FRIDAY at FALMOUTH Rugby Club at 12.30 pm….SEE “STOP PRESS” on the right panel for all locations;
SATURDAY at MITCHELL (STRICTLY no dogs allowed) at 12.00 noon & Royal Cornwall Showground at 3.00pm…..Sellers should arrive at least one hour before the start times…..

DOG BAN at Mitchell….
Please note: We have to abide the rule at MITCHELL “NO DOGS ALLOWED” which also means sellers as well as buyers. Sellers, is not acceptable to ask if your dog can stay in your car for up to 3 hours especially with the heat we have experienced over this week! NO DOGS means “NO DOGS” what part of those two words do you not understand?

Can I ask all non dog owners to keep an eye for any breaking of this rule at MITCHELL please. You may take your dogs to all of our other locations which is under serious review, however it is fair to advise all dog owners that we have received so many compliments about the dog policy at MITCHELL we are seriously considering extending the BAN of DOGS elsewhere. Sorry but I say it like it is, truth hurts but how would you like to sit in a hot sweaty car for THREE hours busting for a poo or a pee?
One old timer wants me to BAN pushchairs as well (grumpy old bugger) Geoff X

Note;
With many thousands of people attending our sales in the last few days I am never short of unrequested advice from some members of the public advising on this that and the other. I know ALL about the ‘other’ so let’s concentrate on this and that.
Back to the man who said “You should bar all of these bloody pushchairs” What planet is he from FFS? Babies and growing up kids love our Car Boot Sales where they can see and meet up with family members and get some new toys? My favourites are the STRAPPED IN pushchair kids where everyone knows where the kid is because it is normally hollering to get loose and amongst the stalls toys and goodies!

There was one screaming adorable little brat at Newquay yesterday (wheelchair clamped) totally our of control and totally pissing off a lot of people, when it took a break in screaming and snotting everywhere I thought I would bend down and tell it to STFU or shall I just undo the harness and let the kid out, which is what it wanted in the first place, but I didn’t have the balls!
Come on you young mums, you are in the country at most of our locations, it’s not all about bargains, why not sit on your arse on the grass for a wee while with your babes and take in the fresh air and why not let them run-around for awhile. There would be less screaming from the kids but more from the mums!!
In 26 years we have had a complete safety record with children, long may it continue my lovers.
I don’t adore dogs (except for Chihuahua’s) but I love kids of all ages providing they are good to their mums and good to themselves and they keep coming to our community Car Boots.

Now then this has never happened before; Paul our man who parks cars and supervises the opening of most of our locations. He started the Q at Newquay of sellers and the rows are building up when he notices a large gap being held up by a small van. Paul goes to the driver and says very politely “could you close this gap and go forward to the next car please.
Nope, says the driver “I am not wasting my fuel so I am not moving forward”
A second and third request by our ever so calm Paul is refused but the man could see Paul really meant what he was asking for MOVE FORWARD! He makes his down-trodden wife get out of the car he then takes the handbrake off and he made her push the van with him to close the space. What a total knob!!
Now then, if I had been there at the time he would certainly have saved fuel getting out of the field because Paul and I would have invited his wife to stay (she were lovely) and we would have pushed him free wheeling and his white van straight out the main gates and into the back of beyond go forth and disintegrate, how dare he humiliate his wife in such a manner. Bugger off!!

Sorry that I have cancelled the proposed Bank Holiday Mondays at Par Market with immediate effect. My reasoning is that their is a Charity Car Boot Sale at the Council Offices in St Austell and it would not be my intention to compete with organisers of charity stall.
For the record their sale charity is on Bank Holiday Mondays at 8.00 am

Geoff

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All that glitters is not GOLD not SILVER!

