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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,794
    Pross wrote:
    Bargain Hunt. I have to admit I've only seen bits of it a handful of times but I assume the aim is you buy things cheap then take them to auction where you sell for a profit. The members of the public on it like to think they have a bit of knowledge and are assisted by supposed experts and yet whenever I've caught the end of it the winning team seems to be the one that loses the least money (on one or two occasions I may have seen someone make a few pounds profit). I've just checked and it has been running for 19 years and appears to be on its 51st series, how do they keep finding people prepared to take part?

    Bargain Hunt is a losing formula to start with - the premise is that the Participants buy tat from a Market Staff Holder and sell it for profit at Auction. Now here is where it all falls down. The Market Stall Holders are Dealers in tat and have most likely bought the stuff at an Auction of house clearance tat cheaply with an aim to make a small profit on their stalls so they put a small/large mark-up on the item. There is no way they are going to pay over the odds at an auction to buy the same stuff back off some gullible pillock that think they know a bit about antiques.

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.


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  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Also - all the tat is absolutely rank
  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Bargain Hunt. I have to admit I've only seen bits of it a handful of times but I assume the aim is you buy things cheap then take them to auction where you sell for a profit. The members of the public on it like to think they have a bit of knowledge and are assisted by supposed experts and yet whenever I've caught the end of it the winning team seems to be the one that loses the least money (on one or two occasions I may have seen someone make a few pounds profit). I've just checked and it has been running for 19 years and appears to be on its 51st series, how do they keep finding people prepared to take part?

    Bargain Hunt is a losing formula to start with - the premise is that the Participants buy tat from a Market Staff Holder and sell it for profit at Auction. Now here is where it all falls down. The Market Stall Holders are Dealers in tat and have most likely bought the stuff at an Auction of house clearance tat cheaply with an aim to make a small profit on their stalls so they put a small/large mark-up on the item. There is no way they are going to pay over the odds at an auction to buy the same stuff back off some gullible pillock that think they know a bit about antiques.

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.

    Children will happily watch the same program over and over again, and enjoy it every time. Then as we grow older, we get more experimental, and want the stimulus of the new, something different. Eventually, there comes a point where once again we are happy to watch the same thing over and over again.
  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Bargain Hunt. I have to admit I've only seen bits of it a handful of times but I assume the aim is you buy things cheap then take them to auction where you sell for a profit. The members of the public on it like to think they have a bit of knowledge and are assisted by supposed experts and yet whenever I've caught the end of it the winning team seems to be the one that loses the least money (on one or two occasions I may have seen someone make a few pounds profit). I've just checked and it has been running for 19 years and appears to be on its 51st series, how do they keep finding people prepared to take part?

    Bargain Hunt is a losing formula to start with - the premise is that the Participants buy tat from a Market Staff Holder and sell it for profit at Auction. Now here is where it all falls down. The Market Stall Holders are Dealers in tat and have most likely bought the stuff at an Auction of house clearance tat cheaply with an aim to make a small profit on their stalls so they put a small/large mark-up on the item. There is no way they are going to pay over the odds at an auction to buy the same stuff back off some gullible pillock that think they know a bit about antiques.

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.

    Children will happily watch the same program over and over again, and enjoy it every time. Then as we grow older, we get more experimental, and want the stimulus of the new, something different. Eventually, there comes a point where once again we are happy to watch the same thing over and over again.

    Trouble is they go into these shops and there's all this stuff that really shouldn't be preserved. It's rubbish and should be tipped.

    As for the formula, of course it has to be done that way otherwise they would just p1ss the dealers off, competing with them at auction for a TV programme! Other way they can make a bit of money selling their least desirable stuff.

    It's pretty harmless compared to some TV.
  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,794
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    .................

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.

    Forgot to add that they never mention the Auction Room Commission and VAT on the hammer price!! Even what seems a miraculous profit never actually is!


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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
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    2. Leave for 6 hours
    3. Open the boot and see which one shows signs of being happy to see you.
    I'll try it when I get home from work.
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  • robert88
    robert88 Posts: 2,696
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    .................

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.

    Forgot to add that they never mention the Auction Room Commission and VAT on the hammer price!! Even what seems a miraculous profit never actually is!

    Know the feeling, I just sold something on ebay. :(
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,540
    Pross wrote:
    Bargain Hunt. I have to admit I've only seen bits of it a handful of times but I assume the aim is you buy things cheap then take them to auction where you sell for a profit. The members of the public on it like to think they have a bit of knowledge and are assisted by supposed experts and yet whenever I've caught the end of it the winning team seems to be the one that loses the least money (on one or two occasions I may have seen someone make a few pounds profit). I've just checked and it has been running for 19 years and appears to be on its 51st series, how do they keep finding people prepared to take part?

    Talking of willing victims, how did they ever get people to sign up to Changing Rooms?
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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,794
    rjsterry wrote:

    Talking of willing victims, how did they ever get people to sign up to Changing Rooms?

    Haha! Changing Rooms - All the drama of watching paint dry!

    (Used to love watching it though just for the cringeworthyness of seeing someone's house being royally f'cked up!!)


