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Now I am not one for getting up at stoopid o'clock and saying I paid £2 for this and he wanted a fiver. But, over the weekend we passed a car boot sale in Worcester,.
me mum who wasn't that bothered about goin was the first outta the car. Anyway I bought a few Dandys. Then lo and behold, I spots a football shirt. Not any old footie shirt, but a Rainworth miners welfare football shirt, pronounced (rennuth).
going for £4. How the flippin eck does a footie shirt from a pit village get 100 miles away.

for the record Rennuth miners welfare were the only amateur team to get to Wembley and play in the FA vase I think it was, got battered 4-0 against Forest green. What a day that was.

Anyway what's your Best Buy at a car boot.
 
I hate car boots - but unfortunately my missus loves them and I have to take here to one each weekend. Occasionally I'll have a quick look around if it's not worth me driving back home. Found a few decent deals on golf balls recently - a dozen brand new Wilson DX2 boxed for fiver for example, but the best one was last week. A woman was selling used balls at 20p each from a big tub, mostly rubbish. I could see a few decent balls in there so I asked her how much for the whole tub. She wouldn't sell, but allowed me to pick out all of the Pro V1, NXT, Z-stars etc for 20p each leaving all of the Dunlops and Top-Flites behind.
 
Too much snobbishness around car boots - we do one a year where the kids have their own area, sell their old toys and do a bit of haggling - they love it! Often they make twenty or thirty quid, the hardest thing is to stop them reinvesting in more crap😀
 
My misses makes hundreds of pounds a year from carboots and some absolute bargains can be had if of course you can be bothered to go and you know your products and market.
 
What's the law on selling a shotgun from 1850s/60s at a car boot. One was for sale for £150.
 
For the sort of stuff I'm looking for I tend to go to charity shops - my best find this year was an excellent condition original vinyl copy of Rubber Soul for 20p :)
 
Tashyboy said:
What's the law on selling a shotgun from 1850s/60s at a car boot. One was for sale for £150.
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pauldj42 said:
Surely it would have to be deactivated to be anywhere close to legal?
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Provided that both buyer & seller are shotgun licence holders or the seller is a registered firearms dealer, the shotgun certificate is amended appropriately & the Chief Officer/s of Police who issued the certificates are notified of the changes within 7 days then you're all legal & above board I believe (but it's been a few years so it may have changed).

That said there's probably more chance of bumping into the tooth fairy and the Easter bunny at the same boot fair that there is of meeting someone who picked up their shotgun certificate on the way out of the door on the off chance of picking up a bargain shotgun…….
 
We have a large one at the end of our road I use to go quite a lot and have brought quite a lot of different good stuff

99.999 % is absolute rubbish always like to find the .001%

They use to be for people to get rid of there rubbish but now have turned into lots of small time businesses selling *rap mainly to local foreign workers who barter for everything

Now I don't have the patience and can't stand them

No harm really and an interest for lots of folks
 
pokerjoke said:
My misses makes hundreds of pounds a year from carboots and some absolute bargains can be had if of course you can be bothered to go and you know your products and market.
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I've never been to one, don't know why but it's one of those things that I keep meaning to do but just haven't got around to it yet.
My mate Norman goes a lot and has picked up some absolute bargains, both golf and fishing wise.
In fact, I think the whole contents of his golf bag were picked up from "booties" and the total cost was something like about £70.00.
He's a steady 10 handicapper, always good value off of that, and has never had a lesson in his life.
Kinda makes a mockery of all the "equipment", "fitting" and "visit your pro" type of threads.
He makes me sick.
:mad:
 
We go about once a month, generally come away with nothing [except wild bird food] but over the years have had some cracking buys.
If you know your stuff there are real bargains about.
Eg.... 20p for a small Lancastrian Slipware vase [Sod for £80], £15 for a large Highland Stoneware platter [worth £200]. Rare Disney and Lego pieces etc.
 
I'd rathet shave my arse with a broken bottle than stand in a muddy field with a load of people looking to buy crap that other people are selling because they dont want it in their house.
 
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pokerjoke said:
My misses makes hundreds of pounds a year from carboots and some absolute bargains can be had if of course you can be bothered to go and you know your products and market.
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Same here, the amount of kids stuff that is grown out of or unused in our house in unreal. I actually sold at the last one we did and left with and XC90 full of stuff (thats a lot of stuff!) and came home with just under 500 quid. So yeh, a glorified jumble sale and waste of time :mad:
 
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