807.7% profit approximately...I think David...! You have had some interesting and tremendous finds over the years...my own are much more mediocre...! Having said that, I did find an antique 3-piece duck-headed tipple stick (formerly owned by Alan F. Palmer) for only £20 a few weeks ago...
I used to watch BH with my mum,wish I could do so again, still watch it when I can and I always leave a seat empty,just in case she comes to watch with me. Miss you mum,until its my time.
In the mid 90’s I purchased a mid 19th century fireplace mantle and surround from a Sydney auction for $440, sent it to a specialist auction and it sold for $23,000. Turns out it was a gift to,the governor of Australia and was exhibited at a Royal Melbourne exhibition.
They got everything right with Bargain Hunt. A much, much needed break from all the vanity and money chasing. Just nice, real people having a laugh. Thank you Tim Wonnacott. I always feel better after watching.
My mother was going to move house to live with my sister, so was selling EVERYTHING in her 3 bedroom fully furnished home. A dealer came in and said, you won't get much for anything, I will give you $650 for the lot. The dining room suite was worth more than that! Dealers can sell things for what looks like a cheap price, but they will be making a huge profit. So shows like this are just TV reality.
LOL at all these comments about it being rigged. That aren't finding brands like Tiffany at dirt cheap prices every episode this is quite rare, in fact most episodes these days have a loss for both teams.
this is a first, ive never before CZcams'd any BH t im 30 and been a huge fan of this programe ever since BBC ditched that tango twit David Dickenson! btw.. R.I.P David Barbie, you were a true gent and my favourite BH expert.
It's engraved crystal, it's silver, it's enamel, it's Tiffany's. I've seen the silver mirrored compacts with the same guilloche enameling on this show go for that much but they are usually bought at a higher price so make less profit. He bought it for very little so of course the profit is huge.
Been watching BH for years. The vast majority of the time, Harper’s bonus buys are either rejected or bomb hideously. On the rare occasion, he makes a profit and when he does it’s one hell of a profit. His purchases are positively bipolar. I was watching him only earlier this week on Antiques Road Trip and he bought some chairs for £25 and sold them for £130! Yet he appeared on today’s BH and his rejected bonus buy sold for nearly a third of the price he bought it for!
Yes the world of auctions can be a fickle beast. Think of the Flat-backed Staffordshire Elephant & Castle that Charlie Ross found...on a different day, the result he scored with that could have been a totally different kettle of fish altogether... instead of a 4-figure sum, he may have been hard-pushed to reach 3-figures...! Or Paul Laidlaw with his Scottish brooch that cost him £1...on a different day, in a different sale room; that may not have sold for £90...!
@@markc8956 Oh, go and do one! You’ve taken what I said out of context and you know it! Bipolar is an adjective that describes two opposing opinions or situations. Whatever happened to the ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ attitude that was instilled in me from a young age! People get offended by the slightest things these days, and so very often it’s utterly false! USE YOUR BRAIN!
David Suchet's Poirot uses an ashtray just like that, but his is just a fake prop in a tv drama. This is not just an ashtray, but a piece of history with Tiffany on it.
Charles Hanson usually spends far too much on things when he does the bonus buy in Bargain Hunt. They shouldn't have him as the expert in that programme because he always bombs on the bonus buy.
As they buy from fairs and shops and sell at auction its difficult to make a profit. Now if it was the other around then they would make lots of profit.
I do wonder if all the screaming out makes the bidders realise they're paying too much and don't bid as high. I for 1 wouldn't bid as much knowing someone had paid pittance for it. Just an observation
When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️
Well, I think that the experts also have their appearance working against them. If a seller is a regular, they will know their faces and thus probably up their price, as they also know those experts know what they are dealing with.
lol agreed @Matthew Coster, I often wonder how the dealers must feel when they watch the show and see something make a huge profit which could have been there's. I'm sure they say "All part of the antiques business" whilst privately think "Why oh why did I sell that!"
