We were delighted with the turnout of over 1000 men women and their kids who supported our return to Truro Cattle Market on Sunday. Lots of faces we only see at Truro sales and with just under 50 sellers for the first one is tremendous and their is a brilliant community atmosphere to support the afternoon. Thank you to all who have supported us at Truro we are now in our 21st year at Truro and our Landlords Lodge & Thomas have been superb over all of those years! Thank you.

I am sorry about the lack of notice (my fault) regarding Sunday at Newquay but my reasoning was that MABE and HAYLE were both ‘end of season’ however if the weather is ok this weekend we will try again but if you WANT it then SUPPORT it my lovers with the first 20 sellers in the Q any sized vehicle for a fiver! It depends on you and the ground conditions! Game on!

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!!

The end of season is a happy time for a few people but sadly it means months of unhappiness and loneliness for some of our staunchest supporters who faithfully turn up to our sales just to be amongst other people and enjoy their company. We know of so many customers’ buyers and sellers who feel that the Car Boot Sales are such a very important part of their lives, they get rid of their loneliness feelings as soon as they arrive to their ‘family’ community car booty.

We have been told by people suffering from severe depressions and lack of confidence within the community but that they feel in a ‘safe place’ at their Car Boots ‘whereas nowhere is really that safe nowadays’
When you consider about being part of the COMMUNITY you will find there are no similar activities that can compare with the atmosphere at ALL Car Boot Sales throughout Cornwall. Nothing compares! The Councils offers absolutely nothing that they can claim will unite people more than all the Car Boot Sales so why don’t we ask them to consider giving us grants to build an all-weather indoor building for up to 200 sellers twice weekly Car Boot Sales and other COMMUNITY events.

The Council should also take into consideration the massive recycling our customers do at our sales which is of great value to the local Environment.
So this winter we will operate as many sales as possible and hope that the Council may in time approve a COMMUNITY HALL for the people! We did have one once called The City Hall which then became The Hall for Cornwall which is more like for the posh Theatregoers where it costs an average of £25.00 for a ticket for a two hour show! It costs 50 p to come to my Car Boot Sales what a bargain!

And then you get two days like Tuesday and Thursday and you think, sod it!

For several years I have watched UKIP and their political ambitions and I have listened to countless brilliant speeches by Nigel Farage and decided to ditch my life long loyalty to the Labour Party and join UKIP I also considered putting myself forward as Candidate for the UKIP party for Truro & Falmouth and got all the necessary application and vetting forms, but after careful consideration I have decided to support the party in any way I can but I love Cornwall so much I would hate to be trapesing backwards and forwards to Westminster listening to some of the clap-trap speeches and I absolutely know I would fall asleep every time I went into the House of Commons, what a lovely advert for Cornwall. I am sad to say I do not think the seat for Truro & Falmouth will be won by UKIP which is another consideration.

Whilst I am very very very popular (and a raving big-head) with loads of our customers there are quite a lot who hate the bloody sight of me and my successful 11 Car Boot Sales. They shall be known as the jealous lot mainly from a small area within Cornwall which is hardly on the map known as WITHIEL I am told they seem to spend hours talking about me (or running me down) but the latest gossip making claim is that I am a crawl arse up to Trading Standards and I get a ‘tip off’ when they are on their rounds. What an absolute LOBs the Trading Standards are welcome any time they want to come to look around at our Car Boot Sales and WITHIEL should extend the same greeting to Trading Standards as I have. Who knows they may feel a few collars like they did at Mitchell oh, and by the way when WITHIEL is waterlogged and it’s the end of season where do those gossiping ‘withielonians’ go to do their Car Boot Sales they all come to TRURO so my Car Boots can’t be that bad.
I am not saying that WITHIEL should move with the times but they still have the ‘press button B to get your money back’ telephone boxes. One of our regular sellers who has done all of our Car Boot Sales decided to go to WITHIEL last Sunday and he told me that he did really well and I was genuinely pleased for him but he added “The customers there are a lot different to your Car Boot Sales they are a hard looking lot and so many foreigners who are rude and aggressive in their dealings with the sellers”

