Sorry about losing the promised extra days at Newquay particularly as so many of our sellers rely so much on the income. I feel very let down by the Landlords as an absolute assurance was given that our stay was extended by 4 more Car Boot Sales. However, I blame the builders who should have had the courtesy to tell us what their plans were and how it would impact on our business and the local Car Boot Community customers.

What amazes me is that there is going to be up to 400 houses on our ex Car Boot land at Newquay and the people promoting the sales of these houses have known of Car Boots Cornwall events which attracted well over 120,000 people during this season so you would have thought they might have realized the huge potential in promoting the sales of their housing programme right in the middle of our Community Car Boot Sales with all the locals or people who wish they lived in Cornwall all great potential buyers? I would have sold them all off plan by now!!

Saturday at Mitchell!
Great turnout, one problem! A regular seller and buyer bought a mobile phone from a stall holder and paid what he considered ‘a lot of money’ the seller advising “Oh yes it can easily be unlocked” (So why didn’t you unlock it before you brought it here to sell FFS) The buyer who I consider to be reasonably ‘street wise’ pays over a huge amount of dosh for the phone and does not do the obvious thing by taking down the registration number of the vehicle so who has just ripped you of you stupid nerdy!
So, he goes to the phone shop and asks for his wonderful purchase to be ‘unlocked please’ and guess what? “Sorry mate I cannot do that, this phone is stolen”
Well, wadda surprise! So he phones my mobile which is on Ansa phone (6 times) in the hope that I can stop the vehicle leaving the Car Boot and he races back from the shop to the Car Boot and you have guessed it already the seller had gone and you are left with a useless phone and are loadsa quid’s lost young man and it serves your bloody right you silly sod and I am laughing writing all this cos you is a furking nutter that you are with your eyes well off the prize! Gullible as fish to a bait my lover!

Fancy not taking his registration nor take a picture of his car or getting some means of identification! However there is one slim hope that I will be able to check our ‘car cam video’ recording from yesterday at Mitchell! By the way, I believe he paid in excess of £100 quid’s for the ‘stolen property. Ha ha!

Whenever you pay say over £20.00 for an item it is always common sense to note who is selling you the items and try to get a contact number or their car registration number.

Bottom line;
Whilst the buyer was a ‘nutter’ a crime has been committed by one of our sellers by selling the stolen phone but even worse for Mr Gullible is if he get stopped by the police (I hope) and they find the phone and he says ‘please officer I bought it at the Car Boot’ “Bolax, says the judge, six months for receiving stolen property and a further 3 months for bringing total stupidity to Car Boots Cornwall luvvy, send the bugger down” Great fun!

Bit like this picture I stole from Ann of Facebook fame.
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Honesty is so much appreciated, today at Mitchell a regular customer of ours came to say he had found a wallet in the selling field. We checked the contents of credit and debit cards plus over £90.00 in cash. I took the finders phone details and wait for the loser to arrive and ask “Has my wallet been found”?
So a very nice lady asks “Have you found a wallet” ‘Is there a reward’ I ask! Anyway the loser a bloke in his late 90s and his wallet were reunited, he was just about to ring the finder to thank him for handing in the wallet when he arrived on the scene to receive many thanks for his honesty. That is so nice and typical of Cornwall but on the other hand a regular buys some heavy items and asks the seller to look after them, he pays for the items goes for a look-around at the stalls then goes back for his items he has bought and some of them had been stolen!
Now then, I believe the seller who accepted responsibility of the items should refund the buyer, what do you think? Same scam as the suitcases in Newquay, you buy it, you leave it, you leave your name, someone overhears and BINGO they will go and ask for the items in your name and this is happening a lot recently. You will all know the we have a regular seller of beautiful roses grown in Mitchell and his prices are very reasonable, however he has had to issue raffle tickets for people to collect ‘left and paid for roses’ because people have overheard the buyers names and goes to collect (steal) the paid for roses! Sorry to admit but the majority of people doing this type of scam are the Europeans namely the Polish folks because they have been identified by their accent.
I know it is only a minority stealing but it gives bad vibes for the rest of us who are law abiding citizens! Don’t con the Cornish please or if you know someone from your community who fits the description as a ‘con artist’ please advise them to stop because ‘I will prosecute’ if I catch anyone using this type of scam at our Car Boot Sales!

I do warn all sellers to beware and be secure and be advised that there is always someone out there who will try to ‘rip you off’ and if it does happen to you do not take the law into your own hands. See me, it’s my job but the customer of the week was the honest man who handed in the ‘lost wallet’ thank you!
Geoff
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Geoff