Car boot sales are new and to small to be of any good

Today i wet to what i was told was a new car boot sale in a place called Olivia De Hospital. The venue was great and as it was raining it was held in a furniture store. The store owner also was the person in charge of the car boot sale.

In the UK there is a car boot sale in almost ever every town and city big and small. Here in Portugal the car boot market is small although there are a few that have kept going. What i found was that every stall bar one was English people and that they like me where selling things they no longer needed or wanted. 

The downside of this is that the only buyers where in fact the sellers and not a great deal of buyers. The biggest thing i found was that everybody had loads of Videos and Dvd's also Books. I was happy with what i sold and i priced things to get rid of them. A number of items when i was if i had another price instead of the asking price i just put the price UP not down. I got a few laughs but i was serious money would be nice but i wasn't going to get rid of things at a silly price so i stood my ground.

When i moved over last year i new i wouldn't have a TV system via Satellite straight away so i got every Video and DVD we owned and boxed them up to keep me going until i got a Satellite dish installed. Sadly the only place i could put a dish of the size needed to get UK TV i didn't have line of sight of the Satellite so that idea was ditch and i sold the Dish. It is so easy to just download anything that you could want to watch so that's what i now do.

There was an Portuguese buyer who offered me half for one item, with this i just picked it up and took it of sale and put it in a box. Another buyer for a large item for 45€ ask for contact details so he could get back to me as didn't have enough money with him.

The one Portuguese seller had a load of crockery he had got from Contenente that was going cheap. Well at lease he had a go maybe if i find a better place i will have a go again but for now i will just watch and wait. There are markets at Miranda do Corvo and at Penacova that are worth looking at.

I at least came a away with my money intact as i didn't buy anything that was on offer mainly because i had gone with the intention of getting rid of stuff not replacing what i have with something else.