Last week we had some great weather so Tuesday and Thursday at Newquay Circus Fields were immensely successful with lots of holiday makers in HENDRA and all the other Holiday complexes. The buyers on both days really spent well carrying away all of Cornwall’s leftovers and probably destined to end up on some other up-country Car Boot Sale at twice or thrice the price. That’s how the money goes around and comes around. What a great atmosphere with so many kids, I am convinced caravan people go around the whole camp asking ‘do you wanna come to the boot sale its FREE for kids, and Geoff hates kids, that should pigging wind him up’ I mean there were all nationalities and one Asian family of two adults brought in 19 kids in all, how the hell do you get that lot into one car beats me.
I quite often see the parents doing a share out of pocket money before the kids go into the sale on Thursday 4 kids got ten quid each with a warning “And don’t ask for any more” FFS ten quid, in my day I would have got a three penny bit and that was once a month. From what I see of today’s kids they are certainly street wise and sensible with their pocket money and they know it is possible to save loads of money buying their PC games from the Car Boot instead of from the expensive shops. Today’s kids are tomorrow’s customers and the ones we see certainly enjoy their Car Boots so the future is assured for communities to come my lovers!

Last season at the old Mitchell site Trading Standards Officers came on at least three occasions unannounced but with great determination to ensure we and our sellers are within the law. Their enquiries were mainly into jewellery being sold, was it genuine or fake gold and silver? This year already we have had complaints about ‘alleged fake jewellery’ which was sold at Newquay and we have seen the offending silver necklaces and gold bracelet which we believe to be fake simply because the jewellery in question looked too shiny and cheap and nasty so if they are fake at £6.00 an item then this rip off has to be stopped. But, but, ‘alleged dealers’ who think they know it all were I believe caught out with the alleged fake stuff and were I believe somewhat embarrassed to make too much fuss about making a ‘nerd out of one’s self’ by telling me in the first place.
Another mistake they made was by knocking down the seller by £2.00 per item!
So, Let’s get this right Mr Gullible, you went to the stall and asked if you could see the necklaces looking all bright and shiny in their cheap and chatty crappy boxes and after inspecting them you said “How much are these luv” the seller who has about a dozen of them said “I want six pounds each” she told you nothing about the items and you said ‘I will give you £4.00 each’ and a deal was done and you buy 6 of them! Two days later you come to get your money back because someone tells you ‘they were fake’ and the seller says “No because I did not tell you they were silver” And then you come and tell me and WTF do you think I can do about it except laugh at your stupidity my lover. ‘Buyer Beware’‘Caveat Emptor’ now walk away with jerky movements! Next!

A lady buyer/seller nicknamed Mrs T Leaf, we have known for far too many years as a PITA because she is always moaning about something or other and Saturday at Mitchell was no exception. She had bought a pair of leather boots for £3.00 (which she would have sold on her own stall next day) but after walking around with them for half an hour she decides she doesn’t want them any more so decided ‘I will get a refund’ but the stall holder refuses saying ‘You inspected them and I could have sold them several times since’ Mrs T Leaf then demands our Amelia “Go and fetch Geoff now”?

Knowing who the lady was I refuse to go see her so she starts stalking me around the stalls and when that happens I can walk at almost running pace and really cheese Mrs T Leaf off. She eventually catches up with me tells me her story and shows me the boots that for three quid were a bargain in my opinion. Now I remember over the years attending Mrs T Leaf’s stalls trying to resolve complaints from her customers who wanted refunds and her attitude was totally out of order refusing to refund on faulty items she had sold. I told her there was nothing I am prepared to do about her complaint reminding her of previous incidents. What goes around comes around madam! But why Mrs T Leaf? Now that’s another story………….

