Depot Vente

A Depot Vente is basically a second hand shop. They are organised car boot sales.

How it works. The Depot Vente is usually a big shop which is open normal shop opening hours. Anyone who has something to sell, large or small from a settee to a necklace can take to a Depot Vente and they will sell it for you at the agreed price. The purchaser has to give a small commission to the shop owner. But it gets interesting.. every week the price of all the stock goes down by an agreed percentage. Dare you play the waiting game and see the price of your desired object reduce or will it be sold to somebody else

I love these treasure troves..usually there is just a lot of overpriced rubbish, but occasionally I have unearthed a real find.