Due to the weather and low turnout it was decided last week was the end of season at MABE!

Most regulars will know that TUESDAY & THURSDAY Car Boot Sales were CANCELLED due to weather and ground conditions.
There will be an extra sale this SUNDAY at NEWQUAY at 12.00 noon. Sellers can arrive to Q from 10.00 am also on SUNDAY we are at TRURO CITY CATTLE MARKET at 1.30 pm.

Today at Falmouth a lady bought a small table for a tenner paid for it and asked if she could call back for it later. Trouble is the seller did not tell her husband so he sold it again. First buyer comes back to the stall to collect the table ‘sorry love I have sold it to that man (who was just walking back to his car) but I will give you your money back, we are really sorry’ and the refund was given. The lady then comes to tell me the story pointing out the man who is now loading the table into his car and “what are you going to do about it” question to me!

Absolutely nothing I can do to alter the situation ‘he who buys large items at Car Boot Sales should take them back to car immediately’ this happens every week. I have done it myself buying items years ago and only remembered on the way home which was too late Sucker! We often get sellers say they have sold items and the buyer has not come to collect them, we just want to go home.
My reply to this is “You have told me about it so when you next do a Car Boot bring the item with you, if the buyer does not come for it you are entitled to sell it again” which advice we have given for years. Best thing to do is pay for it and remove it from the stall immediately!

But there is a lesson to be learned here with buying items and asking the sellers to ‘put them back for me’ Whilst you are away from the stall some rotten dealer will ask how much the item was sold for and will offer substantially more than it was originally sold for and the rotten seller says “deal done” and the original buyer if fobbed off with an apology and a refund but is not told what actually happened. Years ago at Truro there was a punch up over and identical scam! This habit happens quite a lot but does little to enhance the reputation of our business, so cut it out or I shall name names James?

Finally I asked Lou what she would do if she had sold something for a tenner then a dealer offers you seventy quid? within a heartbeat she said “I would wait for the buyer to come back and tell him he can make a sixty quid profit if he sells it” to the chancer dealer. Is that honest or what? I would have probably done a deal on fifty-fifty!!