Which brings me back to UKIP and its quest to reduce and restrict the amount of fellow Europeans who are settling down in Cornwall, we must urgently stop the flow of new citizens otherwise there will be no homes for your children and their children and I know people will say that is Geoff being a racist no it is common sense CORNWALL does not have the space. In defence of the Lithuanians and other Nationalities who frequent our Car Boot Sales I can only speak highly of them, they are friendly and personable enough but enough is enough. If you are lucky enough to have settled down in Cornwall then please tell all your friends and families that CORNWALL is full up.
Thank you.

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I know we would have great fun during some of our Car Boot Sales if we had one of these Sybian machines for some of our regulars, it could be the jump start Phyllis needs for eternity and beyond. Shall I get one?

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Do you really want us to go bombing Iraq and Syria? Are we not hated enough in this World because of our involvement with America in a WAR with IRAQ that is still going on! Now we have the possibility of yet another bloody let’s smash up IRAQ again only this time we are ‘on their side’ WTF is going on?

This war is being demanded by Cameron that this country cannot afford! But every Prime Minister must have their own war before they leave office.

Prime Minister,

Do your vote in the House of Commons by all means but before you do anything stupid like bombing anywhere ASK OUR PEOPLE FIRST please.

Better still let the Americans ‘go it alone’ FFS

Peace.

Geoff

The referendum to divide the United Kingdom failed miserably despite all the lies told by the leader of the YES campaign Alex Salmond who wins my weekly WANKER award. This man turned Scot against Scot he turned the English against the Scots with his offensive tirade of abuse to the citizens of this country and a huge amount of us English (Cornish) have been deeply offended by this total knob head’s attitude and speeches throughout the campaign which came over as very ANTI ENGLISH.

But the real surprise of the day was when Andy Murray admitted to changing from the NO campaign to the YES campaign at the last minute after kidding us all that he was satisfied with all the millions of £££s he has earned from the ENGLISH compared to the few quid he will have earned in Scotland playing his bloody tennis! I think his change of mind is disrespectful to his fans throughout the UK but to be fooled by the idiot Alex Salmond shows little sign of a mind of his own to be focused to win Wimbledon again which I and many others hope he loses.

Next we have Dumbo David Cameron trying to calm the waters by offering all sorts of bribes to the Scots that will make them all much better off than us lot and that is certainly going to ‘piss us off in no time’ so let’s all go to live in Scotland FFS.
Scotland is a lovely country and the people (the ones you can understand the noo) are pleasant and goodly neighbours and in my hotel years in Scotland the only person I ever fell out with was my ex-wife, the third.

When Tony Blair came to the country to be elected he won a superb majority and swept to power with huge public support. He united the country when Princess Di was killed he was the right man for the job or so everyone thought. Blair and Bush went to war with Iraq (over one man SADDAM HUSSEIN) without the permission from the people of the United Kingdom and the United States of America who elected them to power. The killing still continues today from this total waste of human lives all because of the Blair/Bush trumped up belief in weapons of mass destruction.
Ok Saddam Hussain was a bad sod and an absolute dictator and a ruthless bastard but he had total control of his country and billions of £££s and billions of US Dollars were wasted (your country’s money) and are still being wasted on a war that the BRITISH public said NO to and Tony Blair stuck two finger up to the BRITS and commenced this never ending war. Not content with bombing and smashing up a country and its innocent people with their phoney war BLAIR is now poking his nose in for another fight telling us we should put our own ground troops into IRAQ and SYRIA FFS!

As an ex-prime minister and toss pot to boot may I suggest you don a British soldier’s uniform and be the advanced party of one in your quest for ground troops and see how long you would last Mr Blair (you could be the first of many body bags) Oh and by the way you can take the warmonger Alex Salmond and his ball-boy Andy the Offender of Scotland with you! FON!!

