0:00:02 > 0:00:05This programme contains some strong language
0:00:05 > 0:00:08In the heart of South London, the real life Del Boys are on the make.
0:00:08 > 0:00:11It's just become 100 years old, so it's just become an antique.
0:00:11 > 0:00:15Even though it's a tenner, for you, I'd do it for £1.
0:00:15 > 0:00:17For these wheelers and dealers, every item,
0:00:17 > 0:00:20no matter how unlikely, is for sale.
0:00:21 > 0:00:26Now come on, a robin. Hand-painted robin.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28- I think that is German. - That's German.
0:00:28 > 0:00:31- I told you it was a German doll. - That's worth money, that.
0:00:31 > 0:00:32When it's time for fresh stock,
0:00:32 > 0:00:35they head for a very special auction house...
0:00:35 > 0:00:38520, 530, 540, 550...
0:00:38 > 0:00:42..sifting through the junk in search of buried treasure.
0:00:43 > 0:00:47It's also got a Gucci - and it's genuine - watch in there.
0:00:47 > 0:00:51But can any of them discover the lot that will transform them
0:00:51 > 0:00:52into millionaires.
0:00:52 > 0:00:54590.
0:00:54 > 0:00:56I hope to be Del Boy one day.
0:00:56 > 0:00:58I hope I find a nice something that's worth...
0:00:58 > 0:01:00- And become a millionaire. - ..millions of pounds
0:01:00 > 0:01:01and I can never work again.
0:01:10 > 0:01:14Greasby's in Tooting is South London's oldest auction house.
0:01:14 > 0:01:16Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
0:01:16 > 0:01:20Lot one is a scale model electric Sherman tank.
0:01:20 > 0:01:2312, 14, 16, 18...
0:01:23 > 0:01:27Though only five miles from Sotheby's, they are worlds apart.
0:01:27 > 0:01:29Mickey Mouse, six.
0:01:29 > 0:01:31I'm going to punch him on the nose in a minute
0:01:31 > 0:01:33if they say a fiver again.
0:01:33 > 0:01:36Six quid is the lowest bid in this sale room.
0:01:36 > 0:01:38This place is wonderful, I love it.
0:01:38 > 0:01:40Can we have some hush?!
0:01:41 > 0:01:44The auctioneers specialise in selling house clearances,
0:01:44 > 0:01:46police confiscations,
0:01:46 > 0:01:49bailiff repossessions and even unclaimed baggage.
0:01:49 > 0:01:53Lot 125 is climbing equipment. 20 quid.
0:01:53 > 0:01:56For the intrepid South London entrepreneur...
0:01:56 > 0:01:5812.
0:01:58 > 0:01:59..it's a kind of Mecca.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03I'd describe them as, Del Boy, Fools and Horses.
0:02:03 > 0:02:06They're not sort of relying on a job any more.
0:02:06 > 0:02:08There ain't jobs out there to have,
0:02:08 > 0:02:10so they've got to make money how they can.
0:02:10 > 0:02:13- 22.- We are their wholesaler.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16They come to us, they buy it and they go and sell it for more.
0:02:16 > 0:02:1822, to my left.
0:02:20 > 0:02:24To the regulars, it's known as a trash and treasure auction.
0:02:24 > 0:02:29925 is a carton of assorted costume jewellery.
0:02:29 > 0:02:33And tall tales fuel dreams that one day they might just strike gold.
0:02:33 > 0:02:36That lot there, £15.
0:02:36 > 0:02:39I've heard of a story that, erm... Pack of nappies,
0:02:39 > 0:02:42like they're all sealed, all together and everything like that,
0:02:42 > 0:02:45open up nappies in there, 50 grand in the nappies.
0:02:47 > 0:02:51There's a rumour that someone bought a magicians' book and inside of
0:02:51 > 0:02:56that, in the front cover, there was er, Houdini's signature.
0:02:56 > 0:02:59Waiting for the Del Boy and Rodney wristwatch in here.
0:02:59 > 0:03:00Yeah, that's it...
0:03:00 > 0:03:03Erm, that is what they're waiting for. Yeah.
0:03:06 > 0:03:10Before every fortnightly auction, there's a viewing day.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14These are covert operations where eagle-eyed traders
0:03:14 > 0:03:17flock to the showroom hunting for that hidden gem.
0:03:21 > 0:03:22A good viewer's a good buyer.
0:03:22 > 0:03:25They come in, they know what they want to look at, they find it,
0:03:25 > 0:03:28they look at it, they don't faff about spending time
0:03:28 > 0:03:31chatting to friends, chatting to us.
0:03:32 > 0:03:35It's rivalry.
0:03:36 > 0:03:39You get a crate of bric-a-brac, you can have, I don't know,
0:03:39 > 0:03:42first edition Harry Potter book in there or something like that.
0:03:42 > 0:03:44And someone's found it, they've gone, hah, bloody hell.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47They've buried it back in the crate and they'll bid on that crate.
0:03:47 > 0:03:49They'll get it, they'll have a touch.
0:03:49 > 0:03:53One of the best players of this game is Ritchie,
0:03:53 > 0:03:56who's been trading for nearly ten years.
0:03:56 > 0:04:00I'm into, erm, jewellery, cars, paintings,
0:04:00 > 0:04:04anything I think I can earn a pound note on, I'll have it.
0:04:04 > 0:04:07- Are they in order, yeah?- Yeah. - Sweet.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12When it's going well, Ritchie can earn up to £3,000 in one month.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16And as a seasoned viewer, he's recently struck gold.
0:04:16 > 0:04:19- I'm looking through, there's a little brown wooden box.- I saw him.
0:04:19 > 0:04:22I opened it and it looked like a load of costume jewellery
0:04:22 > 0:04:27inside it and I just happened to see a little hallmark on a little clasp.
0:04:27 > 0:04:29And I thought, hmm, there's a bit of gold in there.
0:04:29 > 0:04:31So I shut the box up, put it at the bottom
0:04:31 > 0:04:33and put everything back in it.
0:04:33 > 0:04:35And I paid £44 for it.
0:04:35 > 0:04:37We was driving home and I said...
0:04:37 > 0:04:39Oh, I couldn't, I was itching.
0:04:39 > 0:04:41So I lent over to the back of the car, pulled the little brown
0:04:41 > 0:04:46box out, I give it to her, carried on driving and she went, "Rich?"
0:04:46 > 0:04:49"What's 750 mean?" I said, "750's 18 carat."
0:04:49 > 0:04:51She went, "You're joking?"
0:04:51 > 0:04:56I said, "No, I said it's 18 carat Nik, I know me hallmarks."
