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During the great days of Bingo & Social Clubs I ran one of the biggest clubs in the North East the famous Majestic in Newcastle upon Tyne with up to 10,000 players each week with thousands of pounds at stake. The BINGO people were my type of people great fun to work for and identical to our Car Boot Sales of today where the majority are brilliant to get along with but you always get just ‘one person’ who can spoil all the efforts we as a team make for a great relaxing COMMUNITY event like Saturday at MITCHELL where over 4000 people enjoyed BARGAINS GALORE in fine weather. (See todays email)

Back to the Bingo, to promote the Majestic against fierce opposition like Mecca and The Essoldo Group we printed off thousands of ‘Geoff Says’ newspapers weekly which continued for many years! If anyone has got a copy of that magazine I will give twenty quid reward which I think is safe because most of the readers use them to light their fires.
Bottom line was we won the promotion and the Essoldo lost with Mecca trailing behind my popularity good looks and charm, I adored all the Geordie women as I adore all of my Car Boot ladies who are much better drivers than the men.
Well, that’s the confession Lou is trying to get out of me!!

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The following message has been sent via the website:
Name: m green
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Subject: re admission fee
Message: why do you charge Admission fee of 50p for Adults, why? and where does the money go? and do you have proof of where the money is going

Why! Why! Why!‏

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geoff camden wiles

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Madam,

Your email is almost as rude as your behaviour yesterday at Mitchell Car Boot Sale when you did not have the courtesy to say ‘thank-you’ to the member of our team who politely served you, it was equally as rude to drive off then slam your car into reverse to ask what I had said.

We charge the 50p admission charge which goes towards Rent, Toilet Facilities, Staffing, Directional Signs, Publicity, Ground Maintenance, Public Liability Insurance and I do not intend answering your ‘why and where’ questions any further which is none of your business.

I will however include your email with my reply into our website.

Geoff Camden Wiles
www.carbootscornwall.co.uk

The 50p admission charge is the BEST VALUE you can get anywhere in CORNWALL for an entire afternoon out in the country as part of the COMMUNITY Car Boot Sales, if you dont want to come then DONT!

Geoff

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On Tuesday I arrived at Newquay Circus Fields with about 14 traders waiting to see if the Car Boot was going ahead because the grounds were a sea of mud with vehicles skidding causing their tyres to rip out the grassings so unfortunately we had to cancel the sale. On Thursday at 7.00 am I carried out an inspection of the same grounds which had not dried at all my vehicle skidded so badly I had to reverse out of the skids. I spoke with the Landlord and we both decided it would be too dangerous to proceed with the event and in the interest of public safety we cancelled.

Lou put the decision on our website and we contact others through our ‘FREE’ text service to advise of last minute changes. That brings a total of 50 rained-off events this year whereas last year we were rained off 37 dates. Our PUBLIC LIABILITY Insurers would have thought we would have been irresponsible if we had gone ahead with the sales on Tuesday & Thursday and we are sorry for all the inconveniences caused to buyers and sellers, we have all had a pretty crap year so far but some customers are telling me that September & October are going to be great months weather-wise or is that just a hope and a dream! May all your hopes and dreams come true my lovers!

We have lost so much this year we are thinking of asking Marge to lend us a couple of bob please, every time we see her its raining, could it be a bad omen? X

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GOOD MORNING!

Thank you to all of our loyal buyers who turned out to support the sellers who braved the piss-poor weather to sell at TRURO yesterday, I know there wasn’t a lot of stalls but they certainly took good money from the comments at the end of the sale.

Some of you will remember the chaos caused by the Fairground arriving at Newquay during our Car Boot Sale despite being asked to delay their visit until after our event, Louise I tried to reason with but found their ignorance and faces like a bags of spanners with miserable attitudes hard to understand.
They are in the Leisure Industry looking afer todays kids at a fun-fair for christs sake! Be nice to people!

I was advised yesterday the same fair arrives at Falmouth today for over a week and they have been given the hard standing so we will be on the grass. I hope the conduct of some of the youngsters is better than previous years when punch-ups and disturbances caused neighbours to complain to us, which is none of our business. Have a good week and SMILE!!

I hate having so much time off because of the weather because it gives Lou time to experiment with food and cakes and I am allways the victim if the baking goes wrong and I hate being watched over and told ‘eat this I made it just for you’ and its YUCK sometimes! I am chuffed my grand-daughter is here for a week to share my misery.

Cheer up everyone be happy and live your life!

Ps; Marge stood in Cow Shit on Sunday at MABE and was livid but in her regal manner she admitted ‘Should have gone to Specsavers’ whilst I provided baby whipes to clean her crappy shoes! She loves being waited on according to Ricky!

Love to all especially my lovely wife who had her 44th birthday (looks older) yesterday so me and the grand-daughter is making her a cake. REVENGE TIME darling!!

