RACIAL ABUSE-Truro last Sunday did you witness? Readers of Geoff Says will know that I will not tolerate racial abuse towards any persons because of their nationality or the colour of their skin. I BAR people who resort to offensive remarks or threats or tirades towards ANY and ALL members of the public attending any of my events. During this week I have received two complaints concerning a very attractive lady who was racially abused because of the colour of her skin. For the record we have known this lady who has been a house-holder resident of CORNWALL for at least 15 years. She has every right to be here in CORNWALL however she was very upset when on SUNDAY at Truro at our Car Boot Sale the verbal abuse happened.

I am told more than 2 persons carried out this totally unprovoked and offensive verbal attack which was apparently overheard by stall-holders and members of the public. Did you see or hear this incident? Talk to me please. Geoff

I have just learned this story which was related to me by one of our customers that on Sunday at regular lady buyer took a liking to a brooch being sold on one stall, the buyer agreed to pay the asking price of £5.00 for the item. So pleased was the buyer she wanted the brooch professionally cleaned so she took it to her local jeweller who took such a liking to the brooch he offered her ‘there and then’ £550.00 in cash to buy it. Our buyer did the sensible thing and declined the kind offer just asking the jeweller to clean the brooch.

Good thinking to hold on to the item and perhaps get a second opinion. She collected the cleaned brooch and is so pleased that she has decided not to sell it but to keep it!
Several years ago we did a house clearance in Falmouth when Lou found a five diamond gold engagement ring amongst some of the items from the clearance. She took it to Michael Spires the jeweller’s at the bottom of Lemon Street in Truro who checked the ring, they offered her the paltry sum of £25.00
She took it to another jewellers in Cathedral Lane, Truro who also checked the ring, ‘yes it was 18 carat gold and yes the small diamonds were real’ an yes they made her a much more realistic £350.00 offer in cash with a receipt for the ring which Lou accepted. Moral of the story is to get at least two opinions but all jewellers have to make their profits so the shop that paid Lou the £350.00 should make at least 60% profit when they re-sell the ring so you can well imagine the profit Spires would have made with their higher than high prices. Lou did phone to try to speak with Spires but they refused to discuss their derisory offer.

Always but always get a second or even a third opinion but don’t get taken to the cleaners by shops you believe to be acting with honesty and integrity in purchasing expensive jewellery from the unsuspecting ‘but not stupid’ general public FFS! And by the way if you have a dilemma regarding jewellery and want an honest opinion we have many regulars who deal in jewellery so ask me (I know nothing) and I will make a couple of recommendations of people who will give an honest valuation if required.
Geoff
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For what seemed like an eternity to build its new SUPERSTORE in Truro “PRIMARK” has finally its doors opened to thousands upon thousands of eager buyers and onlookers who thronged through Truro last Thursday for its official opening. Car parks were full to bursting with people queuing up to ‘take their turn’ and eventually get into the PRIMARK store. Their staff very kindly gave all queuing customers bottles of Ice Cold water cos they had waited so long which wasn’t such a wonderful idea cos it was bloody freezing cold outside in the queues. Everyone but everyone was there! Trust Ann & that Marge woman to take advantage of such a huge crowd both of them selling out completely of their stocks of last month’s Big Issue? You should have seen and heard them both in full throttle “BIG ISSUE” “BIG ISSUE” not a sight to see and nor a sound to hear! All of PRIMARK’S customers are now at the ready they have more than a few quids in their pockets and limitless credit cards ‘up to the hilt’ so let’s spend-spend-spend sod the expense and let it all hang out.
Many had pitched up overnight and when the doors of Truro’s PRIMARK store eventually opened a huge cheer went up, then its join in with the surge of people going into the unknown either upstairs or downstairs searching out the bargains and there were most definitely plenty of BARGAINS to be bought so everyone was happy! My question is where all of a sudden do these thousands of people come from? Are they all working in Truro? If so, did their very kind dear bosses give them the time off so they could attend the first day of the PRIMARK sale? I don’t think so, cos I reckon that loads of the shoppers were well presented unemployed people treating themselves to a visit to Truro to get some cheap Christmas presents for the kids and to buy some cheap and cheerful clothing and at the same time to apply for the vacancies advertised by PRIMARK.

