"I wish we had outtakes from all the shows where people were angry and disappointed." Actually Antiques Roadshow has bundled those up onto one DVD and is selling them at auction. However, I believe they've been fetching very poor prices and A.R. are very disappointed and angry about it.
or they shouldnt bring scrap to the show? its not difficult to search up your item on the internet today and see what online auctions have given out on the items... if you go to this show with your antiques to think "oh wow this is worth a bunch of money i can now sell it for the same value!" youre the wrong person to own something antique...
@@CM-eg3gl honesty on this show would be if instead of coming up with some bullshit story of them being bequeathed an item from their great great grandparents…or whatever…tell the truth and say…’”i’ve got a heroin habit and i armed myself with a crowbar and went through somebody’s window while they were having dinner in the next room”
Inflation is a terrible hidden government tax. Now £50 1950 is equivalent to £1,724.61 in December 2020. www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1950?amount=50
Oooookay, third attempt at this comment. This thread is the reverse of a joke centred around an *unnamed* race of peoples. Boy asks his dad for a pound. 50p?! Exclaims the father. I haven’t got 30p, what do you need 20p for?
@Kaffir Zulu I'm not from America so not too sure how many of them shit into sinks, there's bound to be a small percentage of people dump into their sinks if you can look into that for me please.
At least he was honest. Unlike those "I'd like to know more about it" types who then impatiently mid and say "Yes" every three seconds through the expert's explanation of the item's history but are obviously thinking "Stuff Claris Cliff, how much is it worth?"
My fave was the one set in Denmark where the Dane had a very early typewriter, and the appraiser said all excited: 'It's worth 10 000 pounds.' The Dane replied, in a voice that reminded me of my Danish boyfriend at his wryest: 'And that is what I paid for it.'
Best ones are the obviously already wealthy middle-agers who have been waiting impatiently for granny to fall off the perch so they can sell the heirloom jewelry and pad out the bank account a little more. Straight to the valuation please. The look of offended disappointment on their faces when told that it's not genuine or just not worth nearly as much as they thought is some very satisfying schadenfreude. You can imagine the conversation in the car on the way home... Worst ones are the people who doggedly stick to the story they've been told and argue with the expert, insisting that he or she is wrong and it's worth many thousands of pounds. It's obvious that they've grown up hearing "Great-grandad brought it back from the war, it's very valuable" or "It was acquired by the family back in 1856, it's very unique" and they've built financial plans around it. And then they get told that it's valueless junk or common as muck and their brain can't reconcile that info.
When the expert told him how much his piece of uninteresting driftwood was really worth he had a look on his face like he had just been hit by an iceberg.
Why on earth would anyone have paid £52 for that back in the 50s? That was a huge sum of money back then! I hope this old fella's other investments have been a bit wiser.
Increasing age doesn’t always translate to increased value for antiques. Some items on the Roadshow revisited episodes decreased in value over the past 15 years, even by 50%. Antique values vary with popularity snd demand.
I always see people who think just because something is 100 years old, it's gotta be valuable. But this is rarely the case. Most of the time antiques are worth very little (which is ok with me because I like buying stuff more than selling)
Well yes and no, most of their "experts" over value items to begin with. Especially unflown NASA items and certain other categories. They usually get the art market right and sports memorabilia as well.
Unless one has money to burn it is best not to purchase obsolete, functional furniture that can't be easily repurposed, regardless of design elegance. Too much of a space occupier.
@@hekatoncheiros208 I would disagree with you and say that craftsmanship partnered with rarity is a good predictor of antique value, except that recently I've seen numerous movie memorabilia items on Roadshow given extravagant dollar estimates, with the items made of material that won't age well and the handiwork slapdash. And then of course there's the idiocy of baseball card pricing.
The best one was an American women who brought in a vase she knew was old and valuable. The appraiser pointed out the ivory band on the top edge was plastic and what she had was worth maybe $10
I bet this guy has been bragging for years about how he’s sat on a treasure chest, telling his grandkids about the big inheritance they’ll get when he sells his stupid sink in a drawer
To put this into perspective, my grandfather bought a 3 story house in Balham in the 50's for 1000 pound. That's how much this man paid for that piece of junk.
