Comments on: Tweaking for the Brooklyn Flea https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/ Reuse. Rehabilitate. Restore. Architectural salvage and repurposed pieces for the home. Thu, 29 Aug 2013 21:12:26 +0000 hourly 1 By: Reclaimed Home: Green Low Impact Housing Renovation of New York, Brooklyn, New Jersey https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8682 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 11:08:50 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8682 […] 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”). […]

]]> By: Lew Jaffe https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8625 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 21:44:52 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8625 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

]]> By: Silver Nest https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8608 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 14:50:36 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8608 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.

]]> By: RH https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8564 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 19:19:38 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8564 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.

]]> By: blackbird https://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8562 Fri, 11 Apr 2008 18:12:44 +0000 http://reclaimedhome.com/2008/04/11/tweaking-for-the-brooklyn-flea/#comment-8562 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.

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