Tarnished? Yeah, so?
Last week I did ok at the Brooklyn Flea, but not phenomenal. It was nobody’s fault but my own as 20,000 people came through and some vendors actually sold out.
My mistake? I thought people would want a finished product. I made sure to bring only clean, refurbished handmade items. And I charged for them. But I think many people were looking for the bargains. I know that’s I do.
So I picked up a ton of small junky items this week. I’m going to display them, all dusty and sh*t and price them at less than $20. I don’t mind parting with pieces when I haven’t put in the time and effort. I’m having more fun hunting down these goodies than restoring antiques anyway.
Come visit! Bishop Loughlin Memorial HS in Fort Greene, on Lafayette Ave. between Clermont and Vanderbilt Ave. Booth C-5.
I’m not rewiring and it’s so freeing!
How easy to pack fabric and linens!
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It’s good to know you’ve absorbed your market research - I think you are probably right.
BTW, I once knew a very fancy lady with beautifully decorated pre-war apartment who only displayed tarnished silver pieces. On purpose.
Comment by blackbird — April 11, 2008 @ 2:12 pm
Personally, I prefer older looking things. But I enjoy the challenge of making them “whole” again! I guess there’s alittle of that in everybody.
Comment by RH — April 11, 2008 @ 3:19 pm
I hear you, girl. I’m doing the same, for the same reasons. We didn’t break even, although we got lots of complements. I think it will take a couple of weeks of tweaking to figure out the market. There has to be a middle ground between overpricing for market, and making it cheap enough to move out, yet still make a profit.
Comment by Silver Nest — April 12, 2008 @ 10:50 am
I will be set up on Sunday April 13th in space L8 and plan to bring victorian hardware from demolished Philadelphia buildings,two loose leaf albums with ephemera, bookplates(exlibris),antiquarian books, and lots of stuff that has not seen the light of day for over thirty yeasrs when I closed my booth at Penns Landing.
Come by and say hello.
Lew Jaffe
Comment by Lew Jaffe — April 12, 2008 @ 5:44 pm
[…] Last week we reported that we did ok-but-not-great on the inaugural Brooklyn Flea weekend. Well, our tweaking worked! We doubled our intake by offering smaller, less expensive items (read: flea market “junk”). […]
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