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  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:

    Talking of willing victims, how did they ever get people to sign up to Changing Rooms?

    Haha! Changing Rooms - All the drama of watching paint dry!

    (Used to love watching it though just for the cringeworthyness of seeing someone's house being royally f'cked up!!)

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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    edited February 2019
    Why is it that people with absolutely no sense of tune want to sing or in this case today, whistle along to a song? Don't they realise other people can here them? Conversely people who can really sing almost never do this. What made it worse was that the chap in question was whistling along to Bob fecin Dylan who sings off key and talks (non rhyming utter balocks) his way through each song in that awful whiney voice. The combination of the two was rough. Obviously the whistling barsteward thought BD is fabulous ???
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    Robert88 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Bargain Hunt. I have to admit I've only seen bits of it a handful of times but I assume the aim is you buy things cheap then take them to auction where you sell for a profit. The members of the public on it like to think they have a bit of knowledge and are assisted by supposed experts and yet whenever I've caught the end of it the winning team seems to be the one that loses the least money (on one or two occasions I may have seen someone make a few pounds profit). I've just checked and it has been running for 19 years and appears to be on its 51st series, how do they keep finding people prepared to take part?

    Bargain Hunt is a losing formula to start with - the premise is that the Participants buy tat from a Market Staff Holder and sell it for profit at Auction. Now here is where it all falls down. The Market Stall Holders are Dealers in tat and have most likely bought the stuff at an Auction of house clearance tat cheaply with an aim to make a small profit on their stalls so they put a small/large mark-up on the item. There is no way they are going to pay over the odds at an auction to buy the same stuff back off some gullible pillock that think they know a bit about antiques.

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.

    Children will happily watch the same program over and over again, and enjoy it every time. Then as we grow older, we get more experimental, and want the stimulus of the new, something different. Eventually, there comes a point where once again we are happy to watch the same thing over and over again.

    Trouble is they go into these shops and there's all this stuff that really shouldn't be preserved. It's rubbish and should be tipped.

    As for the formula, of course it has to be done that way otherwise they would just p1ss the dealers off, competing with them at auction for a TV programme! Other way they can make a bit of money selling their least desirable stuff.

    It's pretty harmless compared to some TV.

    its made for TV, I wouldnt be the least surprised if they just got some researcher to pre buy some of the tat, give it to the dealers to "sell",throw in a few special higher value items that get "under valued" and tip the expert where to find them, and magically the teams come up with all these weird objects that most people wouldnt have taken a second glance at.

    its the same deal as Storage Wars, the show puts together the items in the locker that the teams bid on and always magically hides the highest value item under a tarp
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    rjsterry wrote:

    Talking of willing victims, how did they ever get people to sign up to Changing Rooms?

    Haha! Changing Rooms - All the drama of watching paint dry!

    (Used to love watching it though just for the cringeworthyness of seeing someone's house being royally f'cked up!!)


    My ex wife’s aunt and uncle appeared on Changing Rooms, they were the first people who hated what had been done to their living room (by Laurence Llewelyn Bowen natch) and came right out and said so, they actually took a fair bit of abuse from fans of the show and LLB was pretty affronted by this rejection and was pretty blunt with them off camera afterwards


    But yeah, it was a shite show wasn’t it?
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    awavey wrote:
    Robert88 wrote:
    KingstonGraham wrote:
    PhotoNic69 wrote:
    Pross wrote:
    Bargain Hunt. I have to admit I've only seen bits of it a handful of times but I assume the aim is you buy things cheap then take them to auction where you sell for a profit. The members of the public on it like to think they have a bit of knowledge and are assisted by supposed experts and yet whenever I've caught the end of it the winning team seems to be the one that loses the least money (on one or two occasions I may have seen someone make a few pounds profit). I've just checked and it has been running for 19 years and appears to be on its 51st series, how do they keep finding people prepared to take part?

    Bargain Hunt is a losing formula to start with - the premise is that the Participants buy tat from a Market Staff Holder and sell it for profit at Auction. Now here is where it all falls down. The Market Stall Holders are Dealers in tat and have most likely bought the stuff at an Auction of house clearance tat cheaply with an aim to make a small profit on their stalls so they put a small/large mark-up on the item. There is no way they are going to pay over the odds at an auction to buy the same stuff back off some gullible pillock that think they know a bit about antiques.

    It's quite laughable really - I know it's true as I have family who have worked in the antiques and auction business for many years. We all have a good laugh about it.

    Children will happily watch the same program over and over again, and enjoy it every time. Then as we grow older, we get more experimental, and want the stimulus of the new, something different. Eventually, there comes a point where once again we are happy to watch the same thing over and over again.

    Trouble is they go into these shops and there's all this stuff that really shouldn't be preserved. It's rubbish and should be tipped.

    As for the formula, of course it has to be done that way otherwise they would just p1ss the dealers off, competing with them at auction for a TV programme! Other way they can make a bit of money selling their least desirable stuff.

