Swap meet selling

[solidaxle]

Unless you have an original set of N.O.S. Aurdun heads I wouldn't price stuff to high in the first half. As a buyer I try to get around the entire swap meet and rarely go back.
Labeling items with reasonable prices will weed out some of the low ballers and cutdown on needless conversation.

 

[revkev6]

The best swap meet I ever attended was my first trip to Hershey ... barely organized, out in a pasture with the Kiwanis Club selling "Egg McKiwanis" out of a garage next to the swap meet grounds.

Those who remember the Hershey Monsoons know the days.

The most disappointing swap me I ever attended was my last Hershey trip with everything on paved parking lots ... homogenized and boring.

But, that's ME!

Clearly everyone has their idea of how to sell and how to buy. There is no "right way."

One of my buddies would hunker down with the first box of junk he came to and sort through every piece digging out real treasures. I'd just leave him. He was like a ferret and found excellent buys ... that was his idea of buying. If you tagged everything and set it up on a table, you'd ruin his good time.

If you want to go about swap meets like it's big business, that's fine. Keep in mind that some of us go for a good time, enjoy the banter, the joking, the bargaining, and are turned off by the ultra serious types.

Do it however you want ... try to enjoy it.

I used to go to hershey as a kid when I had lots of parts to get. granted, that wasn't that long ago in the early 90s. like you say, always raining, always muddy. my father and uncle with me and I would be pushing around a few hundred pounds of parts in our "hershey cart" which was a shopping cart basket that we put up on end with the front as the bottom and the swing up back welded to the old top. we welded a couple ten speed bike front forks onto the sides so you could just balance it as you pushed. we would get people that would take my picture as an 11 year old kid pushing this monster cart loaded down with parts through the hershey mud like it was nothing. now, my uncle drives down every year hauling down tons of parts and comes back with the same stuff, no selling or buying... and wonders why I tell him no thanks when he asks me to go...

 

[pooch]

When the third person asks you the price and walks away without even making an offer, you then should know your price is way too high.

Figure how many times you want to take that part home and then bring it back to the next swap.

I have been going to swaps for over 40 years and I reckon some of the **** is the same **** for all that time from the same vendor.

 

[JSeery]

I have been going to swaps for over 40 years and I reckon some of the **** is the same **** for all that time from the same vendor.

I've noticed a lot of that! I think it is a collection they want to show off and they have no interest in selling.

 

[Ron Pilger]

I have given a valuable part to someone for free if that individual approaches me right, we have something in common, i know he's not buying to re-sell and if he's a reasonable and good guy. Walk up to me with a lousy, cocky attitude or offer me 10 cents on the dollar "just because" and the asking price tends to stay put for the next good guy to come along.