Back to the jewellery story, seriously, we are not experts on the subject of gold and silver, Louise has written to Trading Standards to try to clarify the situation, you will see their replies below. I welcome their officers at any time to inspect our seller’s stalls at our locations not only looking at jewellery they also check on fake clothing & footwear and on any electrical Items you may be selling, so make sure the plugs are up to British Safety standards and please, if you say an item works then it MUST work. If you are unsure if it works then tell your buyer ‘it is sold as seen’ then you will be completely within the law. (I think)

Geoff

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From: Louise
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎10‎ ‎April‎ ‎2015 ‎09‎:‎08
to:

Dear Sir
May I ask for some guidance please in regard to cheap silver plated jewellery made by an unscrupulous Chinese firm calling themselves 925? This obviously bring lots of confusion as some purchasers believe they are buying silver.
Geoff and I run the local car boot sales and am often asked to sort out disputes. To date if a seller is offering said cheap 925 as silver I have ensured purchasers get refunded and the jewellery is no longer offered for sale at any of our events. I also tell the sellers they are seriously breaking the law.
Where the seller is just selling this jewellery and not offering any advice i.e. it’s a ring and its £3 then I tend to say from a contract point of view ‘caveat emptor’. Am I doing right? Should I be insisting this jewellery isn’t sold at all? It’s pretty and kids can afford it so that would feel wrong but I was told by a dealer of someone selling beads at 50p being prosecuted by trading standards even though he wasn’t claiming them to be silver.
This tale may have been more about Pandora fakes but I just feel it would be helpful to get some guidance about the 925 company’s stuff.
Many thanks
Louise Camden-Wiles
Car Boots Cornwall.
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Hello Louise.
Many thanks for your email.
Though the jewellery isn’t illegal as such, an offence occurs if the seller in any way misleads the consumer as to the nature of the product. If the products are marked/advertised as 925 then this is definitely misleading. Unfortunately we cannot do much about the Chinese firm, but any sale/advert of silver plated jewellery that in any way misleads the public as to being 925 silver is an offence.
If the products are marked as 925 then there would need to be a clear sign at the point of sale stating that it is not 925 silver but silver plated.
Happy to advise further (or possibly investigate your sellers), but can you provide any other info or photographic evidence?
Regards,
Matt
__________________________
Matthew Collings
Trading Standards Officer
Public Protection & Business Support
Cornwall Council
Unit 6, Threemilestone Industrial Estate
Truro, TR4 9LD
Tel: 0300 1234 191
www.cornwall.gov.uk
From: louise [mailto:]
Sent: 10 April 2015 16:11
To: Collings Matthew
Subject: Re: 925 jewelry
Dear Matt
Thank you for your reply. I will print it off and give a copy to my sellers of jewellery. Once they have had a copy of your email they won’t be able to plead innocence. I will try to ensure that where I see people selling 925 them also have a sign warning it is plate.
I don’t suppose I’ll have too much of a problem ensuring this is the done but may I say you are more than welcome to come to any of our sales anytime.
As for my seller she insisted she just sold it as, a ring, a bracelet etc. She says she bought it all at auction and sold it to another dealer as a job lot. He is now dissatisfied but we have all agreed that we will be guided by yourselves. I’m sure the buyer will still manage to get his money back when he sells it on clearly marked as plate.
Regards
Lu
From: Collings Matthew
Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎10‎ ‎April‎ ‎2015 ‎16‎:‎34
To: Louise

Hi Lu,
No problem. Let your sellers also know that ignorance is not a defence where this is concerned. Obviously they can do their own research into the origin of the product.
We do check car boot sales so you may see us in the future. Is there a website details dates / locations?
Regards,
Matt

And now for something completely different, but I would warn readers that this is only for the hardened members of the our Car Boot Community to read on;

Summary; You all know we have had ‘DOG WARS’ because one of our Landlords had said “as the surrounding farms to his equestrian centre were farming sheep and cattle there must be NO DOGS at the NEW MITCHELL’ location. I believe his polite request is absolutely fair and I ask all dog owners to support this ruling please. On the first Car Boot almost everyone had taken note of the Landlords ‘no dog’s policy’ and 98% of dog owners had listened to his request but it has to go on record we had NO COMPLAINTS about any dog poo?