0:04:59 > 0:05:02Ritchie's off to cash in his haul of gold,
0:05:02 > 0:05:06which, with auction house fees, has cost a total of £60.
0:05:06 > 0:05:09Just going down to Hatton Gardens to the metal refinery
0:05:09 > 0:05:11to scrap this gold.
0:05:15 > 0:05:19Just a little bit of 18 carat in there I've got to scrap today.
0:05:25 > 0:05:28Right, when I first got into doing this,
0:05:28 > 0:05:32nine carat gold was £3 a gram, it's now £12.50 a gram.
0:05:32 > 0:05:35And I've scrapped thousands and thousands of pounds worth of gold.
0:05:40 > 0:05:41£1,300.
0:05:41 > 0:05:44£1,300. From 60 quid, it's not bad, is it?
0:05:56 > 0:05:59Even though they occasionally hit the big time,
0:05:59 > 0:06:03buying and selling doesn't always provide a steady income.
0:06:03 > 0:06:04With a young family to support,
0:06:04 > 0:06:07sometimes Ritchie has to fall back on his old trade.
0:06:07 > 0:06:11Well, I could earn a couple of grand a month down the spray motors, but...
0:06:11 > 0:06:12He's not happy.
0:06:12 > 0:06:16I'm at work from seven in the morning until six at night,
0:06:16 > 0:06:19and no time for the kids, come home, have a bit of dinner, bath,
0:06:19 > 0:06:23bed and out up again in the morning, back to work again, six days a week.
0:06:23 > 0:06:24He's all right for doing that for...
0:06:24 > 0:06:28I don't get no time with the little fella? Yeah.
0:06:28 > 0:06:30This is all... That's what your life's all about then, isn't it?
0:06:30 > 0:06:33Yeah, I can spray cars, but I don't enjoy spraying cars,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35- put it like that... - He's good at it, though.
0:06:35 > 0:06:37I enjoy going down the auction.
0:06:41 > 0:06:44Right, can I trust you with this or are you going to drop it all...
0:06:44 > 0:06:47- No, I won't do that. - ..like you did last time?
0:06:47 > 0:06:49No, I'm not.
0:06:49 > 0:06:53Thank you, can you just put it by the window, please, carefully.
0:06:53 > 0:06:56After 40 years of marriage, Sharon and Al have just gone into business
0:06:56 > 0:07:00together as full-time traders.
0:07:00 > 0:07:03Until six months ago, Sharon worked in a chemist
0:07:03 > 0:07:05and Al was a car mechanic at Ford's.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07There should be another, a dolphin.
0:07:07 > 0:07:11Both have given up their jobs to chance their arm
0:07:11 > 0:07:12wheeling and dealing.
0:07:12 > 0:07:15In our opinion, it was worth a chance.
0:07:15 > 0:07:17You just come to a point in life
0:07:17 > 0:07:19where you've got to say to yourself,
0:07:19 > 0:07:20this is what I want to do.
0:07:22 > 0:07:24So, I got me skateboards.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26- How are they selling? - They're not.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28Unicycle might,
0:07:28 > 0:07:30I don't suppose you're interested in a unicycle, are you?
0:07:30 > 0:07:34These are garden windmills to frighten the birds away.
0:07:34 > 0:07:36Laughing bag. Heh.
0:07:38 > 0:07:40Sharon will do anything she can.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44She'll just think of something and she'll go for it,
0:07:44 > 0:07:48and I have to follow her, I have to get involved.
0:07:48 > 0:07:52But, one day, something will pay off for her, big time.
0:07:52 > 0:07:56Oh, you know them plastic birds I was telling you about?
0:07:56 > 0:08:007p, flogged them for a £1.
0:08:00 > 0:08:02I'll do you good deal, 50p, yeah?
0:08:02 > 0:08:03Go on, you know you want one.
0:08:05 > 0:08:08Sharon and Al dream of turning their weekend hobby of auctions
0:08:08 > 0:08:11and car-booting into a profitable business.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15Have you ever been to an auction? You've been to an auction, right.
0:08:15 > 0:08:18So, but do you go, you don't go regularly like to buy or that?
0:08:18 > 0:08:21Don't forget, I mean this is what I've got to try and make money at.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24That's all... That's where all this has come from.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26Al, is my lookout.
0:08:26 > 0:08:28So I'll be sitting there all nonchalantly,
0:08:28 > 0:08:31pretending I'm not the slightest bit interested in it,
0:08:31 > 0:08:33and he'll give me a quick nudge to say that those people
0:08:33 > 0:08:34are going to bid.
0:08:34 > 0:08:38But, if there's something I really want, right?
0:08:38 > 0:08:42Woe betide anybody get in my way, cos if I want it, I'm having it.
0:08:45 > 0:08:47You can't miss an auction, that's for sure.
0:08:47 > 0:08:49There's an atmosphere.
0:08:49 > 0:08:52You know it's like you're in a Bond movie, there's all this spy
0:08:52 > 0:08:54and detective work and you're
0:08:54 > 0:08:57so frightened you're going to miss something.
0:08:57 > 0:09:00I mean, when I first started here, I come here, I looked around,
0:09:00 > 0:09:02I was like, what a load of shit.
0:09:02 > 0:09:06I didn't think people would want to buy the stuff that's in there,
0:09:06 > 0:09:09and sometimes you get some really nice bits, sometimes you get
0:09:09 > 0:09:11some toot and you think, you're handing it to them
0:09:11 > 0:09:13when they've bought it and you think,
0:09:13 > 0:09:17well how you going to make money on that?
0:09:17 > 0:09:19At today's viewing,
0:09:19 > 0:09:21Ritchie and Nikki are on their usual trawl for treasure.
0:09:26 > 0:09:29Yeah, we're interested in quite a lot by the looks of things.
0:09:29 > 0:09:32- Nice little painting there, little Chinese painting.- Yeah by...
0:09:32 > 0:09:34Hoi Ching somebody.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36I'll be honest with you, I doubt a lot of people in that auction
0:09:36 > 0:09:38- will know about that?- No.
0:09:38 > 0:09:39We could, we could.
0:09:39 > 0:09:41The last thing like that, we nicked for about 64 quid
0:09:41 > 0:09:44- and we sold it for like in excess of a few hundred pound.- Yeah.
0:09:44 > 0:09:47So, when you find something special, you have to be quite quiet
0:09:47 > 0:09:50cos you don't want to let everybody know everything, do you?
0:09:51 > 0:09:54The picture they want to bid on is a print
0:09:54 > 0:09:59and if it's one of the original sets, it could be very valuable.
0:09:59 > 0:10:02I think we got something special there with that picture.
0:10:02 > 0:10:03I think it could be a pukka one.
