The owner of the picture that told a potential buyer to EFF off yesterday admitted he did swear at the man his reasoning was that the picture had been signed by the artist but the buyer said it would cost him money to have another artist move a mark off the painting! ‘Where’s the mark’ says the seller! “Its there says the buyer” and with a grubby hand the seller rubs at the oil painting and the buyer says ‘Dont do that’ and the buyer says “its my painting and I can do what I like and you can FOOK OFF”
Brilliant story only the seller told me today he thought the buyer was ‘a bit of a poser’

Now I am not taking sides but I believe it is ROUND ONE to the seller a man born within the sound of Bow Bells and they never tell anyone to FOOK off there!! (Liars)

Life is a BITCH then you marry one! I did 4 times because I like wedding cake.

Loves,

Geoff

Todays story: A regular seller said “Hey Geoff I have got just the thing for you as a gift its a book all about SEXUAL EROTICISM, I have seen your website and you can show some of the pictures to your customers” WOW! What an offer!
I had better get the opinions of Marge & Rita who are both godmothers to CAR BOOTS CORNWALL!!

Tuesday at Newquay Circus Fields; The rains and drizzle that covered most of the South West gave Newquay a break up till about 2.00 pm when the drizzle claimed an early end to the Car Boot where 40 sellers were well supported by spending buyers who took advantage of good bargains.
Almost every Boot Sale there is an incident of some sort that beggers belief!

Lots of our buyers are looking for that special bargain therefore it is reasonable to barter with the sellers, during the ‘peak season’ the holidaymakers are usually the ones that offer stupid and insulting prices afer hearing the asking price, I have heard sellers asking for say £15.00 and the rude potential buyer says will you take 50 p or ‘I will give you 50 p’ which is a bloody insult so I was surprised when a very annoyed buyer came to complain to me about the language of one of Tuesday’s local sellers.

The buyer had seen a picture on a stall and politely asked ‘How much is the picture please’?
“I want eight quid” said the sellers! ‘Will you take a FIVER’ said the buyer and the seller in two words told the man to ‘eff off’

Now I am not telling buyers how to barter nor and I telling sellers they must reduce their asking price but this type of rudeness from sellers does little to enhance our brilliant reputation which brings me on to the numerous (12) complaints I have had concerning a lady buyer who mithers on and on (just like Mavis off the Street) and puts on such an act once she has got the sellers attention!

Her act goes something like this: “well I just dont know if my daughter will like it and its more than I want to pay and it looks as if there is a couple of stitches coming undone, I wonder if it will fit” followed by girlish giggles “Well I just dont know what to do” The seller eventually gives in just to get the wretched woman away from the stall to the STUNNED amazement of genuine buyers who would have paid the FULL ASKING PRICE!!

Well I just dont know, what shall I do?

Geoff

SUNDAY 21st October 2012

We had planned to be at MABE to take advantage of the BBC’s weather forecasts that promised several days without rain and the signs and fields were all ready when the rain started and at 11.30 am I decided there was no alternative than to move the Car Boot Sale to TRURO with TWO hours notice.

Again through the power of our website and mobile phones we were able to achieve an attendance of up to 600 people who supported the move, many thanks to all who turned up to buy from 34 plucky sellers who traded well WITHOUT RAIN one stall taking over £300.00 and there were some great BARGAINS!!

“You are an effing pair of CORNISH Tossers” !!
At about 6.00 pm we had arrived back from TRURO a Geordie phoned to say he was at Lanhydrock looking for the 5.00 pm Car Boot Sale, Louise explained to him that the ground conditions were so bad we would not start there until 2013 he then argued that the sign says Car Boot at 5.00 pm Lou advised there were TWO large signs saying END of SEASON. He then starts getting offensive to her so the call was ended.
He then phones back to complain that the lady I spoke to was rude which was not deserved then he starts effing and blinding calling Lou and me “A effing pair of CORNISH TOSSERS” and I disconnected the call, Bloody hilarious because Louise is also a Geordie and I spent 20 years in the north East so I understood his ‘lingo’

By calling us both CORNISH TOSSERS in the North East that means we are a pair of WANKERS!!

Take yourself in hand dear boy, why did you have so much BALLS to be so rude to us from a NUMBER WITHELD call? WANKER!

