Where do you "fish"?

I hesitate to check the boxes that include my main haunts because the categories/groupings are misleading when it comes to data collecting. For instance, I frequent thrift stores but never go to flea markets and they are grouped together despite being VERY different kettles of fish. Same for "garage/yard/estate sales": I will occasionally go to estates sales but never go to garage/yard sales... again, VERY different kettles of fish, IMHO.
And I only go to estate (aka tag) sales on 50% off day. Yes, much of the "good stuff" is gone by then but I find the estate sale companies generally price the items for the end user/collector, not a dealer. There's usually very little room for profit at their original tagged price.
I love the fun of the hunt!

 

I line up first thing for a decent estate sale. The people running them here know they're going to get dealers first thing out and will discount accordingly ... sometimes. There aren't that many companies around, and after a while you learn how they operate. One doesn't discount much, but gives religious items away for pennies. Two regular estate runners don't know vintage jewelry for beans. One of them gave me a small gold cross, very high karat, for practically nothing because it wasn't hallmarked.

But Bluumz is right about estate and tag sales being very different, despite many a tag sale being called an estate sale. And moving sales being called estate sales - I tend to run AWAY from those; they're generally new tat instead of old tat. As for thrifts and fleas, again totally different. You can sometimes get bargains at the thrift; around here flea markets are generally selling new fleas instead of old pieces. The ones that do have sky high prices.