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ARPC gun show is the last weekend in February and Rickreall is a couple weeks after that. Ask both if you can still get a table. Would love to see you be able to make a profit.
I've been thinking about it for years, should just go ahead and do it. My problem is being able to dedicate a weekend to it. Last weekend I had some plans, but ended up at work restarting a major shutdown, 25 hours of OT for Sat/Sun.

My son has been bugging me to get our own table for years. He thinks it would be fun. I'd have to make sure he was available that weekend. He's got a job, his own wheels and money now, so he's not that easy to keep up with.
 
I've been thinking about it for years, should just go ahead and do it. My problem is being able to dedicate a weekend to it. Last weekend I had some plans, but ended up at work restarting a major shutdown, 25 hours of OT for Sat/Sun.

My son has been bugging me to get our own table for years. He thinks it would be fun. I'd have to make sure he was available that weekend. He's got a job, his own wheels and money now, so he's not that easy to keep up with.
It's fun if you make it fun.

Interacting with people, chatting away with various vendors, helping customers find stuff.

The fun show is my social time and also my time to make some extra money.
 
I've been thinking about it for years, should just go ahead and do it. My problem is being able to dedicate a weekend to it. Last weekend I had some plans, but ended up at work restarting a major shutdown, 25 hours of OT for Sat/Sun.

My son has been bugging me to get our own table for years. He thinks it would be fun. I'd have to make sure he was available that weekend. He's got a job, his own wheels and money now, so he's not that easy to keep up with.
I like doing the gun shows from both sides of the tables. I own an ammo company so selling my wares is a good thing, I'm a conservative gun owner so chatting with other like minded people is encouraging in that I'm not the only one. And I like to look at all the guns both old and new. Sometimes I'll look with an eye to buy but mostly here lately it's more with an "oh cool" shiny squirrel attitude.
 
It was fun. Talked to some cool people. Didn't buy anything, though. Several of my favorite vendors weren't there. So, not a lot of AR stuff...and what was there, was overpriced.
 
The one thing I think about any more when I see a bunch of estate sale stuff, is that someone must have bought all that with the intention of using it, and now his heirs sold it for pennies on the dollar.

I still have a lot of stuff that I've picked up over the years from estate sales. Will it eventually get sold to someone else at an estate sale? How much of the stuff that we buy never actually gets used?

Maybe I should get a table at a gun show and sell off a bunch of my junk. If I could get even close to what that one guy was wanting for his estate sale pickings, I could nearly pay off my house! I stood there for a little while, looking through the odds and ends. Every few minutes someone would ask about an item, and one of the vendor's helpers would ask him the price. I noticed that every response from him sounded gruff and irritable. He probably wondered why nine out of ten customers walked away when hearing the price.

That's just an observation, doesn't bother me; to each their own. Each vendor has their own business model, and if it works for them, more power to them. This is nothing new about gun shows. I've noticed it since I started attending back in the 1980's. It's all just business. :)
poor business man IMHO
 
Sounds like you did very well. I saw you this morning and was going to say hi but you were talking to someone.

I saw that table, but didn't take enough time to notice good deals. It's funny about the estate sale stuff. Sometimes you find a helluva deal from someone who just wants to move a bunch of old stuff fast, not bring it home with them again.

And then there are the other guys, the ones who think they found gold when they bought out an estate. They put prices on their old stuff higher than new retail. I often wonder who buys it, but someone must or they wouldn't keep bringing it back.

I stood at one table this morning for a while, looking at a ratty old box of bulk bullets. Based on the things that had a price tag, I figured the unpriced stuff would be sky high but I asked anyway. Yeah, it was double what I would have been interested in paying. If some poor sucker will come along and pay that, more power to them I guess. :)
I guess I insulted those guys when I told them I only buy new first run stuff for my business and I pay less than their asking prices. Also I don't need 500 primers and 2 lbs of powder.
 
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poor business man IMHO
It's partially poor business but more or less that they have the time to get the price they want.

My Uncle Louie and I finally sold off his Winchester M1 Garand collection and the collector who got all 3 was super happy.

He could piece all of the parts together online and it would take time to find the perfect pieces but he was happy and he got 3 very very collectible and period correct M1 Garands.

Now we could have sold it for cheaper and have had funds last year or the year before but end of the day, those people are within their rights to sell it at whatever price they want for it and we as consumers have the right to not buy it.
 

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