Every time I watch Bargain Hunt (ok, daily) I decide who's going to "win" in that moment when Tim asks each team, "How much did you spend?" The team that spent the LEAST usually wins, no matter what they bought or how much they are encouraged to 'spend up'! :) If I was a contestant, I'd also avoid anything that requires a CAR to move... Big heavy things don't seem to shift easily, in every sense. I also think all unspent money (after Bonus Buy purchased) should be added to Teams' profits!!
Couple of years ago I bought a pendant from a charity shop for £18. Realised it had a mark on the back & took it to a jeweller who value it approx £600. It's a charity, so I returned to the shop to give them some more money but got no further than "I bought a necklace here....." The woman in the shop immediately interrupted to tell me I couldn't have a refund and was so damn rude I left without being able to explain why I was actually there. Sent a letter of explanation & a cheque to the charity HQ instead.
2021 is BH still going ? i watched a couple of episodes after they ditched Tim and it had suffered significantly. personally with these BBC suits ruining so many programmes on tv, radio and news, i dont watch or listen to BBC anymore
But not the highest profit ever. Atleast one higher was a tea cosey, cant remember exactly what or when, quite recent hough and that was well over £200, amazing. But this example was always going to be a quality priced item, so not a lot of surprise there
There was an episode where one bloke had his girlfriend bidding and she bought all 3 items and the bonus, this was discovered and they had to give the items back and the profit that was made, you cannot buy the items and have the money.
what i hate about the programme is the reaction from the contestants when bidding is in progress, they need to learn to shut up or better still they should be in another room away from the actual bidding
@@qpulse How do you know he doesn't like it? He just stated that if the OP hated the fact that the contestants made to much fuss he did not have to watch the show. He gave no indication on whether he liked or disliked the comment "princess" lol
i think thats whats known in the trade as a sleeper lol WOW superb profit bought for 26 oops i bet the seller felt sick as a parrot when they found out
wish could find things like that, unfortunately the region I live in has many very well educated antique collectors...it a very rare time, to stumble on a deal like that around here
Colin Young is quite a clever auctioneer. Okay so he had bids on the books over £200; but why freeze out everyone else by setting the starting bid too high...?! By setting the starting bid low, he enticed the crowd into bidding...which is the name of the game...!
Why do the contestants squawk n squeal during the sale of their items? The buyers at the auction would sense they're getting ripped off listening to the noise of the teams screaming like demented monkeys.....
jagman581 you are a liar! You can't have worked on the shows to say that. I work on these shows and they are NOT rigged. It would be audience deception and is strictly against our code of conduct. Note to other viewers; please ignore this charlatan!
Ella Scott Sorry but there’s no way that those dealers would reduce their prices for me like they do for the contestants!! Some massaging there, methinks.
kageypg Sellers will often sell for less than they are asking if you catch them near the end of the day, which I guarantee is when they send the BH teams in. Their original marked prices give them a tremendous profit, so better to get a guaranteed slightly lesser profit at the end of the day, then to have to lug stuff back home that might not sell for who knows how long.
Ok teams you have three hundred smacks in toe toe your experts await so ooff you go and very very good luck,if you don't spend a princely amount il wipe your face with my left over lolly,innuendos affectations puns public school humour it has it all if you are unemployed obese or an h dropper please do not apply.
Tiffany was a shop in London England, if at the turn ofvthe last century you made beautiful things, tiffany the shop would allow you to put their name on your goods, some silver item and moorcroft vases usually.
This show's format is fatally flawed. How can anyone expect a fair chance of making a profit when they only ever purchase from antiques fairs? In other words: they buy from dealers. Dealers who they then sell back to at auction. In effect they BUY from the most expensive source; and SELL in an environment where you're guaranteed to make the least amount. Which basically means, they buy from dealers only to sell back to the dealers. I'll say it again: the show is fatally flawed! And it is strange how two of the most popular daytime TV shows in the UK are completely flawed formats, namely Bargain Hunt and Deal or no Deal. It reminds me of Bill Hicks' stand up routine about American Gladiators: ""Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”"
Chris James do agree that it extremely difficult to make a profit when buying items at certain antique fairs or the large antique shops where dealers have concessions. However, whenever they are in Scotland and at the Glasgow auction house run by Anita Manning they always make money. Usually a great episode on a Friday. It’s not all doom and gloom.