0:10:03 > 0:10:06- It's in the New York Metropolitan. - Metropolitan.
0:10:06 > 0:10:10Museum in New York. That's where I found out they made 800.
0:10:10 > 0:10:14There was at least 800 printed off, and obviously if you get one
0:10:14 > 0:10:17of the first ones, then the outline will stand out more,
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- so the closer the...- Yeah, yeah I'm with you.- Do you know what I mean?
0:10:20 > 0:10:23The colouring will tell you roughly whether it's made...
0:10:23 > 0:10:25If it's one of the first prints or?
0:10:25 > 0:10:28- Whether it's made the first 800's or the second.- Yeah, I'm with you.
0:10:28 > 0:10:30- But the colouring's really good on it.- Yeah.
0:10:30 > 0:10:33Which is a great sign.
0:10:33 > 0:10:36He was quite possibly the best Japanese artist.
0:10:36 > 0:10:39- What in the world, yeah? - That's some art, is that?
0:10:39 > 0:10:42So what you're saying is, he's the Jackie Chan of art then, isn't he?
0:10:42 > 0:10:45- That's what you're saying.- It's too good to be true, don't you think?
0:10:45 > 0:10:48- Yeah, yeah, he's Mohammed Amar Bruce Lee of art, isn't he?- Yeah.
0:10:53 > 0:10:58Lot 339 is three odd nine carat gold cufflinks, a small bracelet
0:10:58 > 0:11:00and an odd earring.
0:11:01 > 0:11:05£10, I'm bid, turn your bloody phone off, please.
0:11:05 > 0:11:0712, 14, 16, 18...
0:11:07 > 0:11:11At least 1,000 lots come under the hammer at each auction.
0:11:12 > 0:11:15And today, competition is particularly stiff.
0:11:15 > 0:11:1626, 28...
0:11:16 > 0:11:18That's the busiest I've ever seen it.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20There's a lot of new faces here.
0:11:20 > 0:11:23There's plenty of new faces, so, we'll see what happens.
0:11:23 > 0:11:25- We'll see how it goes, yeah. Fingers crossed.- Yeah.
0:11:25 > 0:11:28I hope we get something that we want today.
0:11:30 > 0:11:34Lot 64 is the thunderstorm at the foot of Mount Fuji.
0:11:34 > 0:11:36£20.
0:11:36 > 0:11:38Here you are.
0:11:38 > 0:11:4320, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34...
0:11:43 > 0:11:46You only need two people to make an auction.
0:11:46 > 0:11:49You can have 50 people in this sale room
0:11:49 > 0:11:52and two people are gunning for that item all the way.
0:11:52 > 0:11:5975, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100 and five, 110, 115, 120...
0:11:59 > 0:12:02And it's the difference between 20 quid and 1,000 quid.
0:12:02 > 0:12:10155, 160, 165, 170, 195, 200. In the front at £200.
0:12:12 > 0:12:15Ritchie and Nikki win the print.
0:12:15 > 0:12:17After commission, It'll cost them £250.
0:12:20 > 0:12:23If it went for 300, 400, I would still have bought that picture
0:12:23 > 0:12:25cos I knew there was something special.
0:12:25 > 0:12:29If it had stopped at 45 quid I'd have been more aware,
0:12:29 > 0:12:32now, I'd be thinking, that's shit, it ain't worth nothing,
0:12:32 > 0:12:33but because he bid against me
0:12:33 > 0:12:37and it went up to £200, now I feel that there's something more special.
0:12:37 > 0:12:39Well, you don't know, this thing could be worth 20 grand.
0:12:39 > 0:12:42It honestly could be, it could be worth two grand, it could be
0:12:42 > 0:12:45worth 20 grand, it could be worth 100 quid, nobody knows.
0:12:45 > 0:12:48I paid a two'er for it and we shall find out soon.
0:12:48 > 0:12:51It's got to be worth something, it's got to be.
0:12:51 > 0:12:56They don't put things in a museum that's worthless.
0:12:56 > 0:12:58They're chasing a dream.
0:12:58 > 0:13:01I mean, you get loads of people coming back and they say,
0:13:01 > 0:13:04"Oh, we bought that for that much and we went and sold it for this.
0:13:04 > 0:13:06"Oh, we made a killing and blah, blah."
0:13:06 > 0:13:07You look at them and you think,
0:13:07 > 0:13:10you're wearing the same trainers you've worn for the past six months.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13You're wearing the same jeans you've worn for the past six months.
0:13:13 > 0:13:16You've got the same coat on that you've had for the past four years,
0:13:16 > 0:13:18you ain't doing that well, mate.
0:13:25 > 0:13:27For some wheeler dealers,
0:13:27 > 0:13:30the best way of making money is to specialise.
0:13:30 > 0:13:34Toni sells costume jewellery and cheap watches.
0:13:34 > 0:13:39This is my room and as you can see, I've got stuff everywhere.
0:13:40 > 0:13:46In here is jewellery, jewellery, display cases and rings.
0:13:46 > 0:13:51I've got over 700 watches and that's just one container.
0:13:52 > 0:13:56After 18 months trading in low value items,
0:13:56 > 0:13:59Toni's now looking to up her profit margin.
0:13:59 > 0:14:03Everyone has to start at the bottom, which is what I've done, right?
0:14:03 > 0:14:07I'm now, I'm not up there, but I'm there.
0:14:07 > 0:14:10If I wanted to, I could put a load of crap on eBay
0:14:10 > 0:14:12and I bet you it would sell.
0:14:12 > 0:14:17But I want to get away from that, I want to do quality.
0:14:18 > 0:14:21Toni used to be a manager at a large DIY store
0:14:21 > 0:14:25until, in 2006, she was struck down by a serious illness.
0:14:26 > 0:14:32I was taken into hospital with viral meningitis,
0:14:32 > 0:14:39and my left arm, I can't raise my arm and my shoulder.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42I get unbelievable pain.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46It's like someone with a knife just digging it in you all the time.
0:14:46 > 0:14:52I made a decision that for my own health, I'll move in with my mum.
0:14:53 > 0:14:55So we help each other out now.
0:14:56 > 0:15:00We are more or less each other's carers.
0:15:01 > 0:15:06Because she has bad, bad, very bad days sometimes.
0:15:06 > 0:15:10But this does help me, because like any pain,
0:15:10 > 0:15:12if you're sitting there thinking about it,
0:15:12 > 0:15:15it's going to be worse.
0:15:20 > 0:15:23It's three days until the next auction at Greasby's,
0:15:23 > 0:15:28ahead of which an online catalogue is published listing everything for sale.
0:15:28 > 0:15:32It's the first chance traders like Toni get to see what's up for grabs.
