Car boot sale advice - updated 2013

jrgodfrey

I have seen a big Black car arrive at a boot fair, Three or four guys jumped out and went all over the place buying a load of rubbish for about £1 a time and paying with £20 notes, after about 45 minutes they left in a hurry with pockets full of change and leaving behind a trail of FAKE £20 NOTES. You have been warned!!

jeferey

Hi Pandora - I would definitely not sell the laptop at a carboot - you will never get what it is worth, most buyers are after a bargain - put it on eBay.

For the last two years I've been putting the higher value / quality stuff on eBay and car booting the (dross) rest!!

You will get a much better total return that way.:T

lilmissmup

Does anyone buy videos @ Car boots anymore? I have a whol box full of them from freecycle and various places. Do you think they would sell at 25p each? Some good films there.

I haven't done my first car boot yet, looking to do one before end of this month though.

keelykat

lilmissmup wrote: »

Does anyone buy videos @ Car boots anymore? I have a whol box full of them from freecycle and various places. Do you think they would sell at 25p each? Some good films there.

I haven't done my first car boot yet, looking to do one before end of this month though.

My dad sold quite a lot for 50p each, but it varies each week who is there and is willing to pay for them

Good luck!

keely.

sara1980

i've just got back from my first ever car boot, just sold bits from the house that we don't want....clothes, ps2/xbox/pc games, toys, bedding etc, made £71.00 after taking out the fee for the pitch, not a brilliant amount, but £71 more than had whan went out this morning. (it will pay the petrol for my trip to blackpool (I have leisure vouchers for entry to PB) and some spends as well
I was told that it was alot slower than usual today as well. But this is the last one they are doing there this year wanted to go back & try & get rid more of my stuff

sara1980

today all they were after was perfumes, cameras & vinyl records if that is any help to anyone.

mrsjb_2

Hi new to the site and also to car boot sales. Doing my first one on Sunday as an incentive for the kids to get rid of the copious amounts of stuff they calim makes it impossible to keep their large(!) bedrooms vaguely tidy!

Kind of ok with flogging their stuff for whatever we can however I have a huge amount of vinyl lps and 12 inch singles and some evening dresses in fantastic condition which I don't really know where to start with? Any advice? The dresses were all quite pricey but I don't want alot for them just kind of some ideas really?

boogiesherbs

Me and my partner did a car boot last week, and we as well had the people jumping on us as soon as we arrived. Yelling for mobile phones, ipods, jewellery,psp's (as if I would sell a psp on a car boot?!)

We managed to shift a lot of stuff and made £160 which I thought was really good as all we had really was dvd's and clothes. I got rid of all of my clothes for roughly £1-£2 each. A lot of the clothes were good names whistles, miss sixty, ted baker. I had miss sixty jeans that I was selling for a £1 and one person said it was expensive. I have changed sizes so the clothes were usless , (all the good stuff etc new with tags ( mistakes!)I had sold beforehand on ebay), so I was glad to get something for them than to take them back home. Also, It dosen't matter what the label is your not going to get much more for it. ( unless obvioulsy you are selling lots of jimmy choos size 4 which if you are please let me know!.....)


My advice is, even if you are trying to raise cash quickly for a holiday etc, only sell something that you really don't want. There is always something that you like but think you will get a lot for, the majority of times that never works, and you end up selling something that you liked for bext to nothing.

If you are a one off car booter like me (i.e once every couple of years, unless you want to end up taking everything back home you will have to be prepared to let things go very very cheaply.

mossy

I may have missed this advice somewhere else but does anyone know a good way of finding out what boot sales are local to you. The free paper in my area doesn't seem to list them??

Thanks

Suzy_M

Mossy,

We have the same problem with our local papers - plus this time of year organisers tend to stop advertising.

There are various web sites that list car boots but when I'm looking for one, the quickest way I've found is just type the county or town I'm looking for into a search engine with "car boot" OR "boot fair" and check out the results. Often comes up with car boots that aren't usually advertised as well.