By Chris Elliott….

We recently translated and published on CyprusScene news from the Girne Municipality about the starting of a Second-Hand market on Sunday morning from 07:00 to 14:00 opposite the Girne Police station and after publication and sharing, we were asked a number of questions on social media.

So this sunny Sunday I decided to visit the market and sure enough, there were lots of stalls selling clothes although there was one stall with fruit and some vegetables and one stall with second-hand electrical goods with a few electrical items mixed in with clothes on two other stalls.

Walking around after asking a few questions I was directed to a nice gentleman called Ahmet whose stall was the electrical items and it turned out that he was the man to speak with for those wanting to hire a table to sell their second-hand goods on.

He told me the market was split into 2 sections with one half with just one table which could be hired for 200 TL for the morning and in the other half of the market you could hire 2 tables in L share for just 300 TL and there were lots of these and the goods for sale on these were presented in a better fashion than on the single tables.

For those local readers who may wish to hire tables, you will find Ahmet on his electrical stall next to the little stall selling food and drink.   

One stall holder who, I was talking to said the only problem was that on arrival and unpacking some other stall holders wanted to buy your goods and then sell at a higher price which reminded me of a few times in the past when I went to some UK boot sales and as soon as my car had stopped other traders were opening my car boot and grabbing some articles and asking howe much do you want for this.

It is the same with some people wherever you live. LOL!
https://cyprusscene.com/2024/02/11/a-visit-to-girne-second-hand-sunday-market/