Car Boot Sales

[Caz]

Too much stuff and not a big enough garden.

We only have a little square at the front as it's a terraced house, but that's as big a space as you get at some boot sales. Plus you don't have to sell it all in one day.
Costs nothing too!

We wanted to sell a couple of furniture items at one of them, we just put up a notice and anyone interested came inside and had a look.

[WillowTheWhisp]

I don't have a little square because it's all full of plants and such like. Is there such a thing as a garden path sale? I could probably manage that. Not that we get much passing trade up here.

[Tealeaf]

Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

Too much stuff and not a big enough garden.

I'm not surprised your garden is'nt big enough.....you could probably make a bit more room in there by asking the binmen to clear out all the rubbish they appear to dump there every time they empty the bins on your street.

Anyway, my apologies for in any way implying that anyone on AccyWeb could possibly be involved with the criminal activities that are a part and parcel of car boot sales....my apologies also for ommitting all the other things wrong with car boot sales, such as the sale of counterfeit goods, the sale of unsafe electrical goods, the sale of dodgy meat, etc, etc.

As for the cops keeping their beedy eye on these things; well, of course they do. That's why most County Constabularies will give them a warning mention on their websites. As for catching the villains - yep, they do that as well. But then again they only manage to clear up 10% of burglaries in the UK, so what the figures are for car boot sales are, I dunno.....

[Darby]

Great thread this one.....LOL

So the thought police will be out at car boot sales, checking on fenced and stolen goods. All stolen goods must be marked "S"...all fenced goods "F"...then we can help our boys in blue detect more crime.

Amazing that they didn't come up with that in E. Germany. But then the boys in blue (actually its light brown here), were also selling lots of goods (unmarked you understand), and very little evidence use to make it to the courtroom...I wonder why.

One boot sale I went to (they actually call them Flohmarkt (fleamarket)), sold old guns, new guns, and live ammunition, all taken from the closed-down Russian Barracks nearby. I was offered an AK47 for 50 Deutschmarks, and a 9mm pistol with 20 rounds of ammo for 40 Deutschmarks. Even the local police examined the wares...didn't buy 'em though.

Still, we now have cracked down on such dastardly crimes...and we hope that you good people in Accy & district will ensure that not a stolen article gets put out for sale. How you will be able to identify them is anybodys guess, but I'm sure there are enough devious minds amongst you to devise a method. Or you could always close them down!!

Oh..err...don't sell the garden paths...you might get done for trespassing in your own garden!! :engsmil: :engsmil:

[steve]

Sunday morrning should be for FISHING ho yes and church

[mattylad]

Go for it, fill the car & get to one.
I usually had to get there between 5am-7Am to be in the cue to get in as a seller.
As 5am you get to be near the front (night before for the actual front) and 7Am gets you right near the back & last in.

When loading the car, dont forget to put the tables (wallpaper ones) either on the top or to be first out.
Also don't forget to take some change (in bumbags to look the part), sarnies & a flask.

Practise haggling at home & sell yourself your supper for cut down prices.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Thanks for the tips

[l.d.flooring-solutions]

gisburn.....its free to sell.

[l.d.flooring-solutions]

im going soon with a load of baby stuff. im going to honour the true carbootsale and sell every thing a pound.

[WillowTheWhisp]

We had a look at the Clitheroe one and I can see where Tealeaf gets his ideas. I was surprised at the number of non traditional car boot type stalls on there. Lots of "new" stuff and people who obviously deal in specific types of things.

Is the Gisburn one easy to find? Free to sellers is a good point.

[WINGY]

Really easy to find willow..
from the clitheroe one head back to the A59 turn left towards Gisburn and keep going, you can't miss them. they are just past the slaughter house.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Is it a big one?

[ellie]

theres 2 and they are both reasonably big

[Mik Dickinson]

What kind of question is that Willow?????

[WillowTheWhisp]

a very pertinent one. We went to a small car boot sale today and there were very few potential buyers. My thinking was that the bigger the venue the more chance we'll have of selling stuff.