When I was a bit of a younger man, we used to go to Glastonbury etc every summer. A mate of mine used to piss in a plastic bottle or paper cup. Typical male festival toilet behaviour. But he'd then take a small step away and throw the contents on the floor. May as well just pi99ed on the floor I hear you cry. We used to protest the same. This item of furniture is an elaborate version of what I've just described.
You could buy a nice house for £2000 at that time. So he lost out big time. I bet the children of the seller are still telling the story how they sold a piece of junk for a fortune. Buyer beware.
50 years. 50 years of rubbing his hands together with glee thinking of the thousands of dollars he's going to profit from this, a smug smile of self satisfaction, walking around with his head held high and an air of superiority, hinting to his wife and friends that he knows antiques, that he knows more than others, dreaming at night of how the value of this item would sky rocket, holding back temptation to sell too early. Finally the day comes to reap the rewards of his foresight, his knowledge, his wily cunningness, his almost prophetic way of seeing the future. His whole adult life had been building to this, then............ Cut down. It was like a knife in his heart, he held back the tears of anger and disappointment only until the cameras were gone, it was then he sat and wept like a spoilt, petulant child. Oh and just to translate for all the young folk out there "I never heard the like" means "argh, get fucked then" (disclaimer: this is a fictitious rambling, the man is probably a lovely, humble old chap)
@@marleymatthews7633 Oh dear, I'm afraid the joke is on you. I wrote this comment twice - first as a standalone comment, then as a reply to this poster. But thanks for the laugh, LoL
£52 in the 1960's was a working man wages for 2 weeks. It looks like the old boy got royally screwed. But why would a 20+ something year old buy something like this with 2 weeks money?
You could buy a nice house for £2000 at that time. So he lost out big time. I bet the children of the seller are still telling the story how they sold a piece of junk for a fortune. Buyer beware.
See similar pieces sell in Sweden at Bukowski's online auction. They usually sell for less than 200£. Right now 19th and early 20th century wood pieces are super cheap.
LOL i love this video, his reaction at the end.. you can just imagine him going home afterwards and tearing up all the bahamas holiday brochures that he'd been looking through hahahaha... never has a dream laid in so many tatters lmao!
My favourite part of this show is the crushing disappointment felt when the appraisal doesn't match expectations. I derive more pleasure from the misery of others than I do out of anything that gives me pleasure. Paradoxically my pleasure increases as others are subjected to disappointment. The world seems to balance itself out like that. Right, off to find a video of someone being told that their antique collection of war medals is worth fuck all.
just imagine all his family , friends , neighbors, work colleagues watching this and bursting into laughter at the valuation after all those years! Probably O,Dell boy living it up in the Caribbean for the past 40 years thanks to people like him....gotta laugh!
@@team3383 "Revenged" He means 50 years of telling his friends about what he thought was a priceless artifact, hardly any "Revenge" to be had you 7 year old
@@thisisitsonny8047 Oh dear. Another teacher here. His friends "revenge" is through their ears not having to listen to him rant on about how valuable this is anymore. They have earned peace and quiet through HIS stubbornness and THEIR patience. Now go away and blow the singly candle out on your birthday cake.
@@team3383 You do realize everything you just said is in speculation right? you only assume he ranted to his friends, you only assume they are tired of his bs, you only assume he was stubborn about the antique in the first place. Funny when you think about it. You seem to be the sour minded one who assumes all this of others. Also I need about 20 more candles on that cake, you "Stubborn" moron
@@thisisitsonny8047 Wow. 20 something. LOL. Is that as far as you learnt how to count at school before giving up... YES. I am assuming. AND well, I suppose you are forgiven if you left school that early. Look up the dictionary or go and ask mummy and Daddy what the word HUMOUR means.
@@stephaniehowe0973 Yeah. The right price for it back then would be perhaps £1 and 10s (One and a half quid) unless two people wanted it in which case two and a half quid! It may even have been an iffy auction where a stooge was in the crowd bumping up the bids. The wife must have been furious when he got home. The trouble is these are the people who get hooked in by 'phone calls from Nigerian princes who 'need a bank account to put some money in'. I find it quite sad.
@goddessofdrow it's not the exchange rate of pounds to dollars - it's the value of a pound in the 1950s against the value of a pound now.. the pound was marked WAY down since the 1950s - he basically LOST money..
