Rockin - you are starting to remind me of Rebecca (member here and she has a blog also I read).  Glad you not letting a toe stop ya from shopping

UGA - Athens must be pretty slow it sounds like which surprises me.  Hope you keep doing well.

Cheesehead - All I can say is ouch, I would hate for the news here to do a story.  Crowds are bad enough w/o advertising it on the 6 o'clock news.  Good luck to ya.

Money - you may want to hit auction anyways.  May be surprised and find cheap lockers like I did yesterday.  I went on a whim (didn't even have my auction wallet with me).  I'm doing an auction Saturday instead of selling since they calling for 80% chance of rain.  If rain holds off I'll hit the dump and maybe scrap yard also.

Already made some of my money back on the 3 units.  Found a $5 target card, and 13 forever stamps.  So only $55 in the red for this buy.  Did find some 9.5 Air Jordan shoes, Rubber boots, and some scrap.  My $40 locker turned out to be mostly books (boo).  Did get some costume jewelry and a fake Coach bag.  Truck full of black trash bags to search still but figure those are mostly Goodwill donations.

I'm A UGA Fan, I watch a lot of college football, but i'm not from there, it's actually a couple of hours from me, I live in Rome, GA    which is in the northwest corner of Georgia.

Went to a 2 facility  auction here in my town (for a change). There were 2 units at 1 and 7 at the other. There were only about 8 people.  There was only 1 really good unit, I bid to my limit but didn't win.

I did win 2 units, 1 was for $10, and the other $80.

The $10 unit I bought was a 5X10  and I got it just because no one else wanted it and there was a old gas furnace and a dresser and a couple of boxes, I thought what the hell I can scrap it if nothing else.

The second unit for $80 was a 10x10.  It has a gun cabinet (NO GUNS), lots of shelving, couple of pieces of furniture, heavy duty craftsman drill, GAY PORN LOL, 2 Vintage Howell and BEll projectors which are pretty cool one was a 8mm and the other was 16mm,  and some mens suits and jackets.

I like the second unit there was saleable things in there. And I can use the shelves.

@ cobia

Yeah it's junke, but stuff was selling!

I've also been to summerville twice in the past month, just looking and it has been pretty crowded.  Not sure how well stuff was selling, but I do plan on attending there hopefully next week.  Will let you know how it goes.

I have been thinking about Dalton, but was just going to start at these two first ( Rome, Summerville).   

Yesterday I setup for the first time at a flea market, honestly before this and my Antiques mall/indoor flea market ventures (all started in the last week) I have just sold to people I know and ebay. 

I have checked this flea market out twice in the past month and it has been pretty dead, but since it is 2 miles down the road and I visted it many times as a kid during the summer I thoght it would be a good place to get a feel for it before I travel 25 miles to a much larger flea market next week.

I setup a little after 7 and there were maybe 20 vendors there.  This was about as many or a lil more than were there my 2 previous.  Vendors were showing up until around 8:30.  By then I had sold about half of what I sold all day. It ended up being much more vendors maybe 30-40.

I did much better than expected for this small flea market.

After gas and breakfast I made $180 minus cost of products.

I got a good feel for what sells, I think I sold some things for much lower than anyone else but thats why I went to sell.

holy crap!   this just makes me tired reading all of this. 


Heres my packing list. 

Good flash light
2 long loop locks
lots of cash

thats it. 

Thats about it for me, except some trash bags and some totes.

I don't think anyone should jump head first in and quit there job, but hey maybe you can do it.  I know any questions you have this forum will be glad to help and I am rooting for you. 

Welcome to the forum

I think you had better find a another way to find auctions other than auctionzip.   Any auction adertised with them is gonna be very crowded.

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