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Elephant Trunk ain't what it once was.....
Elephant's Trunk Flea Market的点评
点评：Just to let everyone know (because they never bothered to post it on their fb page or website), Elephant Trunk has recently implemented, through a barely noticeable sign @ the gate, a "No garbage picking" policy. What they call "garbage picking" is all of the stuff vendors don't want to take with them. And I have over the years found some incredible stuff thrown out at flea markets. ET though is now the only flea market in the ny/conn/nj area making this rule, and last week a gentleman who rides around & picks up the "garbage", someone I previously never had any words with & often said hello to/small talk stops me after I've loaded my car w/stuff saying, hey there's no more "garbage picking" in front of everyone. Now I could care less, but his delivery will and probably has, embarrassed a lot of ppl.It is mind blowing that they are deciding to do this now, after I have been going to ET since I was EIGHT yrs old, 1976 I am now 54, I have been going there since day one. What bothered me was that he told ME "no garbage picking", but then I saw he tried to enforce that rule to an African American gentleman, someone also who I've known for years and he would have none of it. I discussed this new rule before he came over to him to give him a heads up, and he simply told me that we're doing them a favor and lightening the load on their backs, and we're repurposing all of the sh!t vendors are throwing away. I always praise ALL flea markets because NORMALLY people aren't treated abrasively & told they can't take that stuff, and they do a great service to their community & to people who travel great distances to these flea markets & have less & less cash in this historically sorry economy.
Anyway, my friend needed some extra bags so I gave him some & off I went. But then as I'm walking away, I see my friend not having any of the new v"no picking" rule, and when all was said & done, he actually not only allows my friend to take his stuff, he loads it on his cart & drives it to the front for him! GOOD for my friend, but by the same token, this person is making different rules for me than for him. So I went back to clarify, and he explained to me that some irresponsible & careless ppl were just shoving their hands blindly into the garbage & getting cut the week before, hence the reason for this new rule. Believe me when I say that's not the only time someone has cut themselves @ ET, so although I respect their new rule, I can't buy the reason for having it. Anyway I asked him if its all right if I take stuff outside of the garbage. "THAT'S FINE" he says, and my friend was standing right there. What happens today on mothers day? Well just a note, between me & my mom last week we spent $150. Today we spent just short of $200. Around that range is typically what we spend every week they've been open, for years and years...from day one. Today I saw a tote someone was throwing away & I was strapping it to my mom's walker as she had her scooter, this was a beat on walker we carry as a spare just in case, I had forgotten my cart. The same guy comes up to me yelling "I told you once, I won't tell you again, NO GARBAGE PICKING, you're blocking the road!! If you do it again you're going to be asked to leave!!! I wasn't even IN the road for one thing, I said, and I reminded him that last week he told me it was okay to pick outside of the garbage pail. He said "I don't CARE" and I said EVERYone today is picking up sh!t, why are you only getting on me? He said "we're telling everybody". Well, that's not true, I said. Last week you hauled a HUGE load of my friend's stuff to the front after you tried to tell him he couldn't take it. I did not see them tell ONE person other than myself they couldn't take any of the stuff vendors were leaving behind. He did this sh!t disrespectfully in front of my mother who just turned 83. Every week I've been taking her to ET to get her out of the house after all week taking care of my dad who's also 83. Even though she takes her scooter around she gets up & walks & its great exercise for her. But this WASN'T a good environment or circumstance for her, this man who is ordinarily very nice & considerate in my opinion couldn't have been more unprofessional. He didn't phase me turning all jekkyl & hyde from last week & inconsiderate & rude, but he got my mom very upset & I had to talk her down from wanting to go talk to management, filing complaints everywhere, etc.
