Car boot sale newbie looking for advice

iheartbristol

More than likely! Worth a shot anyway - if I got a fiver for it i'd be happy..... maybe less. At the end of the day it's in the way; we have too many computer chairs.

Thanks all I'll post my final amount taken in the car boot sticky. Happy for any mods to close this thread as I did put it in the wrong place afterall

paadzer

I would put CD albums as £1 and let them haggle to 75p each or 3 for £2 (etc). Any singles I would say 50p each or 3 for £1
DVDs maybe ask for £1.50 but accept £1 or 3 for £3.50

I did a boot sale recently and accepted £1 for my DVDs but nobody haggled on the CDs

Clothes I only asked for £1 for jeans and 50p for t-shirts and nobody haggled and I sold almost all of them which was better than giving them to a charity shop

iheartbristol

Well I've worked out on Magpie that I can get around 30p each for everything, a little more for games; so I know my bottom limit as far as CDs/Games/DVDs goes. Anything that doesn't sell I'll put on there.

podperson

Obviously it depends on your area but from when I used to do them, I would put cds at £1 (unless they're singles). Dvds I would maybe start at £1.50 with 2 for £2 and see how they go. If you have any boxsets or Disney ones then mark them higher! I doubt you'll get £15 for boots, even if they are in nice condition - if they are a brand name then would probably be better on ebay. Same with the handbags.

GreenNinja

mrmajika wrote: »

My experience is that anything that you want to sell for £5+ don't take it to the boot sale. Ebay may be better for these kind of things.

Boot buyers are looking for cheap bargains. Any time I've done one the majority of my items have sold for under £2.

I'm sorry but I completely disagree with this comment. I did a car boot sale with my partner a couple of weeks ago and we sold loads of items at over £5! We sold a ladies bike for £10 and my partner had loads of tools and DIY stuff some things selling for £30/£40.

If your boots are a good/popular make and new it might be better to sell on ebay you will probably make more money as with footwear on a carboot you have to get somebody that wants the boots and is the right foot size whereas on ebay your item is being seen by hundreds more people.

Good luck with your car boot! Hope you make lots of money! :j

iheartbristol

Thanks I NEED to make lots of money!

Will post the total here when I finish as well as how it went in general. After reading a bit about them I'm awfully glad there's three of us in our car - more people to keep an eye on things/lock car while table's being got out etc etc

iheartbristol

Well it was a total washout! Started spotting with rain at the start, got there around 6.30, but wasn't too bad. People had come to buy and we sold a few things (I sold about £3 worth of DVDs/CDs at 50p each and some craft supplies). Then the spotting got bigger and we realised it wasn't going to stop. Then it got torrential and we gave up around 9am. It didn't stop until long after the boot sale itself was due to finish so at least we made the right decision and due to the downpour, the organisers didn't charge us the pitch fee.

On the bright side one of the people I went with bought the computer chair off me the evening before for £10 so I was pleased with that. Took advantage of the ebay free listings weekend last night and put a lod of stuff on there, threw things out that had been ruined by the rain, sent £18 worth of CDs/DVDs/Games to music magpie and put the rest in a plastic bag to go to the charity shop.

I tried!

soolin

Well done for trying and also for selling the chair. There is nothing worse than a sudden torrential downpour at a car boot, it is almost impossible to pack it all away safely quickly enough and whilst I always take plastic sheeting the rain does seep underneath it when the wind blows.

iheartbristol

Well I'm almost glad it was rained off, not only should I get about £18 from music magpie, but my ebay items have been weirdly popular! I've put some of the more decent items I had on there (out of 14 items, only 3 don't have any watchers... ) I've had bids on some already (which for me is undeard of) and much more watchers that last time I did an ebay binge. It's like it was 4 or 5 years ago when everything you put on there seemed to sell. Items doing very well are light brown llong eather boots from a high street store, an iPod dock with speakers (quality brand) and a leather jewellery box from a high quality high street store. Even my random jewellery making books and some purses and handbags from cheaper high street stores have watchers.

Happy Days

DataWraith

To be honestthe prices you have quoted sound about right, we've done a couple and we sell DVD's and CD'sfor £1 and clothes we sold for a pound an item depending on the brand, just expect to be haggled but if you think your prices are too low then don't feel ashamed in saying no, unless someone wants to buy say 5 DVD's for 4 quid the you both feel ok with the bargain.
But don't expect to walk out of it rich, the most we eve made was last time 180 quid and the time before £130, but the stuff we had was very good condition.
If you have Warhammer ( the figurine fantasy game) , computer games and board games they normally go quite well.
As well as mobile fones and gold? for some reason.
Other than that good luck, try to pick a good day and a good busy site.