Whats the best item you have found at a car boot sale and sold it on for a profit

[RonOne]

I bought a small English bone china plate...more saucer size really....for 10p

Put it in a feebay auction, starting at 99p and it sold for just over £10

I have also bought several videos for 20p each...sometimes less...and they all sold for £10+...one sold for £25

You still sell videos,
I've got about 3000,
I sell them 4 for a quid at the car boot.
If I thought I could get more I'd sell them on here.
But Paypal and Google fees make that a nonstarter.

[ejean9]

i stopped going to bootys..cos i only ever came home with tat as well..

[cornishmaid1961]

I got about 8 pieces of Mary Rich studio pottery for £19 once at a car boot. One small miniature teapot alone sold for £110 on feebay ! The rest of the pieces went for an average of £40 -£60. Now that was a lucky find !!!

[shezz]

I go to loads bootsales and would love to pick up some sort of treasure, i'm always picking up stuff and think ohhh that might be worth a bob or two, and i am sure more then one occasion they have been,

But then I put it back down because i dont have a clue if something is worth anything or not

but the weirdest thing i brought was like a wooden carved elephant man god like effigy, now i'm to scared to let it go lol

[raindropsies]

I go to loads bootsales and would love to pick up some sort of treasure, i'm always picking up stuff and think ohhh that might be worth a bob or two, and i am sure more then one occasion they have been,

But then I put it back down because i dont have a clue if something is worth anything or not

but the weirdest thing i brought was like a wooden carved elephant man god like effigy, now i'm to scared to let it go lol

Sounds like a Ganesh

[craig7501]

That would be my secret. I'm not telling, however watching a program called cash in the attic I remember a couple on there bought a doll for £3 on it took it to auction and it raised over £1,000

[somersethedge]

But Paypal and Google fees make that a nonstarter.

so go down the mint unused decimal stamp route then ron.... it works on my "cheap" postcards

[somersethedge]

well I cant remember a single item but we did once buy a box of about 150 postcards (what else did you expect) for about £15 and from the saleable ones we made over £250

[shezz]

Sounds like a Ganesh

yup very similar, might have to take a piccy of it at the weekend

[raindropsies]

yup very similar, might have to take a piccy of it at the weekend

If it's hand carved and signed, it could be worth a packet