He's like the opposite of my Dad when I was a kid. "Dad, can I have a Pound?" "80p?! I don't think I've got 60p, what do you want 40p for anyway? You can't get anything for 20p" 😂
Reminds me of an old joke. A *&^%$£ boy goes to his father and says "Papa, can I have 50 pence?" His father replies "40 pence?!! What do you want 30 pence for?! I'll give you 20, you give 10 to your sister and I want it back!"
I knew some antique auctioneers and they told me after a run of TV programmes they get people thinking there is money to be made. They said, if they just follow what is on TV without detailed study of antiques they buy the outcome is not good. They bring the items back for resale over the next 6 months and their investment dwindles to zero and they never see them again. Not surprised he got stung. What could you do with it, bar park it on your landing until you move house.
I can just imagine him laughing at all of his friends buying retirement packages in the 1950s, “this is my retirement package” whilst he points at this toilet thing
Its kind of cool, but, its hardly exciting. I can't fathom what would draw a young man to part with the equivalent of £1700 for _that._ He didn't want a car? A motorcycle? A boat? Fancy clothes? A down-payment for a house? Nope... just a used wash basin from a ship. I just don't get it. 🤷♂️
The show is a joke on credulous people who think they have something valuable when the truth is, the appraisers vastly overestimate what the items would bring at auction. In most cases, a seller at auction would get less than he paid for his item in the first place or at best, break even. The drama comes when the Roadshow guest exclaims "Really? Oh my god, I had no idea it was that valuable!"
Current data is only available till 2010. In 2010, £52 0s 0d from 1950 is worth £1,390.00 using the retail price index £4,040.00 using average earnings
Social distancing absolutely dos work...a valuation of 200 to 300 pounds within seconds is translated into a disappointed 400 pounds...if the cost of living was reversed like this by social distancing I'd be well pleased lol 😂😂😂
there's got to be hours of disappointed and pissed off footage.. i would watch every minute..
One of the appraisers said, tactfully,people bring their favourite items.
MrZcotty lol yes seeing people pissed off would be funny
People going ... WHAT THE FUCK .... i PAID DOUBLE 50 FUCKING YEARS AGO.... Can I have another opinion....
Same here.
Ha, ha, you must be very bitter about where your life is? 😂😂
That’s Money down the drain and into the galvanised bucket
hahahaha!!!!
that too me out....
Brilliant
loooool 😂 👏
Class!!!!
Love how he tried to boost the value to £400 just in case potential buyers were watching.
I bet he would get the 400, it is a great piece, interesting.
I thought he said he bought a pair?
500 pounds, you say? Well, 600 pounds sounds quite reasonable, I suppose. Perhaps I'll sell it for 700 pounds, then.
Fuck me. That’s not even a round of drinks these days.
😂😂😂😂
I wish we had outtakes from all the shows where people were angry and disappointed.
Antiques Roadshow meets Cops. That! I’d pay to watch!
THEY DO. There's one episode of the replays of all the fails.
@@frasiercrane6987 a bunch of old white haired people getting the cuffs slapped on.
Including swearing and tempers and tantrums and violence.
"I wish we had outtakes from all the shows where people were angry and disappointed."
Actually Antiques Roadshow has bundled those up onto one DVD and is selling them at auction. However, I believe they've been fetching very poor prices and A.R. are very disappointed and angry about it.
I liked his honesty. Lot's of people on this show are gutted after the appraisals but they pretend to be pleased.
Seems like a cool guy.
or they shouldnt bring scrap to the show? its not difficult to search up your item on the internet today and see what online auctions have given out on the items... if you go to this show with your antiques to think "oh wow this is worth a bunch of money i can now sell it for the same value!" youre the wrong person to own something antique...
@@eriksimca9409 lol this was 12 years ago...
Honest would be if he smashed it with an axe into smithereens
@@CM-eg3gl honesty on this show would be if instead of coming up with some bullshit story of them being bequeathed an item from their great great grandparents…or whatever…tell the truth and say…’”i’ve got a heroin habit and i armed myself with a crowbar and went through somebody’s window while they were having dinner in the next room”
£52 in the mid-1950s is the equivalent of £1200 today! £1000 pound loss. Yikes...
You are correct but somehow have less likes and thank yous than the guy who just made up £3000. I hate CZcams comments sections.
He paid way too much for it in the first place.
