Best car boot sale and charity shop bargains.

pnq06

OMG what a fantastic thread :j

Well I'm known as Queen of Bargains to family and friends
I very rarely by anything from "normal" shops anymore as I just LOVE charity shops... My budget stretches so much further and I can buy stuff that I wouldn't normally be able too.

Today for instance, I managed to get my daughter a practically brand new play kitchen for £5 which included loads of extras that wouldn't of originally come with it :j
As well as a Karen Millan dress, Topshop cardigan and River Island bag all for 50p each :j Fortunately I am in my mid 20's and live in an area with the population being mostly older folk so the kind of stuff I tend to buy is usually the stuff left on the sale rail :rotfl:

If I add up a typical days outfit then its usually cost less than £5 :T

OMG I am in love with this thread!!! How sad

pnq06

Ooh and I bought a Per Una Cardigan from a bootsale for £2 which if I'm honest was just far too posh for me and so I put it on ebay and it sold for £60 :eek: That was on a 99p starting bid and I only wanted the £2 back that I paid for it I still feel guilty to this day

tiff

You've all inspired me to go to the car boot on Saturday, I bet I struggle to find anything decent to sell on!

JesaRose

Crikey £60 for a Per Una cardigan is a lot!

I bought a lovely vintage dress a few weeks ago for £4 but it looked horrible on me and I was really disappointed. So I put it on ebay as I can't wear it and it sold this evening for £52

...every cloud

pnq06

tiff wrote: »

You've all inspired me to go to the car boot on Saturday, I bet I struggle to find anything decent to sell on!

You must get there early for all the decent stuff and you must stay all day right till the very end for sellers reducing stuff to get rid And remember to dig deep!!!

Hope you find something great

pnq06

JesaRose wrote: »

Crikey £60 for a Per Una cardigan is a lot!

I bought a lovely vintage dress a few weeks ago for £4 but it looked horrible on me and I was really disappointed. So I put it on ebay as I can't wear it and it sold this evening for £52

...every cloud

Very impressive profit!

Yep, I was totally shocked... This is an identical one but it didn't sell for as much, must of been the run up Christmas that these crazy people wanted it for- http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-PER-UNA-FAN-CARDIGAN-12-14-BNWOT-Long-Greys-Stripe_W0QQitemZ110373333620QQcmdZViewItemQQptZWomen_s_Clothing?hash=item110373333620&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2%7C65%3A13%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318

pnq06

In fact there are 2 at auction now with no bids at £16.99- Wow I was lucky :eek:

JesaRose

Your timing must have been perfect

lucy*locket

pnq06 wrote: »

Ooh and I bought a Per Una Cardigan from a bootsale for £2 which if I'm honest was just far too posh for me and so I put it on ebay and it sold for £60 :eek: That was on a 99p starting bid and I only wanted the £2 back that I paid for it I still feel guilty to this day

Don't feel guilty, everyone's happy, the person who sold it for £2 got what she wanted, you almost got a nice cardy to wear, the person who paid £60:eek: must have been delighted too. That's how I got started selling bits on Ebay, bought a Monsoon jumper at a boot sale for myself, it looked horrible on me, put it in Ebay and it sold for £26...I couldn't believe it. I still sell odds and ends occasionally, I'll pick up something at a boot sale, wear it once then sell it on,sometimes I only make a few quid but sometimes it'll go for more and funds my next trip to the boot sale;)

tsharp

Great read, but loads of these bargains are women's clothes. While i'm pretty mercenary about what I'd buy to sell on, but I'd feel self conscious rooting through a load of women's clothes and handbags!

I bought some brown leather shoes from House of Fraser for £25 in a sale for my wedding, they were a size too small, but I thought they'd be ok for the day. By the end of the night they were killing me, so I packaged them back up in their paper wrapping and box etc and listed them as 'worn once' on ebay. Sold for £49 plus postage! Can't remember the make, an Italian name of some kind but definitely not a major designer.

Another good buy was a star wars lego kit sealed in it's box from a charity shop, bought for £2.80, sold for £28!

I also bought some hardbock horror books (all the same title and writer) from a charity shop for £1 simply because they were so different from all the other crap books sold in charity shops. Turned out they were limited editions from a writer well regarded in the horror genre. Sold them all to a horror dealer for about £15.