The joke is he said the rule is because ppl cut their hands & they don't want to be sued. Yah real good bruh. Meanwhile, Over the years in handling & lifting furniture & rusted metal I've bought from you're flea market my hands have bled on more than one occasion--it's what inevitably happens when lifting & transporting other ppl's sh!t back to their cars, esp when you have to lug it through a field. "suing ET never once crossed my mind, or my mother's, or others in my family who have over the years bought & sold there. ET is a lot different now, a lot of great ppl recently left who always greeted myself & my mother warmly & would never think of treating ANY customer the way we've been treated today, makes me realize they were the backbone of it all, and the people without doubt who made ET special. In recent years I've heard the complaints from unhappy vendors, and there was a time when they didn't complain at all. The ones who are left, I wish them luck with their new policy and hope they get great joy from whatever they do with the vendor's discarded items, hopefully they don't just throw it away. Not only is it a shame to toss a working drill or shelf or whatever in the trash when it can go to someone who needs one, but the percentage of flea market shoppers who "dumpster dive" and not only help the environment but cut down on waste, is in the 50+% range, and that is going to translate to a LOT of cash they lose because there's the NJ flea market, middletown, stormville, plenty more that don't implement these rules. and hey, maybe losing $200 & sometimes $400 per week from my mom & me will be nbd to them if we decide to not go anymore, and that's a strong likelihood, but maybe its a drop in the bucket to them.
All I know is, we've helped to keep them in business from the very beginning, and there are plenty of times we could have gone to jersey or another flea market even greater in size & we chose to give ET our business because of the EXCEPTIONAL quality of the people who were once working there. That's all changed now, it's a very different place two worlds apart from what it once was. That said, and at the end of this LONG review of ET in the here & now, I encourage ppl to see what its all about, and I truly hope they have a great experience. But I also hope they are aware that this is not the ET that ppl for decades have raved about.
Anyway, my friend needed some extra bags so I gave him some & off I went. But then as I'm walking away, I see my friend not having any of the new v"no picking" rule, and when all was said & done, he actually not only allows my friend to take his stuff, he loads it on his cart & drives it to the front for him! GOOD for my friend, but by the same token, this person is making different rules for me than for him. So I went back to clarify, and he explained to me that some irresponsible & careless ppl were just shoving their hands blindly into the garbage & getting cut the week before, hence the reason for this new rule. Believe me when I say that's not the only time someone has cut themselves @ ET, so although I respect their new rule, I can't buy the reason for having it. Anyway I asked him if its all right if I take stuff outside of the garbage. "THAT'S FINE" he says, and my friend was standing right there. What happens today on mothers day? Well just a note, between me & my mom last week we spent $150. Today we spent just short of $200. Around that range is typically what we spend every week they've been open, for years and years...from day one. Today I saw a tote someone was throwing away & I was strapping it to my mom's walker as she had her scooter, this was a beat on walker we carry as a spare just in case, I had forgotten my cart. The same guy comes up to me yelling "I told you once, I won't tell you again, NO GARBAGE PICKING, you're blocking the road!! If you do it again you're going to be asked to leave!!! I wasn't even IN the road for one thing, I said, and I reminded him that last week he told me it was okay to pick outside of the garbage pail. He said "I don't CARE" and I said EVERYone today is picking up sh!t, why are you only getting on me? He said "we're telling everybody". Well, that's not true, I said. Last week you hauled a HUGE load of my friend's stuff to the front after you tried to tell him he couldn't take it. I did not see them tell ONE person other than myself they couldn't take any of the stuff vendors were leaving behind. He did this sh!t disrespectfully in front of my mother who just turned 83. Every week I've been taking her to ET to get her out of the house after all week taking care of my dad who's also 83. Even though she takes her scooter around she gets up & walks & its great exercise for her. But this WASN'T a good environment or circumstance for her, this man who is ordinarily very nice & considerate in my opinion couldn't have been more unprofessional. He didn't phase me turning all jekkyl & hyde from last week & inconsiderate & rude, but he got my mom very upset & I had to talk her down from wanting to go talk to management, filing complaints everywhere, etc.
