Wheelers, Dealers and Del Boys

This programme contains some strong language

In the heart of South London, the real life Del Boys are on the make.

It's just become 100 years old, so it's just become an antique.

Even though it's a tenner, for you, I'd do it for £1.

For these wheelers and dealers, every item,

no matter how unlikely, is for sale.

Now come on, a robin. Hand-painted robin.

-I think that is German.

-That's German.

-I told you it was a German doll.

-That's worth money, that.

When it's time for fresh stock,

they head for a very special auction house...

520, 530, 540, 550...

..sifting through the junk in search of buried treasure.

It's also got a Gucci - and it's genuine - watch in there.

But can any of them discover the lot that will transform them

into millionaires.

590.

I hope to be Del Boy one day.

I hope I find a nice something that's worth...

-And become a millionaire.

-..millions of pounds

and I can never work again.

Greasby's in Tooting is South London's oldest auction house.

Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.

Lot one is a scale model electric Sherman tank.

12, 14, 16, 18...

Though only five miles from Sotheby's, they are worlds apart.

Mickey Mouse, six.

I'm going to punch him on the nose in a minute

if they say a fiver again.

Six quid is the lowest bid in this sale room.

This place is wonderful, I love it.

Can we have some hush?!

The auctioneers specialise in selling house clearances,

police confiscations,

bailiff repossessions and even unclaimed baggage.

Lot 125 is climbing equipment. 20 quid.

For the intrepid South London entrepreneur...

12.

..it's a kind of Mecca.

I'd describe them as, Del Boy, Fools and Horses.

They're not sort of relying on a job any more.

There ain't jobs out there to have,

so they've got to make money how they can.

-22.

-We are their wholesaler.

They come to us, they buy it and they go and sell it for more.

22, to my left.

To the regulars, it's known as a trash and treasure auction.

925 is a carton of assorted costume jewellery.

And tall tales fuel dreams that one day they might just strike gold.

That lot there, £15.

I've heard of a story that, erm... Pack of nappies,

like they're all sealed, all together and everything like that,

open up nappies in there, 50 grand in the nappies.

There's a rumour that someone bought a magicians' book and inside of

that, in the front cover, there was er, Houdini's signature.

Waiting for the Del Boy and Rodney wristwatch in here.

Yeah, that's it...

Erm, that is what they're waiting for. Yeah.

Before every fortnightly auction, there's a viewing day.

These are covert operations where eagle-eyed traders

flock to the showroom hunting for that hidden gem.

A good viewer's a good buyer.

They come in, they know what they want to look at, they find it,

they look at it, they don't faff about spending time

chatting to friends, chatting to us.

It's rivalry.

You get a crate of bric-a-brac, you can have, I don't know,

first edition Harry Potter book in there or something like that.

And someone's found it, they've gone, hah, bloody hell.

They've buried it back in the crate and they'll bid on that crate.

They'll get it, they'll have a touch.

One of the best players of this game is Ritchie,

who's been trading for nearly ten years.

I'm into, erm, jewellery, cars, paintings,

anything I think I can earn a pound note on, I'll have it.

-Are they in order, yeah?

-Yeah.

-Sweet.

When it's going well, Ritchie can earn up to £3,000 in one month.

And as a seasoned viewer, he's recently struck gold.

-I'm looking through, there's a little brown wooden box.

-I saw him.

I opened it and it looked like a load of costume jewellery

inside it and I just happened to see a little hallmark on a little clasp.

And I thought, hmm, there's a bit of gold in there.

So I shut the box up, put it at the bottom

and put everything back in it.

And I paid £44 for it.

We was driving home and I said...

Oh, I couldn't, I was itching.

So I lent over to the back of the car, pulled the little brown

box out, I give it to her, carried on driving and she went, "Rich?"

"What's 750 mean?" I said, "750's 18 carat."

She went, "You're joking?"

I said, "No, I said it's 18 carat Nik, I know me hallmarks."

Ritchie's off to cash in his haul of gold,

which, with auction house fees, has cost a total of £60.

Just going down to Hatton Gardens to the metal refinery

to scrap this gold.

Just a little bit of 18 carat in there I've got to scrap today.

Right, when I first got into doing this,

nine carat gold was £3 a gram, it's now £12.50 a gram.

And I've scrapped thousands and thousands of pounds worth of gold.

£1,300.

