Smartphones with cameras and internet ruined flea markets.
You find people with a "side hustle" walking around the place (now even using AI) to look up what they can sell something for online so now its ultra rare to have a "good find". Even something as simple as old cast iron that needs to be re-habed.
Exactly. I watched a vid the other day of some reseller dude complaining about other resellers that have "ruined the hobby"- fucking asshole.
I just literally threw out a bag of perfectly wearable clothes so none of these fuckers or the "charity" stores could sell them at full price.
The video shows resellers literally walking up to homeless people and buying their old coats and jeans off them to resell them.
Oh the irony of a reseller (parasite) complaining about another parasite ruining their "hobby" (side hustle).