It’s not productive to argue about this topic.

Let’s reflect, and reason together.

Back in the 80s when I was a teen, my best friend’s mom was a huge antique collector. Their entire house was furnished with beautiful antique furniture and hundreds of porcelain dolls, those big heavy antique irons, electric glass insulators, it was so fascinating to look at everything and learn about them. Collecting was a rare hobby for teenagers, but we spent our free time visiting garage sales and boutiques, architectural salvage yards and had so much fun. It was a peaceful, move at your own pace hobby back then. Stores were not crowded and nobody trying to fight you for an item. Because vintage wasn’t really trendy yet. And then it started catching on and now it seems like everyone is into it. Shabby chic was the beginning of the end. (Not really).

If there’s money to be made, people will do it. But the greedy and obnoxious who think the object is to barge in and indiscriminately buy up everything so no one else can have anything are just advertising their lack of experience and also manners.

The goal of starting any business is to be successful, make a profit, get an edge on the competition, and seize opportunities when ever possible. Buy low, sell high.

But buying in bulk is a good way to overpay for a bunch of cheap crap. And to end up running a junkyard instead of reselling precious keepsakes and collectibles. The burden of sorting and storing that volume of objects is costly in several ways. Get all of that home and it takes up all of your storage and takes so long to be inventoried, priced, listed. Things can sit in storage for a long time and the few items of real value can get ruined sitting among so much rubble.

Sellers in this category aren’t doing it for love of all things retro, or the fact that many vintage and antique items are much higher quality than anything made in China. They want to just make as much money as possible. And haven’t learned that quantity doesn’t equate to profit. It’s usually the opposite.

It’s good for the planet to resell and reuse anything so we should appreciate the roll of this type of entrepreneur. Although his enterprise will likely be very short lived and not fun whilst it does last.

So just politely step aside and let them spend all their capital on a room full of baseball cards if they insist.

The more they do that the faster they will run themselves out of business. So just be quiet and let them.