You will also know about the OLD MITCHELL Landlord tried to open his grounds as opposition to our new venue which miserably failed and the OLD MITCHELL was closed by 1.00 pm without any customers. Ha-ha!
However the NEW MITCHELL was the stunning success we had hoped for with lots of sellers and buyers and a fantastic community atmosphere prevailed, despite the ridiculous threats of violence and road blocks being organised against us for the following Saturday by a loud mouth person working for the Old Mitchell Landlord. In absolute fairness I do not believe Landlord Leggo was behind the threats but to have a member of his team making unauthorised threats with inappropriate language ‘next week we are going to block off this ******* lay-by and you won’t get none customers’ against a female member of my team beggar’s belief. If you had real BALLS you should have come and said it to me?

You can well imagine that life gets bit of a stressful at times cos you never know what story is going to unfold which we take in our stride, we more or less turn the other cheek with a happy attitude BRING IT ON!

We always look forward to Sundays at TRURO which is so easy to run and it would be a relaxing day compared to the previous week, what could possibly go wrong FFS? About 70 sellers arrived well supported by eager buyers with a total of 1500 men women and their kids at the sale.
About an hour had passed from the start of the sale, I was sitting in one of the admin offices when Lou came and said “You will never guess what! A woman has just undone her jeans and dropped them below her bum and squatted and had a poo right next to one of our sellers stalls”
‘She’s what’? “She has had a crap in the middle of the Car Boot taken a dump, emptied her bowels more or less do you want to know any more dear” asked Lou knowing full well that I am most queasy about dealing with someone else’s poo problems. ‘Ok Lou deal with it and I will be out in a couple of minutes’

She borrowed a watering can from one of the sellers filling it with water and bleach by courtesy of the Café she took it back to the ‘runny poo pile’ to wash it away from the stall. Oh yes, that really did happen, by the time I got into the field the gossip was amazing as I tried to find out who and where the woman was. She had left the field but not before she had gone into the ladies toilets had a similar ‘poo’ but had missed the loo and done a frigging somersault judging the state of the Loo, apparently it was dripping from the ceiling.
The ‘mess’ was eventually cleaned up by one of our team. (I am not allowed in the Ladies Loo TG) I later found out that the woman was a care in the community person who was with her alleged carer father and one other person. They had both witnessed what she had done yet neither of them as carers had the decency or the courtesy to deal with the problem the 30 ish year old daughter had created, they left the scene loaded her into the car and disappeared!

I do know the carer father and his daughter of old, he exercises no control over her at all, when she goes around the Car Boot with him she steals items from one stall and put the stolen items on someone else’s stall, outrageous behaviour-but very funny. However it is in the interest of Public Health and Safety of our customer’s men women and their children that I will have to prevent this ever happening again so there will be no welcome at any of our location with this type of out of control (bowels) behaviour!

Lou and I chatted about the incident and I could not recall a similar incident until we both remembered at the same time FALMOUTH Rugby Club. Several years ago on a very bleak Friday we were both sitting in the car contemplating cancelling the Car Boot as only 6 stalls had shown up with minutes to go before the start time. What happened next makes we want to vomit every time I think about this incident?

A large white Van pulled into the Tregenver Road entrance and parked on the edge of the pitch. Out jumped Fat Bloke Mr Arse-Wipe and in full view of both of us he walked onto the ‘hallowed turf’ dropped his kegs and leaning on his van he shat and shat and shat like a freeking great horse dolloping on the grass! He must have shat for a frigging week FFS! I jumped out of the car and ran across the ‘hallowed turf’ shouting like someone ‘wrong in the head’ WTF are you doing you dirty ******* bustard how dare you have a crap on the hollowed turf and in front of my missus!
He pulled up his ‘bum wipe’ track suit trousers and I pushed him back into his cab which absolutely stank to high heaven, I took his registration number and told him to FOOK Off!

After he had gone I got a sheet of block board to cover his pile of crap and as I dropped the board splat went the shat all over the place almost pebble dashing myself and the pitch and it stunk to high heaven just like his frigging cab yuck frigging YUCK! That is the absolute truth and we went through all that shit and at the end of the day we hadn’t earned a sodding penny.
I have nearly made myself sick writing this but I did warn you it this was only for the hardened ones amongst you.