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In the mailbox today

I do apologise to all of our regulars who were inconvenience by the change of our decision today due to circumstances outside of our control….. Sorry x

Charlie,

Your email is slightly wrong in facts, I put the details that Newquay Car Boot Sale would go ahead at 6.00 am and received a message from the Landlord at 9.30 am to say the field was waterlogged so I went to see for myself and agreed with the Landlord at 9.50 am that in the interest of PUBLIC SAFETY the sale would not go ahead. As soon as this decision was made we advised by our website of the cancellation which could well have been after you left home.

We run our sales in the interest of the entire public who are content that we know how to run Car Boot Sales and not EXPERTS like yourself so if you are offended in the way we conduct OUR business I repectfully accept your decision to please go somewhere else, where I dont know!

Regards,

Geoff

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Message: This morning i was hoping to do a car boot, i checked the website and it said Newquay was on. When we got there it said it was cancelled i live in Redruth, it took a long time to get to Newquay lots of petrol! When i got back home i checked the website and it said cancelled..If you are going to run car boots i suggest getting up early and writing its cancelled before 10am. I am a regular seller and buyer i have nothing against this but i will stop coming if this continues to happen.

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More post today-rhyme wise!

Hi Carole,

Thank you for your rhyme responding to our Marge stepping in the cow poo at MABE on Sunday. During the sale I had one man complaining that ‘the gypsies’ were getting some of the cow-poo and throwing it at the cars! I did not see any gypsies during the day but I would doubt the truth in this claim nor did I see any cars covered in cow crap.

However Marge did say ‘Shit for Luck’ and she was certainly lucky on Sunday buying a lovely framed German tapestry picture for a bargain price.

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Hi I read with amusement the story of Marge and the cow pat so I have written this little

Anyone got any wellies?
Marge is in need of some!
She went around Mabe boot sale ,
And landed in the dung

Geoff went to the rescue
Specsavers close behind
Next time when she’s walking
She’s going to think about it
Look before you leap my love
Or end up in the S–T !!!

From Carole (often seen selling dvd’s at Falmouth )

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A Bargain I could not refuse!

Two weeks ago it was as usual raining so we ran the Car Boot inside at Truro cattle pens where sellers get ample space to sell in the dry, towards the end of the sale I wandered around looking at some of the stalls and stopped at one stall noticing a lady pick up a jacket from the pile of clothes on the floor asking what it was and how much. The seller said it was a Teddy Boy jacket and wanted £3.00 the lady threw the jacket back on the pile so I picked it up only to find it was a genuine authentic vintage Teddy Boy Drape Jacket in very good condition.
I said to the lady seller ‘a regular’ you cannot sell that for just £3.00 my lover put it on eBay and you will certainly get more than three quid to which she said “I cant be bothered” In that case I will buy it and put it on eBay myself and I will let you know how it goes!
Lou listed the jacket with the appropriate description asking for a starting bid of only 99 pence and by the end on the seven day auction the £3.00 Teddy Boy Jacket had reached a staggering £51.34 pence.
There are a lot of our really educated customers who cannot be bothered to ‘put it on eBay’ because they do not own either laptops or computers and miss out of the opportunities available to sell, also they lack the confidence to learn how to operate a pc! It is a brilliant investment for you your family and your future and if I can work one-anyone can!

I used to hang around with Teddy Boys in my younger days but I could not afford the clothing but the real reason I could not become one of them was because I did not have enough sodding hair and could not do a ducks arse! They were great days!
By the way that’s £48.34 pence profit and I rarely buy at our sales!

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TRADING STANDARDS raid at Newquay Circus Fields Thursday August 2012-08-23

This is the truth about one man’s greed to sell fake goods to my customers and the customers of Rosudgeon and Hayle Car Boot Sales. Almost a year ago I received complaints about a man selling fake SUPERDRY clothing and I told him my rules that I was not an expert so I would not pass judgement nor would I deprive him earnings but if I received any further complaints I would have to advise TRADING STANDARDS.
The local store Manager of SUPERDRY called to confirm the jackets and shirts were fake, I sent a detailed report to TRADING STANDARDS telling the seller of my actions. I warned him that if they were to visit our locations we are duty bound to co-operate with them and their actions which could mean losing your entire stock and being arrested for selling fake clothing.

I object strongly to fake items being sold I know it takes time for TRADING STANDARDS to build a case against a trader, despite warnings the trader sold one of the fake shirts to a trading standards officer who made a test purchase which was then taken away for analyses and confirmed to be a fake SUPERDRY product. Team handed the TRADING STANDARDS officers arrived unannounced on Thursday morning surrounding his vehicle and impounding all of his FAKE goods.
This was a very public humiliation uniformed officers in high visibility jackets with TRADING STANDARDS blasted across their backs counting and listing and boxing up this mans clothing fakes. Everyone but everyone witnessed the event and it is good for Joe Public that’s you and me see TRADING STANDARDS take action against a criminal of greed! BUT, why did it take so long?

TRADING STANDARDS tried to stop me taking pictures which are entirely in the interest of our COMMUNITY Car Boot Sales sellers and buyers however they accepted my rights to publish.

