Car boot sale. Yeah or nay.

[Bobthebeard]

Have just wound up my business as an electrician and have loads of bits and pieces to get rid of. Cables, switches, tools etc. Also some car related tools and tat. Have no experience of car boot sales. Any one have any advice? Thought about putting the stuff on EBay and wondered which was worse. Meeting the general public face to face or ont web!

[autofive]

boot sales are finished. Your customers will be professional scroungers and ebayers looking to make money from you. they want it all for nothing and will simply cherry pick and leave you with too much stuff you cant sell

 

why not gumtree or ebay a joblot then you may attract other electricians looking for cheap things

[Bobthebeard]

boot sales are finished. Your customers will be professional scroungers and ebayers looking to make money from you. they want it all for nothing and will simply cherry pick and leave you with too much stuff you cant sell

 

why not gumtree or ebay a joblot then you may attract other electricians looking for cheap things

Did suspect as much TBH. Thanks. I don't get on well with 'The Public' as the description of professional scroungers pretty much fits in with my experience!

[Junkman]

Car boot sale = no sale

Ebay = mong magnet

Gumtree = magnet for nickel nurser mongs

 

A tough call, really.

[overrun]

eBay and Gumtree, imo, Are you able to advertise in local trade shops etc too?

That would cut down on the mongs.

 

Boot sale bingo is all they are good for these days. (First to spot the hair straighteners, Elefun, and a hideous 'cat' ornament.)

Or maybe half-inched razor blades and the like.

[Bobthebeard]

Car boot sale = no saleEbay = mong magnetGumtree = magnet for nickel nurser mongsA tough call, really.

Lol!

Can't find the smiley for 'we are all doomed' but suspected as much....

Selling stuff to the populace at large seems to be a fast track to depression. Maybe I should just keep it!

Lol

[Wilko220]

Would you not be better writing to a few other local electricians / electrical firms and seeing if they're interested in buying your old stock?

[Jim Bell]

People trying to sell actual car boots must have tons of hillarious stories about confused misunderstandings.

Specially if they try and do it in a field on a Sunday morning.

[autofive]

....in swalwell

[CortinaDave]

Car boot sales are always filled with the same tat. As long as you are in the market for the aforementioned hideous cat ornament, a VHS player, an early 90s portable telly, some shit LPs with vaguely racist sleeves or monopoly with half the houses and cards missing and a suspicious brownish stain on the box you're laughing.

 

As a seller you have to get up at a frankly appalling time on a Sunday morning, then stand in the rain slowly realising none of the public at car boot sales want to pay more than 50p for anything, and there's more to life than wasting five minutes of your life trying to get 80p rather than 50p for one of your dodgy old LPs

[Split_Pin]

My wife and I have started getting rid of our unwanted items at the Falkirk Stadium car boot sale on Sundays. Were going back for a third time this weekend.

 

It's brilliant fun, as long as you don't take it too seriously. The secret is to have a shitload of fairly decent stuff, but to sell each item for only a few quid. Each time, in the 5 hours it's open for, we made over £100.

 

Also, people will crowd round you as you are trying to unload your car. Don't be too hasty to sell your stuff to them too quick though, as they are dealers and other traders.

 

Next month I'm trying a swapmeet where I hope to offload about 80% of my model car collection over a period of months, although I think that might ne a bit optimistic.

[Cavcraft]

I got a nice Peugeot racer on Sunday for £33 at a car boot sale. I reckon spending a tenner on it will make it worth £100

[beko1987]

Myself and the Missus have been selling recently, all the clothes we bought our daughter from the carboot are being sold at no loss at all!

 

Plus some other shite I had lying around, have a 206 wing, got asked what car is it for, what is it, would I accept a quid etc

 

It's still in the garage...

[Junkman]

Lol!

Can't find the smiley for 'we are all doomed' but suspected as much....

Selling stuff to the populace at large seems to be a fast track to depression. Maybe I should just keep it!

Lol

 

The real problem is that nowadays everybody thinks he is entitled to everything, twice, in Rolls-Royce quality, for 99p, delivered yesterday, instant gratification takes too long, and if it's unsuitable for what they intend it for, or otherwise deviates from totally unjustified parallel universe expectations, someone to step in and pull them out of the shit they maneuvered themselves into, plus a healthy £££compensation pillow.

 

I have tried all three. Boot sale, Ebay, and Gumtree. The mong experience is different for each, but a mong experience it is regardless. For me, the worst was Gumtree, which with absolute certainty I will never ever use again (experience available on demand. Warning: not funny).

 

Lately, I offer everything I want to get rid of on related forums for free collection from my home, and if there aren't any responses during the first week, I bring it to the tip the following Saturday. I'm walking on this planet for too long to still be arsed, if you get my drift. Still, even if you offer stuff for free pick up, you'd be surprised what mong-quota this still attracts. Unbefugginlievable.