The joke is he said the rule is because ppl cut their hands & they don't want to be sued. Yah real good bruh. Meanwhile, Over the years in handling & lifting furniture & rusted metal I've bought from you're flea market my hands have bled on more than one occasion--it's what inevitably happens when lifting & transporting other ppl's sh!t back to their cars, esp when you have to lug it through a field. "suing ET never once crossed my mind, or my mother's, or others in my family who have over the years bought & sold there. ET is a lot different now, a lot of great ppl recently left who always greeted myself & my mother warmly & would never think of treating ANY customer the way we've been treated today, makes me realize they were the backbone of it all, and the people without doubt who made ET special. In recent years I've heard the complaints from unhappy vendors, and there was a time when they didn't complain at all. The ones who are left, I wish them luck with their new policy and hope they get great joy from whatever they do with the vendor's discarded items, hopefully they don't just throw it away. Not only is it a shame to toss a working drill or shelf or whatever in the trash when it can go to someone who needs one, but the percentage of flea market shoppers who "dumpster dive" and not only help the environment but cut down on waste, is in the 50+% range, and that is going to translate to a LOT of cash they lose because there's the NJ flea market, middletown, stormville, plenty more that don't implement these rules. and hey, maybe losing $200 & sometimes $400 per week from my mom & me will be nbd to them if we decide to not go anymore, and that's a strong likelihood, but maybe its a drop in the bucket to them.
All I know is, we've helped to keep them in business from the very beginning, and there are plenty of times we could have gone to jersey or another flea market even greater in size & we chose to give ET our business because of the EXCEPTIONAL quality of the people who were once working there. That's all changed now, it's a very different place two worlds apart from what it once was. That said, and at the end of this LONG review of ET in the here & now, I encourage ppl to see what its all about, and I truly hope they have a great experience. But I also hope they are aware that this is not the ET that ppl for decades have raved about.
