Battersea Car Boot Sale

Having a personal home clearance of my contents due to moving abroad. Just checking if this is still working? What time does a car seller need to arrive to get a good-ish spot? Is it free entry? Or what cost to sell there in the car?

Fantastic carboot, well run, friendly and super popular. Absolutely heaving with buyers every time I go and I've sold out every time. I certainly can't complain and I can't imagine why people would complain about a boot sale being "stuffed to the gunnels with sellers and jam packed with buyers"... Isn't that the whole point??!! I'd rather go there and be rushed off my feet than some of the others where the vision of tumble weed springs to mind! It's a busy boot sale where you make plenty of money. What more could you ask for?

this car boot sale is great i wanner go there everyday the things you want to buy are soooo cheap

I'd give this 10 stars if I could... Fantastic! Best car boot sale I've ever been to. It totally lives up to its reputation. It was busy when I attended and I made lots of money. They don't exaggerate in the information they offer on their website - I think, if anything, they undersell the place! It WAS packed with buyers. I went last Sunday (17/2/13) and had a £20 pitch which I would never do again, I would rather pay the £30 to set up before the buyers come in... it was MAD! Having read all the reviews on here I am mystified and can only imagine the bad reviewers went somewhere else altogether or are working for the competition. This is an excellent car boot sale, busy and well organised. Staff were friendly, patient and helpful from booking right through to helping me to pack my tables and giving my car a jump start! I'll be going back and cannot recommend Battersea highly enough.

Well run, much busier than others nearby, sold lots and will go again. Would recommend to anyone wanting to get rid of stuff but who doesn't want to get up early and go to a sale where you sit around twiddling your thumbs whilst waiting for the next customer to wander by. I paid £30 for my pitch which is a lot but I feel the added benefits were more than worth the extra cost. I earned more than double what I usually earn at a boot sale. Just watch your stall, the customers were 3 or 4 deep at my table at some points and hands reach through and grab things without you knowing who it was. I almost had a couple of things stolen so be alert!

great boot. went in the rain as i was all prepared and didn't want to miss it. covered my pitch cost and made £130 on top - not bad for a rainy day in january! i can only imagine how busy it must be like on sunny days and cant wait to go back in summer.

Love love love this boot sale! Have found some amazing bits for my own collections and to sell on. Even when it's not busy, it's busy, if you see what I mean. Always appears very well organised though I've never sold here, I've only bought. But friends who have sold say the organisation is great and you don't have to queue up to get a spot.

Found some of my best buys here, yeah you get some crap but find me a boot sale that doesn't have some crap!!! I can't believe the bad reviews for this place are genuine, they must be written by the competition. I've been going to battersea since it opened, must be 10 years or more. No complaints from me. It's a brilliant boot sale, hard to beat.

Excellent boot sale, well run and always busy.

This is still the best car boot I can find by far. At least the busy footfall means you have more opportunity to make some money. I've tried all the others in London and while they may be cheaper to attend they don't get the footfall that Battersea does so I don't make anywhere near as much money. I've always found the organisers to be very friendly and willing to help, though they ARE sometimes under stress because they operate such a smooth running boot sale. This is not a tiny playground with half a dozen sellers all claiming to have 'vintage'. There's a great variation of stuff for sale here, obviously including some rubbish... it IS a car boot sale. Personally, I think all boot sales have changed so much over the past few years and I feel it's unfair of people to claim Battersea is not as good as it was. NO boot sale is as good as it was! We're in the middle of a recession! The boot sale itself shouldn't be slagged off because some sellers are rude or people charging the prices they do - you can find that anywhere. I love it at Battersea and would never go anywhere else when I want to sell. I only go 5 or 6 times a year, always sell out and find it to be a well run value for money experience. The only negative thing I could say about it is it's a shame they have to charge so much for pitches., but then again, I find it worthwhile so can't really complain.