Big Flea Super Store

Big Flea Super Store is your typical flea market… it’s full of junk with a very rare find every so often. I went today with a group of friends and it turned out to be a great idea on such a cold, rainy day.
It’s $ 1 admission but the place is fairly large and indoors, which is a plus during nasty weather. I have a feeling that most of the vendors are there year round and I’d be surprised if vendors were in and out of there often because it looks like the same stuff over and over and over again. Also, the amount of stuff that some of these people have is astronomical.
I did end up purchasing a 1950’s-1960’s modern end table that I am absolutley obsessed with! It was part of a pair for $ 45, but the other table was in worse shape and I don’t really have room for 2. At first, the dealer didn’t want to sell just one, but after I left and came back a while later, I offered her $ 30 for the good one and she gladly accepted.
Don’t expect anything different at this flea market, it’s your average run of the mill flea, but as I said earlier, it makes for an interesting place to check out when you’re bored and have some extra cash to burn.

Not that I had high expectations going in, but this place was pretty dumpy. I’ll give it two stars because besides the typical, crappy flea market things, they have some tables with actual antiques that were kind of cool. They charge $ 1 to get in.

My experience was okay and terrible at the same time. I walked through and half of the vendors were miserable, but there was a lot of good stuff. Heres what really made me mad, Im 18 and jobless so trying to scrape together money for christmas shopping for my seven member family is really hard for me but i managed to do it and was really excited. There was a fragrance vendor who is african american and is located more towards the beginning of the flea market. She had my moms favorite fragrance and it was sealed so i figured it was legitimate and i was so ecstatic so i bought it and when i got home, i noticed there was something shaking inside so i opened it and it was the cap so i go and smell the perfume while its already opened and IT SMELLS NOTHING LIKE THE ACTUAL PERFUME. It was not even remotely similar and it smelled really unpleasant and repulsive. So now i have to find someway to make more money and christmas is in 11 days. Yeah I’m screwed. Moral to the story, THE FRAGRANCE BOOTH IS BOOTLEGGED SO STAY AWAY FROM THEM.

This is a review on the Auction. Specifically the food auction. Yes you save money if you want to eat and store expired, or best used by dated foods. Some longer than others. You have to eat everything fast or else it gets way beyond the Best Used By date. It takes HOURS for them to auction everything. We wasted our day WAITING for the frozen food to be auctioned. The sneaky auctioneer promised every 10 minutes he would start the frozen food to keep everyone from leaving. He finally got to the frozen food 2.5 HOURS later. Most of it was bulk packaged in bags like hamburgers, chicken wings, so if you have a freezer, you can sore it longer!
All in all we did save money but after you get home, you will realize you spent a lot of time and money on food you didn’t need. (you are thinking we are stupid, but because its cheap, you say what the hell on many items. (don’t go hungry, unless the auctioneer knows the longer you’re there, the hungrier you get and the more you buy).

OVERALL SCORE: 3.5 STARS
Big. Former Building 19 /​Ann and Hope. Many vendors.
Really good pet store, enormous, with cheap pet toys and a huge selection of doggie clothing.
Really good hot sauce booth, where ironically, the owner does not really like hot sauce so much. She wanted to sell flavored oils, but people kept coming in asking for hot sauce.
Lots of clothing booths. I got some super light weight windbreaker hoods for ten bucks a pop, which I have been looking for for a while.

NOT a Knock off Festival, which is good really, as those (as Lawrence where we were yesterday) get raided eventually, and just have a different atmosphere about them.
More than one food option, the Spanish one in the back looked interesting.
There certainly is plenty of the «why did these folks bother to bring this stuff» VHS tapes etc. The most notable to me was a statue of Jesus, which had been shattered and reconstructed, was still missing little pieces here and there, and was missing both hands entirely.
The armed guard must be exhausted when he goes home, walking around all day.

Yikes! I’ve been here twice and will not be returning for a third visit. Everything here is either very used or something no one would want/​need to use. Maybe it’s just me but I didn’t find ANYTHING worth buying. Not for me, no thanks.

Relatively new back in 2010, the Big Flea opened its doors as a beyond huge, year-​round affair with tons of vendors, outdoor sellers and generally, an interesting assortment of thrifty fun. Since then, unfortunately things have tapered off a little but it’s still definitely worth a Sunday morning trip. The biggest difference I’ve noticed in the past year or so, they no longer take up the full building, but just the backside around the corner. (An Ann & Hope Garden center moved in, instead.)
Opened every Saturday & Sunday from 9am to 5pm, there’s still a decent amount of unique items: unlike the Big Top Flea Market, there also appears to be less vendors and more yard-​sale type booths. Which is always a good thing. (Sorry folks, but all the bootlegged bags, shoes and clothing don’t do much for me.) I found quite a bit of interesting vintage jewelry.
Which brings me to the unfortunate part.
If you’re on the lookout for vinyl records, comic books and retro games, this isn’t quite the place to go. I spied a single, lone vendor with a few boxes of LP’s as well as a couple sellers with overpriced games. Other than that, unlike The Seekonk Speedway Flea or Raynham, it’s pretty much a dead end.
However, despite that, it’s still mad fun for a mucky Sunday since it’s more so indoors. Overall it depends on what you’re looking for. While the idea of shopping for used flat screen televisions, Christian themed political books and Chinese fighting fish may not give me heart palpitations or weak knees, if they give your ‘lil ‘olé stomach butterflies, it’s so worth the $ 1 admission.