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Has ebay killed off the car boot sale?
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How do you sell your unwanted stuff and old tat?
Does everyone just donate their stuff to the charity shops these days?
Does everyone just donate their stuff to the charity shops these days?
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There are several very popular car boot sales around here though, so the car boot sale is definitely still alive and well on the south coast.
Ok only stuff I can get as last bid for under a couple of quid but it shifts and I usually make a few bob extra to my own tat.
Plenty of car boot sales that still exist in villages on the outskirts of the city that I live that are held every Sunday (in the summer at least).
A lot do charge excessively high postal fees, eg, an identical item to which i'm about to sell, one is currently on ebay now with postal fees of £18. I've priced mine up using 2 day Courier, trackable and fully insured at just £8.53.
Ebay won't ever 'kill off' Car boot selling. The one big negative with Car Boots though is the dross they attract.....folk trying it on offering 50 pence for something obviously worth ten times that.
I don't think E,Bay is killing off Car Boots, E.bay are slowly killing themselves with ever increasing charges including now 10% on postage, free postage has to be included in the selling price of the item. E.Bay are becoming too greedy.
They seem to be thriving - especially when it's sunny. I don't eBay much at all any more. I used to but as others say, the postage got ridiculous.
Never heard of em
I quite enjoy going to them sometimes lol there actually used to be an amazing one at Edinburgh Airport but its since moved and I'm not sure where to.
The days of a feeding frenzy at car boots are over IMO. I think Ebay bears some responsibility, but so do supermarkets and pound stores. Basically it's down to the tidal wave of Chinese tat.
No one is actively selling anything any more. We don't walk in to stores and get talking to someone who knows product. We pick off the shelf based mostly on the price and the little bit of info on the shelf label. It's catalogue shopping. Sad really but I guess a sign of the times. The knock on effect is seen at the car boots. There's a lot of cheap supermarket junk people try to offload. It swamps the rare gems of something decent.
I came home with just over a hundred quid!
I think serious unemployment and job instability has had a lot to do with this. Where folk would part with a fiver for something in the past, they now consider anything more than a quid as 'expensive'!
Just search the term 'selling' for your area and lots of groups should pop up, join the groups, upload a photo, type in details and price and hey presto you get inundated with offers. I sold a load of remote control cars recently that my son no longer plays with, each buyer popped round, paid cash. No postage costs for them and no fees for me. Fabulous!
Postage would have been £5.60 plus packaging for each one due to RM's rocketing prices, buyers on ebay just aren't willing to fork out that much postage for second hand stuff. Facebook is becoming a great place to sell.
I've been watching this thread and hoping you'd pop back
I'm going to check it out.
The one really annoying problem with Facebook is you have to retype an entire search name every time you want to make just a slight change.
Gumtree is much easier and i've sold lots on there....even sold a car once which sold just 4 hours after uploading the ad.
My daughter has put lots of stuff for sale on Facebook and Gumtree to be asked whats the lowest you will take???? what area are you from?? (even when it on the advert)..can you deliver?? Then when they say yes they want it your sat in for hours waiting for them to come for the item and they don't bother turning up. Then you will email them or text to ask do they still want it and you just get ignored.
I went with my neighbour once to the big one, we had lots of new stuff, and she had goods from a shop she used to have and everyone wanted stuff for 50 p or 10p:o:o…it was ridiculous. I know we all like a bargain and having a go at asking for something a bit cheaper is what its all about, but we honestly felt people were taking the mick so to speak. We ended up taking some stuff back home and putting the rest to the charity shop. So for me I think people are more happy to spend a bit more on ebay so I usually stick to that these days. I will say the one thing the car boots are good for is the banter you get with other people though, we always had a brilliant laugh even if we didn't make any money
The guy who bought the car i sold on Gumtree phoned me. Lived 30 miles away, turned up, looked it over and made a cash offer straight off. I insisted he went for a drive in it first but he was more than happy with what he saw.
In my mind and in my car, we can't rewind we've gone to far
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