Treasure Trove Vintage Flea Market (26,000 Sq Ft) — Local services in Texarkana

I live in Las Vegas, but visited this Vintage Flea Market the first week of June when I was on vacation, visiting my parents in Foreman, Arkansas. My mom had shopped here before, and she knows I love everything vintage, so she brought me here.

It's a very large, indoor flea market. It's a consignment-type market where each booth is rented by a separate individual and they pay the owner of the market space a monthly rental fee and in exchange, the market brings in the customers and takes care of payment processing, etc. This setup type offers the shopper a very diverse shopping experience with a large variety of items, however, it also opens the door for people just looking to sell all the junk they don't want anymore.

Don't misunderstand me, there is a plethora of genuine, vintage items for you to rummage through, but, there's an equal amount of non-vintage items that you'd expect to find at a run-of-the-mill yard sale. I guess that's ok except they market themselves as a 'Vintage' flea market, but just as much is NOT vintage as IS vintage, and that's not fair to those shoppers who may not know the difference.

For an item to be classified as 'Vintage', it has to be at least 20 years (up to 99 years) old. 10 years to 19 years is 'Retro', and 100 years old to 299 years old is 'Antique'. 300 years to 999 years is 'Antiquity' or 'Artifact'. Too many of the items I saw were contemporary items that were made to look old, cheap reproductions and even items I have seen in dollar stores... being sold for WAY more than a dollar! Thankfully, I am experienced and educated in this field, but most people aren't, so they may buy an item thinking it's vintage, when in fact, it's from IKEA or the dollar store, of which I saw plenty.

I wish the market owner(s) would be more discerning about what they allow to be sold at their 'Vintage' market, however, that's not the reason for my 3-star rating.

I did find a 1930's Susie Cooper Kestrel, wedding banded coffee pot that appeared to be in perfect condition. The lid was taped on, so not removable by the customer. I paid $29.99 + tax for it (approximate value of $100 - $150). I just assumed the checkout would include removing the tape so the interior could be inspected, but that didn't happen. When I was able to remove the tape, I found the interior rim was badly chipped, greatly reducing the piece's value to about $50. When I tried to return it, they would not accept it. I feel like it was a known defect that was deliberately hidden. So, be sure you can thoroughly inspect any piece of value both inside and out prior to actually purchasing. I should have insisted the top be removed at checkout, so it's partly my fault, so I will split the difference by my...

I went there, found something in someone's shop that I liked but didn't have a price. I took it up front to ask the cashier if they had a listing or could call and ask because I wanted to buy it. They told me they "don't do that" and that it's "probably not for sale and just decoration". I asked how I can find out they said that I can't. I asked if I could leave a message for the shop owner and then suddenly oh-yeah they had paper for messages like that. Once I filled it out I went to hand it back to her (the cashier) and she informed me that I need to attach it to the item in question. This paper that has my PERSONAL information on it. Name and contact information just sitting in plain sight for just anyone to see?! No thank you. I left on the spot and didn't even bother looking at the rest of the store at all. I hope anyone who has their shop in this place is aware of this ridiculous policy of theirs. I'm willing to bet that they (the shop owners) are unaware that they are potentially losing business. I've had friends and family over the years who've used places like this (not this one) to sell items &, of course, I've shopped at them for years (again, not this one) and I have never heard of anything like this. I hope that anyone who reads this review that knows someone who has a shop here lets them know what's going on so that they decide what they want...

Would have rated it a Zero had it been possible. My husband tried to purchase an old bottle last week and there was not price on it. The worker helping us tried to contact the seller while we were there and couldn’t reach him so she said when she did get the owner and find out the price she would call. She followed thru later in the week with the price. My husband agreed to the price and she put his name in the bottle to hold for him and said it would be at the checkout counter and we told her we would pick it up after church on Sunday which she said was perfectly fine. Here is the problem. After church on Sunday we went to pick up the bottle and they couldn’t find it. Now remember she put his name on it and said it would be sitting at the checkout and it mysteriously disappeared and there was no way to know what happened to it. Really???? You have cameras all over the store to watch for shop lifters but you can’t figure out what happened to the bottle you had a name on sitting at the front desk? You know what happened to it. We have always loved shopping here but this is unappreciated and...