Knowing where your local car boot sales are held is the first step in building your own car boot sale business. The car boot sale is your equivalent of the retailer’s wholesalers, and just like them you need to know the best markets to make sure you get the best profits on your purchase.
Finding a car boot these days is relatively straight forward and can be done in three quick and easy ways – online by visiting a car boot sale directory, picking up a copy of your local paper and last but not least, through word of mouth. Let’s take a look at each in a little more detail;
Car Boot Sale Directories
Car Boot sale directories are a great way to find car boot sales online. They are typically listed by city or county and are easy to use. Be careful as some are better than others and many all are regularly updated – even some of the better known ones. The last thing you want to do is end up at a car boot that isn’t actually on!
Car Boot Sale Tips recommend the Your Booty directory as they update the website regularly and remove any listings that haven’t been recently confirmed by organisers. According to the website they have already added or amended 455 car boots this year – that’s a lot of booty!
Local Paper
Most of your regular car boots will probably be listed online in one of the well known car boot sale directories. However, they generally don’t list one-off events, such as sales held at schools or local town halls. Your local papers ‘events’ section can therefore be an invaluable source of information for these sorts of events.
Coincidentally one-off or infrequent sales usually have a high proportion of genuine people selling unwanted things, rather than semi-professional traders. From a buying perspective there are generally fewer dealers so you are more likely to grab some money making bargains!
Word Of Mouth
Last but not least, you can also find out about other car boot sales via word of mouth. Someone you know may have driven past a sign for a car boot sale and will let you know about it. It’s always worth getting to know other buyers at the boot sales too – they’ll be telling you about new and unknown sales in no time.