Carboot, profit £2.20!

Agutka

mclaren wrote:

carbootsales are good - but if its raining or that, no1 will want to go! you need to choose a nice day, WARM day and make sure its a good day, then go and set up the stall - ive had 4 of them and each one, made well over £70 just selling "junk" that i didnt need.

To be fair to buyers, even if they do venture out in bad weather, the stall holders do themselves no favours. I was out and about last Sunday, and it was a morning of passing showers. And while I braved it, the sellers stayed in their cars, their stalls covered up. Even once it stopped raining. So I was faced with row upon row of nicely covered stalls, which make for really difficult browsing. I really wanted to buy something, no point in a wasted trip, but I found nothing.
Same again this week?

Welshlassie

I have done a couple of boot sales. First one we cleared my parents old stuff and took £45 minus £5 fee leaving £40, got back to my car (we took 2 and left one outside) and had a £30 ticket, not amused.

The 2nd one I did I was helping a friend who was raising money for a Raleigh International trip. She had already done one a few weeks previously and made £250, so this one was the stuff left over from that and we still made £180.

Iwantahouse_2

one of my most profitable car boot sales was in torential rain. People loved my "wet weather bargains"