Del Boys and dealers on now

forgotmyname

Less than the auction bid price. Wasnt that £38? Just missing the reserve of £40?

I would have got them to let it go at that price.

pulliptears

forgotmyname wrote: »

Less than the auction bid price. Wasnt that £38? Just missing the reserve of £40?

I would have got them to let it go at that price.

I think so yes. Didn't they expect it to make £100+ in the auction they threw it into?
Unless they bought other stuff which wasn't shown that was a bloody expensive trip to France

Contains_Mild_Peril

I think their reserve was a little high, but I suppose they were trying to recover the cost of the trip. The wheel was actually a pretty good buy, but it was never going to pay for the trip by itself. I was expecting them to stock up on cheap booze and fags to make it worthwhile (maybe they did and that just wasn't shown). A customised hearse is a great car boot sale vehicle (at least when it works).
I was amazed at people paying £40+ for suitcases of unseen clothes. For that kind of money, I can buy a suitcaseful of clean clothes from charity shops' sale rails, and I can choose the ones I want instead of taking pot luck. I don't think there's a big market for modern used underwear and socks.

celestius

Does Del boy ever make his millions? I think it's all about that lucky buy - like the chess set the 'dealer' was hoping was an original Henry Moore collaboration despite being told otherwise by a professional art dealer.
The people on the show are all great characters which makes the series, I can't take any of them seriously though!
Would any serious seller come on an reveal all their sources?!

charlies_mum

Just watching on catch up now. The woman dealing in second hand clothing thinks she is going to be a Millionaire as well as the Rolex guy from week one :rotfl:

soolin

Personally I could not think of anything worse than rifling through dirty clothes in a suitcase, the thought actually makes me feel a bit grubby.

An auction I attended this week had a box of nicely pressed Irish linen table cloths and napkins, plus several furs (urghh to dead animals) and some vintage hats and went for £35 and you could see and price up everything before you decided to bid.

charlies_mum

In case anyone's forgotten, it's on now on BBC1

FloFlo

i went to my first auction last week and I have to ask ... where do they get all that tat from? It was a general clearance auction and there was some real trash there, stuff selling for £2 etc. I assume it was mostly the auctioneers from house clearances, unless people really do take a strimmer to an auction house and say 'No less than £2 please'.

Hasn't put me off though going back next week to see what they have next

charlies_mum

FloFlo wrote: »

i went to my first auction last week and I have to ask ... where do they get all that tat from? It was a general clearance auction and there was some real trash there, stuff selling for £2 etc. I assume it was mostly the auctioneers from house clearances, unless people really do take a strimmer to an auction house and say 'No less than £2 please'.

Hasn't put me off though going back next week to see what they have next

And that's how it starts. You will soon be surrounded by boxes looking for that elusive treasure :rotfl:

sequence

I'm can't believe people buy those suitcases. I wouldn't want them if they were free.