Car boot sales - any recommendations? (Stirling/Glasgow/Edi)
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We had a bit of a tidy up over the festive period and have a big pile of s
te excellent quality unwanted items to get rid of. Thought a car boot sale would be a good way to try as they're too big/bulky for ebay, but also not any good for gumtree.
Visited the one at Springkerse in Stirling on Sunday to scope it out but was totally underwhelmed: approx 10 private cars selling stuff plus a few dodgy looking vans. And I'd heard it was supposed to be one of the better ones! It might be because it was the first weekend of the year and might be better in a few weeks, but I'm looking around for somewhere bigger/better.
Are there any decent/busy car boot sales worth trying/recommended by PHers?
teVisited the one at Springkerse in Stirling on Sunday to scope it out but was totally underwhelmed: approx 10 private cars selling stuff plus a few dodgy looking vans. And I'd heard it was supposed to be one of the better ones! It might be because it was the first weekend of the year and might be better in a few weeks, but I'm looking around for somewhere bigger/better.
Are there any decent/busy car boot sales worth trying/recommended by PHers?
Great responses, thanks folks. I think being the first weekend of the year certainly didn't help Springkerse - we'd had it recommended by friends who sold £100+ of stuff there recently, and have heard similar from other sources.
flipflop1 said:
Family member sells cupcakes at Stirling, starts really (really) early in the morning but can get very busy, prob just a bad week being new year.
Ah, that's an idea we had: sell some homebaking or the like to attract folk over who'll then have a rummage through the rest of the stuff we're selling. I'll blow my own trumpet and say I make the best homemade tablet...Cheers for the recommendations folks. We made £105 profit (after taking off our entry fee and tablet ingredients) at the Omni Centre car boot sale yesterday morning. Very much recommended 
Rolled up at 7am, slight queue once inside. Allocated a pitch, parked up and headed off for a McD's breakfast (first and probably the last time I'll do that). The car boot sale staff strictly enforce the rules but were perfectly pleasant about it: you're not allowed to open your boot and set up until they sound a hooter at 8.30am. Then all hell breaks loose...
Do NOT attempt to sell by yourself! You need eyes in the back of your head to deal with folk trying to buy stuff before you'd unloaded your car. We were prepared and had clear ideas of how much we wanted but I could see how folk could be caught off-guard. We sold almost all of the crap we took and my home-made tablet was a big seller - if we ever do a sale again I'll make double the amount. Around 300 cars there apparently and a stload of buyers.
Towards the end (1pm) things ramped down and most folk were packed and ready to leave. At 1pm the hooter sounds and this time hell really broke loose... The driving standard, behaviour and impatience displayed: you had to see it to believe it lol. But we made it out alive and with the car paintwork intact.
Very much recommended.
Rolled up at 7am, slight queue once inside. Allocated a pitch, parked up and headed off for a McD's breakfast (first and probably the last time I'll do that). The car boot sale staff strictly enforce the rules but were perfectly pleasant about it: you're not allowed to open your boot and set up until they sound a hooter at 8.30am. Then all hell breaks loose...
Do NOT attempt to sell by yourself! You need eyes in the back of your head to deal with folk trying to buy stuff before you'd unloaded your car. We were prepared and had clear ideas of how much we wanted but I could see how folk could be caught off-guard. We sold almost all of the crap we took and my home-made tablet was a big seller - if we ever do a sale again I'll make double the amount. Around 300 cars there apparently and a s
tload of buyers.Towards the end (1pm) things ramped down and most folk were packed and ready to leave. At 1pm the hooter sounds and this time hell really broke loose... The driving standard, behaviour and impatience displayed: you had to see it to believe it lol. But we made it out alive and with the car paintwork intact.
Very much recommended.
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