Lucas Sineux will be able to “wake up to 4 am” in order to find good deals at dawn.
For this professional second-hand dealer based in Meulan (Yvelines) - "fourth generation of merchants", he specifies - weekends in June will be busy, and that's good.
Because the trader aspires to only one thing: “Rediscover human contact” with exhibitors and customers after a year of activity in slow motion, only punctuated by professional flea markets organized once a month in Chartres (Eure).
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This Sunday, he will be looking again, somewhere in Ile-de-France, for a little treasure in the middle of worthless trinkets.
As before the crisis.
His research can range from paintings to old furniture, including a clock, a lamp or a mirror.
“You have to go, you never know what you can find,” he explains.
This is where I do my merchandise.
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If the flea market is "first and foremost a moment of relaxation with the family", he searches for business, and for the "relationship".
"People must sell to the pros," he insists, pointing to those in the world called "hackers", or "fake partic" ", that is to say, amateurs" which are all black ”.
"Online shopping kills everything"
Subject to the closure of non-essential businesses and forced to "tap into the treasury" in recent months, because it was "above the thresholds for aid", the second-hand dealer has also seen online commerce take off the sails.
And to drink strongly those who, like him, live from the resale.
“I think Leboncoin stuffed himself,” he blurted out.
Lucas Sineux does have a website, but for him, the job “isn't that”. Besides "the scams" that can be encountered on the web, "online shopping kills everything", he believes. Starting with what makes the salt of his profession. “Nothing replaces physical contact with customers,” he insists. So obviously, in this context, the arrival of sunny days and the flea market calendar which is filling up at high speed can only be a "good sign".