Dear Geoff & Louise,

Earlier this year we visited one of your Car Boot sales and found someone selling boxes of old music books and as both my husband and myself are music teachers this would be a useful find for us and our students, there were several boxes and we bought the lot for £50.00 which we considered a BARGAIN!
On closer examination of the contents we found two fascinating sets of magazines. One was the ‘Consent’ from the early 1920s to the 1980s and the other was the buletin of the Hazlemere Foundation for the same period. Since the recorder is an instrument we teach we knew these would be of interest to the Dolmetsch Foundation. Arnold Dolmetsch rediscovered the recorder and made the first recorders of the type we use today.

We rang the Foundation in Surrey to tell them what we had found and within days the grand-daughters of Arnold Dolmetsch (both aged 70) arrived on our doorstep! They were thrilled with what we had as they were in much better condition than their own copies.
We had by then put 3 boxes of hand-written scores by two composers Lennox Berkeley and Anthony Bernard into an auction but after meeting the two sister withdrew them and while passing through Surrey delivered them to their home in Hezlemere. We gave them to the Foundation (which is a registered charity) but what we received in return was priceless.

We were invited to stay in their home and were priveledged to handle and examine early music books and instruments. One book of Lute music belonged to GALILEO’S father and another was a sixteenth century manuscript of recorder music by among other ‘Mr PURCELL’!
We were entertained by Marguerite Dolmetsch play BACH on her bass violin made in 1647 (the year Samuel Pepys married)

The crowning glory of the weekend was that Lynn was invited to play with the Dolmetsch Consort, the best recorder group ever (they played on a Beatles album after Paul McCartney met them by chance at the Abbey Road studios!
Lynn played a tenor recorder made by Arnold Dolmetsch as the proto-type for all recorders played today.

The experience was beyond price for us as musicians and it all arose from a visit to one of Geoff & Louise Car Boot Sales.

Thank you a MILLION times over,

Lynn & Norman

We are often getting told ‘you should get a boot sale here or there’ but not many come to fruition because of poor locations or distances away from housing or people.
Over the weekend we were advised to go to Geevor Tin Mine near Pendeen which on looking at GOOGLE Earth is far away from the madding crowds so that one was a NO!
Next we were told you must go to St EWE I asked several people on Sunday but no-one knew where it was, the field and village hall were not seen on Google Earth and the location on B roads would not have suited our volumes of traffic, we would be berrer off on the moon!

It is really nice of those who look for locations for us to try Car Boot Sales so the first thing to remember is that if we take up your suggestions and we actually open at your chosen and recommended site we will pay £500.00 cash reward BUT for it to be successful the venue and surrounding areas will be impacted by up to 1000 vehicles in a two hour period and for us to set up a new Car Boot Sale we are talking about a setting up cost of over £3000.00 but our number ONE priority is for PUBLIC SAFETY!!

Any ideas welcome particularly INDOORS!

Anyone you know here?

We have decided to change the times at TRURO to 9.00am and WADEBRIDGE and the NEW start time will be 3.00 pm in 2013 which is fairer for the sellers and buyers who will now have a continueous day and hopefully save on time and fuel costs at TRURO also will start at 9.00 am in 2013 so this is how it goes;
TRURO STARTS at 9.00 am Sellers from 7.30 am
MITCHELL STARTS at 1.00 pm Sellers from 10.00 am
WADEBRIDGE STARTS at 3.00 pm Sellers from 1.00pm
I have discussed this with several buyers and sellers who all approve of the new times, START DATES to follow!
Geoff

*Previous item 14th October updated;
Final paragraph now reads;

You will remember my previous story about the complaint of a lady buyer who bought a ‘Teddy Bear’ saying “my daughter will love this” to the seller and within hours it was advertised as a member of the family on eBay. I offered £3.00 off vouchers for you lot of buyers to identify the lady in question and I was amazed that it was 4 MEN who claimed the vouchers!

This woman is seriously getting on their nerves (tits) but to tell you the truth the MEN were bitchier than all of you lovely lady buyers who stand by like lemons watching this lady perform her ‘dying swan act’ in an effort to get a knock down price and you say NOTHING!!

GAME ON! Go 4 IT!!
No black eyes please!