£1,300. From 60 quid, it's not bad, is it?

Even though they occasionally hit the big time,

buying and selling doesn't always provide a steady income.

With a young family to support,

sometimes Ritchie has to fall back on his old trade.

Well, I could earn a couple of grand a month down the spray motors, but...

He's not happy.

I'm at work from seven in the morning until six at night,

and no time for the kids, come home, have a bit of dinner, bath,

bed and out up again in the morning, back to work again, six days a week.

He's all right for doing that for...

I don't get no time with the little fella? Yeah.

This is all... That's what your life's all about then, isn't it?

Yeah, I can spray cars, but I don't enjoy spraying cars,

-put it like that...

-He's good at it, though.

I enjoy going down the auction.

Right, can I trust you with this or are you going to drop it all...

-No, I won't do that.

-..like you did last time?

No, I'm not.

Thank you, can you just put it by the window, please, carefully.

After 40 years of marriage, Sharon and Al have just gone into business

together as full-time traders.

Until six months ago, Sharon worked in a chemist

and Al was a car mechanic at Ford's.

There should be another, a dolphin.

Both have given up their jobs to chance their arm

wheeling and dealing.

In our opinion, it was worth a chance.

You just come to a point in life

where you've got to say to yourself,

this is what I want to do.

So, I got me skateboards.

-How are they selling?

-They're not.

Unicycle might,

I don't suppose you're interested in a unicycle, are you?

These are garden windmills to frighten the birds away.

Laughing bag. Heh.

Sharon will do anything she can.

She'll just think of something and she'll go for it,

and I have to follow her, I have to get involved.

But, one day, something will pay off for her, big time.

Oh, you know them plastic birds I was telling you about?

7p, flogged them for a £1.

I'll do you good deal, 50p, yeah?

Go on, you know you want one.

Sharon and Al dream of turning their weekend hobby of auctions

and car-booting into a profitable business.

Have you ever been to an auction? You've been to an auction, right.

So, but do you go, you don't go regularly like to buy or that?

Don't forget, I mean this is what I've got to try and make money at.

That's all... That's where all this has come from.

Al, is my lookout.

So I'll be sitting there all nonchalantly,

pretending I'm not the slightest bit interested in it,

and he'll give me a quick nudge to say that those people

are going to bid.

But, if there's something I really want, right?

Woe betide anybody get in my way, cos if I want it, I'm having it.

You can't miss an auction, that's for sure.

There's an atmosphere.

You know it's like you're in a Bond movie, there's all this spy

and detective work and you're

so frightened you're going to miss something.

I mean, when I first started here, I come here, I looked around,

I was like, what a load of shit.

I didn't think people would want to buy the stuff that's in there,

and sometimes you get some really nice bits, sometimes you get

some toot and you think, you're handing it to them

when they've bought it and you think,

well how you going to make money on that?

At today's viewing,

Ritchie and Nikki are on their usual trawl for treasure.

Yeah, we're interested in quite a lot by the looks of things.

-Nice little painting there, little Chinese painting.

-Yeah by...

Hoi Ching somebody.

I'll be honest with you, I doubt a lot of people in that auction

-will know about that?

-No.

We could, we could.

The last thing like that, we nicked for about 64 quid

-and we sold it for like in excess of a few hundred pound.

-Yeah.

So, when you find something special, you have to be quite quiet

cos you don't want to let everybody know everything, do you?

The picture they want to bid on is a print

and if it's one of the original sets, it could be very valuable.

I think we got something special there with that picture.

I think it could be a pukka one.

-It's in the New York Metropolitan.

-Metropolitan.

Museum in New York. That's where I found out they made 800.

There was at least 800 printed off, and obviously if you get one

of the first ones, then the outline will stand out more,

-so the closer the...

-Yeah, yeah I'm with you.

-Do you know what I mean?

The colouring will tell you roughly whether it's made...

If it's one of the first prints or?

-Whether it's made the first 800's or the second.

-Yeah, I'm with you.

-But the colouring's really good on it.

-Yeah.

Which is a great sign.

He was quite possibly the best Japanese artist.

-What in the world, yeah?

-That's some art, is that?

So what you're saying is, he's the Jackie Chan of art then, isn't he?

-That's what you're saying.

-It's too good to be true, don't you think?

-Yeah, yeah, he's Mohammed Amar Bruce Lee of art, isn't he?

