I love to spend hours bargain hunting at car boot sales. You never know what you will come across at a car boot sale. There are plenty of new and used items as well as home made crafts and clothing to choose from.

To help make your day at the car boot sale the best it can be plan for the day. Most car boot sales are outdoors so you may want some sunscreen and a hat in Summer an wrap up warm in Winter! Others are inside so make sure you find out ahead of time. You don’t want to spend the day carrying around the items you purchased so make sure you take along a bag.

Make sure you wear good walking shoes too so you won’t have to end your daily early due to tired feet. A good tip to help if you do get tired walking is to walk to the very end of the stalls and work your way forward. This way you will have the heaviest load from items you have purchased when you are nearest to the end. Keep in mind that most people start at the entrance of the car boot sale so if you start at the back you will be able to see many items before too many other people do.

Most car boot sales are offered on the weekends but some of them do take place on weekdays as well. The number of other people looking around is generally lower during the week but then so is the number of sellers. It is really a toss up about when is the best time of day to make a deal at a car boot sale. It is perfectly acceptable to try to barter and get the price lowered down from what the seller is asking for it.

By going to a car boot sale first thing in the morning you are likely to be able to take advantage of the selection before everyone else has. This is the best solution if there are particular items you are interested in finding. However, some people claim they have a harder time getting the seller to negotiate the prices when they purchase early in the morning.

By the end of the day though most sellers are very willing to lower the prices on the items they have remaining. They definitely don’t want to have to pack up any more stuff at the end of the day than they absolutely have to. If you have a particular item in mind and you can wait until the end of the day you will get a better price. But you also run the risk of someone else snatching it up though if it’s a real bargain!

Car Boot Sale Bargain Hunting

There are different ways to negotiate the price of any given item. You can ask the seller what the lowest price is that they will take for a given it. You can also offer to pay a certain price and see if they will take you up on the offer. If you want to offer £5.00 then have that money in your hand for them to see. Seeing the money will often entice them to take the money.

I have found it is always worth my time to look around though because I may find the seller in the next row has the same item for a bit less. If I am going to go back to check on an item with a particular seller I write down their location because by the end of the day it can be difficult to remember who is located where.