Footnote;
As I was trying to get to sleep on Sunday night Lou shouted “That woman had obviously been eating quite a lot of sweetcorn” ‘What women and what sweetcorn Lou, I am trying to get to sleep FFS’? “The woman who had a crap at Truro today”
‘OMG that is disgusting’ GO TO SLEEP FFS!! YUCK! I shut my eyes tried to get to sleep and all I can see is a fields full of poo and floating sweetcorn! OMG!
Thanks Lou, nice one.

Goodnight.

Ps; Why not let one of your kids read this to Grandma my lovers.

Geoff
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Thank you for your texts and emails; Keep them coming;

Subject: Thank you!
From:
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2015 20:09:48 +0100
To:

Dear Geoff and Lou,

I’ve just read the three blogs about Mitchellgate which explained the confusion we experienced at today’s car boot!
I’m still shaking my head with disbelief at the way you have been treated by the Looney landlord at Mitchell and just wanted to let you know how much we value the business that you run and the way in which you run things.
We arrived today to be waved into the old field but knew it wasn’t right and stopped to ask the strangers on the roundabout what was going on. They told us they were taking a gamble to run an alternative event. We told them we were loyal to Car Boots Cornwall and drove back out to find the new site.

I had a couple of buyers later in the afternoon who complained they had wasted time by parking in the old field before working out ‘things’ weren’t right, but would know for next time!
We had a brilliant start to our selling season today.
Thank you also for helping us position our van which tends to slide on even a gentle slope at the start of the sale. ( there’s VW T5’s for you!) I hope it didn’t piss anyone off by our queue jumping!

We do about one car boot a month at Mitchell or Mabe and love the community. We also get a lovely holiday each year from the proceeds of our car boot sales.
So me dears….I wish you every success in the new site at Mitchell. It won’t take long for word to get out and I would recommend a night time raid to saw down the misleading sign on the roundabout that uses your logo inappropriately (WTF?!)

We also appreciated the (almost) lack of dogs today. Just two little ones got pulled around. We leave ours at home. He gets too hot/too cold/too bored. Most owners who come as buyers are oblivious to the inbuilt habits of male dogs cocking their legs over my stock, which drives me into shouting fish wife mode!

We look forward to coming back next month and continuing selling with Car Boots Cornwall.
Keep up the good work!
Wishing you a very Happy Easter!

With kindest regards
Jane and Viv

Jill ()

16:54
To:

Car Boot Sale, Mitchell, on Saturday 4th April 2015.

I would like to congratulate Louise & Geoff who run Car Boot Sales Cornwall, on their amazing efforts this Saturday. It was a change of venue, extremely well set up and advertised.

A great improvement on previous Boot Sales held at Mitchell. Although I can sympathise with dog owners, I was very pleased to see that No Dogs Were Allowed. Much as I love them myself, they can be a nuisance and in the past I have had several cock their legs on my table legs.

Also as a lot of children run around bare footed in the hot weather, this was a good decision.

Jill

Sent from Windows Mail

Thank you for that Jill full email addresses are withheld.
Geoff

The SHAME of David Leggo the LANDLORD of MITCHELL!!

Our regular customers over many years will remember about 12 years ago we used to have early morning Car Boot Sales at Truro which had been popular for over 20 years. Louise and I were asked if we would be interested in starting a new Car Boot Sale at MITCHELL. I discussed the idea with the Landlord of Mitchell David Leggo, he insisted that we did the Car Boot Sales on Saturdays at 1.30 pm which would clash with the early morning Truro success. I spoke with the Landlords at Truro and we agreed that if the business at Truro was affected then we would cease the trading at Mitchell and change the time and day all of which David Leggo totally agreed as a ‘Gentleman’s’ agreement.

