Newquay View Resort! View, what view?

On three occasions over recent months we have been asked to operate Car Boot Sales at this caravan camp on Trevelgue Road and we have twice visited to decide if there be any possibility that Car Boots Cornwall would be interested and on each occasion we have respectively declined the offer. Our reasoning’s are quite simple in that there is nothing nice about the location and to drag our Car Boot Community up Trevelgue Road to a non-event type venue with a road that narrows into a country lane is in our opinion a totally unsuitable place for our traffic and thousands of Car Boot attendances. So we respectfully declined the offer. We learned from our experience at PORTH which has a superb location compared to NVR! We lasted one season and when we closed that one down some idiot demanded that we go open a Car Boot at the Aircraft Museum FFS!

On Tuesday our Car Boot Sale at Newquay Circus Fields was in full swing when about 6 giggling male and female uniformed staff from ‘the resort’ armed with leaflets which they started to distribute the leaflets to our sellers which is at worst very bad manners and at the very worst bloody ignorant! Why? Because I get the huge crowd and they have the nerve to tout my customers to go to some crumby boot sale somewhere else on the SAME DAY that I have three Car Boot Sales. No way!

Louise was straight up to the leaflet people telling them they would need Geoff’s permission to be free to distribute. I spoke with the woman leader of the pack who told me ‘The Boot Sale is a one off and we are only doing it for charity’ so I allowed them to give more leaflets out, however the pack leader had lied to me because it was the Newquay View Resort making their own effort to run Car Boot Sales so let’s go and pinch some of Geoff’s customers shall we FFS!

I spend fortunes getting a business up and running for the Car Boot Community of Cornwall and the Newquay Resort View (which view does not exist in my opinion) have the effing nerve to not only try to nick my sellers but they give an incentive of a FREE stall so how TF does that help the charity? When asked about the charity they said ‘Oh we will probably give a donation to local charities’ but when Louise telephoned to tell the management ‘Do not come to any more of our sales to distribute leaflets because you will not be welcome’ she also asked “What charity is the Car Boot for”?
The man at the other end of the phone said ‘the Charity is for Dogs’ for what??

Now, as you know I am not a ‘lover of dogs’ (I like them but do not love them-I was born to love women not dogs FFS!) But to organise a Car Boot Sale and call it ‘a charity’ when it is not ‘a charity’ borders on stupidity especially when you are not registered as an official CHARITY where the charity Commission investigate the proposed charity and authorise or refuse the application to trade as a charity. NVR have not registered as a ‘Charity for dogs’ charity at all.

As most of you know before I came to Cornwall I was General Manager of Pontins in Somerset, Brean Sands and many years before that was at Butlins on Entertainments Management at Filey and Skegness so it is fair to assume I know quite a lot about Holiday Parks and Caravan Parks.

On a scale of one to ten for this alleged resort view to successfully run a profitable weekly Car Boot Sale I would give them a 15% chance but my advice would be to give up your efforts and lies about Car Boot Sales and concentrate on your holiday parks comforts for your assumed holiday guests with some first class Entertainments and less emphasis on your slot machines and make it a happier place to be than it was on our visits. The people staying in the caravans on Income Support and Housing benefit, granted our visit was during the winter months but the residents described it as an awful place to live, not a place you could call home with too much discipline and ‘no go areas’! By the way the NVR is really just the initials of Newquay View Resort but I have renamed it NVR = No View Really!

To show I have no hard feelings their Car Boot Sale is on Sunday at midnight.
Ps; they tried one last week and NOBODY turned up. Result NIL!
PS; and this week it pissed on their fireworks again the only Car Boot to go ahead on Sunday was of course Truro Cattle Market at 12.00 noon under cover my lover supported by hundreds who braved the piss poor weather with a couldn’t GAF attitude !

Starting up a new Car Boot Sale is not easy, we have had 5 that have failed but if you do the job properly and you have the right locations and you have a moving Car Boot Community of say 500,000 repeat customers that is a huge benefit for us to expand into various areas saving fuel costs and bringing the Sales nearer to the locals.
As an operator you must be prepared to invest up to £5000.00 on a prestigious location like the New Mitchell with all the signs and fencings and new gates presented to our public with pride from the Landlords and Car Boots Cornwall.
Bottom line! we are unlikely to stand aside whilst another organisation tries to take our business away, we believe in fair opposition like Hayle and Rosudgeon who would not stoop to bringing in a team of people to attract our customers to their Car Boot Sales and I would certainly not do the same to them. It is our customers and the best publicity they give us is ‘word of mouth’ if they like us they tell others if they don’t like us then they are a tiny minority, I can cope with that. Oh and just one final thought for the past 5 years we have not spent a penny advertising our Car Boot Sales in either the Packet or the dreaded West Briton, we don’t need to our treasured customers do it all for us for FREE!!

If you are a tourist with your caravan and family we highly recommend the ‘Carnon Downs
Caravan Park’ an immaculate setting and close to Truro City or if you looking for somewhere with lots of facilities and a full Entertainment programme and a fantastic swimming pool go to HENDRA Holidays in Newquay, a great fun location.

Today’s picture, ‘after a good St Kitts spliff or two pictures like this come into my mind but it’s good to daydream at times my lovers! X