VULTURE Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Bought a Large Snap On tool chest a few weeks ago for £17 so bargains can be had if you are lucky. Vulture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neil w Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Oh, yes I bought a Mac tool roll cab also with top cabinet packed full of Mac tools, Snapon and Bluepoint tools.For £200- Not!! I would not buy any of the said bargains mentioned above because they will almost certainly be stolen, Someone could still be paying up on a weekly basis for tools that have been stolen ,like a young apprentice.Think about your next so-called "Bargain". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted June 5, 2015 Report Share Posted June 5, 2015 Where do you work? Chalfont St Peter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VULTURE Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Oh, yes I bought a Mac tool roll cab also with top cabinet packed full of Mac tools, Snapon and Bluepoint tools.For £200- Not!! I would not buy any of the said bargains mentioned above because they will almost certainly be stolen, Someone could still be paying up on a weekly basis for tools that have been stolen ,like a young apprentice.Think about your next so-called "Bargain". The tool chest was bought off a chap who had just retired and was clearing out his work stuff,he had already sold his tools on eBay and didn't want the hassle of packing and posting this tool chest,also bought a motorcycle lift off him as well for a song. Try talking to the seller not hard to spot the shifty ones.usually have scruffy white vans lol. Cheers. Vulture Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aris Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Chalfont St Peter. The one near West Yorkshire? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dunkield Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 I haven't been to one for years, but virtually every comment about the wierdo's and selling/buying junk can equally be applied to ebay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brett1985 Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 I haven't been to one for years, but virtually every comment about the wierdo's and selling/buying junk can equally be applied to ebay too true! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 The one near West Yorkshire? That'll be the one I live in Leeds but HQ is there, in the office two days a week on average, I love driving through Gerrards Cross in a morning, watching all the yummy mummies on the village green. Don't think i have ever seen so many X5s, Disco 4s and Range Rovers..... Weirdly i have been based somewhere down there since 1990. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vince Green Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 (edited) Chalfont St Peter. Yes I know it well, Often go to the carvery near there, you as mad as me with a 160 mile commute. Somebody I know was driving down the lane that leads off the North Orbital Rd to CSP and a stray .22 bullet from somewhere shot out his passenger side window. Now where were you on the morning of................ Edited June 6, 2015 by Vince Green Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keg Posted June 6, 2015 Report Share Posted June 6, 2015 Not guilty m'lud. I do have a permission down there but over Stokenchurch way, gorgeous part of the world the Chilterns, I just hope that HS2 does not ruin it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carman06 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Been doing a car boot this morning. Lovely weather and sold about £100 worth so not bad. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VULTURE Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Hi. Did one this morning as well,made £160 so happy with that ,sold some shooting stuff which went in the first half hour.funny thing is I brought home most of the really good stuff but sold the run of the mill stuff. Car boots are a bit funny like that. Do about 5 or 6 a year to declutter the shed/ shooting room.. Cheers. Vulture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J_Edwards Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 I went to one on the continent that was near my flat every Sunday morning. If you were a collector of Nazi memorabilia, then that was the place for you. Helmets, knives, swords, uniforms, medals, cigarette tins, rings, even switchblades, butterfly knives and pepper spray. People must have accumulated the Nazi gear during it's occupation. It was mental! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clakk Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 got a pair of french Denhill bino,s 12x40 for a whole 1 pound this am .well pleased they were sold as surplus by the ministry of supply in 1951 for 13 guineas .not quite an antiques roadshow surprise profit but nice clean optics .and good enough .as the boot went melt down about 12 noon was paying 20 to 50p for tools ,worth the journey for those baargins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gemini52 Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 The last time i went to a boot sale was about three years ago,i picked up a parker hale rear sight,asked the woman what she wanted for it,she said if you tell me what it is you can have it for fifty pence,deal done,put it on ebay and got thirty eight quid for it; Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon R Posted June 7, 2015 Report Share Posted June 7, 2015 Bought a Stahlwille 17mm combination (mint) - 20p this morning. Also bought a line of AF Snap On sockets for £25. Don't use AF, but too cheap to walk past. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cookoff013 Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 i love haggling with some people.... i like to buy crowns (old money) a guy had a stack of about 10 and they were marked up and i tried my hardest to haggle, i knocked off 10% .... the guys response was absolutely classic. "i can sell them for 3-4 times what they are worth in London!" -errr but i want to buy them here...... -seller gets a calculator out... does the old maths on it.... - no he cant let them go at the price advertised ! the total cost was under £4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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