Puces de Nice — Local services in Nice

What an utter waste of my time, best avoided! Walked all the way from Cimiez expecting to find a treasure trove of fresh new antique finds to buy and take home with me but was met with small fixed shops and shop owners having lunch! Not even a hello, or bonjour nothing.

Full of boring dilapidated and wizened old dealers who have stocked their small roller doored shops with genuine flea market finds they found 20 years ago and now ask the earth for them.

If you want something unique try the back streets of Provence, but a genuine antiques roadshow find best look elsewhere.

That said if you want cunning antique dealers to have done the work for you and you’re happy to pay the big price and introduce yourself firstly to them then this maybe an option for you.

As a rough price guide the small 30cm high white Davids head was priced at €120 euro, the big bronze statue was reduced for me on the day from €4500 to €3500 euro, the icon figure of Jesus €30, and she really was a lovely and friendly woman, i didn’t speak French but she was so nice and put in the effort with me speaking my limited French.

So my overall advice is to put in the personal effort and maybe they might get up off their chairs finish lunch or doom- scrolling and say Bonjour!

Alas finally for me as a seasoned antiques collector it’s Au revoir Puces De Nice it wasn’t “Nice” knowing you:) :(

But for you it maybe worth a ´Bonjour Ca Va’ but for me certainly not the long long walk...

Don’t go here, not worth the time or effort and nothing to really look at. We came twice to this place. It is a series of little tiny “shops” each individually owned. Most are disorganized and have furniture. The first time we went was lunch hour so some shops were closed but others open and taking lunch in front of the shop. No one said “bonjour” or even acknowledged us. We left and returned a few hours later. More shops were open however we experienced several rude interactions when asking questions about items and the story behind them. We came prepared to spend, but left laughing at how rude one shop worker (doubt he was an owner) in...

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