0:15:32 > 0:15:34There's some good watches in there.
0:15:34 > 0:15:37Toni hones in on the big ticket items.
0:15:37 > 0:15:41One of them's a Cartier, right,
0:15:41 > 0:15:44but I don't think I'm going to have enough money for that.
0:15:44 > 0:15:46That's going to go for thousands.
0:15:46 > 0:15:49And I most probably know who's going to buy that one.
0:15:49 > 0:15:53It's Jamie. He deals in that stuff, er,
0:15:53 > 0:15:59if there's Rolexes he'll buy them and they go up in the thousands
0:15:59 > 0:16:04so, but I can live in dreams, you know, I'll have a look at it.
0:16:15 > 0:16:17244, Cartier watch.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21With high roller, Jamie, nowhere to be seen,
0:16:21 > 0:16:25Toni's examining the designer watch she's spotted online.
0:16:27 > 0:16:28Checking the backs
0:16:28 > 0:16:31because that's where you have the serial numbers
0:16:31 > 0:16:34and I can tell now whether they are forgeries
0:16:34 > 0:16:36or whether they are genuine.
0:16:37 > 0:16:41At Greasby's, cheaper watches get bagged up as job lots.
0:16:43 > 0:16:46And sometimes hidden treasure can find its way inside.
0:16:49 > 0:16:53A couple of the bags I've just looked at in the cabinet
0:16:53 > 0:16:56and one also got a Gucci - and it's genuine - watch in there,
0:16:56 > 0:16:58which they haven't advertised,
0:16:58 > 0:17:01and that's the sort of thing that you want to find.
0:17:07 > 0:17:10Before bidding, Toni wants to find out the retail value
0:17:10 > 0:17:12of the Gucci watch she's discovered.
0:17:14 > 0:17:20That looks like it. I think the strap wasn't brown, though.
0:17:20 > 0:17:23But it was this shape.
0:17:23 > 0:17:28The watch that it looks like, brand-new, is £2,120.
0:17:28 > 0:17:32She's got to pray tonight that Jamie doesn't turn up.
0:17:32 > 0:17:37It is his main business and he's got wads of money
0:17:37 > 0:17:41and he'd be prepared to outrank her any time on that,
0:17:41 > 0:17:43if he knew that it was a genuine thing like that.
0:17:45 > 0:17:50Well, as you say, Tone. Let's hope he's got a cold and doesn't come.
0:17:50 > 0:17:53Man flu, yes!
0:17:53 > 0:17:54CHUCKLING
0:17:54 > 0:17:56I love it!
0:17:59 > 0:18:04As well as trading in a huge range of second-hand and repossessed items,
0:18:04 > 0:18:08Greasby's also stocks a very particular kind of lost property.
0:18:08 > 0:18:12Selling on suitcases from Britain's biggest airports.
0:18:13 > 0:18:16This could have a desert spider in it.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19Spooky.
0:18:19 > 0:18:23Any bag unclaimed for more than three months could end up here.
0:18:26 > 0:18:28Go on, get up there.
0:18:28 > 0:18:31The suitcases attract large numbers to the auction.
0:18:33 > 0:18:36They think they're going to find lots of goodies
0:18:36 > 0:18:39and that pot of gold inside a suitcase, and they're...
0:18:39 > 0:18:42I mean, at the end of the day, it's what the world survives on.
0:18:42 > 0:18:44Myths.
0:18:44 > 0:18:47It's not nice sorting through this sort of stuff.
0:18:47 > 0:18:49Especially when they're very crutchy.
0:18:49 > 0:18:53As I'm going through now, if I find an electrical lead,
0:18:53 > 0:18:57chargers, adaptors, hairdryers, we'll bundle it up into a lot.
0:18:57 > 0:19:01The toiletries, that'll be broken down into another lot.
0:19:01 > 0:19:05We'll split the footwear, cos some people like to buy the footwear.
0:19:05 > 0:19:10Erm, the bric-a-brac crate, I mean it's just the odds and sods we receive here.
0:19:10 > 0:19:16All we leave in the case is a bag of dirty clothing, basically.
0:19:17 > 0:19:20What's the strangest thing you've found in a suitcase?
0:19:20 > 0:19:25Erm, we found a couple of presentation boxes
0:19:25 > 0:19:28with a marble double-ended willy.
0:19:28 > 0:19:32I think that, I think that just topped it for me.
0:19:32 > 0:19:35The customers ain't allowed to check what's inside it.
0:19:35 > 0:19:39We'll just catalogue it: "Pink trolley case containing ladies clothing"
0:19:39 > 0:19:41and they'll just buy it on that description.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45It ain't open.
0:19:45 > 0:19:47Tuesday is auction day,
0:19:47 > 0:19:51and this week Sharon and Al have decided to dabble
0:19:51 > 0:19:55in the suitcase game and there's quite a selection to choose from.
0:19:55 > 0:19:57Depends which suitcase we fancy.
0:19:57 > 0:19:59Yeah. Pick one out.
0:19:59 > 0:20:01- It ain't going to be that one. - Eh?
0:20:01 > 0:20:02It ain't going to be that one.
0:20:04 > 0:20:05How big is it?
0:20:06 > 0:20:08690.
0:20:09 > 0:20:13Oh, a set of three, two of three.
0:20:13 > 0:20:16Those suitcases, right, even if it's crap inside,
0:20:16 > 0:20:19I'll be able to sell the suitcases anyway.
0:20:19 > 0:20:21Next summer, boot sales.
0:20:21 > 0:20:25So people want smaller cases rather than the bigger ones,
0:20:25 > 0:20:27so I'll be able to flog them anyway.
0:20:29 > 0:20:31Having chosen number 690,
0:20:31 > 0:20:35Sharon is prepared to pay a maximum of £12 for the three-suitcase lot.
0:20:37 > 0:20:39Lot 672, trolley case of mixed.
0:20:39 > 0:20:4414, I have, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,
0:20:44 > 0:20:4726, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36,
0:20:47 > 0:20:5038, 40, 45, 50.
0:20:50 > 0:20:53With prices far higher than she expected,
0:20:53 > 0:20:56and with a determined buyer in the room...
0:20:56 > 0:20:57..mixed clothing, 18 I have...
0:20:57 > 0:21:01..the chance of winning her lot for £12 is looking remote.
0:21:01 > 0:21:0330, 32, 34, 36, 38,
0:21:03 > 0:21:0640, 45. 45 at the back.
0:21:08 > 0:21:10You've got a price fixed in your mind,
0:21:10 > 0:21:13but sometimes you just go over it, get carried away.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15Yeah, YOU do.
0:21:15 > 0:21:17- Do you?- Yes.- No.
