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12th Jul 2015, 8:44 PM
	Break-In Master Member since Dec 2013 251 Points	Neil Forbes wrote: Break-In Master wrote: Neil Forbes wrote: Break-In Master wrote: Neil Forbes wrote: Break-In Master wrote: Neil Forbes wrote: Break-In Master wrote: Neil Forbes wrote: @Break-In Master, I worry about you going to "flea markets", you may come out with an uncontrollable urge to scratch! By the way, just how much to fleas cost? Don't worry, I try never to scratch records!! I'm not sure what you'd call them, I don't think it'd be a boot sale. A flea market is where a bunch of people with some of their stuff to sell, mostly stuff they don't want anymore and are willing to let it go pretty cheaply, gather together in a single location and sell their wares to anybody that happens by and is interested. Nobody actually sells fleas. There's too many dogs that are MORE than willing to GIVE them away!! We call 'em Garage Sales here! Stalls set up in someone's garage(carport), flogging off records, bits of electrical gear, toys, furniture... etc. either just to clear the clutter or because they might be moving and don't want to take all that "stuff" with them. Similar idea to your British Boot Sales, really(though how many boots get sold, I've no idea) Yeah, we have garage sales and yard sales here, too, but that usually just means one persons things up for sale. The flea market allows a lot of people with stuff to sell to gather together in one place to sell their stuff. The local one is held in a parking lot (car park) and each slot in the car park is rented by a single seller for the $5.00 for the length of that day's sale. As it's a community parking lot owned by the borough, the borough gets the money to put towards things they need for the town. Sounds good! More power to ya! Come to think of it, these events do happen here but occasionally they're held indoors in large(cavernous) auditoria or indoor sporting venues, A table set up, piled with goodies(?) to flog (?= depends on a buyer's view of the merchandise). Yeah, we have them indoors, too, sometimes. About once a year, Jerry will have a huge record sale. He'll rent out a huge hall and have dozens of tables of records, a few thousand per table, and they usually got for 25 - 50 cents per 45, maybe a dollar per album. I'm never there long enough to go through everything, so, I'm not sure what the 78's go for, if he sells any at all. A "huge record sale" ay? You'd need an even more huge turntable to play them on! Geez, how heavy would the pick-up arm be? You'd get a hernia trying to lift it! Yes, he DOES have 16" transcription and V-discs!! OOOOUUUUCCCCHHHH!!!! - There goes the hernia! Huge Record Sale: Huge records for sale! 20 foot wide and two foot thick! See the mental picture I'm trying to create here? Yes, I got it, I was trying to turn it a different direction.