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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;George Chaney, post: 4497973, member: 19137&quot;]I think this is probably not the best way to ask the question. There are lots of places all over the place that have opportunities regardless of where you might be located. Some areas are savvier than others, but.....here is my take on it with some examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably been noted, I find the absolute best places are hole in the wall shops usually in rural areas. As an example, wife and I were driving a few years ago on our way to boone NC. We took the back roads for a leisurely trip. I didn&#039;t notice a place my wife did and pointed to it and said, OMG, I would never stop at a place like that. It looked like a hoarder house outside (and inside)</p><p><br /></p><p>Those are the places you want to stop. I promptly turned around. You had to dig through piles of crap stacked in boxes. I am pretty sure we spent at least an hour digging. She who would &quot;never stop&quot; had to be dragged out - I&#039;m like we really need to get back on the road.... - ended up with more junk than she could carry for 10 bucks - of course she batted her eyes during negotiations. I&#039;m more a jewelry guy when I stop at places, I picked up a few misc bits, but nothing of note. The building was stacked with old stuff that frankly, I just was not interested in buying. I traveled to an auction in swansboro nc and on the way back out in the middle of nowhereville, stopped at another hole in the wall shop full of junk, walked out with 3 pairs of 14K earrings for 2 bucks. My kind or shop <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>You can find stuff in the city as well, stopped at a shop in Wilmington NC, purchased a trophy for 20 bucks and sold it for 200 2 weeks later. That said, I kind of look at it like bargains are usually found where no one else has had the chance to beat you to the good stuff....granted, sometime we don&#039;t know what is the good stuff (speaking of myself here....lol)</p><p><br /></p><p>There are some good flea markets, you just have to figure out which ones are worth going to in your area. A lot of &quot;storage buyers&quot; use them for quick turn over on inventory so you can get good prices and most have no idea what they have - I speak as someone that loves picking storage locker buyers. I purchased a record album collection from a guy that came out of storage locker for $2000.00. I made 6000 in the first 3 months and am still selling LP&#039;s out of that collection for good money. I&#039;ve not been selling much this year, but YTD on 5 LP&#039;s sold netted 300 bucks. With flea markets, you usually have to get their super early to get the really good stuff, but I find most of the flea markets have become way to commercial. My advice with flea markets is to find the ones where storage locker buyers are selling and buy from the guys/gals who aren&#039;t in love with what they are selling.</p><p><br /></p><p>The thing about storage lockers is one day you get one full of new stuff (or crap loads of trash), and the next you have great great grandmom or dads legacy. I bought a storage locker several years ago for $15 just for something to do. Nearly every piece of clothing had silver coins in the pockets and every bag was full of binders of coins and loose coins. I made a literal &quot;mint&quot; on that coin collection. I got the unit because it was nasty, and clearly had been (industry term here) &quot;tossed&quot;. There was a huge safe door (no safe) so I only got a fraction of what must of been horded in that unit.</p><p><br /></p><p>I love garage sales, but my wife hates them and won&#039;t go to them and the weekends are usually reserved for her <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I love small time estate auction houses who don&#039;t know what they are doing. Find the ones in your area and follow them. Usually every auction has something worth money that goes cheap cheap cheap. One of my best buys from one - purchased a revolutionary war walking cane in a lot of canes I paid 15 bucks for. Best part was, it was a named revolutionary war fighter. The carved ivory handle was broken, but didn&#039;t stop me from getting $1500.00 for it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Online auction sites such as liveauctioneers. A well known auction house - whom I will not name, was kind enough to sell via auction a lot of &quot;gold filled&quot; jewelry for $500.00 all in. Just two weeks ago, I sold just one bracelet from that grouping for $3000.00 to someone that called me and had to have it. Another bracelet from that lot sold for $2500.00. Various other pieces from that lot sold from anywhere between $300.00 and $750.00. So even at the fancy pants NY auction houses, you can find steals if you know what you are looking at.</p><p><br /></p><p>At the end of the day, and I hate that saying, there are a lot of places to find treasures, the most important thing is making sure you keep moving as that is what creates the opportunities to find them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Good luck![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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