Car boot sale advice - updated 2013

soolin

shelley_crow wrote: »

What's the general consensus on selling mobile phones at car boots? I'm going to be doing a car boot soon and I have about 5 old handsets with chargers. Most of them aren't worth anything on mazuma etc, will they sell or is it worth recycling them?

Charge them up before you go and it must be worth a try at a car boot.

MoaningMyrtle

The phones should sell for about £2.00 each. You will get a lot of interest, someone may buy them all to send abroad.

blondy24

Does anyone do car boots in the Gloucestershire area? If so any good?

PROUDMUMMYTOTHREE

hi im hoping to sell some cupcakes on mothers day at the carboot will i be aloud to do this?

John_Pierpoint

Most car boots have a regular caterer. I think this is for two reasons.

1. He pays them a worthwhile retainer.

2. They won't be liable for complying with the "elf & safety" rules required of someone selling open food (eg running water for washing hands..etc etc..........).

The Womans Institute offers this advice:
Preparing Food Regularly and Frequently* for Community Events
For WIs who prepare food regularly and frequently* for community events as well as people setting up a food business the most important food hygiene regulations for your business are:
Regulation (EC) No.852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs
The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 (and equivalent regulations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
These set out the basic hygiene requirements for all aspects of your business. One of the key requirements of the law is that you must be able to show that food is safe to eat. A system for the management of food should be used. One practical way is Safer Food Better Business which is based on a set of safe methods and diary which helps food businesses or producers run their operation effectively and safely. This document is available FREE from the Food Standards Agency.

For more information see the FSA’s web pages at http://www.food.gov.uk/safereating/
For more detailed, local advice on food hygiene consult your local environmental health officer.
*A definition of “regularly and frequently” has not been established in law. However the NFWI understands that this means WIs who cook more regularly and frequently than five times in five weeks.

http://www.thewi.org.uk/standard.aspx?id=11065

andyf3050

Another thing to watch out for after someone tried to rip us off last year. We sold a desktop computer with monitor and keyboard etc to a guy and you know when something just doesn't smell right? So while my good lady watched the stall I followed him back to his van (like a ninja) and I watched him take the casing off the tower unit, remove the mother board then put it all back together (he had loads of computers and related stuff so must have been a business). About 2 hours later he came back and said he'd taken it home and it doesn't work and you should have seen his face when I loudly announced to medium sized audience that I'd witnessed what he'd tried to pull...! He even tried arguing that it wasn't true... I told him I'd followed him and watched him in the back of his van..! Tail between legs, red-faced and wanting a big hole to appear so he could climb inside...! Moral: Don't try and rip off a ninja...!

alex£

andyf3050 wrote: »

Another thing to watch out for after someone tried to rip us off last year. We sold a desktop computer with monitor and keyboard etc to a guy and you know when something just doesn't smell right? So while my good lady watched the stall I followed him back to his van (like a ninja) and I watched him take the casing off the tower unit, remove the mother board then put it all back together (he had loads of computers and related stuff so must have been a business). About 2 hours later he came back and said he'd taken it home and it doesn't work and you should have seen his face when I loudly announced to medium sized audience that I'd witnessed what he'd tried to pull...! He even tried arguing that it wasn't true... I told him I'd followed him and watched him in the back of his van..! Tail between legs, red-faced and wanting a big hole to appear so he could climb inside...! Moral: Don't try and rip off a ninja...!

I like your style!

trolleyrun

Just in case anyone is interested, the Pease Pottage (W Sussex) Car Boot season starts 8th April :j:T

John_Pierpoint

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Most car boots have a regular caterer. I think this is for two reasons.

1. He pays them a worthwhile retainer.

2. They won't be liable for complying with the "elf & safety" rules required of someone selling open food (eg running water for washing hands..etc etc..........).

The Womans Institute offers this advice:
Preparing Food Regularly and Frequently* for Community Events
For WIs who prepare food regularly and frequently* for community events as well as people setting up a food business the most important food hygiene regulations for your business are:
Regulation (EC) No.852/2004 on the hygiene of foodstuffs
The Food Hygiene (England) Regulations 2006 (and equivalent regulations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
These set out the basic hygiene requirements for all aspects of your business. One of the key requirements of the law is that you must be able to show that food is safe to eat. A system for the management of food should be used. One practical way is Safer Food Better Business which is based on a set of safe methods and diary which helps food businesses or producers run their operation effectively and safely. This document is available FREE from the Food Standards Agency.

For more information see the FSA’s web pages at http://www.food.gov.uk/safereating/
For more detailed, local advice on food hygiene consult your local environmental health officer.
*A definition of “regularly and frequently” has not been established in law. However the NFWI understands that this means WIs who cook more regularly and frequently than five times in five weeks.

http://www.thewi.org.uk/standard.aspx?id=11065

BBC1 Wednesday 14th March "The Food Inspectors":

Part of this programme featured the food police of Mid Suffolk, checking out a boot sale.

It seems there is a new European Union ruling EU 178:

Everyone offering food for sale is part of the food chain and must register with their local authority - the programme featured a man with a van who had picked his Bramley apple tree the evening before (so it must have been recorded last autumn).

There was a lot of bleeping in his interview. He was of the opinion that the world had gone mad.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01dlv4l/Food_Inspectors_Takeaway_Terrors/

http://ec.europa.eu/food/food/foodlaw/principles/index_en.htm

Smamfer

Hiya

Recently started doing car boots well trying anyway, There is a big one near me running 2 times a week at mo but soon changes to 3, and always worth a pitch

After doing a few so far this yr have realised how many adults clothes are shifted, so wanting to get rid of some of ours. We had a basic rail that i bought when moving into my house but its a bit pants and not big enough. I noticed a lot of people have proper market style ones or even round ones, does anyone know where i am able to get these please?

Thanks