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

MoaningMyrtle

There must be regional variations in Car Boot Sales. Cookbooks sell well here, usually for £1.00. Trainers go well, someone will buy them in bulk to send to Africa. Again, £1.00 per pair.

Clothes are hard to sell, even for a pound. Better brands will achieve £2.00 eg Boden, Joules, Crew.

soolin

I won't quote you ( tnt4ever ) in full but well done in your business.

However for others reading this, remember the poster is a business, and hopefully registered as such with HMRC so this isn't just a case of what sells best that you might have lying around the house.

likelyfran

butler_helen wrote: »

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

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

Wow. Considering you can buy brand new bottles in pound shops, I think I'd
not be asking more than about 20p for a used one!

sillyputty

lego, playmobil, clean kids toys generally. Boxes of bits and bobs of kids cars, plastic animals etc.


If you price cheaply enough anything seems to sell. I sometimes have a 20p mat or a 50p mat. It is surprising how it all adds up.

theboakster

Do you think really good paperback books (Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Kite Runner, those sort of high quality bestsellers) can be sold for £1 each? Will they shift? I have about 100 books, mostly really good ones like that, but I really need to make as much money as I can (but similarly I want as many to sell as I can!)

Maybe 4 for £3?

charlies_mum

theboakster wrote: »

Do you think really good paperback books (Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Kite Runner, those sort of high quality bestsellers) can be sold for £1 each? Will they shift? I have about 100 books, mostly really good ones like that, but I really need to make as much money as I can (but similarly I want as many to sell as I can!)

Maybe 4 for £3?

Personally I wouldn't pay more than 50p for a paperback, unless it was a recent one.

Looking at the titles you have mentioned, they have been out for quite some time, and you may struggle to shift them.

This_Year

theboakster wrote: »

Do you think really good paperback books (Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Kite Runner, those sort of high quality bestsellers) can be sold for £1 each? Will they shift? I have about 100 books, mostly really good ones like that, but I really need to make as much money as I can (but similarly I want as many to sell as I can!)

Maybe 4 for £3?

You might do better with selling them online but it could take more time. At a car boot I will only pay up to 50p for any book.

You could try Greenmetropolis.com but it may be a slow process as your books are a bit older.

theboakster

Thanks charlies_mum and This Year, that's helpful. I really need to think about this a bit more I think!

soolin

theboakster wrote: »

Do you think really good paperback books (Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Kite Runner, those sort of high quality bestsellers) can be sold for £1 each? Will they shift? I have about 100 books, mostly really good ones like that, but I really need to make as much money as I can (but similarly I want as many to sell as I can!)

Maybe 4 for £3?

They are the exact sort of book that doesn't sell- everyone who wanted one when they were fashionable have got their copy. The Amazon sellers used to refer to stock like that as Davinci code books, extremely popular for a short time then only good for making fire bricks.

Shpad

sillyputty wrote: »

lego, playmobil, clean kids toys generally. Boxes of bits and bobs of kids cars, plastic animals etc.


If you price cheaply enough anything seems to sell. I sometimes have a 20p mat or a 50p mat. It is surprising how it all adds up.

I'm always trawling round car boots looking for Lego, and yes it sells well at car boots, but sells even better on eBay

Depending if you just want to make a quick buck, but whenever I have something to sell I always check eBay/Amazon for average sold prices before I consider selling them at a car boot. You have to remember a lot of your buyers at the car boot will be people looking to flip their purchase for a profit.

But generally clean kids toys are a great seller, especially good branded items. I'd also suggest keeping your stall clean and tidy as well, As if it were me buying for my child, I'd not only look at the item I'm buying but at the person selling it (maybe that's just me though?).

I find hand held tools are quite a good seller, and I know when I'm walking round I also have a rummage through piles of tools looking for any that would fit nicely into my toolbox.

We tend to stay clear of books, as we're not too familiar with what sells, and books we've taken in the past have been slow to sell.