A pallet is a skid with boxes of items stacked on it. Have you ever gone into a Wal-Mart or K-Mart and you see the stuff stacked on those skids? They're not that wide or long, but the stuff is stacked high on them. I bought one of those and it was supposed to have a couple thousand items on it all packed in boxes. Some of the stuff was really nice, but then I get a box full of stuffed animals that I just know I'm not going to sell. It had some Harry Potter merchandise on it and some of that went before Christmas. I also have some bowls by Hering which I'm having a hard time getting info about to include it in my listings. I found a site for Hering - they're in Berlin - and I saw the bowls on the site, but not much info is listed about them.
I also have a 4-Piece Sasaki crystal set of rock glasses that is very, very pretty. I know nothing about Sasaki and I've been trying to get some info about these glasses. They're in the original box, however, each one has a price tag on it for $25.00.
The pallet also included a bunch of Madeline Dolls. My daughter heard of Madeline, but I couldn't recall ever having heard of her. Other people remembered her though because I sold most of those dolls right before Christmas too.
But, you get junk in with the good stuff and the junk is just that - junk. It could just be the person I dealt with because it was the first time I bought a pallet of anything or, it could be something that is typical like the lot of clothes I bought - some good stuff, some crappy stuff.
As for the flea market, ours opens at 9:00 am and the regular vendors that have spots come early to set up. If you're not a regular vendor, you have to wait in line and they don't start putting people through until 8:00. The first time I went, I was up with the damn birds. After that, I started leaving my house around 7:45 since the place is just up the road from me. After the first time I also learned to bring an umbrella to attach to my chair and plenty of water! Flea markets in the summer are murder.
