Blakeslee Flea Market — Attraction in Tobyhanna Township

Unfortunately, this place is everything a flea market shouldn't be in 2022. A good flea market in the modern age is one that has well-curated collections of items for sale at 10%-25% off online market value. That way, buyers are incentivized by a little price break compared to what they would pay online, and sellers are incentivized by cash sales where they don't have to worry about shipping. That's not happening here.

Sellers aren't going to bother putting out anything interesting or of value here when they know that they can get $X for a given item on eBay or some other website. This in turn alienates buyers, which means less revenue for the flea market, which is how you end up with what exists here now. Like others have said, this place used to be great. Every time I came here in the early 00s, I would leave with a bag full of vintage curiosities, video games, records, VHS tapes, etc. I don't think I've walked out with anything from here in over a...

Where to start? Perhaps it's the salesman flat out lying about the jewelry. Pretty easy to see what is real silver and costume jewelry. Maybe it was the exorbitantly priced literal junk. An unboxed used toy for the same price as new in box? $100 for the same set of cartoon glasses that are $5 each at EVERY OTHER FLEA MARKET Could be the DJ that wouldn't stop talking so loudly that you couldn't hear anything else. The vendors were oddly overzealous. And some of the customers have zero understanding of personal space. Complete and utter waste of time. It's like a giant yardsale of that junk guy who swears all the broken toys and mass produced knock offs are collector's items. Bright side, the produce stands...

Don't waste your time. Was excited to check this place out and was super disappointed. When we first walked in, the first booth we checked out the creepy man who was the vendor followed us around trying to tell us about items we weren't even interested in. Half the place is empty. Nothing worth buying. One vendors booth was literally clothes piled up in a mountain of crap. It looked like a hoarders house and everything was dirty. There was a weird vibe in this place. Not to mention you have to drive through a parking lot full of huge craters and potholes just to get there. Walked through the whole thing in 15 minutes and was eager to leave bc of the strange people and feel of the place. DONT...