-Yeah.

Lot 339 is three odd nine carat gold cufflinks, a small bracelet

and an odd earring.

£10, I'm bid, turn your bloody phone off, please.

12, 14, 16, 18...

At least 1,000 lots come under the hammer at each auction.

And today, competition is particularly stiff.

26, 28...

That's the busiest I've ever seen it.

There's a lot of new faces here.

There's plenty of new faces, so, we'll see what happens.

-We'll see how it goes, yeah. Fingers crossed.

-Yeah.

I hope we get something that we want today.

Lot 64 is the thunderstorm at the foot of Mount Fuji.

£20.

Here you are.

20, 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34...

You only need two people to make an auction.

You can have 50 people in this sale room

and two people are gunning for that item all the way.

75, 80, 85, 90, 95, 100 and five, 110, 115, 120...

And it's the difference between 20 quid and 1,000 quid.

155, 160, 165, 170, 195, 200. In the front at £200.

Ritchie and Nikki win the print.

After commission, It'll cost them £250.

If it went for 300, 400, I would still have bought that picture

cos I knew there was something special.

If it had stopped at 45 quid I'd have been more aware,

now, I'd be thinking, that's shit, it ain't worth nothing,

but because he bid against me

and it went up to £200, now I feel that there's something more special.

Well, you don't know, this thing could be worth 20 grand.

It honestly could be, it could be worth two grand, it could be

worth 20 grand, it could be worth 100 quid, nobody knows.

I paid a two'er for it and we shall find out soon.

It's got to be worth something, it's got to be.

They don't put things in a museum that's worthless.

They're chasing a dream.

I mean, you get loads of people coming back and they say,

"Oh, we bought that for that much and we went and sold it for this.

"Oh, we made a killing and blah, blah."

You look at them and you think,

you're wearing the same trainers you've worn for the past six months.

You're wearing the same jeans you've worn for the past six months.

You've got the same coat on that you've had for the past four years,

you ain't doing that well, mate.

For some wheeler dealers,

the best way of making money is to specialise.

Toni sells costume jewellery and cheap watches.

This is my room and as you can see, I've got stuff everywhere.

In here is jewellery, jewellery, display cases and rings.

I've got over 700 watches and that's just one container.

After 18 months trading in low value items,

Toni's now looking to up her profit margin.

Everyone has to start at the bottom, which is what I've done, right?

I'm now, I'm not up there, but I'm there.

If I wanted to, I could put a load of crap on eBay

and I bet you it would sell.

But I want to get away from that, I want to do quality.

Toni used to be a manager at a large DIY store

until, in 2006, she was struck down by a serious illness.

I was taken into hospital with viral meningitis,

and my left arm, I can't raise my arm and my shoulder.

I get unbelievable pain.

It's like someone with a knife just digging it in you all the time.

I made a decision that for my own health, I'll move in with my mum.

So we help each other out now.

We are more or less each other's carers.

Because she has bad, bad, very bad days sometimes.

But this does help me, because like any pain,

if you're sitting there thinking about it,

it's going to be worse.

It's three days until the next auction at Greasby's,

ahead of which an online catalogue is published listing everything for sale.

It's the first chance traders like Toni get to see what's up for grabs.

There's some good watches in there.

Toni hones in on the big ticket items.

One of them's a Cartier, right,

but I don't think I'm going to have enough money for that.

That's going to go for thousands.

And I most probably know who's going to buy that one.

It's Jamie. He deals in that stuff, er,

if there's Rolexes he'll buy them and they go up in the thousands

so, but I can live in dreams, you know, I'll have a look at it.

244, Cartier watch.

With high roller, Jamie, nowhere to be seen,

Toni's examining the designer watch she's spotted online.

Checking the backs

because that's where you have the serial numbers

and I can tell now whether they are forgeries

or whether they are genuine.

At Greasby's, cheaper watches get bagged up as job lots.

And sometimes hidden treasure can find its way inside.

A couple of the bags I've just looked at in the cabinet

and one also got a Gucci - and it's genuine - watch in there,

which they haven't advertised,

and that's the sort of thing that you want to find.

Before bidding, Toni wants to find out the retail value

of the Gucci watch she's discovered.

That looks like it. I think the strap wasn't brown, though.

But it was this shape.

The watch that it looks like, brand-new, is £2,120.

She's got to pray tonight that Jamie doesn't turn up.

