all, and the one with the most had about four short boxes. We're talking nothing above mid-grade, with stuff like X-men run fillers priced at $20+, a Crisis on Infinite Earths 7 in probably a 3.0 priced at $35, etc. It was strange too because the seller was probably younger than me (I'm 44), and usually when I see crazy priced books in smaller quantities it's an older man or woman who are selling them in addition to other non-comic stuff. This guy had a lot of overpriced loose action figures too.

I know there are others who have gone to these local shows in the past for comics, cards and toys, and it made me think about getting a booth next time and setting up some $1/$2/$3/$4 boxes and a few wall books. It costs somewhere around $150 to be a dealer depending on booth size, location and table rental. Anybody here have any luck/tips/etc. selling at mixed format events like this (a lot of the show is stuff like LPs, tin signs, old Pyrex and other cooking stuff, general "antiques")? Thanks!

[mrwoogieman]

More junk shop finds, the Corben and the Heavy Metal were $5 each, the comics $2. Got a bunch of Amazing Heroes and some other odds and ends. 

[MetalPSI]

On 6/26/2022 at 8:08 AM, mrwoogieman said:

More junk shop finds, the Corben and the Heavy Metal were $5 each, the comics $2. Got a bunch of Amazing Heroes and some other odds and ends. 

Love those Heavy Metals

[MattTheDuck]

On 6/26/2022 at 6:00 AM, Jesse-Lee said:

Just got back from the local antique fair they hold a few times each summer - I've found some great stuff at this show in the past, but it was a huge bust this trip unfortunately. Only a couple of booths with any comics at all, and the one with the most had about four short boxes. We're talking nothing above mid-grade, with stuff like X-men run fillers priced at $20+, a Crisis on Infinite Earths 7 in probably a 3.0 priced at $35, etc. It was strange too because the seller was probably younger than me (I'm 44), and usually when I see crazy priced books in smaller quantities it's an older man or woman who are selling them in addition to other non-comic stuff. This guy had a lot of overpriced loose action figures too.

I know there are others who have gone to these local shows in the past for comics, cards and toys, and it made me think about getting a booth next time and setting up some $1/$2/$3/$4 boxes and a few wall books. It costs somewhere around $150 to be a dealer depending on booth size, location and table rental. Anybody here have any luck/tips/etc. selling at mixed format events like this (a lot of the show is stuff like LPs, tin signs, old Pyrex and other cooking stuff, general "antiques")? Thanks!

I know @Robot Man has done shows and has chosen things that are priced to attract what I'd guess we might call a "mid-range" buyer who might be looking to spend $20 rather than $200.  I think that's in this thread, but he might come on and correct my recollection.

 

[Texaswingnut]

On 7/31/2009 at 4:43 PM, seanfingh said:

 

It's funny, Shark. Everytime I go to a flea market or an antique mall, everything they have is jacked up beyond belief in price.

Very frustrated. Wether it be 90s vg or a smoking hot key they are all 5-10 bucks.

Edited June 26, 2022 by Texaswingnut

[Texaswingnut]

Found this X-men 266 at an antique mall for $7 bucks mixed in with a pile of nothing special marked at $7 as well. I’ll take it!

 

[Namtak]

On 6/26/2022 at 12:00 PM, Texaswingnut said:

Found this X-men 266 at an antique mall for $7 bucks mixed in with a pile of nothing special marked at $7 as well. I’ll take it!

 

[spreads]

On 6/26/2022 at 10:08 AM, mrwoogieman said:

More junk shop finds, the Corben and the Heavy Metal were $5 each, the comics $2. Got a bunch of Amazing Heroes and some other odds and ends. 

Like you, I never turn down cheap preunities, no matter how many I have!

[Beastfeast]

$7 Facebook find. Morbin’ big time. 

[grendelbo]

On 6/27/2022 at 6:06 PM, Beastfeast said:

$7 Facebook find. Morbin’ big time. 

Dang!

[ADAMANTIUM]

On 6/27/2022 at 7:06 PM, Beastfeast said:

$7 Facebook find. Morbin’ big time. 

Double your money?

Haha

So cool 

 

[spreads]

On 6/27/2022 at 8:06 PM, Beastfeast said:

$7 Facebook find. Morbin’ big time. 

Was there anything else?  

[Namtak]

Finally got my hands on legend of legaia cib with manual in wonderful condition!

[jcjames]

Found a 5"x5" tin box for a buck-ish at an antique store.

But I don't know what to put in it. Any ideas?