Trader Buck’s Indoor Flea Market

A little dirty, but still enjoy places like this! I want fun and cheap, junk sales vs overpriced crap someone has put a coat of paint on and wants to call it art for $ 100. Will go back!

This place is straight up skanky. I really have to be in a mood to peruse through all of the trash. I have found a few inexpensive things but ⁹⁄₁₀ its not worth going. They don’t call it the dirt mall for nothin’.

This flea market reminds me of the kind I went to when I was a little kid. These kind of places have become extinct — for better or for worse. The warehouse it is in is huge, but so many of the booths in the front half are in complete disarray with merchandise Goodwill wouldn’t be happy to accept. The bane of flea markets to me is the $ 1.00 bins of made in China products that aren’t fit to sell at the Dollar Tree but takes up room in flea markets now. Trader Buck’s has one such area. There are also quite a few empty booths suggesting sales aren’t keeping up with rent. There are no antiques in here — just used merchandise, but if ever there was going to be a place where you might find some treasured toy from the 80’s for $.50, it would be here. The back half of the warehouse labeled «show room» has better merchandise, is more organized and some booths even have themes. There is even a massage booth back there, but the masseuse wasn’t there on this Saturday morning. I picked up a dollhouse miniature, porcelain toilet and sink for $ 2.03.

I bought a lamp at this place that didn’t work and I bought a set of queen-​sized sheets that don’t fit my queen-​sized bed. I know that this is a no-​refund flea market, and that you have to take what you get. But when you’re 0 – 2 on what are, in fact, fairly ordinary purchases, I feel like you can hold it against the business as well — at least for not having better quality control about what they’re selling.
I’d go to Klassy Klutter instead.