0:21:17 > 0:21:19YES.
0:21:19 > 0:21:21Not like you do.
0:21:21 > 0:21:23Er... Occasionally.
0:21:25 > 0:21:26Not by a lot, though.
0:21:28 > 0:21:30Sharon's lot, 690, is up next.
0:21:32 > 0:21:35690, three trolley cases of mixed.
0:21:35 > 0:21:3922, 24, 26, 28, 30.
0:21:39 > 0:21:4332, 34. 34.
0:21:47 > 0:21:51Outbid on lot 690, but determined not to leave empty-handed,
0:21:51 > 0:21:55Sharon decides to start bidding on a case she hasn't even seen.
0:21:55 > 0:21:5918, 20, 22.
0:22:00 > 0:22:0124.
0:22:07 > 0:22:09Including auction fees,
0:22:09 > 0:22:13Sharon and Al have spent £28 on the mystery suitcase.
0:22:16 > 0:22:19We've probably got some crapped-out case.
0:22:19 > 0:22:21Bet it don't fucking work.
0:22:23 > 0:22:24Oh!
0:22:24 > 0:22:26CAMERAMAN LAUGHING
0:22:28 > 0:22:30What have you done, Sharon?
0:22:30 > 0:22:33You weren't supposed to have heard that!
0:22:33 > 0:22:38He just reminded me that there is this completely smashed-up suitcase up there.
0:22:38 > 0:22:41I've just realised I've probably bought it for thirty quid.
0:22:43 > 0:22:45Right, lot 720.
0:22:47 > 0:22:50There you go, this is the big one.
0:22:50 > 0:22:52- Oh, it's a big one.- It's a big one.
0:22:52 > 0:22:55Yeah, it is a big'un, apparently so.
0:22:55 > 0:22:56Thanks a lot.
0:22:57 > 0:22:59Oh, it gets worse.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05I suppose the bloody zip's broken as well.
0:23:05 > 0:23:08A bloody stupid idea, actually.
0:23:10 > 0:23:138, 10, 12, 14...
0:23:13 > 0:23:16Toni's also turned up at the auction.
0:23:16 > 0:23:18It is a silver Renault Scenic...
0:23:18 > 0:23:23She's waiting for the Cartier and Gucci watches to come under the gavel.
0:23:23 > 0:23:24..450, 460...
0:23:24 > 0:23:27And as she feared, Jamie, Greasby's biggest player,
0:23:27 > 0:23:30has shown up to fight for the high-value watches.
0:23:30 > 0:23:32- ..470... - I told you he would be here.
0:23:32 > 0:23:34..£500, it's in the front. For the last time...
0:23:34 > 0:23:37I'd love to be as successful as Jamie.
0:23:37 > 0:23:41I know he's got nice cars, I know he's got a nice van.
0:23:41 > 0:23:45And I know he's got nice money.
0:23:45 > 0:23:48He's the one I've got to watch when he comes in.
0:23:48 > 0:23:50..220, 230, 240, 250...
0:23:50 > 0:23:53'We've bid against each other
0:23:53 > 0:23:57'and it's who dares wins in the auction house.'
0:23:59 > 0:24:04'Lot 244 is the ladies Cartier stainless steel strap wristwatch.
0:24:04 > 0:24:05'300 for it?'
0:24:11 > 0:24:12150.
0:24:12 > 0:24:14150 I have.
0:24:16 > 0:24:21160, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220,
0:24:21 > 0:24:27230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280,
0:24:27 > 0:24:34290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350.
0:24:34 > 0:24:36350 to my right, at £350.
0:24:40 > 0:24:41HAMMER DROPS
0:24:41 > 0:24:43Jamie's won the Cartier.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48The only other prize Toni's interested in
0:24:48 > 0:24:50is the job lot containing the Gucci.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53Lot 243, £30?
0:24:53 > 0:24:5530 I'm bid. 32, 34,
0:24:55 > 0:24:5836, 38, 45, 50,
0:24:58 > 0:25:0255, 60, 65, 70...
0:25:02 > 0:25:04'It's like a poker game.
0:25:04 > 0:25:07'You know, you have got to have that poker face.'
0:25:07 > 0:25:10100, and five, 110, 115, 120, 125,
0:25:10 > 0:25:14130, 135, 140, 145, 150, 155,
0:25:14 > 0:25:18160, 165, 170, 175,
0:25:18 > 0:25:23180, 185, 190, 195, 200.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26With the price going up and his profit margin falling,
0:25:26 > 0:25:29Jamie decides to drop out of the bidding.
0:25:29 > 0:25:33£250, sitting down at 250.
0:25:33 > 0:25:35- HAMMER DROPS - Yes.
0:25:37 > 0:25:41'Well, you've now met Jamie and I knew he was going to turn up,
0:25:41 > 0:25:44'but I've got the Gucci watch.'
0:25:44 > 0:25:46I didn't think I was going to get the Cartier.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49I started it off, but got too high.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52But, yeah, I'm pleased.
0:25:55 > 0:25:57Thank you, darling, thank you.
0:25:57 > 0:26:00Toni heads home with her winnings,
0:26:00 > 0:26:04where the first priority is to check out the Gucci.
0:26:04 > 0:26:08A lovely little, delicate watch. Look at that.
0:26:08 > 0:26:11Absolutely gorgeous.
0:26:11 > 0:26:16The strap is genuine, it's got it all stamped on there.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18So I'm not changing the strap.
0:26:18 > 0:26:22When I have multiple items in a lot,
0:26:22 > 0:26:27I'll break the value, or the cost, down between them all.
0:26:27 > 0:26:30I've broken it down. It cost me £49,
0:26:30 > 0:26:36and I can sell that between 100, £150, I can sell that watch for.
0:26:36 > 0:26:38Shall we go and earn some money?
0:26:38 > 0:26:39Hopefully.
0:26:41 > 0:26:44Everything Toni buys at auction goes straight into another one.
0:26:44 > 0:26:47This time online.
0:26:47 > 0:26:49Condition? Used.
0:26:49 > 0:26:52So that is now on eBay,
0:26:52 > 0:26:55I don't have to think about that for another three days.
0:26:59 > 0:27:01Shall I open it?
0:27:01 > 0:27:05After spending £28 on a second-hand suitcase,
0:27:05 > 0:27:08Sharon and Al are about to find out what it holds.
0:27:10 > 0:27:14There's not any drugs or anything tucked in round the poles and that, is there?
0:27:16 > 0:27:19- I wish I'd put me gloves on now.- Trousers...
0:27:23 > 0:27:25Yeah, ooh!
0:27:25 > 0:27:27How used is that?
