Wadebridge-Summer 2010

Great day with over 80 sellers at this fabulous location the buyers await the horn at 5.00 pm and BARGAINS are absolutely guaranteed at the Royal Cornwall Showground for this weekly event. The Wadebridge Rotary Club used to run these sales until we took over 8 years ago when we agreed a substantial donation to the charity and a weekly donation each time we operate the sales.
The sale was well under way when I noticed a man dressed in all black who stood out from the crowd so asked him ‘Can I help you’. He told me he was a Bailiff and was waiting till the end of the Car Boot to take a woman’s vehicle away adding “I have been to the ladies house and phoned her without response so her neighbour told me she was here”
‘So what has that got to do with Car Boots, the lady has paid me for a service to provide her the facilities to sell some of her items here, you are not allowed to approach her with a view to taking her vehicle away whilst she like the rest of the sellers are in my care’ He then tried to show me documents which were of no concern to me, in short I told him to ‘BUGGER OFF’ and leave the woman alone. Waiting in his car was another man who was obviously going to be the driver of the woman’s car, I watched them depart heading in the direction of Truro so I assumed they would be off for the weekend giving my lady customer breathing space!

Now the reason I have told you this story is because another lady customer whom we have known for years, she has traded successfully buying and selling but has not declared her earnings from the Car Boot Sales and eBay to the Inland Revenue, they have caught up with her demanding back taxes going back 5 years figures of ‘thousands of pounds’ have been mentioned needless to say she will not be selling again at our Car Boot Sales for some time! It is in your interest if you are selling on a regular basis to tell the Authorities and declare your incomes because if you don’t ‘they eventually find out’ It is none of our business we would not tell any authorities how often you come to our events, nor would they ask but we do know they visit all Car Boot Sales to collect information about the absolute minority of our customers.

Back to my lady at Wadebridge, I wanted to tell her about the Bailiff but it was none of my business similarly he had NO RIGHTS to come onto private land at a private business event to discuss her private affairs with me nor serve documents and to take my customers car away! Bugger Off!

Bottom line; my lady came back to Wadebridge several weeks later!

SAME CAR!

Geoff