Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

firesidemaid

catchooky wrote: »

firesidemaid wrote: »

in the past i have sold a book for £67 that i paid 70p for! in recent weeks i have sold a book for £26 (cost me 50p) and another for £25 (cost me 20p) - both lucky punts:D
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:eek:WOW:eek: what books were they?
We have loads and loads of books in ur house (old ones) as my mum, aunt and I are huge readers and have literally cupboards and rooms full!!!:o:o
We had an old fashioned 'ready reckoner' at home which my dad always told me was super valuable but I'm afraid I was a bit of a vandal when I was young and idiotic so it's now no longer with us:mad:

remember these are the ones that did particularly well. others sold for only £2-3. the £67 was a first ed collectable nature book, and the other two were an 1980s book related to a kids tv series/toys and a first ed book on a pet species (not being specific as i don't want people to look at what i sell on ebay from here).

i love it but it has taken years to hone my ebay antenna! i still get some duds, but then you have to take the rough with the smooth. i have had other similar great results on all sorts of random items. likewise i might have missed a good buy as i don't like to risk too much money on a punt. and, yes i do pay tax on all the items i buy to sell;).

Ballymackeonan

Over the last couple of weeks I've been starting the winter preparations in local charity shops - the weather has been dreadful so most car-boots have been a washout...

2 cashmere cardis and one jumper (Florence & Fred and M&S Limited Edition) - at about £3.50 each, all as new.. M&S Italian Collection wool & silk jumper for the OH £2, and yesterday a Swedish Lamb coat for £1. Not the 70s grey or beige colours, (OK for warmth but a bit depressing!) but cream with an apricot silk lining and genuine 1960s! The lining needs a couple of stitches but is otherwise perfect.

shelovestobuystuff

I sold some of my finds at auction yesterday and although I made some money on them I was very dissapointed with the prices they fetched,would have got about double on ebay for them.I just didnt fancy packaging up the stuff and posting it incase it got smashed.
One of my beswick bulls only sold for £50 when the cheapest selling price for it one ebay is £80.I will stick to ebay in future.
My mum went to the auction to see what the lots went for and apparantly I was actually very lucky to get what I did for the stuff as lots were going for £3-5,shocking!Some poor woman got just £8(minus a minimum auction house fee of £5) for her whole tray of carlton ware,about 15 items,thats 20p an item she would get for them.There were lots of very happy buyers on the day.
Might be a good place to buy rather than sell?
Mum said its worth going just for the banter.

catchooky

Just back from our local carboot - got an out of print Stephen King book for £1 and an Irish doll for the OH for £1 - was a miserable day but was mobbed so found it kinda awkward to see stuff - I did go round twice tho!!!

JesaRose

Ours were rubbish too which is really annoying as I got up at 6:15 today but I did get a nice pair of cream suede Faith boots, navaho style and very cute £3.50 and some white sticky labels for ebay etc

Miss_Laid

I picked up a Boots "french cooking set" a lidded caserole dish, oven glove, bottle of olive oil, tube of dried parsley and dried thyme all new in the box for 30p!!!
A wall rug, which I actually want for a picnic rug 20p

goanmad

Ours was full of drowsy wasps and lots of the poor stall holders were being stung. It's a lovely sunny day here so have caught the sun as well as a few bargains:

2 x Margaret Howell ladies' jackets (New with tags)
Margaret Howell jumper (New with tags) - All £1 each
Paul Smith leather brogues in need of reheeling but ok for £2
Vintage tooled leather framed hand bag £1
Vintage gas camping stove in original enamel case £2
2 x Kerrang 2009 compilation CD's £1
Peace Sign sticker 10p
Vintage Dunlop wellies in turquoise 50p
5 x TopShop/Boxfresh/ASOS dresses £1 each
1970's crushed velvet hippy top 50p
1970's cheesecloth Indian skirt 50p
1970's kaftan 50p
River Island beret 10p
Pretty M&S bra 20p
Vintage ski jumper 50p
4 x 1980's scarves 10p each
Brown leather governess style lace-up ankle boots 50p
Vintage mock croc clutch bag 20p
2 x 1970's orange and brown cereal bowls 10p
Kurt Geiger knee high suede moccasin boots £1.50

Keep them bargains coming, guys!

JesaRose

goanmad wrote: »

Kurt Geiger knee high suede moccasin boots £1.50

Some fab bargains for you again - congrats:T

What size are the boots? If they are a size 6 and you are selling them please let me know where I can bid on them:D KG obsessive here

rugbybabe77

Went to bootsale this morning looking for ELC Happy land toys following my bargain find at a boot the other week. came back with:

Fairytale Castle & happyland church for £7
happy land house £4
and my favourite bargain was the happy land Village vets for 20p - i'm awaiting an ebay purchase of the figures but they didn't have the building, so complete now!
oh also bought a vintage (1980) Fisher Price airplane, I used to play with one when i was little, though looking I may get a good return on ebay.

also bought a blueberry cheesacke muffin, wasn't a bargain but was delicious

goanmad

JesaRose wrote: »

Some fab bargains for you again - congrats:T

What size are the boots? If they are a size 6 and you are selling them please let me know where I can bid on them:D KG obsessive here

They are a 6 and fit me perfectly so I'm keeping 'em. They're sooo cute! :j