0:27:27 > 0:27:30I don't know, but whoever it was had dandruff.
0:27:30 > 0:27:32"Madras curry powder."
0:27:34 > 0:27:36It's in date, 2014.
0:27:36 > 0:27:38I don't know what that is.
0:27:38 > 0:27:41- I don't think I want to know, thank you.- What's that?
0:27:41 > 0:27:44- What is it? - It looks like half a bra.
0:27:44 > 0:27:46- Here, look.- What is that?
0:27:46 > 0:27:48- It's a truss!- It is, isn't it?
0:27:50 > 0:27:51- Ergh.- Ergh!
0:27:51 > 0:27:53Imagine where that's been!
0:27:53 > 0:27:56Thank God I didn't put my hands in there.
0:27:56 > 0:27:58I hate to think.
0:27:58 > 0:28:02- If it's got a name on it, I'll wash it. If it hasn't, I'm not bothering.- Adidas.
0:28:02 > 0:28:05Oh, well. Those T-shirts, to be honest with you,
0:28:05 > 0:28:07I'm not even going to bother washing.
0:28:07 > 0:28:09I'll just take them round the recycling.
0:28:09 > 0:28:11Got some new towels here.
0:28:12 > 0:28:14Could do those up as a bale.
0:28:14 > 0:28:17Maybe get £3.50 for them?
0:28:17 > 0:28:19What do you think, Al?
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Not very good.
0:28:22 > 0:28:25Not very good at all, but...
0:28:25 > 0:28:28- It's a challenge, but... - It's a challenge.
0:28:28 > 0:28:31Right, now let's work out what we can get. Right.
0:28:31 > 0:28:34Other than Al's £120 a week pension,
0:28:34 > 0:28:38the little money they make trading is their only source of income.
0:28:39 > 0:28:43'I must admit there's been a reflection since we've been doing this.'
0:28:43 > 0:28:46I'm thinking, yeah, probably a big mistake to give in me job,
0:28:46 > 0:28:47thinking this was going to pay off.
0:28:49 > 0:28:51I had a regular wage, you know.
0:28:51 > 0:28:53All right, not a lot, but I still had it.
0:28:53 > 0:28:56And I've now actually gone down to nothing.
0:28:56 > 0:28:58But I can't give up yet.
0:28:58 > 0:29:01It's still only early. Rome weren't built in a day.
0:29:01 > 0:29:04And Alan Sugar didn't become a millionaire overnight.
0:29:06 > 0:29:08Hacousi, yeah? Hacousi.
0:29:08 > 0:29:11Say it one more time. Hacousi, Hacousi.
0:29:11 > 0:29:14Spell it if anything, darling. You got the spelling there?
0:29:14 > 0:29:15No, I ain't.
0:29:15 > 0:29:20New print in hand, Ritchie and Nikki now need to find themselves a buyer.
0:29:20 > 0:29:21Who are you ringing?
0:29:21 > 0:29:24Just phoning the British Museum about this picture that we've bought.
0:29:27 > 0:29:33Hello there. I've bought a print today in an auction
0:29:33 > 0:29:36and it's by - who's it? Um, it's...
0:29:36 > 0:29:40You've got one in your gallery of The Great Wave by Houn...
0:29:40 > 0:29:42Hounski, it's a Japanese artist.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46Hokusai, sorry, sir, I can't pronounce it properly.
0:29:46 > 0:29:50Yeah it's Hokusai and I bought, um, it's the Mount Fuji.
0:29:50 > 0:29:54It's a print. I just want to know, I want to get it looked at.
0:29:54 > 0:29:58OK, lovely, thank you, cheers. Sorry? It's Richard Packham.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Yeah, lovely, thank you very much. Cheers, thank you. Bye-bye.
0:30:03 > 0:30:06He's given me an email address and he said about, um,
0:30:06 > 0:30:08he's going to give me an appointment,
0:30:08 > 0:30:11you've got to send him an email with a picture of the picture, yeah,
0:30:11 > 0:30:15and he's going to give me an appointment to go and see him
0:30:15 > 0:30:17and he seemed quite interested actually.
0:30:17 > 0:30:21He asked my name at the end and he said he's going to look out for the email from me.
0:30:21 > 0:30:24He seemed quite interested, so fingers crossed.
0:30:29 > 0:30:31How did this all get started then?
0:30:31 > 0:30:34Realising you can make money out of nothing really.
0:30:34 > 0:30:39- Yeah, things that we normally throw away.- Yeah, out of rubbish. You can make money out of rubbish.
0:30:39 > 0:30:42Some of my mates come round to me and go, "I don't know how you do it."
0:30:42 > 0:30:44If they had an old DVD player, they'd chuck it out their house,
0:30:44 > 0:30:48leave it outside. Me, I would pick that DVD player up
0:30:48 > 0:30:51outside your house, take it down the boot sale
0:30:51 > 0:30:53- and sell it for £4 or £3 or £2.- Yeah.
0:30:53 > 0:30:56- But I've just got £2 out of nothing. - Just picking something up.
0:30:56 > 0:31:00If you can walk down the road and pick two quids up all day long, you'd do it, wouldn't you?
0:31:00 > 0:31:03I hope to be Del Boy one day, that's what I, that's what I see.
0:31:03 > 0:31:07- Yeah.- I hope I find a nice something that's worth millions of pounds
0:31:07 > 0:31:09and I can never work again.
0:31:09 > 0:31:12- But then again I'd still always go down the auction.- Yeah.
0:31:14 > 0:31:18TANNOY: 'Announcement for all boot sellers.
0:31:18 > 0:31:23'If you're working in the boot fair, it's second-hand goods only.'
0:31:26 > 0:31:30Toni's Gucci watch hasn't sold online,
0:31:30 > 0:31:34so as a last resort she's brought it to her local car-boot sale.
0:31:36 > 0:31:41By her own reckoning, she needs to sell it for £49 just to break even.
0:31:41 > 0:31:46I need to turn money over. I can't go to Greasby's without doing it.
0:31:46 > 0:31:48I've got to have money to spend there.
0:31:48 > 0:31:51The lowest I can go on that is 20,
0:31:51 > 0:31:53and that's a good price for the weight.
0:31:53 > 0:31:57That one is £175.
0:31:57 > 0:32:0225 jewels, automatic, it's 400 quid normally.
0:32:04 > 0:32:08But for Toni, buying and selling isn't just about the financial gain.
0:32:10 > 0:32:14'I've got to be socialising, otherwise I'd go mad.'
0:32:14 > 0:32:17- As it's you, I'd do it for £1.- OK.
0:32:17 > 0:32:21I love interacting with people. I love it.