Chris James - Loads of teams make profits. How many shows have you actually watched? Also, they are not necessarily selling back to dealers. There are always plenty of 'ordinary' buyers at auctions too. Doesn't matter how many times you say it, what you're saying isn't true. As for your waffling rant about American tv, have you run out of your medication?
Chris James eh... people don't participate to go home with loads of money. It is the thrill of the hunt. These people usually love the program, do they know what makes money, can they haggle. And winning with -100 GBP is just as good as winning with 1 GBP. It is about beating the other team, not going to retire afterwards.
I wonder if he was honourable and fair by going back to the dealer to offer a decent share of his profit.....bet not, and thats whats wrong with this sort of business. Its called ripping people off. How do you think the seller felt when he saw this. Harper should have been up front and told the seller before he first picked it up that he felt it was special. He goes down as being an arsehole in my book. Insultr to injury they seem to great joy out of getting one over someone. Its disgusting.
@@eddykelly4082 i think you may be a sympathiser Eddy. Several years ago I bought a bayonet from a little antique shop. I didnt know what it was but I cleaned it up, fetched all the gold paint off it and put it into museum condition. I then researched it and found it was a much more valuable bayonet. I bought it foe £30 and sold it for £400. I went back the shop to be fair with the dealer but sadly he had passed away and the shop was closed down. I would have been only too happy to share my good fortune with him. I told friends and family and they all said I was crazy!!!!! Dont think so, I have values and principals.
You bunch of bores Tiffany & Co. turns your heads as if it were The Holy Grail and yes it is not pc. Please get out of that mindset that gives value to an undesirable item just because it can be attributed to Tiffany & Co.
It has to be said that Tim Wannacott is the most irritating commentator ever to appear on tv, his comments are also the dumbest ever to be heard on tv. he is a complete and utter PRATT. So do I watch BH, well yes because in spite of his obnoxious presence, I cant resist seeing how the items sell. With the result so mixed I find items I conside utter junk sometimes get their money back or even make a little profit, which is amazing! thats why I watch it
Probably the greatest percentage profit I’ve ever had! Happy memories that one!
Good work fella!
807.7% profit approximately...I think David...! You have had some interesting and tremendous finds over the years...my own are much more mediocre...! Having said that, I did find an antique 3-piece duck-headed tipple stick (formerly owned by Alan F. Palmer) for only £20 a few weeks ago...
@@tangomoggynoengi8518 well worked out!! Cheers, D
Great profit well done
Do the original sellers ever get openly annoyed when they see the items sell for much higher when the episode airs?
I used to watch BH with my mum,wish I could do so again, still watch it when I can and I always leave a seat empty,just in case she comes to watch with me. Miss you mum,until its my time.
I feel the same way when I see an episode of Murder she wrote
In the mid 90’s I purchased a mid 19th century fireplace mantle and surround from a Sydney auction for $440, sent it to a specialist auction and it sold for $23,000. Turns out it was a gift to,the governor of Australia and was exhibited at a Royal Melbourne exhibition.
well done
They got everything right with Bargain Hunt. A much, much needed break from all the vanity and money chasing. Just nice, real people having a laugh. Thank you Tim Wonnacott. I always feel better after watching.
Normally it's "Congratulations to the red team, today's winners with minus twenty-six pounds.".
I've always thought that if you don't lose more than £70, you're in with a reasonable chance.
Always watch bargain hunt every lunchtime I’m obsessed with all things to do with antiques!!!
My mother was going to move house to live with my sister, so was selling EVERYTHING in her 3 bedroom fully furnished home. A dealer came in and said, you won't get much for anything, I will give you $650 for the lot. The dining room suite was worth more than that! Dealers can sell things for what looks like a cheap price, but they will be making a huge profit. So shows like this are just TV reality.