That seems a bit much whats inflation rate are you using
Inflation is a terrible hidden government tax. Now £50 1950 is equivalent to £1,724.61 in December 2020. www.in2013dollars.com/uk/inflation/1950?amount=50
@UpSideДown much do you think your property will be worth in 50 years
I wish he’d just kicked it over and walked off...no words.
class
That's what an American would do
that would have a made a good Monty Python skit.
lmao
Should have had Benny Hill come bid 200 pounds, then have Benny knock it over!
He probably went home and threw it on the bonfire along with his magic beans and invisible suit :(
The BBC should make "The Antiques Bonfire", where they value an item then put it on a bonfire whatever it's worth. Great fun.
If he could even find his invisible suit after all these years.
& Bitcoin 🤣🤣🤣
I keep losing my invisible suit
He was bargaining you knuckle head.
£200? You’re telling me I can only get £300 for it? Only £400?
£500 top end
A grand at the absolute limit?? Oh, I was hoping for more than two or three grand 😂😂😂
One million billion *gazillion* dollars
£600 at a push.
Oooookay, third attempt at this comment. This thread is the reverse of a joke centred around an *unnamed* race of peoples. Boy asks his dad for a pound.
50p?! Exclaims the father. I haven’t got 30p, what do you need 20p for?
"I've never heard the like" equivalent to, "ye feckin sh**in me?!".
Poor bloke! Such a honest reaction, one that is hardly ever seen on this programme. Let's hope he's sat on a goldmine somewhere at home. Bless him.
The guy who got the £52 must have been laughing all the way to the bank
He says he paid £52 in the 50s - not sure when this was aired but inflation adjusted that's well over £1,000. Oof.
Likely to be more around the £1800-2000 mark depending on the year he bought it.
Guy got hit hard by this (understandably).
I guess the old man feels like the appraiser just took a massive dump on his cabinet which is ironic as you can actually do that.
Haha!
@Kaffir Zulu I'm not from America so not too sure how many of them shit into sinks, there's bound to be a small percentage of people dump into their sinks if you can look into that for me please.
@@melvert33 So, not American, just plain, old stupid then?
melvert33 when I am in a hotel room with no bog, but a sink, I wee in the sink. Is that wrong?
@Kaffir Zulu 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Top marks to the old boy for not pretending to be happy with a disappointing price like some people do 😂
At least he was honest. Unlike those "I'd like to know more about it" types who then impatiently mid and say "Yes" every three seconds through the expert's explanation of the item's history but are obviously thinking "Stuff Claris Cliff, how much is it worth?"
My fave was the one set in Denmark where the Dane had a very early typewriter, and the appraiser said all excited: 'It's worth 10 000 pounds.' The Dane replied, in a voice that reminded me of my Danish boyfriend at his wryest: 'And that is what I paid for it.'
Best ones are the obviously already wealthy middle-agers who have been waiting impatiently for granny to fall off the perch so they can sell the heirloom jewelry and pad out the bank account a little more. Straight to the valuation please.
The look of offended disappointment on their faces when told that it's not genuine or just not worth nearly as much as they thought is some very satisfying schadenfreude. You can imagine the conversation in the car on the way home...
Worst ones are the people who doggedly stick to the story they've been told and argue with the expert, insisting that he or she is wrong and it's worth many thousands of pounds. It's obvious that they've grown up hearing "Great-grandad brought it back from the war, it's very valuable" or "It was acquired by the family back in 1856, it's very unique" and they've built financial plans around it. And then they get told that it's valueless junk or common as muck and their brain can't reconcile that info.
some are far worse, more like yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes like a frickin broken car alarm.
So he paid about £1800 I think by today’s standards, kept it 60 years or so.. he must have been expecting about half a million 😂
I like how the appraiser led him up to the price by excitedly telling him facts about his "artifact".
The appraiser should have handled the thing with rubber gloves to add to the shame.
Take your Pisser or Shitter or whatever it is and Fuck off! (Whilst slowly taking off the rubber gloves)
i would have.....
@@danthemanwhocancan That’s funny! Maybe a GoFundMe to have him burn it would make more money than the item.
He didn't even say 400 pounds like the old man thought he did, it was 200-300 pounds!
The ole man hears and believes what he wants.
@@someonesomewheresomdeday I'm replying to you 3 years later
He high balled it lol
I am replying to you 3 months later
@@pawpatrolnews Reply in another 3 years in 2024... that would be hard to remember.