0:32:21 > 0:32:25When I became ill, that's what put me over the edge
0:32:25 > 0:32:30because I spent two years of my life not being able to go anywhere,
0:32:30 > 0:32:33do anything. On several occasions I felt like killing myself,
0:32:33 > 0:32:35I'd had enough.
0:32:35 > 0:32:38So this has given me my life back.
0:32:38 > 0:32:42I'm meeting people because I'm doing this.
0:32:44 > 0:32:46It is lovely.
0:32:46 > 0:32:50- Yeah, it didn't come with a box. - Yeah.- So I had a Gucci box.
0:32:50 > 0:32:54Yes, it's in full working order and I give a guarantee.
0:32:56 > 0:33:00I've got it up for 100, but I would take 80?
0:33:00 > 0:33:02So, er...
0:33:02 > 0:33:04- Yeah.- 80?
0:33:04 > 0:33:07Go on, I'll do it for 70.
0:33:07 > 0:33:09OK, I will take it.
0:33:09 > 0:33:12- Yeah? So any problems, come back. - Thank you so much.
0:33:12 > 0:33:14- That's all right, you have a nice day.- You too.
0:33:14 > 0:33:18Let's just say, I've had a good result on that.
0:33:18 > 0:33:22I got it cheap, I'm passing it on to the customer cheap.
0:33:22 > 0:33:26So I win, they win. Yeah, I'm rather happy.
0:33:31 > 0:33:33Sharon and Al are also car-booting
0:33:33 > 0:33:36to try and sell the second-hand suitcase and its contents.
0:33:36 > 0:33:38What's the time, Al?
0:33:39 > 0:33:41- Ten past six.- Ten past six.
0:33:41 > 0:33:45First time we've been here, we've got to start making some money.
0:33:45 > 0:33:49It's not the warmest of days, but here's hoping.
0:33:52 > 0:33:54There's that bloody suitcase.
0:33:55 > 0:33:58- Hoping to make good on your outlay? - Be a bloody miracle.
0:34:00 > 0:34:02Trading starts early.
0:34:02 > 0:34:03- The bag's a fiver?- Is it?
0:34:03 > 0:34:06Yeah, I can't go no lower than that.
0:34:06 > 0:34:08The suitcase towels are snapped up.
0:34:08 > 0:34:10- Is that all right?- Yeah. - It's a promising start.
0:34:10 > 0:34:11- There you are.- Thanks a lot.
0:34:11 > 0:34:13OBJECTS SMASHING Oh, no!
0:34:13 > 0:34:15You, you! Have you broke it?!
0:34:15 > 0:34:18- But it doesn't last. - Why do you interfere?!
0:34:18 > 0:34:19Cos I was...helping.
0:34:23 > 0:34:24What's happened?
0:34:24 > 0:34:29He has smashed my Slova... Get off of it!
0:34:29 > 0:34:31He has smashed my Slovakian coffee set,
0:34:31 > 0:34:35one that I've been saving especially for an antiquey-type boot fair.
0:34:39 > 0:34:42- And what have I always said to you? Don't touch the china.- All right.
0:34:52 > 0:34:54Now you know why I'm grey.
0:34:54 > 0:34:57Do you see yourself as Del Boy characters?
0:34:58 > 0:35:00Sharon is, I'm not.
0:35:00 > 0:35:02I'm Rodney.
0:35:04 > 0:35:06Yeah, he's Rodney!
0:35:08 > 0:35:12I must admit, my nickname at work was Arthur Daley.
0:35:12 > 0:35:17Well, I think it's Rovers Return, Queen Vic and, er, Woolpack.
0:35:17 > 0:35:19In all honesty, if you'd want one of them?
0:35:19 > 0:35:21- No.- No?
0:35:22 > 0:35:26Would you like to get the lady some change, please, Al. 19.
0:35:26 > 0:35:30As the day progresses, business is picking up.
0:35:30 > 0:35:32- How much you offering me?- Five.
0:35:32 > 0:35:33- Yeah, OK.- Yeah?- Yeah.
0:35:33 > 0:35:36That's magic, thanks a lot.
0:35:36 > 0:35:40Sharon's started to make her money back on the contents of the suitcase.
0:35:40 > 0:35:43But on the case itself, offers are underwhelming.
0:35:43 > 0:35:45Oh, I'd go down to 15, but...
0:35:46 > 0:35:48My arse.
0:35:48 > 0:35:52The suitcase a fiver? At that size? Who's she bleeding kidding?
0:35:54 > 0:35:58I thought, actually, the suitcase itself would sell quite easily.
0:35:58 > 0:36:02I didn't think it was going to be a problem. I was wrong.
0:36:05 > 0:36:08Not much different to when we started, is it?
0:36:13 > 0:36:1522. At 20 now...
0:36:15 > 0:36:18A week on, and still with suitcase,
0:36:18 > 0:36:21Sharon and Al are putting it into another auction
0:36:21 > 0:36:24in a last-ditch attempt to get rid of it.
0:36:24 > 0:36:25There's our baby.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30Not quite as smart as them.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33Start me straight in. I've got 15. 16 I'm now looking for,
0:36:33 > 0:36:37for the big black suitcase. Are we all done then at £16?
0:36:37 > 0:36:39I'm going to sell it at 16 on a commission bid.
0:36:41 > 0:36:42It sold for 16.
0:36:44 > 0:36:47Not as much as I wanted, but it's sold.
0:36:49 > 0:36:55With the case finally gone and having made a £7.50 profit,
0:36:55 > 0:36:57the pair are topping up on new stock.
0:37:00 > 0:37:02And lot number 541...
0:37:02 > 0:37:05I can't believe I've got them tubs.
0:37:06 > 0:37:07There's lots of them.
0:37:09 > 0:37:11Got to love them.
0:37:11 > 0:37:14How much do you think you can get for the meerkats?
0:37:14 > 0:37:17- Meerkat? £1. - What, for the meerkat?
0:37:17 > 0:37:18Why, wouldn't you pay £1 for it?
0:37:20 > 0:37:23Windmills in pots.
0:37:23 > 0:37:26What does she want a leg for?
0:37:26 > 0:37:28Eh, a wooden leg?
0:37:28 > 0:37:31He's moaning cos I've bought a load of rubbish, but I know it'll sell,
0:37:31 > 0:37:34- cos at the end of the day, shit sells.- Rubbish sells.
0:37:43 > 0:37:45Also back at auction,
0:37:45 > 0:37:48Toni's reinvesting the profits from her sales.
0:37:51 > 0:37:54Last week I had a good week.
0:37:54 > 0:37:57During the week I'd had some sales at eBay,
0:37:57 > 0:37:59so that helped me out an awful lot.