翻译：只是为了让每个人都知道（因为他们从不费心在他们的 fb 页面或网站上发布），Elephant Trunk 最近通过一个几乎不引人注意的标志 @ 大门实施了“禁止捡垃圾”政策。他们所谓的“垃圾捡拾”是供应商不想带走的所有东西。这些年来，我在跳蚤市场上发现了一些令人难以置信的东西。尽管 ET 现在是纽约/康涅狄格州/新泽西州地区唯一制定此规则的跳蚤市场，上周一位绅士四处兜风并捡起“垃圾”，我以前从未与他说过话并且经常打招呼/在我用东西装满我的车后，闲聊阻止了我说，嘿，在每个人面前没有更多的“垃圾捡拾”。现在我可以不在乎了，但他的交付将会而且可能已经让很多人感到尴尬。令人震惊的是，他们现在决定这样做，自从我 8 岁以来我一直在 ET，1976 年我是现在 54 岁，从第一天起我就一直去那里。令我困扰的是他告诉我“不要捡垃圾”，但后来我看到他试图对一位非裔美国绅士执行这条规定，他也是我认识多年的人，但他不会接受。在他过来提醒他之前，我讨论了这条新规则，他只是告诉我，我们正在帮他们一个忙，减轻他们的负担，我们正在重新利用所有这些东西！供应商正在扔掉。我总是赞扬所有跳蚤市场，因为通常人们不会受到粗暴对待，并被告知他们不能拿走那些东西，而且他们为社区和远距离前往这些跳蚤市场且现金越来越少的人提供了很好的服务在这个历史上令人遗憾的经济中。
不管怎样，我的朋友需要一些额外的袋子，所以我给了他一些，然后我就走了。但是当我走开的时候，我看到我的朋友没有任何新的“禁止挑选”规则，当一切都说完之后，他实际上不仅允许我的朋友拿走他的东西，他还把它装上了他的手推车并为他开到前面！对我的朋友来说很好，但出于同样的原因，这个人为我制定的规则与为他制定的不同。所以我回去澄清，他向我解释说，一些不负责任和粗心的人只是盲目地把手伸进垃圾桶，并在一周前被割伤，因此才有了这条新规定。相信我，这不是唯一一次有人在@ET 割伤自己，所以尽管我尊重他们的新规定，但我不能买下拥有它的理由。不管怎样，我问他，如果我把东西从垃圾堆里拿走，是否可以。 “没关系”他说，我的朋友就站在那里。今天母亲节会发生什么？请注意，我和我妈妈上周花了 150 美元。今天我们花了不到 200 美元。围绕这个范围通常是我们每周花费的时间，他们已经开放，多年来......从第一天开始。今天我看到有人扔掉了一个手提包，我把它绑在我妈妈的助行器上，因为她有她的滑板车，这是我们随身携带的备用助行器，以防万一，我忘记了我的手推车。同一个人朝我大喊：“我告诉过你一次，我不会再告诉你，不要捡垃圾，你挡路了！如果你再这样做，你会被要求离开！！ ！我什至连一件事都不在路上，我说，我提醒他上周他告诉我可以在垃圾桶外面捡东西。他说“我不在乎”，我说每个人今天是捡垃圾！t，你为什么只针对我？他说“我们正在告诉所有人”。好吧，那不是真的，我说。上周你把我朋友的一大堆东西拖到了前面你试图告诉他他不能接受。我没有看到他们告诉除了我以外的一个人他们不能接受供应商留下的任何东西。他在我母亲面前做了这件事！刚满 83 岁。每周我都会带她去美国东部时间，让她离开家，因为我照顾了我父亲，他也是 83 岁。尽管她带着她的滑板车四处走动，但她还是会起床和走路，这是一项很好的锻炼她。但这对她来说不是一个好的环境或环境，这个在我看来通常非常友善和体贴的男人再专业不过了。他并没有让我从上周开始就把所有的jekkyl & hyde 和不体谅和粗鲁都告诉我，但他让我妈妈非常不高兴，我不得不说服她不要去和管理层谈话，到处投诉等等。
开玩笑的是他说这条规则是因为人们割伤了他们的手而且他们不想被起诉。是的，真的很好。与此同时，多年来，在搬运和搬运我从你们跳蚤市场购买的家具和生锈金属时，我的手不止一次流血——这是在搬运和搬运其他人的粪便时不可避免地会发生的事情！汽车，尤其是当你不得不拖着它穿过田野时。 “起诉 ET 从来没有想过我，或者我母亲的想法， 或我家人中多年来在那里买卖的其他人。 ET 现在很不一样了，很多最近离开的好人总是热情地问候我和我的母亲并且永远不会想像今天那样对待任何客户，让我意识到他们是这一切的支柱，毫无疑问，是那些让 ET 变得特别的人。近年来，我听到了不满意的供应商的抱怨，有一段时间他们根本没有抱怨。剩下的人，我希望他们的新政策好运，并希望他们从处理供应商丢弃的物品的任何事情中得到极大的快乐，希望他们不要把它扔掉。将工作中的钻头或架子或任何东西扔进垃圾桶，当它可以送给需要的人时，不仅是一种耻辱，而且跳蚤市场购物者中“垃圾箱潜水”的百分比不仅有助于环境而且减少了浪费，在 50% 以上的范围内，这将转化为他们损失的大量现金，因为新泽西州跳蚤市场、米德尔敦、斯托姆维尔，还有更多不执行这些规则的地方。嘿，如果我们决定不再去，可能每周从我妈妈和我那里损失 200 美元，有时甚至 400 美元对他们来说是 nbd，这很有可能，但对他们来说可能只是九牛一毛。
