Memphis Skyline Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 I am clearing out my flat and have loads of stuff to get shot of. I've never been to a car boot sale but though it might be a fun way to get rid and maybe make some small change.Planning to go to Thainstone on Sunday. I have books, videos, jackets, jewellery, CDs, a telly,video,CD player. Boxes of stuff in good condition.So are there any car boot veterans here? Any tips? What sells well etc?Only hope is I don't come back with mroe crap than I went in with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 You can sell anything, but you have to remember that people there are after bargains so you have to sell stuff at a snip so don't expect to make a fortune. I've been up heaps of time and IME stuff like DVDs, Playstation games, old consoles, kids toys, and jewellery are the best sellers. You'll struggle to shift CDs probably because people can't be bothered going through them. Electronic gadgets usually fly. Tips? Take LOADS of change. And keep an eye on your stuff, there's alot of pikeys and they do try and steal from right under your nose. Especially when you first open up and they swarm round you like vultures. Wear warm clothes and have a mate there who can run back and forth to keep you in tea and bacon rolls!It starts at like 730am and the crowds are totally gone by about 1030 so you need to be early as fuck.I think it costs a tenner for a pitch, and you'll need a table of some sort. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest treader. Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 i went to the thainstone market once. it was fucking ace.i dont know why i've never been since.i got a wombles annual and a yo-yo.i was like...7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neepheid Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Also take lots of carrier bags - I've seen it be a deal breaker because "ye dinna hae a bag?" and away they went! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Memphis Skyline Posted September 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 That's good advice, thanks.What would you price a telly at? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teabags Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 If its a 40" HD Plasma flastscreen thats digital ready......20If its not......1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Thainstone car boot sale - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
framheim Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Thainstone car boot sale - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.these aren't the beano annuals you're looking for Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mistersticks Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 i actually managed to get up in time, for the first time in 5 years i might add, to make it to thainstone, last weekend, got some cracking dvds for a quid each. But in correspondence to the question, pretty much anything will sell, and bring a wee pop up table or something, cos it looks a bit crap if you just lay everything on the ground. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Last time I was up I had nothing but a cupboard full of old VHS tapes (about 300). I came back with 100, albeit all in pound coins. And also still with 200 videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diesel Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Thainstone car boot sale - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.Couldn't agree more- the dregs of fag-smoking, pie-eating, super lager-swilling humanity.Poorly educated and ill-mannered filth, who think spending 50p on a kettle at your stall elevates them to some level of royalty over you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Poorly educated and ill-mannered filth, who think spending 50p on a kettle at your stall elevates them to some level of royalty over you.And that's before they let their dogs piss on your baby buggy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeanette Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 I got a teapot for 20p... I was chuffed with my purchase.Also, I say put stickers with prices on everything and make little signs saying "2 for 1" etc. That way it's easy for the buyer to spot and it means you're not thinking on your feet if your stall is busy!!Good luck! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Couldn't agree more- the dregs of fag-smoking, pie-eating, super lager-swilling humanity.Poorly educated and ill-mannered filth, who think spending 50p on a kettle at your stall elevates them to some level of royalty over you.Get one over on them by simply shitting in the kettle first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KimyReizeger Posted September 10, 2008 Report Share Posted September 10, 2008 Thainstone car boot sale - you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.I hate to say it, but I did feel repulsed when i was forced to use a bus passing that way on Sunday a few months back. Everything was fine then suddenly the vehicle came under attack from puffy plastic jackets, bulbous foreheads, the Daily Star and a loud conversation about football so moronic it made your average pub chin-wag look like an evening in with Alan Hansen and Chomsky. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigsby Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 Get one over on them by simply shitting in the kettle first.Or the hairdryer if you are Mike Patton. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingin' Ryan Posted September 11, 2008 Report Share Posted September 11, 2008 I got an amazing 1970's electric organ for a tenner from Thainstone once, it either eventually packed in or I had to sell it for lack of space, I can't remember, but it was a beauty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guest treader. Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 i want to go to this now.maybe a week on sunday i will bother myself to do so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 My best buys were when there was a bootsale at the Northern Marts (late 80s?/early 90s?)......I got a Watkins Rapier 33 guitar for a fiver, which I still use now & again for recording, plus a copy of the Artwoods album (worth a couple of hundred quid) for 50p (sold it to the Cavern a few years ago).When the Castlegate market was on I picked up an extremely rare Wille Dixon 7" for 20p ('Walkin the blues' on London). Good days!Go for it, Ed......then you could give us a run down of what you get! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 I bought some fucking shite the last time I went, including a Box Brownie camera, and one of those big metal typewriters like off of Murder She Wrote. Both of which I think ended up getting chucked out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 I once got a WEM Copycat echo unit from the Bridge of Don bootsale for a quid....it was knackered, but I gave it to Shawn the Ox, and his work fixed it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 I once got a WEM Copycat echo unit from the Bridge of Don bootsale for a quid....it was knackered, but I gave it to Shawn the Ox, and his work fixed it.A quid!? Fucking bargain.Those never go for under a hundred on ebay, not when I've been watching them anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Cynic Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 I bought one new in the 70s which I still have, but the one I got at the bootsale looked helluva beat up...so I got it for spares really. Still, a bargain nevertheless. Wonder if Shawn still has it?Disappointingly I just missed a stuffed fox for 8 quid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted September 12, 2008 Report Share Posted September 12, 2008 Never actually bought anything from the Car Boots or Thainstone market but just enjoy walking about taking in the sights.My mate and I nip out there occasionally just for a laugh.We grab a couple of my Grandads Sean Wilson CDs just to get us ion the mood on the way there. You know just to ease us into the ear melting irish country music we will have to endure during the Mink Safari that we are about to embark upon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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