    It's pretty harmless compared to some TV.

    its made for TV, I wouldnt be the least surprised if they just got some researcher to pre buy some of the tat, give it to the dealers to "sell",throw in a few special higher value items that get "under valued" and tip the expert where to find them, and magically the teams come up with all these weird objects that most people wouldnt have taken a second glance at.

    its the same deal as Storage Wars, the show puts together the items in the locker that the teams bid on and always magically hides the highest value item under a tarp

    YEAH! I could never tratratrattitratrat get that show either and find that Pratt Sean Kelly very irritating.
  • capt_slog
    capt_slog Posts: 3,973
    Cowsham wrote:
    awavey wrote:

    its the same deal as Storage Wars, the show puts together the items in the locker that the teams bid on and always magically hides the highest value item under a tarp

    YEAH! I could never tratratrattitratrat get that show either and find that Pratt Sean Kelly very irritating.

    The bit that always gets me going about that show is the 'value' the bidders put on the tat that they've bought.

    They look at an item and say "I can get £100 for this, £200 for each of those" when anyone can see that it's crap and they'll struggle to sell it to a moron.

    But no, it's taken as fact and all added up on the screen to be shown as profit over what they bid.


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  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    For people who say they dislike these TV shows so much, you all sure seem to have spent a lot of time watching them and analysing their various faults!
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  • photonic69
    photonic69 Posts: 2,794
    ayjaycee wrote:
    For people who say they dislike these TV shows so much, you all sure seem to have spent a lot of time watching them and analysing their various faults!

    Probably down to suffering acute bouts of Man-Flu and being at home watching unhealthy amounts of sh!te daytime tv. Even better if you have broken something and have been taking handfuls of Tramadol - it really takes the edge off reality :lol:


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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    Capt Slog wrote:
    Cowsham wrote:
    awavey wrote:

    its the same deal as Storage Wars, the show puts together the items in the locker that the teams bid on and always magically hides the highest value item under a tarp

    YEAH! I could never tratratrattitratrat get that show either and find that Pratt Sean Kelly very irritating.

    The bit that always gets me going about that show is the 'value' the bidders put on the tat that they've bought.

    They look at an item and say "I can get £100 for this, £200 for each of those" when anyone can see that it's crap and they'll struggle to sell it to a moron.

    But no, it's taken as fact and all added up on the screen to be shown as profit over what they bid.

    Couldn't have put it better
  • crispybug2
    crispybug2 Posts: 2,915
    On the journey home from the rugby, tuning into a messenger discussion between my wife and my daughters about what Holly Willoughby is wearing on Dancing on Ice, seriously how can you spend twenty minutes or so discussing a bloody dress?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    crispybug2 wrote:
    On the journey home from the rugby, tuning into a messenger discussion between my wife and my daughters about what Holly Willoughby is wearing on Dancing on Ice, seriously how can you spend twenty minutes or so discussing a bloody dress?

    **this man has clearly not heard middle aged men discuss Assos shorts**
    _
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
    But was Holly Willoughby wearing them?
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  • kingstongraham
    kingstongraham Posts: 28,143
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    crispybug2 wrote:
    On the journey home from the rugby, tuning into a messenger discussion between my wife and my daughters about what Holly Willoughby is wearing on Dancing on Ice, seriously how can you spend twenty minutes or so discussing a bloody dress?

    **this man has clearly not heard middle aged men discuss Assos shorts**

    or rugby.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Ugh rugby.

    Yeah I’ll add that to the list.
    _
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,540
    Trying to engage with our InfoWars correspondent on the Brexit thrrad. Why is anyone bothering? He's clearly not interested in considering another point of view.
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  • ayjaycee
    ayjaycee Posts: 1,277
    rjsterry wrote:
    Trying to engage with our InfoWars correspondent on the Brexit thrrad. Why is anyone bothering? He's clearly not interested in considering another point of view.
    Doesn't that apply to the majority of people on either side of the Brexit debate?
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  • giantorangedale
    giantorangedale Posts: 79
    How you can be responsible for an accident that causes your car to overturn and those in the other car involved to go to hospital, and not be charged with anything. But do 35 in a 30 and it's £100 fine and 3 points. :(
    should of used giantorangecannon
  • shirley_basso
    shirley_basso Posts: 6,195
    Because they weren't at fault?

    Sometimes accidents happen.

    You could argue that the other family were driving without die care and attention for ploughing into another car and didn't see the headlights emerge from the driveway and slow down.
  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,540
    That wearing a jacket without putting your arms in the sleeves thing.
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  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    giantorangedale wrote:
    How you can be responsible for an accident that causes your car to overturn and those in the other car involved to go to hospital, and not be charged with anything. But do 35 in a 30 and it's £100 fine and 3 points. :(

    A silly woman reversed out of her driveway ramming the rear of her car into the side of my friends car which was driving past on the main road at the time. My friends car was totaled and my friend got injured. It was an accidental road incident which was compensated for by Mrs silly woman's insurance company because Mrs silly woman admitted liability from the outset.

    Google why Mrs silly wasn't prosecuted.

    Or just wait cos I think Robby J Rotten is about to tell us.
  • cowsham
    cowsham Posts: 1,399
    James Bond 007

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