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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;FunkeysFinds, post: 266129, member: 83&quot;]I think there is truth in the above statements, as each person feels the impact where they live or how they sell.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m a little under 50 and have been selling online primarily since 1997.&nbsp; In Georgia, there were two types of pickers usually, the more &#039;mature&#039; or &#039;aged&#039; picker who focused only on antique items.&nbsp;&nbsp; The other picker I witnessed regularly were the 20-30 year olds who used their phones to look up everything and focused on the electronics, some newer dishes, etc.&nbsp; Things more current.&nbsp; As someone in the middle, I regularly went by both (sorry) and grabbed items and went about my own pickin&#039;.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t know where my age falls in.</p><p><br /></p><p>In Texas, it is vastly different.&nbsp; At least in my City and every surrounding around me.&nbsp; There are large, cool, &#039;trendy&#039;, yet, antique stores in every town.&nbsp; The antique stores are not the &#039;green painted furniture&#039;, they are designed to be &#039;cool&#039;, some affordable, some not, highlighting the old.&nbsp; Very little new, it is all about design.&nbsp; Dishes, signs, metalwork, etc.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have had two conversations with different people, one man and one woman, one younger, one my age.&nbsp; They love vintage and go out to the sales here trying to scoop it up and have trouble finding it.&nbsp;&nbsp; The finds are here... (I didn&#039;t post my neat-o vintage Alka Seltzer display I got at my first garage sale here last weekend for less than .50 cents - look those up in completed on the bay).</p><p><br /></p><p>On the other hand, when I go into one of the main local stores I shop for treasures, I never see any of the college folks in there yet, but I&#039;ve only been a couple of times.&nbsp;&nbsp; I have been told they go in regularly.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a dealer.. I find myself starting to stay away from things associated with older names, like Bobe Hope, Pogo the Possum, etc.&nbsp; I felt a gut punch a few years ago when a 20-something said they never heard of &#039;Staying Alive&#039;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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