0:38:01 > 0:38:03Having already stepped up from costume jewellery
0:38:03 > 0:38:07to designer watches, now she's ready to make the leap
0:38:07 > 0:38:10to trade in an even higher price bracket.
0:38:10 > 0:38:15One, two, three...six, seven, eight, nine, ten...
0:38:15 > 0:38:16The item I like, Mum,
0:38:16 > 0:38:19but I don't think I'm going to be able to get it,
0:38:19 > 0:38:22it's a 9-carat white gold chain...
0:38:22 > 0:38:28with a 18-carat white gold, 16 diamond cross.
0:38:28 > 0:38:29And they are gorgeous cut.
0:38:29 > 0:38:32You ain't going to be able to afford that.
0:38:32 > 0:38:36- I can...- Don't look at me for a sub.- I could get £1,000 for that straightaway.
0:38:36 > 0:38:40- I say, don't look at me for a sub. - Right, but I bet you tomorrow,
0:38:40 > 0:38:44right, the likes of Jamie, I bet you he goes over it.
0:38:44 > 0:38:45Jamie'll be here.
0:38:52 > 0:38:59Lot 299 is a 750 white gold diamond set, cross pendant.
0:38:59 > 0:39:07200 here, 210, 220, 300, 310, 320,
0:39:07 > 0:39:15330, 340, 350, 400, 410, 420,
0:39:15 > 0:39:22430, 440, 450, 460, 470, 500, 510,
0:39:22 > 0:39:25520, 530, 540, 550, 560, 570,
0:39:25 > 0:39:30580, 590, 600, 610. 610.
0:39:30 > 0:39:33It's in the front at 610.
0:39:38 > 0:39:44With commission on top, Toni has spent £719 on the diamond cross.
0:39:44 > 0:39:50It is the single largest purchase she's ever made at Greasby's.
0:39:50 > 0:39:53Jamie didn't get anything.
0:39:53 > 0:39:56And he always was my competition.
0:39:56 > 0:39:58I think I've come an awful long way.
0:39:58 > 0:39:59I'm one of the big boys now.
0:39:59 > 0:40:04So, how can I put it? I've upped my game.
0:40:04 > 0:40:09I'm getting more specific in what I'm buying.
0:40:09 > 0:40:12Instead of buying a load of jewellery
0:40:12 > 0:40:14and ending up with it all in me house.
0:40:20 > 0:40:23Having had no luck with the British Museum,
0:40:23 > 0:40:26Ritchie and Nikki are taking their print to an upmarket auction house
0:40:26 > 0:40:28determined to turn it into cash.
0:40:30 > 0:40:33When you look online, what kind of prices do you see?
0:40:33 > 0:40:37Well, from £1,300 to £12,000, isn't it, we've seen.
0:40:37 > 0:40:41Might not even own that in another two hours.
0:40:41 > 0:40:43Cos if they say it's worth money, they're having it.
0:40:43 > 0:40:45Go for it mate, let's sell it.
0:40:45 > 0:40:48I ain't going to hang about with it, no.
0:40:48 > 0:40:51- Are you chaps a bit nervous? - Yes.- A little bit.
0:40:51 > 0:40:54- Just get the valuation now, see what they say?- Fingers crossed.
0:40:54 > 0:40:57Yeah, fingers crossed, yeah. Hope for the best.
0:40:59 > 0:41:01- Thank you.- Thank you.
0:41:03 > 0:41:07If that picture's worth £10,000, I've cracked it, ain't I?
0:41:07 > 0:41:09I've spent 250 quid and earned ten grand,
0:41:09 > 0:41:11you ain't going to do that working every month.
0:41:11 > 0:41:12The moment of truth, innit?
0:41:19 > 0:41:22- So what have we got? - Believe it to be Hokusai?
0:41:22 > 0:41:25- Hokusai?- Hokusai. - Hokusai, that's the one.
0:41:25 > 0:41:27You say it so much better than we do.
0:41:29 > 0:41:32- What's your first take on that? - It's moody, innit? I can tell by your face.
0:41:32 > 0:41:34Yeah. You don't look very...
0:41:34 > 0:41:36I'm not, I'm not 100% convinced by it, that it's...
0:41:36 > 0:41:39- No, neither am I.- ..that it's, that it's an early one.
0:41:39 > 0:41:42It looks as though it's been done from a plate.
0:41:42 > 0:41:46I think it's just a later edition, yeah.
0:41:46 > 0:41:47- Not 1830s?- Not 1830s.
0:41:47 > 0:41:50I mean, if you look there, on the early ones,
0:41:50 > 0:41:54- the image is broken up in places. - Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.- OK.
0:41:54 > 0:41:56Which it wouldn't have been on the original one.
0:41:56 > 0:41:59- How much is it worth? - So is that good or?
0:41:59 > 0:42:02What's it worth? About £100, I guess,
0:42:02 > 0:42:07- sort of 80, 150.- Bollocks.- Maybe 100 to 200, something like that.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10- I gave two and a half for it? - Did you?- Yeah.- Yeah.
0:42:10 > 0:42:12Worth the risk, though, weren't it?
0:42:12 > 0:42:14- I don't think its worth that kind of money.- No.
0:42:16 > 0:42:19- Oh, well.- How was that?
0:42:19 > 0:42:21I don't know, should I chuck it down the road or...?
0:42:21 > 0:42:23No, no, no, no, no.
0:42:23 > 0:42:25All right, it's not fully paid off,
0:42:25 > 0:42:29but it don't mean we've actually done really bad.
0:42:29 > 0:42:31- So it's not all bad. - No, it's not terrible.
0:42:31 > 0:42:32- No.- No.
0:42:34 > 0:42:38It is a bit of a struggle sometimes when you have a bad month.
0:42:38 > 0:42:42If you was at work, at least you know you're getting your bit of money coming in.
0:42:44 > 0:42:46- I mean, how do you see...? - How do I see my life?
0:42:46 > 0:42:48One day I'm going to go in,
0:42:48 > 0:42:52I'm going to get a diamond in the rough out of a box of crap,
0:42:52 > 0:42:54and I'll find something worth a lot of money in there,
0:42:54 > 0:42:57that's what I'm hoping. That's what my dream is, to be honest with you.
0:42:57 > 0:43:01I find something magical in one of these boxes at an auction.
0:43:01 > 0:43:04Do you think you'd spot this diamond in the rough, then, if you found it?
0:43:04 > 0:43:05I bloody hope I would, James.
0:43:05 > 0:43:09Yeah, I hope I've got the knowledge to spot it, yeah.
0:43:09 > 0:43:11I have got the knowledge to spot it
0:43:11 > 0:43:12otherwise I wouldn't be bloody doing it.