400 pound...top end.. just twist that knife a bit more...
"I've never heard the like" - bless him
Plot twists... Old man forgot to mention it came from the Titanic..
A titanic investment; sunk almost without a trace.
When the expert told him how much his piece of uninteresting driftwood was really worth he had a look on his face like he had just been hit by an iceberg.
Right, and John Astor got it from Molly Brown during the voyage.
Why on earth would anyone have paid £52 for that back in the 50s? That was a huge sum of money back then! I hope this old fella's other investments have been a bit wiser.
His wooden teeth might be worth something 🤷♂️
“The Ford Edsel is gonna be huge “
Increasing age doesn’t always translate to increased value for antiques. Some items on the Roadshow revisited episodes decreased in value over the past 15 years, even by 50%. Antique values vary with popularity snd demand.
but increasing age CAN muddle the mind!
Supply and demand rules
@@theID2 😂
I always see people who think just because something is 100 years old, it's gotta be valuable. But this is rarely the case. Most of the time antiques are worth very little (which is ok with me because I like buying stuff more than selling)
Well yes and no, most of their "experts" over value items to begin with. Especially unflown NASA items and certain other categories. They usually get the art market right and sports memorabilia as well.
I remember watching this the first time and laughing my bollocks clean off.
Unless one has money to burn it is best not to purchase obsolete, functional furniture that can't be easily repurposed, regardless of design elegance. Too much of a space occupier.
But then so much pointless crap turns out to be very valuable and sought after. There is no rhyme or reason to it.
@@hekatoncheiros208 I would disagree with you and say that craftsmanship partnered with rarity is a good predictor of antique value, except that recently I've seen numerous movie memorabilia items on Roadshow given extravagant dollar estimates, with the items made of material that won't age well and the handiwork slapdash. And then of course there's the idiocy of baseball card pricing.
The best one was an American women who brought in a vase she knew was old and valuable. The appraiser pointed out the ivory band on the top edge was plastic and what she had was worth maybe $10
I bet this guy has been bragging for years about how he’s sat on a treasure chest, telling his grandkids about the big inheritance they’ll get when he sells his stupid sink in a drawer
If only he’d invested that £52 in Bitcoin...
Great name Baz, gave me a titter did that..
You've never met his friend Philomena then.
@@chris9650 No Chris, or Kanye either..
Bitcoin is not an investment
@@6663000 it is if you invested in 09
To put this into perspective, my grandfather bought a 3 story house in Balham in the 50's for 1000 pound. That's how much this man paid for that piece of junk.
Whereabouts? I grew up in Balham.
@@paulpips2742 Gosburton road.
He paid 52 pounds not 1000
@@turbowank16v 52 then was roughly the equivalent of 1000 now
@@arnold-hu4vk my bad.never heard the time line part.what a sucker paying that price.
When I was a bit of a younger man, we used to go to Glastonbury etc every summer. A mate of mine used to piss in a plastic bottle or paper cup. Typical male festival toilet behaviour. But he'd then take a small step away and throw the contents on the floor. May as well just pi99ed on the floor I hear you cry. We used to protest the same. This item of furniture is an elaborate version of what I've just described.
😅😂🤣👍🍺
This is for washing your face and hands though not for pissing.
@@dorrisgonnawreckyou7111 you've totally missed the point but well done for trying
I'd say it would have a value in today's market ...of approximately...f*ck all...
Being old doesn’t make it valuable. You can pick Roman artefacts for next to nothing.
@@tomthomassony8607 True, there's the Roman road in E London. That's virtually worthless too...
@@caeserromero3013 Roman Road going to Bethnal Green. Know it well!
somebodys been watching bernard manning
Man I feel for this guy, what a legend.
I can just imagine how he must have bored those around him with talk of his prized stateroom cabinet and how it would someday make him a wealthy man!
For anyone wondering- he paid the modern equivalent of £3,000, kept it for decades, and can now only get £300 for it.
Thank you!
You could buy a nice house for £2000 at that time. So he lost out big time. I bet the children of the seller are still telling the story how they sold a piece of junk for a fortune. Buyer beware.
Bad math
@@johnchristophertonks2528 Whatever. I highly doubt it's his only investment. At least he played the played the game.
