I think we all have better things to do than sit around at a yard sale, flea market or rummage sale but sounds like you got the right idea. Get a buddy or two to go along, have some drinks , have some food, have some fun while your making some money.

I love our outdoor flea market. Great Mexican food, they sell beer as well. If a buddy comes along were sitting arond outside having a few beers probably not all that different than whatever else I'd be doing otherwise. Plus if I get a good spot along the edges where I got some space I normally will take my bags out of my trunk and play some bags as well while we wait for customers.

Jross, how come you comment on TC but not me 

I sold off a good amount of scrap silver lately before prices started to fall.

With the sudden drop just curious if you guys are holding waiting for it to bounce back or for long term or selling now while prices are high?

Obviously prices now aren't near an all time high not even close but just seems wierd job numbers come out worse, inflation is bad, etc all things which shoudl make it go higher and it falls fast.

I was watching Kudlow the other week and a guy was warning people about buying and mentioned some crash back in the 80's or so. I'm too young to remember that but it got me thinking, I wound up selling about half of the silver I was holding

I'll make you all feel good about your gas prices. In the city of Chicago prices are over $5, I try to fill up in the burbs or even NW Indiana if possible but even in the burbs I was paying $4.69 the other day.

TC, I was curious about your car or truck if you don't mind sharing, what do you mean by recycled garbage, do you run off vegetable oil or some other type of fuel?

A buddy of mine was really interested in buying an old VW or Mercedes diesel and doing a conversion.

Another idea if any of you guys are handy with working on engines and stuff. A guy who recently came and bought that wierd bamboo/cane chair from me and a few other items had a big truck, dont recall the model but a 250 or bigger. He had put an old diesel tractor engine in it and was getting fantastic mileage. Again dont remember exactly what he said but it was good.

Which do you prefer? In my we have a few indoor ones that are really large and have great crowds but its' such a pain having to unload all your stuff and bring it inside through the same entrance 100 other people are trying to bring crap in through.

I like the outdoor in that you can just pull up your truck to your spot and your good.

Do you guys barter on craigslist at all? I love the concept and love bartering and if you find reasonable people it's a great deal for both parties as normally both of you have items that no longer interest you however are of great interest to the other person so you get a new toy or somethign you need and your really not losing out on anything.

I used to make beanbag toss games and barter them on cl. Would normally trade for tickets to sporting events. My games cost me about $14 in supplies and could normally trade for 4 tickets to a sporting event. It was a good deal as my games didn't cost me very much and mos tof the people I bartered with had season tickets throughtheir company that would have gone to waste anyway and they didn't pay for so good deal for both sides. Tickets are also easy to resell if I wanted cash or I'm a sports fan so always up to go to a game.

Ran out to a few auctions this morning. One unit was probaby about a 10x15 was full of those yellow bags of rock salt. Were talking the whole unit over waist deep in bags of rock salt.

Cannot fathom what the person was storing this for. Unit wound up going for $85. What a pain that must be to unload unless you have a heavy duty truck, I imagine most cars or smaller trucks would be scraping tailpipes even only being a 1/4 loaded.

I normally don't have much good to say about ebay but I actually like it. Sure it was actually a fee hike but it actually kind of suits my selling style and my mindset about ebay.

I'm cheap so I always hate listing something for paying a few bucks and then not having it sell. Profit margins on ebay acn be so think having to relist once or a few times can start cutting into profits on some items.

With the new fee structure we pay higher FVF fees and fvf on shipping however listing fee is free and so is buy it now.

I tend to do a lot of 0.99 cent start auctions even for good items and sometimes wind up giving stuff away. Sure I'd prob be better off listing for higher prices and getting hit with more fees for items that dont sell but just never really wroked that way.

With the new fee structure I just listed a baseball blogve that I probably in the past would have sold for 0.99 cents and let the auction run its course but listed it for a few bucks with a $25 buy it now. Someone bought it now day 1 so didn't have to wait for the auction to run its course and got 4-5 times what I would have gotten my old way of listing.