Finding Items to Sell On at Car Boot Sales

radderfire

radderfire

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Hi Guys

Does anyone go to car boot sales to find stuff to sell on to local antiques shops or eBay? I'm thinking of doing this. What kind of items are worth researching? I would preferably buy smaller items that can be easily transported.

I'd be interested in any tips. Any good websites which discuss this?

Many thanks
 
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EDIT: To give you a serious answer too, I've bought a couple of 1980's film cameras that have gone on the 'bay for more than I paid for them. However, there's a lot of carp out there, so you do have to have some kind of idea of what you're looking at.
 
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not bird boxes, I tried this once.

Paid £50 for 75 pine birdboxes, thought i could shift them in a day at £2 a pop.

Well I sold 3 and the rest spent a month in the back of my mates car before his dad got sick of them and put them all up in the local wood. Loads of happy birds though.

Not bird boxes.
 
I thought people only sold **** that nobody else wants at car boot sales, waiting until closing up time to turn it into a dogging site, which is the only reason they're actually there to begin with?
 
Car boots are for selling crap nobody wants and old people with nothing to do on a Sunday morning. Unless the seller has no idea then anything of value gets thrown on eBay. I thought of looking at them for old cartridge games of value but something tells me the likely hood of finding anything good is zilch.

Still, wouldn't hurt to look. Might find something you like and you can get some haggling experience of the old ladies trying to knock the seller down by another 10p on some old lamp shades.
 
Get there early. Those with a keen eye do the rounds while people start setting up.

Things to look our for; Fabergé eggs, paintings by Monet or Picasso, The Jewel of The Nile, helicopters and back issues of Jackie.
 
I trawl antique shops and auction houses looking for broken electronics and LPs to sell at my local dogging spot.

I once upon a time, nearly bought a stuffed and mounted Mallard at a car boot sale. I really regret that i didn't. It would have had pride of place in my drawing room.
 
My friend has thousands of LP's he's picked up at boot sales which he goes to every week. He's bought some tat but says he's picked up plenty of rare old tunes. He plans to sell them on ebay when he retires, which is in the next few years.
 
Vhs tapes, soiled baby clothes and signed pictures of Jeremy Kyle. Failing that look for hitherto unnoticed old masters paintings, that kind of thing.
 
There is a burgeoning market for retro. Young professionals in their thirties will happily pay £20-30 for 60's 70's and 80's stuff that you can often pick up for a quid. Suitcases, mantle clocks, record players, early video games etc. Healthy mark ups are possible. Selling at specialist retro fairs like Malvern will get the best prices as you're targeting a market that wants what you're bringing.
 
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