{"id":5592,"date":"2019-04-01T17:38:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/?p=5592"},"modified":"2019-04-01T17:38:08","modified_gmt":"2019-04-01T17:38:08","slug":"flea-market-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/flea-market-shenanigans\/","title":{"rendered":"Flea Market Shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Over the years, one of my favorite things to do is to visit local flea markets. The one I visit most often is over in Rogers, Ohio. I have been going here for over ten years now. I guess I could say I have had a lot of lessons in sales just through interacting with merchants and other sellers. I have had my fair share of bad deals and rip off deals. My very first rip off deal was an airsoft gun I bought when I was about eight years old. From that sales transaction, I learned to always inspect my product and make sure that the money is worth the product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the bright side, I have had a lot of great opportuities to learn from good experiences. I learned that there is almost always a diamond in the rough at the market. Almost every time I go, I find something I absolutely fall in love with or is a deal I can&#8217;t pass up on. On the buyer side, I have picked up on a few tricks that sellers try and do to get the most money out of me. I learned that sometimes you just have to tell sellers what they don&#8217;t want to hear. Like possibly, &#8220;The price is way too high&#8221; or &#8220;There are plenty of other better deals that I could get besides yours.&#8221; Over the years I have found a way to &#8220;stick up&#8221; and speak my mind when buying at flea markets. Mainly because most of the sellers there are trying to manipulate you and stiff you on their price. All in all, a flea market is a great place to learn how to buy and sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.pinimg.com\/originals\/13\/79\/50\/137950d00eb93f9d28019c38081fbf18.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for rogers flea market\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the years, one of my favorite things to do is to visit local flea markets. The one I visit most often is over in Rogers, Ohio. I have been going here for over ten years now. I guess I could say I have had a lot of lessons in sales just through interacting with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dos-and-donts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5592"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5593,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5592\/revisions\/5593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gccwebsites.com\/startupsales\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}