LOL at all these comments about it being rigged. That aren't finding brands like Tiffany at dirt cheap prices every episode this is quite rare, in fact most episodes these days have a loss for both teams.
will never watch Bargain Hunt without Tim, what were they thinking
MrStGeorgeIllawarra wow thanks for the pointless observation
You really think so hmm.
That is a tasty ashtray, great find!
this is a first, ive never before CZcams'd any BH t im 30 and been a huge fan of this programe ever since BBC ditched that tango twit David Dickenson! btw.. R.I.P David Barbie, you were a true gent and my favourite BH expert.
It's engraved crystal, it's silver, it's enamel, it's Tiffany's. I've seen the silver mirrored compacts with the same guilloche enameling on this show go for that much but they are usually bought at a higher price so make less profit. He bought it for very little so of course the profit is huge.
I wonder if the person who sold it for £26 saw this
Fantastic find. There are bargains out there - you just need to keep looking!
lol, i dont usually like it when the contestants get all excited, but the sweet little lady letting out an excited scream was so funny :D
Gotta love a Laidlaw. Well done son.
Ken Watson ii
I call him His Royal Cunningness.
Wonderful. The beauty of bargain hunt. Get the right crowd and you have a great opportunity to excel on the day.
Come back Tim you are really missed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Could not stand him and was pleased when he got sacked from the show for bullying the female staff!!
Tim doing it properly.
When bargain hunt was good, they could buy what they liked for how much they wanted to pay.
Yeah now when the dealers are a camera they whack an extra 300 percent in it
It was only a few weeks agoo on... amazing bonus buy ;)
Great stuff .... well done all :)
Been watching BH for years. The vast majority of the time, Harper’s bonus buys are either rejected or bomb hideously. On the rare occasion, he makes a profit and when he does it’s one hell of a profit. His purchases are positively bipolar. I was watching him only earlier this week on Antiques Road Trip and he bought some chairs for £25 and sold them for £130! Yet he appeared on today’s BH and his rejected bonus buy sold for nearly a third of the price he bought it for!
I get by!
Yes the world of auctions can be a fickle beast. Think of the Flat-backed Staffordshire Elephant & Castle that Charlie Ross found...on a different day, the result he scored with that could have been a totally different kettle of fish altogether... instead of a 4-figure sum, he may have been hard-pushed to reach 3-figures...! Or Paul Laidlaw with his Scottish brooch that cost him £1...on a different day, in a different sale room; that may not have sold for £90...!
Nice stereotype with the "Bipolar" comment. Offensive.
@@markc8956 Oh, go and do one! You’ve taken what I said out of context and you know it! Bipolar is an adjective that describes two opposing opinions or situations.
Whatever happened to the ‘sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me’ attitude that was instilled in me from a young age! People get offended by the slightest things these days, and so very often it’s utterly false!
USE YOUR BRAIN!
David Suchet's Poirot uses an ashtray just like that, but his is just a fake prop in a tv drama.
This is not just an ashtray, but a piece of history with Tiffany on it.
Somewhere an antiques dealer is kicking himself.
Yesssss.....
Do you know what episode/season this is?
Brilliant
Australia's favourite TV show.
I've been trying to find the one where they made £600 profit. No joke.
It was the podgy guy with glasses, fair hair or grey,doesn't talk much who made 600 quid profit. Forgotten his name and what he bought. Sorree
David Harper and Charles Hanson are mostly dead losses at the bonus buy. Too keen on buying things they like ie . broken pottery from Charles.
Charles Hanson usually spends far too much on things when he does the bonus buy in Bargain Hunt. They shouldn't have him as the expert in that programme because he always bombs on the bonus buy.
And with Mr Harper we get his fabulous trousers - surely the most stylish male expert on the show ever (Phil pushes him close though)
As they buy from fairs and shops and sell at auction its difficult to make a profit. Now if it was the other around then they would make lots of profit.
Which is exactly why they buy at fairs and sell at auction - more jeopardy.
This is nothing compared to that rare early camera bought for £60 that sold for about £20,000 on a similar show not long ago
Here's a link:
czcams.com/video/MZ-nZkKe-ww/video.html
Yes that was a Paul Laidlaw find...but then he has always had an uncanny knack of finding extremely profitable items...!
