Car Boot Sales
 

Does anybody know of any large car boot sales around Accy/Blackburn area and how to go about getting a stall at one?

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Not a clue Willow, not a lot of help I know.....what are you flogging.

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there one up haslingden on sat mornings, not sure hoe you go bout it though willow

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Clitheroe market on a Sunday is the biggest As far as I know and always lots of room.. They have a website but buggered if I can recall where.

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Try http://www.hoylespromotions.co.uk/

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Car Boot Sale and Collectors Fair
Don't stay in bed on a Sunday morning, get up early and come to Clitheroe car boot sale for a spot of serious bargain hunting! The great thing is that you don't need a lot of money to make it a worthwhile day. Our car boot sale is the most established and well known collectors fair and car boot sale in the north of England.
Promoted and organised by Hoyles Promotions for over 10 years, the Collectors Market and Car Boot Sale at the Clitheroe Auction Mart operates every Sunday between the hours of 8am and 4pm.
Admission charges
Public: £1.00 - Children under 12 Free Car Boot Sellers: £10 a car, £12 an estate/small van, £15 large van (transit upwards) -inside or out, the choice is yours.





Car Boot Sale Details
Sellers arrive on the site anytime from 7am until 9am. Sellers begin to enter at 7.45am and Buyers enter at 8.15am. Everything to be sold at this event must be either Second hand used items or antique and collectable goods. On arrival please join the queue of vehicles in the front car park (the marshalls will direct you.)
At 7.45am the line of vehicles will move towards the selling areas, please follow this line to the pay gate. Once you have paid your rent, follow the Marshalls directions. Set up INSIDE or OUT, the choice is yours. The price is the same. There is a FREE car boot prize draw every Sunday. Please ensure that you obtain your ticket as you go through the gate. The winning number is called at 3pm prompt. Be ready to tell the marshalls if you want to set-up your stall inside or out they will direct you to the correct parking area.
Expect to find between 100 - 300 stalls every week at the car boot sale offering bargains of every nature from antiques and collectables to household goods.

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IMO the Hoyles Clitheroe one is awful, its always full of the same traders selling the same stuff every week. They let the public in before you have even had a chance to get your stuff out of the car & the assault by aged asian women wanting everything for 20p is relentless :D

Keep going past clitheroe on the A59 till you get to the abbatoirs at Gisburn.
There are 1-2 there & currently they are free to vendors.
Check the local paper, As far as I know they are in there.

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Has it ever occured to those gladly epousing the cause of the Car Boot Sale as to where half of the gear comes from? Granted, alot of it is from attic and garage clear outs, some from genuine small traders...but much of the stuff on offer is "fenced goods" - nicked video's. jewellry, nicked everything....so folks, the moral of the tale is this:

SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL BURGLAR.......SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL CAR BOOT SALE!

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Much of the stuff on offer is fenced? Do you have statistics to support that statement? I can't speak for others Tealeaf but the things I am hoping to sell at a Car Boot Sale are simply a one-off clear-out of things no longer used or required. I object to the supposition that anyone buying from me is supporting burglary.

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I pressume from this Tea that you are speaking from experience.... so folks, the moral of the tale is this;
DON'T LET TEALEAF NEAR YOUR HOME......AND BE SURE NEVER TO BUY ANYTHING FROM HIM...

I have done a few car boot sales this year and have NEVER even thought of selling "fenced goods". ;)

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Has it ever occured to Tealeaf that the police might on occasion put there collective half a brain cell in gear and monitor the car boot sales.

Car boot sales just aint what they used to be and certainly aint what the original concept was. It's no longer selling your odds and ends from the back of your car. People are making a living out of selling crap at some pretty silly prices.

You have no chance of a bargain. The real collectors are there at 6AM like vultures and they will grab anything thats worth it and leave the true crap for me and you.

Used to enjoy a good old rumage..I went the other week for summat to do... But don't bother too much anymore.

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Oh good :) There'll be collectors there early? That means I should have sold all my stuff by lunchtime then?

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Haa quality stuff then is it? :)

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Exactly.

And trading standards, and DSS officers looking for people making a regular illegal income on the side.

Possibly, but most of it will probably end up on other stalls within minutes at greatly inflated prices.

Why not start with a garden sale?
My kids do at least one every summer. They made £60 at one last year just selling bits & bobs. they had another a couple of weeks later & made another £30.