My Lou is a fan of Primark, she wanted to buy herself a couple of cheap T Shirts and nosey old me I have to go and have a look-around cos I was keen to see what all the fuss was about? We went a few days after the store had opened. Crowds of people were in the store buying up paper carrier bags full of Primark products and good luck to them all because I felt the quality of some of the clothing which I thought was a bit iffy. I picked up a pair of my size black track suit trousers at fifteen quids a good price but I reckon in no time I would have geet saggy sticky out knobbly knees if I stood up straight and if I had bought a pair they didn’t look to have much ballroom in the crutch area neither FFS! I reckon that some of the paper carrier bags could probably last longer that some of the clothing. I jest! But I couldn’t see the point with some of the kid’s clothes that looked like all year round Halloween clobber. Anyway I stood waiting for Lou watching the action thinking to myself “what TF am I doing in here cos there are loads of our booter’s who recognise me and I could ruin my street credibility. I have not been a good customer and I have bought absolutely sod-all! The store is employing lots and lots of full and part-time staff which is another great plus for Truro. In fairness I know they have only been open a few days but some of the new recruits looked bewildered in a world of their own. What a lovely shock to the system after being unemployed for so long then suddenly you are being thrust into the limelight and world of Primark’s marauding hundreds and thousands of customers, WTF am I doing in here?

My mate the very popular Ann was standing with my car at Truro with several other much older lady booters (old boots) (including Marge) and myself, we were having a good old natter about Primark. They thought the store was great and good for Truro but that some of its bargains were of iffy quality matching their cheap prices. Ann was posing on a bit pointing to her jacket saying very proudly to us all ‘I bought this is from Primark’ to which Geoff replies ‘Yes, I can tell dear’ she punched me on my newly injected ‘going on holiday soon’ arm! The ‘oId boots’ looked on in shock but Marge was egging her on ‘Go on Ann give him one for me WTF!! I suppose I deserved it for speaking my mind but I mean wots that all about thumping an old git FFS? I think it’s cos she has been going to that super FIT PIT place in Falmouth doing her weights and her swimming and other exercises press-ups mainly (so I am told) and then there’s her modelling bit and she has even taken up boxing every day since whenever building up her muscles and her outer strengths and she has just been dying to try out her new fitness on some unsuspecting old fart and here I am ‘a nervous afflicted nearly 80 year old sitting-hitting target’ go for it Ann FFS! WHAM! (Didn’t hurt see?) Cornwall’s very own Ronda Rousey FFS? Dear of her, so I think with her newly found fitness and the fitness of her giant of a man (seems like a nice boy) they two could easily become security bouncers in Truro’s night clubs, I wouldn’t argue with them FFS. Anyway, back to the jacket Ann my lovely, I don’t want to be rude about it cos that’s not my nature nor my style (nor is your jacket) so don’t be offended if I admit that I seriously believe the style may not never come back into fashion!! Yesterday my dearest friend Ann was wearing a jacket that she tells me she bought it from ASDA and I could tell FFS!! X

SUNDAY at 1.30 pm at TRURO all weather location!! This CAR BOOT SALE will happen!

Weather looks GOOD for Thursday at PAR MARKET at 12.00 noon and FALMOUTH Rugby Club at 12.30 pm all sellers welcome!

Sorry we lost PAR due to the incessant heavy forecast and the same for FRIDAY so I CANCELLED both days! As it happens both days were ‘a good shout’ as it rained at both locations during what would have been our selling times.

SUNDAY at TRURO at 1.30pm will go ahead and if it rains then we will use the Cattle pens but we could be on the hard standing or both!