Just saw an episode in which Jonathan Pratt made 30 pounds on a one pound item. 3000% profit :D
Pratt has often struggled on Antiques Road Trip
Jonathan Pratt is the rudest of the experts. He can’t be arsed going round the stalls with the contestants and he shows it. 😒
I do wonder if all the screaming out makes the bidders realise they're paying too much and don't bid as high. I for 1 wouldn't bid as much knowing someone had paid pittance for it. Just an observation
It could well deter some buyers.
yes at 3:26 lol. I wonder how old this lady is now
Auction from 3:00
When my son was about 11 years old he entered a Jaycee Relay Race. He’d never ran track before and didn’t know everybody wore shorts. He came in jeans, to everyone’s amusement. He ran the last leg for his team - and came away the fastest runner of the day, and made up considerable distance to win. This video made me think of that day. How I wish I had been able to see it, instead of only hear and read about it. I was a single mom and had to work. My son was an amazing athlete. ❤️
Stocks Risen.
Cool British game show on BBC!
i reckon the dealers buy something from themselves that they can't shift for the bonus buy just to offload the bloody thing
This was before Google was mainstream. Now the sellers look up their gear so the contestants/experts can't find anything decent anymore
Well, I think that the experts also have their appearance working against them. If a seller is a regular, they will know their faces and thus probably up their price, as they also know those experts know what they are dealing with.
Oh yes, I saw that on iplayer earlier this year and how whacky was that????!!!!
the person that sold it for 26 must be kicking themselves
Matthew Coster Frank ifield
Think about how much the dealer would have paid for it... afterall, they would have made their profit too...!
lol agreed @Matthew Coster, I often wonder how the dealers must feel when they watch the show and see something make a huge profit which could have been there's. I'm sure they say "All part of the antiques business" whilst privately think "Why oh why did I sell that!"
It was that chicken hat thing I think that went for a profit of £225.
The chicken hat was a tea cosy...!
high time they were put in a room out of the way, all that crying out when the bidding is going on is just nonsense
Agree, it just seems vulgar and common.
@@maxwellfan55 It's that childish one that annoys me so much, I just want to slap him, dippy Charles!
Every time I watch Bargain Hunt (ok, daily) I decide who's going to "win" in that moment when Tim asks each team, "How much did you spend?"
The team that spent the LEAST usually wins, no matter what they bought or how much they are encouraged to 'spend up'! :)
If I was a contestant, I'd also avoid anything that requires a CAR to move... Big heavy things don't seem to shift easily, in every sense.
I also think all unspent money (after Bonus Buy purchased) should be added to Teams' profits!!
If she didn't shriek it would of gone to £ 990.
some people will buy a dog turd if it's old and has shape
My sister and I bought a handpainted Royal Worcester plate for £1 at a car boot sale and sold it at auction for £85. We were never that lucky again!
Couple of years ago I bought a pendant from a charity shop for £18. Realised it had a mark on the back & took it to a jeweller who value it approx £600. It's a charity, so I returned to the shop to give them some more money but got no further than "I bought a necklace here....." The woman in the shop immediately interrupted to tell me I couldn't have a refund and was so damn rude I left without being able to explain why I was actually there. Sent a letter of explanation & a cheque to the charity HQ instead.
2021 is BH still going ? i watched a couple of episodes after they ditched Tim and it had suffered significantly. personally with these BBC suits ruining so many programmes on tv, radio and news, i dont watch or listen to BBC anymore
But not the highest profit ever. Atleast one higher was a tea cosey, cant remember exactly what or when, quite recent hough and that was well over £200, amazing. But this example was always going to be a quality priced item, so not a lot of surprise there
JUST GOES TO SHOW THE CHEAM ALWAYS GOES TO THE TOP.
Why can't they just send their friend along to high bid for them? Do they get to keep the profits?
There was an episode where one bloke had his girlfriend bidding and she bought all 3 items and the bonus, this was discovered and they had to give the items back and the profit that was made, you cannot buy the items and have the money.
TIFFANY says it all...