Real bargains can still be found at jumble sales, but there aren't as many happening these days.

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Too much stuff and not a big enough garden.

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We only have a little square at the front as it's a terraced house, but that's as big a space as you get at some boot sales. Plus you don't have to sell it all in one day.
Costs nothing too! :)

We wanted to sell a couple of furniture items at one of them, we just put up a notice and anyone interested came inside and had a look.

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I don't have a little square because it's all full of plants and such like. Is there such a thing as a garden path sale? I could probably manage that. Not that we get much passing trade up here.

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I'm not surprised your garden is'nt big enough.....you could probably make a bit more room in there by asking the binmen to clear out all the rubbish they appear to dump there every time they empty the bins on your street.

Anyway, my apologies for in any way implying that anyone on AccyWeb could possibly be involved with the criminal activities that are a part and parcel of car boot sales....my apologies also for ommitting all the other things wrong with car boot sales, such as the sale of counterfeit goods, the sale of unsafe electrical goods, the sale of dodgy meat, etc, etc.

As for the cops keeping their beedy eye on these things; well, of course they do. That's why most County Constabularies will give them a warning mention on their websites. As for catching the villains - yep, they do that as well. But then again they only manage to clear up 10% of burglaries in the UK, so what the figures are for car boot sales are, I dunno.....

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Great thread this one.....LOL

So the thought police will be out at car boot sales, checking on fenced and stolen goods. All stolen goods must be marked "S"...all fenced goods "F"...then we can help our boys in blue detect more crime.

Amazing that they didn't come up with that in E. Germany. But then the boys in blue (actually its light brown here), were also selling lots of goods (unmarked you understand), and very little evidence use to make it to the courtroom...I wonder why.

One boot sale I went to (they actually call them Flohmarkt (fleamarket)), sold old guns, new guns, and live ammunition, all taken from the closed-down Russian Barracks nearby. I was offered an AK47 for 50 Deutschmarks, and a 9mm pistol with 20 rounds of ammo for 40 Deutschmarks. Even the local police examined the wares...didn't buy 'em though.

Still, we now have cracked down on such dastardly crimes...and we hope that you good people in Accy & district will ensure that not a stolen article gets put out for sale. How you will be able to identify them is anybodys guess, but I'm sure there are enough devious minds amongst you to devise a method. Or you could always close them down!!

Oh..err...don't sell the garden paths...you might get done for trespassing in your own garden!! :engsmil: :engsmil:

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Sunday morrning should be for FISHING ho yes and church :)

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Go for it, fill the car & get to one.
I usually had to get there between 5am-7Am to be in the cue to get in as a seller.
As 5am you get to be near the front (night before for the actual front) and 7Am gets you right near the back & last in.

When loading the car, dont forget to put the tables (wallpaper ones) either on the top or to be first out.
Also don't forget to take some change (in bumbags to look the part), sarnies & a flask.

Practise haggling at home & sell yourself your supper for cut down prices. :D :D

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Thanks for the tips :)

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gisburn.....its free to sell.

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im going soon with a load of baby stuff. im going to honour the true carbootsale and sell every thing a pound.

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We had a look at the Clitheroe one and I can see where Tealeaf gets his ideas. I was surprised at the number of non traditional car boot type stalls on there. Lots of "new" stuff and people who obviously deal in specific types of things.

Is the Gisburn one easy to find? Free to sellers is a good point.

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Really easy to find willow..
from the clitheroe one head back to the A59 turn left towards Gisburn and keep going, you can't miss them. they are just past the slaughter house.

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Is it a big one?

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theres 2 and they are both reasonably big

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What kind of question is that Willow?????

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a very pertinent one. We went to a small car boot sale today and there were very few potential buyers. My thinking was that the bigger the venue the more chance we'll have of selling stuff.

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The free one has also been featured on one of the TV car boot sale shows, they were there filming a couple of months ago.

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Clitheroe certainly isn't as good as it was around four/five years ago. Went about two months back and there didn't seem to be as many stalls as before, plus it costs to get in as well.....but that has always been the case there.

I once had the most godawful cup of 'coffee' from one outlet there. I don't know what it was but it wasn't coffee...absolutely putrid, undrinkable vile cack. If you want a cuppa there then put a flask up!