Car boot sale.

[lewis1641]

Did one today.

Got up stupidly early but had a really really good laugh.

Made loads of kids happy by giving stuff away and made plenty of people grin with our heckles.

Wouldn't want to do it every sunday but it was really funny

 

[THWANG-666]

cool
i,d love to have a go at one but a big BUT i,d buy as much as i would have solded.best buy i,ve had was a sega saturn mk1 £3 in the box.
si

 

[Augustus]

I love Car Boots.

I see that part at the beginning where all the traders start to open your car up and go rifling through while you are still unloading as like the part in Aliens when they set up auto feed machine gun centry's....

And then the big when the great unwashed wander over like extras from Dawn of the Dead, and offer 10p for your deodorant you've accidentally left on the edge of your trestle table....(actually happened) , I see that like The final scene in Zulu.....Defend the perimeter at all costs.....

It's no wonder Mrs Wu usually sends me off to find tea and biscuits and deals with the public herself....

 

[lewis1641]

we had quite a bit left at 2pm so i removed some of the better stuff and we started shouting "50 pence each" it was hilarious watching people stop dead in their tracks and have a wonder round!

cleared loads of stuff that way

 

[marin man]

Done a carboot about two weeks ago at kessingland,Hate doing the damn things but the wife makes me do it by nagging constantly that we have to much crap :roll: so this year when we had set the table up and she went off to get the teas,I changed into my "carboot outfit" when she came back she was furious as I was wearing a hugo boss sleevless t shirt that was two sizes too small and a leather hat ala village people, She said that I looked like a homosexual steroid pumping bodybuilder :shock: and she would never repeat never do a carboot with me again Desired effect was acheived

 

[losidan]

I fricking hate carboots...selling and the odd occasion I forget how much I detest them and go to one.

All the ones our way are just full of crappy old knackered alba electricals, baby clothes and copy DVD sellers.

True what they say about that being organised crime...Someone once turned up to the big one near us selling DVD's and within 5 mins loads of shady lads surrounded them and were giving them some right pasty

 

[lewis1641]

best sales of the day were a donated toaster that we forgit to clean. it was a manky old mess but sold for 50 pence.

90's sony car radio/cassette for 50p

brand new steam cleaner for 50p. sold to a little old lady who had absolutely no idea what it was but she liked the fact it was new and 50p

5 half empty/full bottles of cheap nasty perfume to 2 old "travellers" to make their vans smell nice for 50p

gave away loads of dvd's on the grounds of them being really bad films

spent our first tenner on breakfast

gave loads of kids toys

finally managed to shift a pair of 235/45/17 tyres i have had for months. definately a case of right place right time!

there were some very dead looking people there

 

[losidan]

last one I did I nearly had fisticuffs on two occasions...

1. Bloke buying a microwave off me for £7...15 mins dithering looking at it and saying nothing. Lovely old lady walked up and offered me full price so I took it. Bloke promptly starts at me for selling it as he was there first.....

2. Box full of books for 10p each. About 25. I was sat in the car for 5 mins while the mrs and her mum were on the stall and gets shirty as we wont sell them cheaper. I come out and the bloke they said my mrs said he could have then for 10p the lot....I told him I would do them for him at an extra special special price...£5 each.

3. We put a load of toy trinkets in a wicker basket for 5p each for the kiddies. One adult rummages through for 5mins then asks how much they are. At 5p he put the item down to walk off. I gave him 5p and said if he gave it me back he could have one of the toys...

Last time I bothered selling that was.

 

[Tad]

I love Car Boots.

I see that part at the beginning where all the traders start to open your car up and go rifling through while you are still unloading as like the part in Aliens when they set up auto feed machine gun centry's....

And then the big when the great unwashed wander over like extras from Dawn of the Dead, and offer 10p for your deodorant you've accidentally left on the edge of your trestle table....(actually happened) , I see that like The final scene in Zulu.....Defend the perimeter at all costs.....

It's no wonder Mrs Wu usually sends me off to find tea and biscuits and deals with the public herself....

Let me know where you're next doing a boot fair, I'd pay good money just to stand there and witness it, infact I'd bring a chair and flask of tea, reckon it would be brilliant!