The seller, do not know his name is in the picture will never sell at any of CARBOOTSCORNWALL locations again and I ask HAYLE & ROSUDGEON to consider the same action.

After the TRADING STANDARDS departed a young lady holidaymaker who had bought presents for her family at home from this stall at Rosudgeon the previous day had found out they were fakes and came to claim a refund. She like others were conned into believing they had bought a BARGAIN! You don’t get BARGAINS from many Market Traders nowadays beware, if it looks TOO GOOD it probably is and its probably a ficking FAKE!
NEW RULES for MARKET TRADERS;
Should we get a complaint about the products you sell we will advise you of the complaint and ask what action you intend to take to resolve the complaint. A report of the complaint will be made in the CBC diary.
Should we get a second complaint we will use the above procedure and report the matter to TRADING STANDARDS in the interest of the General Public including a picture of your stall and vehicle registration numbers as well as details of your PUBLIC LIABILITY Insurance Certificate.
Alternatively you could get BANNED on the spot.

JUST DONT CON MY CUSTOMERS!

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GOSSIP TIME….Dear Marge….

Apologies for late editions to Geoff Says but here we go with lots of gossip! The weather over the last few weeks has played absolute havoc with our business and checking through the diary we have lost 47 Car Boot Sales this year so far, last year was a total of 37 RAINED OFF events so I am reluctant to admit the total for 2012 could reach up to 75 events that have had to be cancelled. It is no fun seeing the start of our sales where everyone is trading briskly only to suffer absolute downpours of rain like Tuesday and Thursday causing near chaos as everyone strives to be the first out of the gates and HOME! It never fails to amaze me how many know-alls mostly tourists but always MEN decide it’s time to interfere with how we are dealing with the situation especially when there are up to 750 vehicles churning up the fields to depart in haste. I am proud of my teams they know their jobs and like me they get severely pissed off when the minority Emmet’s become loud mouthed with advice “You should do this” and “You should do that” and “who’s in charge of this shambles” and “you’re going to lose a lot of business because if this” then the ‘F word’ is introduced to emphasise their stupidity without knowledge!
I don’t mean to be rude to our cherished tourists and holiday-makers but I would ask some of the lovely mums and wives to control their men like the Cornish women do my lovers! We are not allowed an opinion here we do as we are told because it make for a peaceful life all round! I enjoy talking to the visitors some returning year after year and I am amazed and chuffed by the amount of them who want to move to CORNWALL and live here permanently! I can understand why, we moved here nearly 25 years ago it is a lovely country it breeds happiness, the Cornish are nice people and the thousands of people who come to our events make it a happy COMMUNITY!
LANHYDROCK!
We have been to this fabulous location several times over recent weeks but the site is still suffering from the heavy rains particularly over the last 15 weeks. The grounds are still not suitable for our traffic so I am unable to say when our start date will be but hopefully we do not have to postpone to 2013
LONG ROCK!
We attended a site meeting yesterday evening and are pleased with the ground conditions despite the weather, there is a lot of work to be done hopefully we can advise in two weeks the start date however we seriously need at least 5 days of decent weather to ‘dry out’ the grasslands 12 acres location. At last we have a Landlord who leaves us to do our job and has confidence in our abilities. GUESS what? We have a Lady Landlord! We have met some B’stard men Landlords over the years; well one in particular…………………….Long Rock will be a success and we are delighted to be in PENZANCE as we head towards our 25th Year running CAR BOOTS CORNWALL.
HARD STANDING!
We are looking at a very large site this week which has a concrete/tarmac hard standing surface and would be brilliant particularly during the winter when all of our seasonal grassed locations are closed. If you know of any hard standing locations Car Parks or any large outbuildings or stores that could be used for ‘WINTER CAR BOOTS” you could earn yourself £500.00 reward if we start Car Boot Sales recommended by you! The couple who recommended Long Rock will get £500.00 reward on the first CAR BOOT there.

PUBLICITY and ADVERTISING
Last year I decided against advertising any of our Car Boot Sales in newspapers due to the high costs in particular The West Briton. I doubted the value of such adverts. My decision has been a brilliant success but for the crap weather we would be well over targets at all locations so if you advertise in the papers look at what you are spending and how many customers actually come from a ‘widgy’ advert in the local rag! We are so fortunate because it is our customer’s buyers and sellers who spread the word about our COMMUNITY CAR BOOTS and Marge of course plus all the wonderful women who bring their husbands and lovers JUST TO CARRY THE SHOPPING! Hah! Thank you my lovers! Proper Job!!
LATEST!
I will cover the story of TRADING STANDARDS visit to Newquay Circus Fields where they confiscated an entire stock of fake SUPER-DRY clothing tomorrow!
Lou’s Foot News;
“It still hurts a bit when I walk” says Lou (still eating)
I say; FOOOT OFF!
Ps; You can advertise on my website for FREE!
Geoff
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