Adjusting for inflation, £52 in 1955 equates to £1,400 in 2021. The guy was tucked up like a kipper.
Appraiser: 2-300 pounds
Man:400 pounds?!?
Appraiser:400 at the top end
Man:wow only 500 pounds.
50 years. 50 years of rubbing his hands together with glee thinking of the thousands of dollars he's going to profit from this, a smug smile of self satisfaction, walking around with his head held high and an air of superiority, hinting to his wife and friends that he knows antiques, that he knows more than others, dreaming at night of how the value of this item would sky rocket, holding back temptation to sell too early. Finally the day comes to reap the rewards of his foresight, his knowledge, his wily cunningness, his almost prophetic way of seeing the future. His whole adult life had been building to this, then............ Cut down. It was like a knife in his heart, he held back the tears of anger and disappointment only until the cameras were gone, it was then he sat and wept like a spoilt, petulant child. Oh and just to translate for all the young folk out there "I never heard the like" means "argh, get fucked then" (disclaimer: this is a fictitious rambling, the man is probably a lovely, humble old chap)
lol
I thought he was a nice guy lol. Disappointment is fine to show.
LOSS444 You must read a lot. LOL
Please write a book. That was a very entertaining narrative of what could have been true events. Loved it. LOL!
Gross. Not funny
If anyone hasn't checked, accounting for inflation, £52 in 1950 in comparison to to 2008 was like he'd paid £1,300 for it originally.
He should've washed his hands of that investment years ago.
nice
Booooooooooooo!!!!!! Get off the stage ya fuckin' bum!! (Okay, that was funny lol Well done, mate!)
That retirement investment went south!
He's Ulster protestant, he can get used to going south.
@@helenaville5939 you stole that comment from someone else ha I just seen the last comment on this video with that quote in it
@@marleymatthews7633 Oh dear, I'm afraid the joke is on you. I wrote this comment twice - first as a standalone comment, then as a reply to this poster. But thanks for the laugh, LoL
@@helenaville5939 there's absolutely no proof of that so I'm not taking your word on that
Holy shit. According to an online calculator, he paid about £1,224 for it.
Damn Ric Flair has hit rock bottom. Whooo
£52 in the 1960's was a working man wages for 2 weeks. It looks like the old boy got royally screwed. But why would a 20+ something year old buy something like this with 2 weeks money?
You could buy a nice house for £2000 at that time. So he lost out big time. I bet the children of the seller are still telling the story how they sold a piece of junk for a fortune. Buyer beware.
You could buy a bungalow in the 50s for about 500
Mite come in handy now the developed world is starting to crumble.
...as we sail into the sunset, Waterworld-style.
it's them colony immigrants , right? lol
@@am5790 Or maybe its because the Police stop people from going walks outside.
£52 in the 50s is ridiculously expensive for that time, considering a house was around £400-500
Maybe if you open another door it'll reveal a house inside 😎
I can understand his disappointment - I would have guessed it to be worth more.
See similar pieces sell in Sweden at Bukowski's online auction. They usually sell for less than 200£. Right now 19th and early 20th century wood pieces are super cheap.
@@lindatisue733 Thank you, Linda, for the information.
LOL i love this video, his reaction at the end.. you can just imagine him going home afterwards and tearing up all the bahamas holiday brochures that he'd been looking through hahahaha... never has a dream laid in so many tatters lmao!
Yeah then kicking the sixth out of that thing
This is like everything I own that’s valuable.
I admire this man's honesty, he's a no nonsense gent from Northern Ireland.
My favourite part of this show is the crushing disappointment felt when the appraisal doesn't match expectations. I derive more pleasure from the misery of others than I do out of anything that gives me pleasure. Paradoxically my pleasure increases as others are subjected to disappointment. The world seems to balance itself out like that. Right, off to find a video of someone being told that their antique collection of war medals is worth fuck all.
Your comment is comedy gold! Genius! I'm laughing my head off. Brilliant
is that you, donald?
@@G1CHOIt's not exactly funny if they're being serious. If so, that means that person is miserable which I find funny...
@@RandomPlayIist as long as you find something of it funny. No point crying, doesn't do anything for you.
Keeping junk for any amount of time doesn't increase junks value.
Brandy
Like my ex wife
@@__seeker__ THAT my friend only increases in cost ...
