Boot Sale 2021

[Macca]

No doubt about it, my mate who lives in Tulse Hill finds better stuff lying in the street than they sell in the charity shops here.

[struth]

up here its all tat tbh, bar the occasional thing. prices are higher than shops too. ive not been in one for years.

[Barry]

No doubt about it, my mate who lives in Tulse Hill finds better stuff lying in the street than they sell in the charity shops here.

Yep - you should see the stuff put out for collection where my partner lives in London. Perfectly decent and working coffee makers, blenders, sewing machines, microwave ovens, vacuum cleaners, refrigerators/freezers etc. And all because they are too lazy to take them to a recycling centre, or to a charity shop.

[Macca]

No need to do that here, we have the 'tat man' who comes around about once a week. Got rid of an old radiator to him just last month. He's only interested in metal stuff though.

[Barry]

Yes, we get them round here about once a month. They ring a hand bell to let you know to "bring out your dead".

[Pigmy Pony]

Bagged at this morning's car boot:

The The "Dusk" and New Order "Republic" on CD. And Gipsy Kings' first album on vinyl (NM). For a grand total of £3.50

Just played the Gipsy Kings one - really is NM, completely free of background noise and super clean. Don't own any of their stuff, but saw them live on Sky Arts a couple of years ago and quite liked them. Mrs. P left the room shaking her head, which is usually a good sign

[Barry]

With everyone now streaming, the cost of CDs (and DVDs, including Blu-ray versions) has plumitted. It not unusual to see CDs going for 20p, and DVDs for 50p in the bootsales around here. Yet understandably, the charity shops are still asking £1 - 2 for disks as they have to make a profit.

For LPs, the sellers will ask at least £5 for anything half decent; usually a lot more. The buyer/dealers crowding around the stall, always armed with a record collectors price guide, root through all the records, especially 7" singles, looking for that rare pressing they have seen going in auction for £1,000! I wait till they have all buggered off so I can peruse what is on offer at a more leisurely pace, not expecting to find anything of interest (though sometimes I do), and am at least amused by the prices being asked for the numerous LPs I have had in my collection for years.

Lately we have been visiting up to five bootsales in a week, so I have come away with 20 or so CDs.

[Pigmy Pony]

With everyone now streaming, the cost of CDs (and DVDs, including Blu-ray versions) has plumitted. It not unusual to see CDs going for 20p, and DVDs for 50p in the bootsales around here. Yet understandably, the charity shops are still asking £1 - 2 for disks as they have to make a profit.

For LPs, the sellers will ask at least £5 for anything half decent; usually a lot more. The buyer/dealers crowding around the stall, always armed with a record collectors price guide, root through all the records, especially 7" singles, looking for that rare pressing they have seen going in auction for £1,000! I wait till they have all buggered off so I can peruse what is on offer at a more leisurely pace, not expecting to find anything of interest (though sometimes I do), and am at least amused by the prices being asked for the numerous LPs I have had in my collection for years.

Lately we have been visiting up to five bootsales in a week, so I have come away with 20 or so CDs.

That's pretty much what I do if I arrive early, though usually the vultures have been and gone by the time I get there. Nice to find decent vinyl at a good price, but I'm not going into a scrum with that lot to get them.

As for 7" singles: a customer recently gave me several hundred singles which belonged to her deceased husband. Everything from Roxy Music through to Beatles and Stones. But condition-wise mostly rough as a badger's arse. No idea what to do with them, binning them feels somehow disrespectful. but I know I'll never play them. I should take them to a car boot sale and see what the collector/vultures make of them. If they fetched enough to get my customer some flowers or something that would be a feel good moment

[Barry]

That's a good idea: rarity seems to surplant condition when it comes to singles. Just make sure you at least recoup the seller's fee.

[Barry]

Some classical vinyl in very good 'nick', found not at a bootsale but in a charity shop for 75p each:


(10" vinyl)


(10" vinyl)