San Ysidro Swap Meet

This place is stuck in the 90s. The clothes they sell here are the same clothes they sold back in 1993. They need to sell better clothes. The only good thing left is the nachos. Alot of vendors left like 6 – 7 years ago. Now the place is pathetic.

Great selection, organized and clean.

I went to San Ysidro Swap Meet when it first opened in the mid 90’s. I went when they used to charge you to enter. I went when every vendor spot both inside and outside the two warehouses were completely occupied.
Fast forward nearly 18 years later and it’s no longer *the* swap meet of swap meets in town. There no longer is an entry fee, you park where vendors used to set up shop and one of the two warehouses is barely occupied by vendors.
My goal was to find inexpensive tiaras for my four flower girls. There were at least two vendors that sold these since they specialize in Quinceañera gear, so I lucked out when I found a vendor that had four identical tiaras that were on special, buy one, get second for half off. For my four tiaras, they came out to $ 36.00 bucks.
I gave one of the flower girls a preview of what she was going to wear with her dress and her eyes nearly popped out of her socket with excitement. Yay, flower girl approved.
I don’t know if I’d go back to shop for anything else, but I would eventually drive my Mom back there to stock up on more shoes. She found some cute ones for $ 12 dollars each that she bought two pairs to be matchy-​matchy with the bags she bought at Macy’s the day before.
However, if you’re on the hunt for…
–a Gangnam style t-​shirt with Psy on the shirt,
–inexpensive bras, socks and underwear,
–inexpensive hair accessories (bought my nieces some cute headbands for $ 0.99 each when similar ones would easily cost $ 4.99 at Macy’s),
–super cheap, decent quality blankets for $ 10-​$ 15,
–Quinceañera gear,
–decent vests and jackets for colder weather, or
–LOUD booty shaking music as you shop
…then hit up San Ysidro Swap Meet.

Went to the «Swap Meet» on Saturday and it was not a swap meet at all. This is an indoor store for vendors just like Fam Mart in East San Diego. I will never come back here again. I wish I could have the 2 hours of my life back. :-(Very disappointed.

This Swap Meet is indoors and you can buy anything from shoes to carpets. not like other swap meet, everything is new and you can try to bargain if you like. the bathrooms are clean i can take a sh** in there.

This is the most ghetto of swap meets in all of SD. Used to come here to get all the bootleg movies and CD’s but the Fed’s have hit them hard and as a result not much selection. I give 1 star because two of the three times I have had people break into my car. It is like they are just scoping your car out until you leave and then they break in. The security is useless. Come here at your own risk. I feel that it is even more sketchy than TJ!