I was warned by certain members of his circle and local farmers “Do not trust Leggo he is a dangerous man with a split personality and not a man of his word” known locally as ‘Looney Leggo’ I will not go into the details as to how he got the reputation Looney? “I bet one day that Leggo will take your business off you” I was warned by a Mitchell lady we shall call ‘Madam Why’
The popularity and personality of Looney Leggo in Mitchell would unfold to us when after some local dispute his car tyres were slashed and for further revenge his enemies set fire to our car boot portable toilets (owned by Andyloos) two weeks running causing £3000.00 of damage!

We started the Car Boot Sales and it became obvious that we were going to get interference from the Landlord as during the first months of running the Car Boots at Mitchell LEGGO would come to the Car Boots and start with various unacceptable ‘poking his nose’ efforts into the running of the sales by shouting at me and our team members as to how to park cars in fact one day he became so agitated that in full view of the public he grabbed and grappled me witnessed and laughed at the assembled buyers who thought I was having trouble with a drunk! I demanded he left the field immediately even though it was his own land. “Go home David you are acting like a bully and a lunatic and do not interfere with the way I conduct my business, I am the tenant you are the Landlord act like one! Go home” he was shaking with rage and totally out of control of himself!

Let me just explain how our Car Boots work, CAR BOOTS CORNWALL is solely owned by myself and Louise established since 1989. We decide on a location and with careful negotiations we agree terms with the Landlords to take over their land to conduct our business with the full and unfettered rights and without interference or interruption. We never ever see the Landlords at any of our locations. At the end of each sale we clean the field of any rubbish then pay the Landlord his rent at the end of the sale. Childs play! Just prepare the fields for us and leave the rest to us and respectfully trust us to do our job which we have done successfully for over twenty five years! Thank you!

Leggo saw our Car Boots as an opportunity to poke agitate and try to interfere into any which way he could. We were instantly successfully running Mitchell but as time went by his presence became so unacceptable he was jeopardising the smooth running of our sales. I arrived at the Mitchell one Saturday to notice that he had put a length of wire across an area in the field that looked like a guillotine accident waiting to happen “I don’t want anyone in this area” was his demand. I told him to remove the wire which was dangerously high at five feet off the ground! We argued-he argued until Phyllis arrived to set up her stall, she had not seen the wire and drove under it which scraped coats of paint from the roof of her car leaving permanent scratches! I made him remove the wire immediately. Go home and leave us alone to conduct OUR own business!

The Car Boot Sales started at Mitchell around 2005 it took several years to establish however after the first year I told David Leggo that as he had agreed if Truro was affected by the Mitchell success we should change the day and time so that Truro could return to its previously enjoyed business levels. His immediate attitude was to renege on the deal steadfastly refusing to honour the alleged ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between Truro Cattle Market, Mitchell and myself. His actions reminded me of the warnings I was given about ‘not being a man of his word’

He had an absolute obsession of going around the sellers introducing himself as “Hello, I am David Leggo, I own this land” So what! Who GAF anyway? Another one of his ridiculous almost weekly habits was to drive into the car boot sales as many as ‘20 times in an hour’ and drive around the car park parroting his “Hello, I am David Leggo, I own this land” to anyone who would listen like some absolute nutter as members of our team called him as he came through the gates and out of the gates time and time again?

They reckon that he deliberately drove around so many times using the Mitchell roundabout to add to the traffic hold ups he was allegedly worried about. Before the day was out he would be phoning complaining about the build-up of traffic reported to him by Madam Why. His complaints about cars at the round-about and on the Newquay slip road became a feature over many years so Lou and I were inclined to ignore something that had nothing to do with him. Officially as Landlord he had no rights to visit the sales on a weekly basis acting as though the business was his! Despite all of the antics of the Landlord Mitchell went from strength to strength but still he agitated our success with his constant bemoaning about the hold up of traffic due to the popularity of our the weekly sales.
In October last year he telephoned me at home one evening to say that he had had a report from ‘Madam Why’ that the traffic hold ups were dreadful at the weekend Car Boot Sale “and if it happens again then it will be your last week” I tried to reason with him by saying ‘Hold on David it is towards the end of the season we were down on buyers cars by about 200 so nope there was absolutely NO holdups’ “Never mind all that ‘Madam Why’ told me about the hold-ups and I have my wife with a broken leg at home and we do not need the money but I believe it when ‘Madam Why’ tells me there were traffic holdups and I believe her and that is it and if it happens again then you know what I have said” as he disconnected the call.