我所知道的是，我们从一开始就帮助他们维持业务，而且有很多次我们本可以去泽西岛或其他规模更大的跳蚤市场，我们选择将业务交给 ET 是因为曾经在那里工作的人素质非凡。现在一切都变了，这是一个与过去截然不同的两个世界的地方。也就是说，在此时此地对 ET 的长期审查结束时，我鼓励人们了解它的全部内容，我真的希望他们有一个很好的体验。但我也希望他们意识到，这不是人们几十年来一直吹捧的外星人。
不管怎样，我的朋友需要一些额外的袋子，所以我给了他一些，然后我就走了。但是当我走开的时候，我看到我的朋友没有任何新的“禁止挑选”规则，当一切都说完之后，他实际上不仅允许我的朋友拿走他的东西，他还把它装上了他的手推车并为他开到前面！对我的朋友来说很好，但出于同样的原因，这个人为我制定的规则与为他制定的不同。所以我回去澄清，他向我解释说，一些不负责任和粗心的人只是盲目地把手伸进垃圾桶，并在一周前被割伤，因此才有了这条新规定。相信我，这不是唯一一次有人在@ET 割伤自己，所以尽管我尊重他们的新规定，但我不能买下拥有它的理由。不管怎样，我问他，如果我把东西从垃圾堆里拿走，是否可以。 “没关系”他说，我的朋友就站在那里。今天母亲节会发生什么？请注意，我和我妈妈上周花了 150 美元。今天我们花了不到 200 美元。围绕这个范围通常是我们每周花费的时间，他们已经开放，多年来......从第一天开始。今天我看到有人扔掉了一个手提包，我把它绑在我妈妈的助行器上，因为她有她的滑板车，这是我们随身携带的备用助行器，以防万一，我忘记了我的手推车。同一个人朝我大喊：“我告诉过你一次，我不会再告诉你，不要捡垃圾，你挡路了！如果你再这样做，你会被要求离开！！ ！我什至连一件事都不在路上，我说，我提醒他上周他告诉我可以在垃圾桶外面捡东西。他说“我不在乎”，我说每个人今天是捡垃圾！t，你为什么只针对我？他说“我们正在告诉所有人”。好吧，那不是真的，我说。上周你把我朋友的一大堆东西拖到了前面你试图告诉他他不能接受。我没有看到他们告诉除了我以外的一个人他们不能接受供应商留下的任何东西。他在我母亲面前做了这件事！刚满 83 岁。每周我都会带她去美国东部时间，让她离开家，因为我照顾了我父亲，他也是 83 岁。尽管她带着她的滑板车四处走动，但她还是会起床和走路，这是一项很好的锻炼她。但这对她来说不是一个好的环境或环境，这个在我看来通常非常友善和体贴的男人再专业不过了。他并没有让我从上周开始就把所有的jekkyl & hyde 和不体谅和粗鲁都告诉我，但他让我妈妈非常不高兴，我不得不说服她不要去和管理层谈话，到处投诉等等。
开玩笑的是他说这条规则是因为人们割伤了他们的手而且他们不想被起诉。是的，真的很好。与此同时，多年来，在搬运和搬运我从你们跳蚤市场购买的家具和生锈金属时，我的手不止一次流血——这是在搬运和搬运其他人的粪便时不可避免地会发生的事情！汽车，尤其是当你不得不拖着它穿过田野时。 “起诉 ET 从来没有想过我，或者我母亲的想法， 或我家人中多年来在那里买卖的其他人。 ET 现在很不一样了，很多最近离开的好人总是热情地问候我和我的母亲并且永远不会想像今天那样对待任何客户，让我意识到他们是这一切的支柱，毫无疑问，是那些让 ET 变得特别的人。近年来，我听到了不满意的供应商的抱怨，有一段时间他们根本没有抱怨。剩下的人，我希望他们的新政策好运，并希望他们从处理供应商丢弃的物品的任何事情中得到极大的快乐，希望他们不要把它扔掉。将工作中的钻头或架子或任何东西扔进垃圾桶，当它可以送给需要的人时，不仅是一种耻辱，而且跳蚤市场购物者中“垃圾箱潜水”的百分比不仅有助于环境而且减少了浪费，在 50% 以上的范围内，这将转化为他们损失的大量现金，因为新泽西州跳蚤市场、米德尔敦、斯托姆维尔，还有更多不执行这些规则的地方。嘿，如果我们决定不再去，可能每周从我妈妈和我那里损失 200 美元，有时甚至 400 美元对他们来说是 nbd，这很有可能，但对他们来说可能只是九牛一毛。
我所知道的是，我们从一开始就帮助他们维持业务，而且有很多次我们本可以去泽西岛或其他规模更大的跳蚤市场，我们选择将业务交给 ET 是因为曾经在那里工作的人素质非凡。现在一切都变了，这是一个与过去截然不同的两个世界的地方。也就是说，在此时此地对 ET 的长期审查结束时，我鼓励人们了解它的全部内容，我真的希望他们有一个很好的体验。但我也希望他们意识到，这不是人们几十年来一直吹捧的外星人。
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