SwapMeet RVA Vintage Flea Market — Local services in Richmond

Truly bizarre behavior from the owners in response to negative reviews. They take reviews extremely personally, resort to criticizing reviewers' old reviews, launch personal attacks, and speak with a level of condescension that can only come from a West Coast transplant.

If you're looking to swap, trade, or barter, this "swap meet" isn't the place for you. It's really just a flea market, not a swap meet at all, and the name is an inaccurate representation of the event. If you try to tell them that, though, prepare yourself for an angry Melvillesque missive in response.

Chill out, folks, you're on the wrong coast to be...

Went to this event and it's not a swap meet, it's just a Flea Market.

Which is fine, but I expected to trade free clothes for free clothes, and when I mentioned this to one of the (very kind) people running the event their response was (paraphrased) "this is what we call a swap meet in California"

Um, ok, well on this coast we have things called clothing swaps. I assumed that's what was meant by 'Swap Meet'.

A group of us went out and had to turn around with our clothes.

Just call it a flea market, I feel like the name is...

Left a review describing my disappointment and confusion about their business. Review was met with a rude reply from the owners.

I get now that swap meet is common lingo for a flea market.

I still think it was a 2 star flea market; lotta basic stuff that's way overpriced with the occasional interesting find. The rude remarks make this a 1 star event.

I accept their invitation to...