Lou and I were seriously pissed off being treated by a Landlord like this because he is jeopardising the huge Community spirit we had built up and I wanted to protect the income of hundreds and thousands of my customers our buyers and sellers!
Matters got worse when on the next Car Boot Sale we had got everything set up with the queue of sellers growing about 80 buyers had arrived to queue and await the 1.30 pm horn to start the sale. A good Car Boot atmosphere was building up when Looney Leggo came speeding up the field to about 20 yards from where I was standing, he jumped out of his car in a rage and started shouting and ranting and raving at me and Lou in front of the fruit & veg stall and its customers. “I am telling you this if there is any traffic hold ups today then this is your last week” then he repeated the same shouted message again and again in a 3 minute tirade. I told him “Go home David and leave the running of the Car Boot Sale to me please” Bystanders wanted to know ‘who TF was that? Was he drunk? He should be barred! What they did not know was he is the Landlord!

What this Landlord has done is Constructive Eviction!!

Our humiliation and fury was complete all witnessed by many regulars who had heard “this is your last week” the whole incident went viral around the Car Boot Sales with us taking 30 phone calls as the gossip went around but wanting to know what is going to happen next season. We have worked hard at Mitchell building up the trust of multi thousands of buyers and sellers for our Car Boot Sales but there is no way in which we can allow this type of behaviour towards us and our business and our customers so we urgently needed to find another location.

We were advised by a couple of local farmers to speak with the owners of TRETHVAS FARM directly opposite the road. Lou and I met with the Landlords who were a breath of fresh air compared to the 11 hard years at ‘Mitchell’s Looney Leggoland’ they agreed we could transfer our business to their farm. I personally told Leggo we were not prepared to carry on at his farmland with his gross interference into the way in which my teams conducted our business and that as Landlord he had conducted himself towards our customers and our business in a disgusting fashion. I followed up with a letter.

Leggo had got exactly as he had planned over the years, to get rid of Car Boots Cornwall and to ‘steal our community business’ and run the sales himself planning to open at the same time as TRETHVAS FARM which flies in the face of his false concerns for traffic build up on the dual carriageway!!
Lou and I have worked with this background of stress and abuse but we had built Mitchell up to be the best of all the Car Boots Cornwall locations, our reputation has been built up with fairness at our sales to all concerned buyers and sellers alike. We both accept there are enemies to our tough but fair rules, we are for the majority of the Community who delight in our sales. Leggo was stunned about our success at MITCHELL and over the years he planned to take our Car Boot over so went about with this ridiculous plan to wear our enthusiasm down with his constant mithering and moaning using ‘Madam Why’ to report tittle-tattle, he even recruited a local Parish Councillor to cause trouble by complaining to the St Newlyn East Parish Council about our activities.
We removed all of the barriers and signs from Looney Leggo Land to across the road Trethvas Farm, once we had taken the big front of the field sign down Looney Leggo replaced it with a similar sign (using our corporate identity) but determined to steal our business, I tried to reason with him on the phone and said to both him and his missus “So you are going to steal our business”? They both said YES we are!

“Quite right Leggo you are the Landlord at Mitchell but you do not own CAR BOOTS CORNWALL which is where you went wrong from day one, you have acted in a disgusting manner to ourselves our customers and to your neighbours and;

“I demand that you give any of your BUYERS and certainly ‘the locals’ free admission as a gesture of my disgust at your tactics” seriously Leggo ask yourself are you really a fit person to run such public events and do you really need the money? You are aware of the danger of running two Car Boot Sales in Mitchell, without any thoughts to PUBLIC SAFETY!

