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WHAT WAS YOUR BEST BARGAIN? Tell us and we promise to respect your anonimity

What is the best BARGAIN you have ever bought at one of our Car Boot Sales tell me all about them and if possible I would like pictures and I promise not to divulge any personal information about you should you wish to remain anonymous!

The best bargain Louise ever bought was at Penryn Motor Auctions way back before Car Boots Cornwall started probably 1987 we used to own Dig & Delve a secondhand shop in Swanpool Street, Falmouth.
We would empty stocks into the van on Saturday nights and Q from 5.00am to take up the 3 regular spaces in the auction showrooms which started at 8.00am it was so well supported the sale lasted until about 5.00pm and NO-ONE was allowed out earlier than 4.30pm.

I would set the stall up while Lou went around the buying stock for the shop, one day she came back laden with bargains I pointed her to the new seller who had arrived opposite.
To her absolute amazement she pulled a large polythene bag from under piles of other items to discover number 1 to 36 of The BEATLES magazines in perfect condition and other musical books but she realized she had ‘HIT THE JACKPOT’ when in the same package she found three 8″x10″ photographs of the band all signed by The Beatles! John, Paul, George & Ringo!

‘How much would you like for these’ asked Lou?
‘well I did want to sell them separately but if you want all of them I would need £3.00’
Deal done Lou returned to our stall saying ‘DONT OPEN you will be amazed what I have just bought’ and put the package under the counter.
Before we left the seller said ‘You are the people who bought the pictures and books of The Beatles I was going to bring the records are you interested in them? I arranged to go to the house to view but my knowledge of records was so limited until I opened the case to discover all of The Beatles Rolling Stones and other top bands of the time in mint condition!
I asked the seller ‘How much’ and was asked for twenty pounds the lot! This is where my conscience kicked in, we had already got the books and signed pictures but I knew nothing about values of records so I offered fifty pounds for the lot and the buyer was delighted!

Bottom line was this, I put the records out on sale in the shop for the guide prices advertised and they shot out within 4 days making upwards of £350.00 I had obviously undercharged because one dealer told me had had made £250.00 on 4 of the LP records he had bought so everyone was happy!

Once we had received confirmation that the AUTOGRAPHS were authentic the lot was sent to a London Collectors Auction who in due course sent a cheque for just over £1000.00

Bottom-bottom line! The seller contacted me several more times selling unwanted items and I always paid a bit more than the asking price.
I paid £100.00 for a set of house curtains sold them on for £150.00 and the buyer promptly sold them for a staggering £800.00!
What goes round-comes round my lovers!

TRUE!

Geoff

ps; The best Bargain Lou and I ever got was each other well that is Lou’s side of the story!
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