That’s all just the one Car Boot this weekend at TRURO at 1.30 pm on SUNDAY and this SUNDAY could be just the one for you cos there has been no selling and no buying for a whole week and our customers are eager to BUY BARGAINS or the sellers want to make some extra money for Christmas. Go 4 it!!

A rare Chinese vase, bought for £10 at a Hampshire car boot sale, has been sold for more than £60,000. The enamel “two quails” vase, is thought to have been made at Beijing’s Imperial Palace at least 220 years ago. Auctioneers Woolley & Wallis said the owner only realised its true value after he put it on eBay. It had been estimated as being worth £20-30,000, but sold at auction in Salisbury for £61,000, including the buyer’s premium. The seller, who did not wish to be identified, picked up the vase at a car boot sale near Lymington. Image copyright Wooley & Wallis Image caption Before the auction, the vase was valued at between £20,000 and £30,000 When eBay bidding reached £10,000 he withdrew it and took it for a valuation. Woolley & Wallis Asian art expert John Axford confirmed the vase bore the four-character Qianlong mark – the sixth emperor of the Qing dynasty – and would have been made by Imperial command in the palace workshop between 1736 and 1795. He said it had turned out to be an “excellent investment”.

A small ornament picked up at a car boot sale for £4 by a West Sussex pensioner has fetched £9,500 at auction. The six-inch statue turned out to be an 18th Century Sino-Tibetan sculpture of a Buddhist deity and his consort. Auctioneer John Nicholson thought it might fetch up to £700 as the Asian art market had recently “softened”. Mr Nicholson described the eventual sale price of the “Buddha bonanza” as “exceptional”. ‘Close to tears’ The gilt-bronze sculpture depicts the multi-armed Hayagriva, a Tantric Buddhist deity, and his consort. The woman, from Midhurst in West Sussex, who does not want to be named, said: “I still can’t believe it. When the hammer went down I was stunned and close to tears.” She added: “I just loved it when I bought it two or three years ago. I thought it was different, but I couldn’t believe it would go for anything like that amount.”

MITCHELL is END OF SEASON !!! NEXT Car Boot Sale is on SUNDAY at TRURO at 1.30 pm
MITCHELL; We have decided to call END OF SEASON due to the ground conditions and the heavy rain forecast by the BBC for Saturday. Our next Car Boot Sale is on SUNDAY at TRURO TR1 1RJ at 1.30 pm…. Sellers can Q from 11.00 am Early sellers can set up from 12.00 noon/Look after your stocks and your dosh and if you are selling bring some BARGAINS and if you are a buyer and looking to buy something and make a profit then this is the right Car Boot Sale for you in fact it’s the only one!! TRURO is an all weather location but the forecast for SUNDAY is GOOD so let’s go 4 it and make some dosh while the going is good to almost firm? Hopefully we will be selling either on the hard-standing behind the cattle stalls or at the front field hopefully. Truro is also a great Car Boot to buy KIDS CHRISTMAS presents at BARGAIN prices. Geoff X

Today’s email;
Old ladies TRUST NO ONE!
Shirley Knott?

Yesterday, 20:11
You
Geoff, I used to attend your boot sales until my wife became very ill and could not be left on her own always read your web page and note your regular warnings on trust NO ONE!
This is a true tale from when my wife was well enough to do the boot sales with me. We arrived at BODMIN boot as everyone was just setting up, as we did most Sunday mornings 8am. There was a SWEET OLD LADY just setting up, I had never seen her before and she only sold for ONE WEEK! She had Eight healthy looking fir trees in pots, after some miner negotiation we bought all 8 for £6 took them home ,very pleased with our purchase ,as we had no immediate use for them I kept the trees in their pots and regularly watered them and watched THEM ALL TURN browner and browner they all died!
On investigation they were all bits of branch just stuck in pots! WELL the lesson learned is never trust anyone ESPECIALLY an old lady! SWEET LOOKING ONES especially!

Regards David C
I used to collect old wrist watches
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