It can do, but usually the value goes to zero
Another chuckle...this vid is a rich source humour...
just imagine all his family , friends , neighbors, work colleagues watching this and bursting into laughter at the valuation after all those years! Probably O,Dell boy living it up in the Caribbean for the past 40 years thanks to people like him....gotta laugh!
Just saw it again ... still fucking hilarious.
LMFAO..!
'My goodnesss ... after all those yearss!'
Yea 12 years 🤣🤣
That was really funny, 52 old pounds was a lot, someone saw him coming all those years ago !
Plot twist: there's an original copy of the Magna Carta lining the bottom of the bucket.
😄
yep , soaked in zinc rich piss for good measure :)
Now let’s talk about how much you paid to move that piece of crap over here today. And back again.
🤣🤣🤣
Well he got 50 years of pleasure showing to friends and talking about it.
and his friends have FINALLY been revenged.
@@team3383 "Revenged" He means 50 years of telling his friends about what he thought was a priceless artifact, hardly any "Revenge" to be had you 7 year old
@@thisisitsonny8047 Oh dear. Another teacher here. His friends "revenge" is through their ears not having to listen to him rant on about how valuable this is anymore.
They have earned peace and quiet through HIS stubbornness and THEIR patience. Now go away and blow the singly candle out on your birthday cake.
@@team3383 You do realize everything you just said is in speculation right? you only assume he ranted to his friends, you only assume they are tired of his bs, you only assume he was stubborn about the antique in the first place. Funny when you think about it. You seem to be the sour minded one who assumes all this of others. Also I need about 20 more candles on that cake, you "Stubborn" moron
@@thisisitsonny8047 Wow. 20 something. LOL.
Is that as far as you learnt how to count at school before giving up...
YES. I am assuming. AND well, I suppose you are forgiven if you left school that early.
Look up the dictionary or go and ask mummy and Daddy what the word HUMOUR means.
That's a clever furniture piece. Too bad it wasn't worth what the man hoped.
Unless it was off HMS Victory, I fail to see how he valued it so high 50 years ago??!!
He's been mugged right off that's how mate.
Wishful thinking
@@stephaniehowe0973 Yeah. The right price for it back then would be perhaps £1 and 10s (One and a half quid) unless two people wanted it in which case two and a half quid! It may even have been an iffy auction where a stooge was in the crowd bumping up the bids.
The wife must have been furious when he got home. The trouble is these are the people who get hooked in by 'phone calls from Nigerian princes who 'need a bank account to put some money in'. I find it quite sad.
@@thephilpott2194 true.
Smh. I think its neat as he'll.
One of the few times I'm sure his wife was right
Hahaha! 😂
The way he feels at 1:19 is the way I feel all the time.
When my parents got married in the late 50s, the average 3-bed terraced house where they lived in London was £500, now selling for closer to £500,000
I very much doubt it was that low. The average in the UK was nearer 2000GBP by the late 50s.
The year I was born, 1950, my parents paid £2000 for a newly built three bedroom semi. .. not London, the 'provinces'.
guess real estate was a better investment
@@resnonverba137 £2000 sounds about right, average weekly wage in 1950 was £7, or £364 per year.
It’s crazy, I know someone who just sold a 2 bed terraced in Walthamstow for £650k
When he bought this..he walked off without the ship... 😆
hehehe, he bought them all and walked away with the one
@@shanefsr6609 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I ain’t never heard the likes.
@goddessofdrow it's not the exchange rate of pounds to dollars - it's the value of a pound in the 1950s against the value of a pound now.. the pound was marked WAY down since the 1950s - he basically LOST money..
“My goodness, after all those years”. IS THAT ALL ?
400 after all those years? Damn! couldn't believe it's only 4000. I mean its fine, I'll sell it in auction for 40000
He's like the opposite of my Dad when I was a kid.
"Dad, can I have a Pound?"
"80p?! I don't think I've got 60p, what do you want 40p for anyway? You can't get anything for 20p" 😂
That was a lot of money in the 50s. In 1964 i started my apprenticeship with GEC and my weekly wage was 2 pound ten shillings.
I was apprenticed to a jewish tailor and was paid 1pound 4 shillings and 6 pence for a 44 hour week. That was in 1955.
