Why ?

[anneasquith]

why don't car boot sales start at 12md ?

[Svejk]

pubs open at 12?

[CheekyChops]

Good question!! I've never been to a car boot sale as they all start at the crack of dawn and I am most definitely not a morning person.

Midday or early afternoon would be great!

[tiggerblue10]

I'd like to do a boot sale but I'm not waking up at the crack of dawn to do it. I'm up at 6 during the week and I look forward to my lie-ins at the weekend. Would be good if they started later in the day.

[netibiza]

When I go to Eastbourne every summer, there is one that starts at 11am in Pevensey, good idea.

[jno]

everyone wants to be first to buy/sell, so that's market economics.

[netibiza]

Jno they can still be first at midday!

[Georgiesmum]

We have two boot sales near us. One started at 7am and the other one was called The late riser, starting a lot later. Due to public demand they both start at 7am now.

[Frank97]

People buy less junk if they're properly awake perhaps?

[boxtops]

Ours go on until about 4pm as it is!

[Butterbun]

I've always wondered that myself and yet they are always crowded. I never get to one before 10 or 10:30 and by then I suppose all the best stuff have gone but they are interesting.

[netibiza]

Butterbun, I look on it that people do not always want to buy the same stuff, I always find lots and lots that I want, but I only go when in UK once a year!

[Butterbun]

Oh yes netibiza, I agree. I usually buy loads of plants at half the garden centre prices so, bargains.

[chaptazbru2]

Always annoys me too. They start way too early ....

[Retrochic]

Quite a few I go to start around lunchtime.

[TWR]

Early Bird catches the worm, these are the time when an item you need may be on some ones table.