Sunday at TRURO 31st 2015

Updated Friday the fifth following a complaint from my Irish friend and his partner in crime who say “I was playing the race card with this item” I will give you two buggers a race any time you like, bring it on!! Actually they are really nice clean living lads (well the Cornish one is) they have both been very ill for some time and they see our Car Boot Community as part of their therapy and they love our customers and they bring great fun to the sale with their friendly banter with their customers. Respectfully, I do not know their names but I have it good authority that the Irish lad is a tight fisted old sod which is true as yesterday he tried to pay Louise the rent with the old pound notes the TFOB!! X

Back to Sunday!
A rotten day weather wise as the heavy rain took its toll on most Car Boot Sales and an early morning call with the Penryn official confirmed that it was the interest of ground conditions the 1.30pm Car Boot would be cancelled followed by a field inspection at Lanhydrock and the decision was made to transfer the Car Boot to Truro’s all weather location at 1.30pm. I advised many by mobile but the power of the Internet and our website brought out over 800 people to the rearranged undercover Car Boot with over 40 stalls and a good atmosphere with lots of BARGAINS, however the afternoon was marred by a complaint from one of our sellers which is the second time a similar complaint has been made and I ask all Car Booters whether they be buyers or sellers to keep an eye open to ensure this is not going to be a regular occurrence at our Community events.

A very timid lady seller ‘on her own’ struggled to set up her stall in time for the HORN so Louise gave her a hand to display her selling items, the horn started the sale and Lou stayed with the lady helping her to serve the rush of people and handing the lady £14.00 for the items Lou had sold on her behalf.
About half an hour into the sale several people were crowded round the stall and a man a woman asked our lady seller “How much is this dress”? The seller said she wanted £5.00 and the couple offered £1.00 which is a smack in the face rudeness on behalf of the buyers but the lady insisted “I want £5.00” The couple have the dress in their hands and said to the seller “Well, we only have this amount” and threw a handful of coins onto the sellers table and walked away into the crowd with the dress. The lady counted the coins to a total of just under a £1.00 which amounts to blatant stealing!
The lady wanted to ‘run after them’ but she was on her own on the stall so she had no other option than to be the loser to this dreadful scam. Just imagine going into Marks & Spencer and taking a liking to a dress that is say forty quid, you go up to the cashier and say “but I only have a fiver” then you throw the money at the cashier and bugger off with the dress?? Can you imagine how the City’s Police would react to that!

It must be pointed out that the couple who stole the dress were NOT Cornish nor English nor Irish nor Scottish nor Welsh but their accent was definitely, most definitely, European. Now then, another lady we shall call Sophie set up her stall with much more confidence in her display and traded very well, she was happy and lively and trusting with her customers and sold some realistic bargains for her eager buyers.
She had put her bright pink purse containing her takings, credit cards, driving licence if full view of the public and her reward for her efforts for the day was that some opportunistic thieving bastard stole the purse with at least £100.00 in cash. I could only sympathise with Sophie and her loss advising that she immediately gets the credit cards stopped to prevent any further losses and notifying the DVLA about the licence theft however after talking to other sellers it would seem that the potential thief was not Cornish?

Customers will have noticed when they go around our Car Boot Sales that this year in particular there are more foreign tongues than ever before particularly with the influx from Europe and I do regret that some of them have a very aggressive and offensive attitude when seeking bargains at our sales. I am reminded of Madam Polish whose attitude towards sellers in seeking “the best price for me” resulted in a life ban from our Car Boots Sales because of her bullying attitude particularly with our elder sellers.
We have to check on their cars ‘people carriers’ as some of them lie on the floors in their vehicles to avoid paying the 50p admission FFS! We caught another ‘people carrier’ offloading 10 of its passengers outside the Truro Cattle Market so they could also avoid the 50p charge by climbing over the main road hedging and fencing. It is the absolute minority of the Europeans who are jeopardising their different tongues in settling down in Cornwall and being totally accepted by the community.

Regretfully I have to advise everyone to keep on guard with your property and should someone throw money on to your table in settlement for something you do not agree with then GET hold of either Lou or me or any of our teams but do not lose sight of the offenders and further ‘Do not take the law into your own hands’ we can act on your behalf’