Anyone tried car boot reselling

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Garethp123
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Before the pandemic i would buy stuff from car boot sales and reseller it.

I bought an video camera for £2 and sold it for £80 and a camera for £3 and sold it for £130.

My best flip was a huge coffee table book on luxury cars. Paid £2 and sold it for £180.

Bit it kills your weekend. Anyone else fried it.
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jamesedwards
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Depends on whether I've had a good evening on the fruit machines the night before.
Garethp123
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jamesedwards wrote:
Mon May 26, 2025 12:14 am
Depends on whether I've had a good evening on the fruit machines the night before.
Jokes wearing thin now tbh
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jamesedwards
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Garethp123 wrote:
Mon May 26, 2025 12:15 am
jamesedwards wrote:
Mon May 26, 2025 12:14 am
Depends on whether I've had a good evening on the fruit machines the night before.
Jokes wearing thin now tbh
As are your non-relevant posts.

Why don't you just post your spam links now, and get on with it?
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Garethp123 wrote:
Sun May 25, 2025 10:50 pm
Anyone else fried it.
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Euler
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My first side hustle while working for a software distributor was to take stock on sale or return, and sell it at the weekend at a car boot sale.
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alexmr2
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A couple of times I have managed to buy stuff from a car boot sale and sell for £20 profit or so on ebay, but usually people who sell a lot of the same thing know the value of stuff.

As for selling at one it's just terrible. Get up early in the morning, pay the entrance fee and fuel then wait around all day only to have people offer 50p for most of the stuff even if you already selling for less than it would cost them to buy on ebay including the postage. Most of the time I would have been better off throwing the stuff in the bin and working the Sunday instead
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