Car Boot Sales
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It's that season again, for car boot sales! Anyone a fan?
As a kid we were forced to go every Sunday, went to one last year and its very cutthroat these days, folk opening your car doors when you pull up, before you've had a chance to unload!
Seems everyone wants to pay 50p for everything too, I found that a lot of Eastern Europeans seemed to use it as their equivalent of the Metrocentre.
Anyone heading car booting this year, as a seller or buyer?
It's that season again, for car boot sales! Anyone a fan?
As a kid we were forced to go every Sunday, went to one last year and its very cutthroat these days, folk opening your car doors when you pull up, before you've had a chance to unload!
Seems everyone wants to pay 50p for everything too, I found that a lot of Eastern Europeans seemed to use it as their equivalent of the Metrocentre.
Anyone heading car booting this year, as a seller or buyer?
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Crap in the rain though!
Yes I'm certainly waiting for it to warm/brighten up before I do mine.
I actively encourage people to shop second hand especially through car boot sales and the like to avoid paying any tax.
Prepare to be disappointed when people look at you like you're the scum of the earth because you want more than £1 for your belongings.
I been to car boot sale eastern europeans are the wrost for koncking people down in there asking prices
This is true all over the country, all they seem to be able to say is '50p'
I think this government will tax car boots sales next
And I saw them once buy a x box game for 50p and go to there car and sale them at prices like £5.00
That's an old trick, set your stall up, go on a reckie, buy some bargains early on, and flog for profit on your own stall.
Soul destroying sometimes, loading the car up at 6 am on a chilly spring morning only to have to permanently haggle over 25/50p. Stuck there because you can't leave until those around you move.
Yes you make a bit of cash, but you lose some of your faith in the human race.:rolleyes:
Yes we have seen that too, our local boot sales are almost all Eastern Europeans looking for stuff for 50p, they refuse to give more even for electrical items, you can only say no so many times before you have to give in if you want to make any profit.
you get the odd Brit coming along willing to pay a decent bit for a good quality items, but it can be hard sometimes to make a good profit if you only have trinkets to sell.
The last one I went to the stuff was just rubbish! I came to the conclusion that, in this day and age, anything that's any good gets put on Ebay and everything else ends up at the car boot.
When I first started going there was no Ebay, or it was in it's infancy. Stuff at car boot sales was much better then.
We have noticed though, that they always start with 50p and flatly refuse to go above that, they just walk away without a word if you ask for more.
And I had to chase some East european guy down to retrieve my sony psp after he decided he was going to to buy it for a pound whether I agreed to sell it or not. The cheeky beggar just put a pound down and walked off with it.
You really have to watch them dont you? I think its quite sad how boot sales are now just a way for others to try and get stuff for their stalls for nothing, rather than families going along for the fun of finding a bargain or something nostalgic.