We could and should demand the current Prime Minister Dumbo David Cameron to have the balls to ask our citizens ‘the GREAT British public’ what they think and act on their wishes for I am sure the great British public will give a resounding ‘NO’ similar to the Scottish referendum and that decision is final.

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Peace & love.

Geffers

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Ps; Marge is away for a few days up country for a reunion with The Tiller Girls! What? and watch out for the reappearance of Posh Anne from her holidays (fake tan or what) Love U2 X

Because the BBC got their forecast WRONG AGAIN Friday suffered with fewer buyers and sellers because the BEEB said it was going to rain and it did not but the sellers who braved all were the winners because it did not rain one drop and the buyers bought well so everyone was happy. When we look back over the years the BBC have forecast the wrong weather so many times which obviously affect all outside businesses because loads of (armchair) professional weather watchers (mainly old farts and fartesses) live by every word the BEEB says so if the BEEB says it might rain then that is a good excuse to stay indoors and vegetate.

We have a good answerphone service that tell our customers the day and time of our Car Boot Sales and where necessary we advise of weather and ground conditions but the calls that we actually answer vary from “Is it raining there” to asking us to tell them “how many sellers are there to see if it’s worth my while coming” which is a damn cheek really so to those enquirers are politely told “Come and see for yourself and get some B exercise” and as I put the phone down “Yer lazy sod” But it is mainly men who make these calls and from the moment they start talking we can get their attitude cos they are hoping for us to say “It’s off today” so they can keep her indoors-indoors so neither of them get fresh air nor the exercise nor the bargains.

WE get all sorts of complaints particularly about cow poo, dogs, disabled parking, bad parking, lost property and dogs owners but the first ever complaint came from a delightful lady who quietly said to me “Geoff I love your website and I know you are always going on about dogs and the disabled getting their exercises but you have never mentioned something that offends a lot of your customers and it happens at all of your Car Boot Sales and that is offensive body odours of some of the buyers (mainly men) because some of them really ‘stink to high heaven’ and they need a good wash or a shower or bath and some clean clothing but I often hear others complaining”

Wow Mrs, why not say it like it is that some of my customers stink? Many years ago at Penryn the Car Boot Sales started at eight in the morning and when all buyers were crowded around a new seller there was one lady who we will call Jay and ‘it was claimed that’ so as she could get closer to the bargains she would FART to order and the stench was that bad people either collapsed or moved on to the next stall FFS!
Now you ask my missus if this story is true cos I absolutely know and remember she complained to me the she was standing up-wind of Jay when she let out the most amazing cow style FART that my Lou was almost blown off her feet. I mean, that is so offensive but funny, and who got the bargains? Jay of course.

Quite often during the winter Car Boot Sales at Truro Cattle Market I would be walking around the stalls when some brat kids let off stink bombs that are really offensive to the nose and everyone is looking around to see “Who TF has just farted” but I make a point of telling all the stall holders ‘It’s kids letting off stink bombs” otherwise they will think it was me.

Many years ago I ran the famous Hofbrauhaus Bier Kellar in Newcastle and we employed up to 20 barmaids. I was doing a bars inspection before opening time and I noticed an offensive smell as I walked past some of the barmaids and I asked the supervisor a very outspoken lady called Doreen “What’s that awful smell”? She told me it was one of the girls and the other girls had complained about ‘Le smelly one’ I asked Doreen to be as tactful as she possibly could and speak with the girl quietly! To my horror as I walked away I overheard her shout to the lass “Have you crapped your knickers or do you always smell like that”?

I mean, what is this column coming to but let’s remember the complaint is mainly about the men, also lets remember that each one of us farts (emits unwanted gasses) up to 14 times a day and yes the women do as many (if not more) farts as blokes. Just imagine there are 2500 people at our Car Boots and they all do say 7 farts during their stay that is a massive 17500 farts that go up into the air FFS no wonder the birds in Cornwall cough a lot!