Only 17 sellers but the locals and regular buyers supported the few. Stall were charged a fiver and buyers were free. During a coffee break I was sitting in the car with Lou when I noticed 2 men walking back to their car parked near the clubhouse. One of them picked something up from the ground which I thought looked like a purse and I said to Lou ‘I cannot be certain but I think that man might have picked a purse up’ I decided not to say anything to the man but as a precaution Lou got out of the car to walk past their Landrover and texted me the registration number as they drove off.
I walked around the stalls which were preparing to pack up as the skies darkened and rain again was forecast and spoke to most of the sellers who had said it was all worth the effort one telling me they had taken over £140.00
Whilst chatting to a lady who had travelled from Penzance I was approached by a couple who asked me if a purse had been handed in so I told them of my thoughts of the man who I was not entirely sure what exactly he had picked up!

The lost purse contained all the lady’s credit card and just under £50.00 in cash, all I could do was to give the couple the car number from my mobile and they decided to go to the Police with the information I had given them. I do not know the outcome of this story hopefully the couple will tell me this Friday but ladies he is a stark warning to look after your purses!

It is not necessary to warn the men because they dont have much money its all in their wives purses my lovers!
Marge (leave Marge alone) has been caught time and again with her purse allways ready to spend and I keep telling her ‘put the purse away somewhere safe or someone will ‘nick it’ ME!!
For the record Marge does not mind being mentioned so here is some more publicity for her and the fellow sellers at HALL for CORNWALL including Rita (of big bum fame)who present interesting looking stalls on the thrice weekly FLEAMARKETS! Go along and have a look when you are next in Truro!!

By the way did you know TRURO SORTING OFFICE have STOPPED taking parcels which I believe is a CRAP idea and bloody annoying for customers who for years have found it convenient to park right outside the sorting office to post their eBay and personal parcels! One of the staff told a customer ‘they have even taken our scales away’

However here are a couple of hints go to your local post office or use carrier services the top one parcelstogo.com will HOME COLLECT after giving you a quote another is myhermes.co.uk with a third collectplus.co.uk who will collect HEAVY parcels.
apcovernight.com 01209 214110 will collect and give you NEXT DAY deliveries. Louise who sells on eBay (4kinel) has used these services and as most of the cost is passed onto the buyer it is great to have home collect which I think is brilliant!!

It is damned annoying getting stuck behind someone in the post office who has got several eBay parcels to post whilst the old dears have to queue and wait for their pensions in fact its a pain in the bum! Respect the old farts please!!
If any of you have got any ‘top tips’ on collection and deliveries of furniture let us know please and we pass the information onwards.

One of my ex girlfriends had 3 boobs one in the middle of her back, she was’nt much to look at but great fun to dance with!

Loves,
Geoff
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Its now 55 Car Boot Sales been CANCELLED due to the weather but there is sod-all we can do about it apart from ‘keep looking’ for a winter hard standing location.
The grounds are so waterlogged with rains that it would be unsafe for our customers to use therefore over this weekend we lose MITCHELL & MABE and the only Car Boot Sale on Sunday is at TRURO at 1.30 pm
If you come to TRURO take a look at the field on the right which held its October Farm Machinery Sale yesterday with hundreds of bargains and well supported by the local farming industry who also are going through very hard times because of this bloody weather! Congratulations to Lodge & Thomas our landlords for the sales which they conduct ‘whatever the weather’
On the plus side its the first Saturday we have had off for months also looking to the future I have meetings on Monday which will affect the future of NEWQUAY now that there are new Landlords and I hope to finalize for CAR BOOT SALES to START at MONKEY TREE this year.

I have heard that some of our most loyal followers are desparing and have withdrawal symptons because the boot sales are nearly finished so WTF can we do with the daytimes now?

Love you all and missing some of the weekly nagging I get!
Here is some gossip, you remember ‘Oh no I dont sell on ebay’ woman well I had a complaint that she bought a teddy bear from my Car Boot Sale and sold it on eBay claiming she was related to the bear as it was her great grannies and it was antique.
What a ‘bear faced imagination’!!

Can you guess who it is? Ask Marge or Lou or Kate or Kaye or Orly or Lady Di more like Camilla! Now there are the clues!
£3.00 off vouchers for the right answer!

Loves,

Geoff

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