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Buy Goods for Low Prices at Jumble Sales and Sell Them for Record High Prices on eBay by Avril Harper author of 'Bank Big Profits Selling Vintage Topographical View Postcards on eBay' and 'Make Money Tearing Up Old Books and Magazines and Selling Them on eBay'.
Jumble sales are usually best described as table top sales of stuff their past owners might otherwise throw out but the jumble sale saved them the trip to the rubbish dump.
That said, you can very easily find dozens or even hundreds of low profit items at jumble sales, such as toys and children’s clothing, books and costume jewellery, alongside other items that might need a few light repairs but will cost just pennies and could sell at a tenner apiece or more. So if you don’t mind hard work there’s a ready market here for you to conquer, and presenting little competition because few people fancy the time and effort and sometimes work that goes into sorting out genuine treasure from trash at these busy events.
The better news is that sometimes a truly valuable find can be picked up for pennies and sold for ten or twenty pounds or even hundreds or thousands of pounds on eBay or elsewhere. As proof I once knew a leading seller of books and postcards and other paper ephemera who got most of his stock from jumble sale helpers who let him pick over goods before the sale opened to the public. He was called ‘the millionaire booter’ - yes, honestly - because he favoured car boot sales and flea markets for reselling his jumble sale finds and he operated through a network of resellers all over the UK.
You’ll find jumble sales advertised on supermarket notice boards and in post office and shop windows, also in local daily newspapers, and they usually take place in church halls and school assembly rooms. Regional newspapers are the best place to start looking, usually at the weekend, and very often just one newspaper lets you line up four or five or more sales for the week ahead.
These are great places to locate goods of all types usually way below their real market value. That’s because organisers want everything to sell on the day and don’t want to beg vicars and head teachers for space to store their unsold stock for a future sale.
Also, people manning stalls at jumble sales are rarely experts and they lack knowledge about market prices so you’ll often find individual stalls selling everything at the same low price. So all books might sell at 20p each, for example, and costume jewellery at 50p a time, so without past owners and jumble sale organisers sorting high value products from worthless grot you can find rare first edition books and high quality jewellery going for a tiny fraction of their resale value on eBay.
But you’re unlikely to enjoy shopping at jumble sales, they’re usually packed with people and prams (not for babies, more likely for storing purchases) and it’s sometimes difficult to move between stalls or even get close to them. But if you’re up for the challenge and you arrive early you’ll get first pick of the better goods before public or visiting dealers beat you to them.
You really do need to arrive well in advance of the sale, preferably an hour before the doors open, and you should try to be first in line for all the best bargains. But you won’t be allowed in to rummage in private unless you bribe your way in or make friends with organisers before the doors open!!
Take plenty of packing materials like plastic bags and bubble wrap because you can’t trust jumble sale helpers to wrap delicate items for you. Have your car close by so you can rush out quickly to deposit stuff you’ve already bought before heading back for new acquisitions. Or find yourself a friendly stall holder to look after your bags behind their stall so you don’t have to leave the room at all. But be careful because jumble sales get very busy and you may find your ‘friendly’ helper loses concentration and resells your goods. If I had to choose, I’d say the car close by is the best option, as long as you tell the person taking entry fees at the door that you’ve already paid to get in and you haven’t finished buying - so you don’t want to pay to get in again later!
Take plenty of coins to the sale and avoid high denomination banknotes so you can move quickly between stalls without waiting for change.
Sources of Further Information
Find jumble sales in your area by Googling for something like ‘jumble + sales + Durham’, remember to change ‘Durham’ to suit your geographical area. For car boot sales and flea markets, not very much different to jumble sales but sometimes held outside or in more luxurious premises, key this sort of thing into Google ‘car + boot + sales + durham’.
Oddly when I searched for ‘jumble + sales + durham’ today Google returned dozens of listings for jumble sales as well as boot sales and flea markets, many for imminent events, so it’s a good idea to do regular searches for these high volume potentially very high profit product sources.
For London jumble sales, probably the biggest and best and possibly worth travelling to from a distance, visit the following site where you’ll find the ‘TEN BEST’ regular London jumble sales listed:
http://www.timeout.com/london/shopping/features/8296/London-s_best_jumble_sales.html
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