But I think my complainant was mainly talking about body odours and judging from the amount of men we see wearing the same old clothes day in day out week in week out and in some cases year in and year out! Yuck I mean you can buy a complete outfit at our car boots for under a fiver(and some new grundies) so if the cap fits wear it, also have a good shower or bath, you might even discover things you didn’t know you had?

However, when we first started doing Car Boot Sales at MABE we had great confrontations with the gypsies, Lou had caught one of the kids stealing a bike and she told the father who had an eyeball to eyeball confrontation with Lou surrounded by 6 brat gypsy kids chanting to Lou “You smell, you stink Missus Lady, you smell, you smell” Fortunately I rescued the embarrassment and sent Lou to find the stolen bike which broke up the party but Lou did have the last laugh by retrieving the stolen bike from the back of the gypsy van.

Now then, the same gypsy family are born again Christians and the difference in them is quite amazing, they are wonderful spenders and they have shown complete respect towards us and our teams and our fellow car booters, I know they are brash in their attitudes but they are always welcome to all of our sales and I love em all. Well, most of them, alright then some of them! Three in all!!!

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Bloody eBay and PayPal try to walk all over customers and ride rough shod so much they act as though they have more rights than our courts. As you know Louise sells on eBay under the name of 4kinel. She has built up a good reputations with over 1750 sales and 99.9% of good feedback so she takes the job seriously and at all times tries to give the customer good service & good value with quick deliveries of all sold goods.

A few week ago she sold a pair of gent’s shoes for £45.00 and posted them immediately to the buyer on receipt of the payment. Several days pass The buyer receives the shoes and says he is not satisfied with them and Louise tells the man “If you pay for the postage to return the shoes I will give you an immediate refund” with quite a lot of time wasting he sends the shoes back and when she opened the package guess what? The man sent an entirely different pair of shoes back so Lou gets in touch with eBay and says “Do not refund this man he is a con and I have sent you the pictures of the two different pairs of shoes and you will be able to see the distinct difference to the pair I sent and the ones he has returned”

Typical eBay did not reply but two days later PayPal write to Louise saying we have received a complaint about the shoes the man has sent back to you and we have refunded him from your account, so there!

“You have WHAT” says Lou “you cannot do that, you cannot give my money away without discussing the matter with me” ‘Yes we can’ says PayPal and ‘Yes we have’ “Hold on a minute” says Louise “I have sent a complete report to eBay about this man who bought one pair of shoes and after complaining about them he sent a different pair of shoes demanding a refund. I sent the full report to eBay with pictures of the two different pairs of shoes and I suggest you read the report and look at the pictures of the different shoes, this MAN is a CON artist and I want my money refunded, today please”

To be fair to PayPal they did exactly as Louise had asked and looked at the file and different pictures and actually admitted they had acted with haste and refunded the full amount of the shoes including her postage the following day, no apology just the refund!!

We constantly hear complaints about EBay and PayPal who often take the easy option and give refunds when refunds are not justified. But the main complaint is the complete lack of communication between EBay and PayPal and their paying customers (that’s you and me) so respectfully I advise all of you eBayers to keep a tight check on the activities of the filthy rich (50 billions) PayPal and EBay and do not allow them to take monies out of your account without firstly asking your permission, I am not saying they are on a fiddle but they will just take the easy way out for an easy life and have a ‘sod you’ attitude if you disagree with their actions and indifferent attitudes towards their paying public. Since eBay & PayPal first came into being I reckon there have been millions of errors in the decisions of these two who act as ‘Judge & Jury’ against you and me, Mr & Mrs Joe Public.

I don’t want to witter on about Scottish history but in 1707 due to the gross instability and poor harvests and the banks almost skint and thousands dying from lack of food and health care. The Scots were bribed by the Brits at high level into joining the Union and to save Scotland.
We the Brits were scared that Scotland would drag the Brits down to its own level of being a bankrupt country-Scotland the Brave they say, I say if Scotland votes for Independence and they get themselves into the mire once again do not come back to us the Brits to bail you out cos it aint gonna happen.
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