We love the grounds. It is beautiful to walk around outside. Great antiques to look at from farm equipment to textile machinery. Employees of different stands nice but most spoke very broken English and were sometimes hard to understand. If you do speak Spanish it would be an advantage.
This is a great flea market! The vendors are friendly and most of them are fair. My husband and I had a booth there and was treated with great respect we had a great location and May a decent amount of money. It was a very chilly day but there was still steady traffic. I highly recommend it!
Part of me wants to give this a lower rating than 5 stars but it wouldn't be morally correct to do so. I love coming to the flea market because you never know what you might find or what you need until you get there. There are many places to buy from and many people who have been there for years that really make the experience all that better. Plus, they have deep fried Oreos which are amazing. I think the place needs an update with a cleaner dining area and more selection for food but because that is just my thought and it effects no one else, i cannot lower my rating. I recommend everyone come here and see what they have. If anything, you get to spend a day outside with friends and family!
Fun place to browse. Lots of interesting stuff to buy. Some weird stuff to buy. Tried some of the food stalls. Good eating. Good place to look for that special, different, odd or rare gift for someone special.
This is my favorite place to go on the weekends. There are so many different items that can be found and bought. My favorite is go see and play with the puppies and then make my way to buy some boiled peanuts and a funnel cake. There are also great deals on things like music, phone cases, art, and even cameras.
Note: I am making this review as a vendor.
First step rent a booth.
I walk into the market office and I'm greeted by a cantankerous, antipathetic woman named Margaret who looks me up and down with a scowl and waits for me to speak.
I ask for a booth, and in a huff, she says booths cost extra when rented "day of". I ask how much it will cost to rent an inside booth and the price is 300% of my budget, $360 dollars for Saturday booth space.
I grudgingly pay the woman and take my receipt. She then goes to fetch the booth manager who will show me where to set up my wares.
Second step. setup.
As the booth manager leads me to my booth, I almost gag when nearing it. I ask him if something died here and he confirms it was a possum that was killed by maintenance staff the day prior. Great.
I ask the manager if I can relocate to a less dead-possumy booth and he flatly refuses saying this is what he's got, take it or leave it. I plug my nose and begin to unpack.
After I open up my third box and begin to lay my goods out on the table I hear a buzzing and, abruptly, am bombarded by a swarm of flying insects. Flies, mosquitoes, gnats, many kinds. Some are searching for the dead possum that left the terrible stench now emanating from my booth, but most buzz around me, pricking me and generally making my day that much worse.
I finally finish unpacking and purchase a few cans of febreeze from a nearby vendor with which I promptly spray every inch of my booth, hoping to mask the dead possum smell, - if only for a moment.
Third step selling.
Thankfully there were people willing to buy my discounted retro video games that day. I made about 200 transactions with an average of 5$ per transaction. Not a bad haul. The crowd was your normal flea market fare. Good people, low income, very interested in try before you buy.
Overall, this was the most pleasant part of my experience at this flea market.
Final step getting out.
After 8 hours of having to constantly spray my booth to hide the smell of a non-present dead possum, I decided it was time to end my day at this flea market and head home.
I begin to pack up and get myself out of this morbid booth. A few minutes in, the booth manager informs me I owe him 360$ for the booth rental, which I already paid at the beginning of the day. I reached into my pocket with my receipt, showed it to the manager, and told him, plainly, I already paid my rental fee to Margaret in the market office this morning.
He disputed my claim, and we argued for a good 30 minutes before I threw my hands up in disgust and marched over to the market to verify my rental purchase to this manager.
I take out my receipt again and, in front of the booth manager, ask Margaret to verify the authenticity of my receipt. She says she has never seen me before and informs me she will notify the authorities if I do not promptly pay the rental fee (again).
I refuse them and head back to my booth to wait for the police to arrive and help settle this dispute. It's been around 2 hours before the cops finally arrive. Another 30 minutes pass as they try to deliberate between the two managers and myself. Eventually I am found to be in the right because they verify the signature on my receipt matches the signature on the receipt of my neighbor vendor.
After all of this, the police head out and after they do, both managers mutter obscenities toward me as I finish packing up my things and head out myself.
12 long hours later I arrive home, a little bit richer but a lotta bit drained.
Overall Keller's Flea Market has a great crowd to sell to, but the management likes to double dip. Beware of this in case they try to deny your receipt as well.
Nice place with an interesting collecting of goods, you never know what you will find so it's always great to check back often.
Keller's has something for everyone!!!! Everyone we spoke with today backed their products (i.e. any issues let them know), were super friendly and helpful!!!! I couldn't believe the awesome things we found, nor could I believe how massive this flea market truly is!!! My mom, who came down from PA even said "this is the nicest flea market I have ever been to." (She's been to a bunch of flea markets all over the country) We cannot wait to visit again!!!
If you can get past all of the cell phone case vendors, cheap dollar store vendors, there's a lot of great typical flea market vendor's still around mostly in the antique building, C building,400, 500 and 600 buildings, some in the 1100 building. If you're hungry, the best spot to eat is at the snack bar in the antique building. The lady who runs it makes the best burgers!
My name is Freddy I visit Kellers free-market I'm a vendor they're very friendly people at the office The cleanest flea market I ever been to sales are good there can't wait for next month having the sugarcane syrup
An ok flea market. Has a good selection of produce. Most items are new or like new.
This isn't a typical ole' flea market where people come and just use a table for a day and you can get some incredible deals. This is the type where most have a permanent booth set-up and stay there.
Sure miss the good ole days,,..
A perfect day trip for a family, wonderful photos ops. History lesson, fantastic prices, great snacks. .. super friendly people
A very quaint place. I would recommend anyone that enjoys various trinkets, styles, and decor. But be warned, if you want to be there all day you'll want to rest your legs sometimes, there is a lot of walking to be had.
Great selection of absolute garbage. Stuff no one else wants all over the place mixed in with fake rip off/knock off bags and other "name brand" items. A lot of Mexicans selling questionable produce and cowboy boots with points that make stiletto heels cringe. Puppies almost every weekend. Some are good breeders but most are questionable at best. Hot as crap on most days. Open air market but covered by tin roofs makes for oven environment. Great people watching. Rivals WalMart for odd looking people wearing God-only-knows-what in public.