*Scooby by day - not Scooby bye day
Back to school numnuts!
Best he wishes he'd been able to buy it for himself!
Bring back Tim
I don't think so.
This is a pittance Flog it had a sale of £30,000.
what i hate about the programme is the reaction from the contestants when bidding is in progress, they need to learn to shut up or better still they should be in another room away from the actual bidding
Don't watch something you hate. Problem solved.
Oshwaxpress - don't comment on something you don't like. Another problem solved princess x
@@qpulse How do you know he doesn't like it? He just stated that if the OP hated the fact that the contestants made to much fuss he did not have to watch the show. He gave no indication on whether he liked or disliked the comment "princess" lol
@@Hairyskinback you could be right x
It's a bit of fun you walloper.
i think thats whats known in the trade as a sleeper lol WOW superb profit bought for 26 oops i bet the seller felt sick as a parrot when they found out
2:56
…on that basis let us cross our legs and…???
Harper isn't too bad either.
Love the way they say these antique dealers are great when their other three purchases sink big time! Think the big prices they get a flukes!
My Luck id buy it for £210 and sell it for £26!😭
No he forgot to subtract the one pound he had to pay for the item. His profit was 29 pounds and not 30 pounds.
wish could find things like that, unfortunately the region I live in has many very well educated antique collectors...it a very rare time, to stumble on a deal like that around here
Tim was better at presenting bargain Hunt
hows it fake ?
🌻🌻🌻🌻
Auctioneer is a nincompoop. He had commission bids of over £200 but started at £35. I wouldn’t sell anything at that auction house.
Colin Young is quite a clever auctioneer. Okay so he had bids on the books over £200; but why freeze out everyone else by setting the starting bid too high...?! By setting the starting bid low, he enticed the crowd into bidding...which is the name of the game...!
Colin young doesn't look like this know ...
Laidlaw is best!
Hate contestants like this, bloody embarrassing.
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Kind of funny to watch this after seeing a guy find out his Dad's watch was worth 250,000$
Well .what can I say? He is northern boy .well done David
Did that bloke put his trousers in with the colours ? 🤪😂
Why do the contestants squawk n squeal during the sale of their items? The buyers at the auction would sense they're getting ripped off listening to the noise of the teams screaming like demented monkeys.....
Its not the biggest profit the biggest one is 680 pounds
Wrong,tribal weapons once made £30,000
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They sacked Tim. Sorry I refuse to watch it now and all my friends are complaining. Philip from Sydney. Very sad.
I know! It's awful.
Yes. I too shall stop watching if the regular replacement is not someone I respect. I wouldn't mind Paul Laidlaw.
me too
What about Jonathan? cant remember his other name we are a way behind the Uk series.
WhyBringPoliticsIntoEverything?! Just gossip.
Give it twenty years and these two guys will be accused of sexual impropriety ...
Slipped up their. He should of bought it for himself, like most of them probably do.
tim's a flog
+Barry Ivey fuck off
+Barry Ivey bargain hunt
The mother was over excited fake
Fruit air layering
jagman581 you are a liar! You can't have worked on the shows to say that. I work on these shows and they are NOT rigged. It would be audience deception and is strictly against our code of conduct. Note to other viewers; please ignore this charlatan!
Ella Scott Sorry but there’s no way that those dealers would reduce their prices for me like they do for the contestants!!
Some massaging there, methinks.
@@kageypg The BBC often subsidise the cost so the seller gets the full amount or close to it, and the team appear to only pay what they say.
kageypg Sellers will often sell for less than they are asking if you catch them near the end of the day, which I guarantee is when they send the BH teams in. Their original marked prices give them a tremendous profit, so better to get a guaranteed slightly lesser profit at the end of the day, then to have to lug stuff back home that might not sell for who knows how long.
@@dellzincht this is rubbish! They pay what the say! I know, I worked on the show for several years. Stop talking nonsense!
@@kageypg There is no massaging. The dealers choose to be more generous to BH for whatever reasons but they don't cheat the deals!
Haha 26 pounds!