As a gesture of goodwill I would ask all sellers and buyers who shown loyalty to us for many years to forget Looney Leggoland and come across the road to our new larger and safer venue where all of our customers will be covered with our Full Public Liability Insurance and a qualified team at our superb new location and with new Landlords Mo & James.
Come to our CAR BOOTS CORNWALL in MITCHELL at TRETHVAS FARM on SATURDAYS at 12.00 noon to sell or to buy in the knowledge that we WILL get the crowds of sellers for loads of stunning BARGAINS for our great crowds of buyers and thank you all for your loyal support since 1989.

There are so many of our regulars who are wanting to know the details of what is happening at MITCHELL this year and want to know the details of why we have moved to across the road to Trethvas Farm.
For many years Louise and I have been distracted by the Landlord’s efforts to disrupt the smooth running of our Car Boot Sales. His last effort was to shout “This is your last week” in front of many of our customers.

Another good reason is that when we took over Mitchell there were three fields that would be available for our sales however the Landlord sold some of the land to Truro Tractors making the third field for parking unacceptable to our valued customers!
The NEW MITCHELL is a larger field 18 acres and looks across the main A30 and will certainly be seen by the thousands of motorists using the dual carriageway every day, potential customers?

Read tomorrows analysis of the 11 years at Mitchell with a dreadful interfering Landlord hence WE ARE MOVING just across the road!!

From;
Geoff Camden Wiles
Nancorras, Herniss, Penryn, TR10 9DU

8.11.2014

To;
David Leggo
Landlord of Mitchell.

Dear David,
Louise and I despaired at your recent outburst on the telephone concerning the traffic on the roundabout and for some reason you mentioned Yvonne as a complainant that the traffic was out of control? Who is Yvonne? You then came to the Mitchell Car Boot Sale on the Saturday and shouted loud enough for several customers and Joey and our Catering staff to hear. After you departed two of our regulars complained about your rudeness and in the way you spoke to me in particular when you advised all and sundry ‘This could be the last Car Boot’ and the rest of your ranting was so unreasonable so is not worth repeating, however that one way conversation should not have been for the public to hear Mr Leggo as they gossiped all afternoon.

“I don’t care about traffic on the roads Mr Leggo we have been running public COMMUNITY events since 1989 and for 11 years at Mitchell, we have not had any accidents or incidents as a result of our activities and events. We have been complimented by the Police and approved in the way in which we deal with our traffic, we have been visited by all of the authorities at some time or other without complaint and yet when I confronted you with this factual information you were disinterested.

Wherever and whenever there are public events there is a build-up of traffic and what happens outside of your main gates is outside of yours and my control. I have no rights to interfere with the traffic on the highway Mr Leggo if there is a queue of traffic so what, no-one complains about the 13 miles queues of traffic for the Royal Cornwall Show do they?

Our customers over the years have supported Mitchell to make it their favourite of our Car Boot Sales and they have loyally followed me in my promoting of the location and their loyalty over more than 10 years which has paid you as Landlord exceptionally ‘good rent’ Surely that deserves more than being told ‘this could be your last week’ particularly if they rely on Mitchell for an important part of their income and their lives.

I have now decided that this is the end of our Car Boot Sales on your land and that we shall be relocating in Mitchell to TRETHVAS FARM for our Car Boot Sales for our 2015 season.

Back to the two customers who overheard and complained about your behaviour they are both from the farming Community in Cornwall and have been coming to Mitchell Car Boot Sales for years, it is they who are friends of the Landlords of TRETHVAS FARM and they suggested I should ask If the owners would consider allowing CAR BOOTS CORNWALL as their location for our twice weekly COMMUNITY CAR BOOT SALES to which they have agreed.
Their land is larger to cope with our ever growing MITCHELL business which was always doomed against expansion when you sold your piece of land to Truro Tractors!

We shall remove all of our barriers and signs as soon as possible and I believe as a gesture of goodwill you should allow Louise and myself to put directional signage advising of our move please.
Yours sincerely,

Geoff & Camden Wiles