The Great 'top-selling items at car boot sales' Hunt 21 February 2013 at 2:23PM in Ebay, auctions, car boot sales, post & parcels 36 replies 161.1K views

Former_MSE_Debs

Great 'top-selling items at car boot sales ' Hunt

Of course, what sells at car boot sales varies from location to location and from season to season. But there are some items, such as branded toys, that tend to sell fast regardless. For all you car-booters out there, which items sell best and how do you get top dollar for them?

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saoliver

Perfume & Aftershave - half full, quarter full, good brands, cheapo's, they all sell well for some reason....

spooky25

Hi all,

Womens and mens clothing if they are branded seem to do pretty well. also stuff like workgear (overalls etc) seems to do well.

Some tips for all the new carbooters out there:

If you are selling womens clothes then be prepared to have swarms of people buzzing over your stall if you have the right stuff. Most carbooters tend to rail up there clothing and have either a rail price or items tagged up individually. We learn't the hard way!
When you have big crowds people will try to shove the money they wanted to pay for a particular item in you hand whilst shoving it in their bags whilst it was busy. So always best to keep you good gear close to you and have at least two of you to police the stall as a sad fact that people will steal whilst at carboots.

SpammyTheSpammer

I wondered why there have been WANTED posts for these on FREECYCLE!

liz-paul

Anything new (still in packaging etc). Boys toys (there tend not to be that many of them, probably because boys are less careful with their toys). Electronics, tools, gadgets, photographic stuff, furniture, gold jewellery.

soolin

SpammyTheSpammer wrote: »

I wondered why there have been WANTED posts for these on FREECYCLE!

Actually that is a good tip, if you see wanted ads on free cycle, then those things are good sellers.

butler_helen

Nailvarnish sells well - £1 a bottle - easy money!

(albeit I had c.100 bottles collected over 10 years).

lindseykim13

This is a bit of a daft thread, anything sells at a car boot. Iif you have stuff to sell you take what you've got surely.
I've had things that haven't sold for 4 car boots in a row and then sold at the 5th.

soolin

lindseykim13 wrote: »

This is a bit of a daft thread, anything sells at a car boot. Iif you have stuff to sell you take what you've got surely.
I've had things that haven't sold for 4 car boots in a row and then sold at the 5th.

I have some things that are not worth taking as they will never sell. At a certain point each year I get fed up and keep one box back for the charity shop and give the rest away free rather than get stuck with it- and I am still left with stuff.

Video tapes for instance- I was at an event at the weekend and they did the same, everything not bought by Sunday was available free- and they still had someone trying to work out what to do with several boxes of videos, books, cds and assorted soft toys.

RainbowDrops

lindseykim13 wrote: »

This is a bit of a daft thread, anything sells at a car boot. Iif you have stuff to sell you take what you've got surely.
I've had things that haven't sold for 4 car boots in a row and then sold at the 5th.

I think the idea is to highlight things that sell every time, rather than things that sell eventually.

Mistral001

I have not had a stall, but go to quite a few car boot sales. However I notice what seems to be there every week and does not sell. Video tapes as someone mentioned, paperback books or anything from a budget shop.

The best way to move these difficult-to-sell items seems to be to have a 50p section or even 20p section.