@@seeifficare Ah. I remember tbe 44 hr work week. I think it got dropped about mid 64
Got ripped off, held a toilet for 50 years believing it would be worth more and got less than he paid for it.
I know that man! Sold Ray Milland a pack of smokes in "The Uninvited"
He apparently has got another 60 of them in his attic back home.
Was not aware that Terry Thomas was an antiques expert.
Reminds me of an old joke. A *&^%$£ boy goes to his father and says "Papa, can I have 50 pence?" His father replies "40 pence?!! What do you want 30 pence for?! I'll give you 20, you give 10 to your sister and I want it back!"
Haha for some reason this made me laugh my head off.
You needn't have censored the joke...I know the joke,not offended...🤝
@@BeasleyStreet It's not censored- it's just ambiguity. The non-descript nature provides the freedom to cheekily target as one pleases.
@@gnamp if ambiguity is a euphemism for diplomatic immunity, you've managed it.
@@BeasleyStreet Then Tacitus knew what's what.
Aw bless him 😢 he thought he was about to cash in his nest egg.
"Is that all?"
"Yep"
"My goodness, after all those years!"
ROFLMFAO
"What about my Beanie Babies?"
Dont just empty the dirty potty over the side of the ship into the Sea Toss the whole Ruddy thing over and let Davey Jones have it.
When the guy said between 2 and 3 he thought he was going to say thousand 😂😂😂😂
*hundred thousand
He waits 50 years to learn he's been conned.
This guy never paid what he said.
Thats what I thought for a scot
1:20 Sounds like the guy from the "Monster Mash" song.
"Theeeeey did tha moooooooonsta mash. It was uh graaaaaaveyard smaaaaash"
In other words someone saw him coming back then and thought "Now here's a way to make a easy quick buck... He, he".
I knew some antique auctioneers and they told me after a run of TV programmes they get people thinking there is money to be made. They said, if they just follow what is on TV without detailed study of antiques they buy the outcome is not good.
They bring the items back for resale over the next 6 months and their investment dwindles to zero and they never see them again.
Not surprised he got stung. What could you do with it, bar park it on your landing until you move house.
It washed away all his dreams
Hahahahahaha!!
I think he picked this up for nothing a couple of days before the show came to town.
hehehe, found it by the dumpster on the way there
I can just imagine him laughing at all of his friends buying retirement packages in the 1950s, “this is my retirement package” whilst he points at this toilet thing
That would be worth more in Los Angeles! It’s a utilitarian piece! People pay for this type of antique, maybe he got a better offer for it!
Kid goes to his old man: "dad i need 20 bucks."
Dad says: "15 bucks!, what do you need 10 bucks for?"
Id like to see more real reactions like that!
Reminds me of the Harry Enfield sketch. The shop is named 'I saw you coming!'
🤣😄😆😂 "I never heard the likes..." Reminds me of my Grandfather. God bless his soul.
Yikes, back then that was equivalent to him spending £1658. 80 that sucks for him
Correction: £1658. 85.
Top googling
Its kind of cool, but, its hardly exciting. I can't fathom what would draw a young man to part with the equivalent of £1700 for _that._
He didn't want a car? A motorcycle? A boat? Fancy clothes? A down-payment for a house? Nope... just a used wash basin from a ship. I just don't get it.
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The show is a joke on credulous people who think they have something valuable when the truth is, the appraisers vastly overestimate what the items would bring at auction. In most cases, a seller at auction would get less than he paid for his item in the first place or at best, break even. The drama comes when the Roadshow guest exclaims "Really? Oh my god, I had no idea it was that valuable!"
Current data is only available till 2010. In 2010, £52 0s 0d from 1950 is worth
£1,390.00 using the retail price index
£4,040.00 using average earnings
Back in the 1950s for £50 he should have got the whole ship with it as well.
They need to sell these in Walmart. Maybe if they did, they could get their customers to wash their asses occasionally. (Let the hate begin)
Lol. Why on earth would someone hate on this gem?
Social distancing absolutely dos work...a valuation of 200 to 300 pounds within seconds is translated into a disappointed 400 pounds...if the cost of living was reversed like this by social distancing I'd be well pleased lol 😂😂😂
@@DaveD2000 Don't blame him for what he paid..when he paid it..I'd want to completely and utterly deny it was even mine lol
He wasn’t at all surprised, that clever old fox😂👍🏼good for him 👏🏼