Ok teams you have three hundred smacks in toe toe your experts await so ooff you go and very very good luck,if you don't spend a princely amount il wipe your face with my left over lolly,innuendos affectations puns public school humour it has it all if you are unemployed obese or an h dropper please do not apply.
It's very vedy good luck..
this is fake
Why did it sell for so much? It's AMERICAN MADE.
THEY WANTED IT BACK !...
You obviously know nothing about antiques
Tiffany was a shop in London England, if at the turn ofvthe last century you made beautiful things, tiffany the shop would allow you to put their name on your goods, some silver item and moorcroft vases usually.
Yes, exquisitely.
What utter nonsense
This show's format is fatally flawed. How can anyone expect a fair chance of making a profit when they only ever purchase from antiques fairs? In other words: they buy from dealers. Dealers who they then sell back to at auction. In effect they BUY from the most expensive source; and SELL in an environment where you're guaranteed to make the least amount. Which basically means, they buy from dealers only to sell back to the dealers. I'll say it again: the show is fatally flawed!
And it is strange how two of the most popular daytime TV shows in the UK are completely flawed formats, namely Bargain Hunt and Deal or no Deal. It reminds me of Bill Hicks' stand up routine about American Gladiators:
""Go back to bed, America. Your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed, America. Your government is in control again. Here. Here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up. Go back to bed, America. Here is American Gladiators. Here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on living in the land of freedom. Here you go, America! You are free to do what we tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!”"
That's not a fatal flaw, that's what gives the show its strength, they are up against it and really have to search for the bargains. My view, anyway.
The fact that the auction fees are not counted, as they would be in real life, evens the score somewhat.
Chris James do agree that it extremely difficult to make a profit when buying items at certain antique fairs or the large antique shops where dealers have concessions. However, whenever they are in Scotland and at the Glasgow auction house run by Anita Manning they always make money. Usually a great episode on a Friday.
It’s not all doom and gloom.
Chris James - Loads of teams make profits. How many shows have you actually watched? Also, they are not necessarily selling back to dealers. There are always plenty of 'ordinary' buyers at auctions too. Doesn't matter how many times you say it, what you're saying isn't true. As for your waffling rant about American tv, have you run out of your medication?
Chris James eh... people don't participate to go home with loads of money. It is the thrill of the hunt. These people usually love the program, do they know what makes money, can they haggle. And winning with -100 GBP is just as good as winning with 1 GBP. It is about beating the other team, not going to retire afterwards.
well done you ripped off another dealer
I wonder if he was honourable and fair by going back to the dealer to offer a decent share of his profit.....bet not, and thats whats wrong with this sort of business. Its called ripping people off. How do you think the seller felt when he saw this. Harper should have been up front and told the seller before he first picked it up that he felt it was special. He goes down as being an arsehole in my book. Insultr to injury they seem to great joy out of getting one over someone. Its disgusting.
Thats the people from the Thatcher years for you. Grab what you can, NEVER give a sucker an even break. To use an Americanism.
@@eddykelly4082 i think you may be a sympathiser Eddy. Several years ago I bought a bayonet from a little antique shop. I didnt know what it was but I cleaned it up, fetched all the gold paint off it and put it into museum condition. I then researched it and found it was a much more valuable bayonet. I bought it foe £30 and sold it for £400. I went back the shop to be fair with the dealer but sadly he had passed away and the shop was closed down. I would have been only too happy to share my good fortune with him. I told friends and family and they all said I was crazy!!!!! Dont think so, I have values and principals.
You bunch of bores Tiffany & Co. turns your heads as if it were The Holy Grail and yes it is not pc. Please get out of that mindset that gives value to an undesirable item just because it can be attributed to Tiffany & Co.
It has to be said that Tim Wannacott is the most irritating commentator ever to appear on tv, his comments are also the dumbest ever to be heard on tv. he is a complete and utter PRATT. So do I watch BH, well yes because in spite of his obnoxious presence, I cant resist seeing how the items sell. With the result so mixed I find items I conside utter junk sometimes get their money back or even make a little profit, which is amazing! thats why I watch it