It is his main business and he's got wads of money

and he'd be prepared to outrank her any time on that,

if he knew that it was a genuine thing like that.

Well, as you say, Tone. Let's hope he's got a cold and doesn't come.

Man flu, yes!

CHUCKLING

I love it!

As well as trading in a huge range of second-hand and repossessed items,

Greasby's also stocks a very particular kind of lost property.

Selling on suitcases from Britain's biggest airports.

This could have a desert spider in it.

Spooky.

Any bag unclaimed for more than three months could end up here.

Go on, get up there.

The suitcases attract large numbers to the auction.

They think they're going to find lots of goodies

and that pot of gold inside a suitcase, and they're...

I mean, at the end of the day, it's what the world survives on.

Myths.

It's not nice sorting through this sort of stuff.

Especially when they're very crutchy.

As I'm going through now, if I find an electrical lead,

chargers, adaptors, hairdryers, we'll bundle it up into a lot.

The toiletries, that'll be broken down into another lot.

We'll split the footwear, cos some people like to buy the footwear.

Erm, the bric-a-brac crate, I mean it's just the odds and sods we receive here.

All we leave in the case is a bag of dirty clothing, basically.

What's the strangest thing you've found in a suitcase?

Erm, we found a couple of presentation boxes

with a marble double-ended willy.

I think that, I think that just topped it for me.

The customers ain't allowed to check what's inside it.

We'll just catalogue it: "Pink trolley case containing ladies clothing"

and they'll just buy it on that description.

It ain't open.

Tuesday is auction day,

and this week Sharon and Al have decided to dabble

in the suitcase game and there's quite a selection to choose from.

Depends which suitcase we fancy.

Yeah. Pick one out.

-It ain't going to be that one.

-Eh?

It ain't going to be that one.

How big is it?

690.

Oh, a set of three, two of three.

Those suitcases, right, even if it's crap inside,

I'll be able to sell the suitcases anyway.

Next summer, boot sales.

So people want smaller cases rather than the bigger ones,

so I'll be able to flog them anyway.

Having chosen number 690,

Sharon is prepared to pay a maximum of £12 for the three-suitcase lot.

Lot 672, trolley case of mixed.

14, I have, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24,

26, 28, 30, 32, 34, 36,

38, 40, 45, 50.

With prices far higher than she expected,

and with a determined buyer in the room...

..mixed clothing, 18 I have...

..the chance of winning her lot for £12 is looking remote.

30, 32, 34, 36, 38,

40, 45. 45 at the back.

You've got a price fixed in your mind,

but sometimes you just go over it, get carried away.

Yeah, YOU do.

-Do you?

-Yes.

-No.

YES.

Not like you do.

Er... Occasionally.

Not by a lot, though.

Sharon's lot, 690, is up next.

690, three trolley cases of mixed.

22, 24, 26, 28, 30.

32, 34. 34.

Outbid on lot 690, but determined not to leave empty-handed,

Sharon decides to start bidding on a case she hasn't even seen.

18, 20, 22.

24.

Including auction fees,

Sharon and Al have spent £28 on the mystery suitcase.

We've probably got some crapped-out case.

Bet it don't fucking work.

Oh!

CAMERAMAN LAUGHING

What have you done, Sharon?

You weren't supposed to have heard that!

He just reminded me that there is this completely smashed-up suitcase up there.

I've just realised I've probably bought it for thirty quid.

Right, lot 720.

There you go, this is the big one.

-Oh, it's a big one.

-It's a big one.

Yeah, it is a big'un, apparently so.

Thanks a lot.

Oh, it gets worse.

I suppose the bloody zip's broken as well.

A bloody stupid idea, actually.

8, 10, 12, 14...

Toni's also turned up at the auction.

It is a silver Renault Scenic...

She's waiting for the Cartier and Gucci watches to come under the gavel.

..450, 460...

And as she feared, Jamie, Greasby's biggest player,

has shown up to fight for the high-value watches.

-..470...

-I told you he would be here.

..£500, it's in the front. For the last time...

I'd love to be as successful as Jamie.

I know he's got nice cars, I know he's got a nice van.

And I know he's got nice money.

He's the one I've got to watch when he comes in.

..220, 230, 240, 250...

'We've bid against each other

'and it's who dares wins in the auction house.'

'Lot 244 is the ladies Cartier stainless steel strap wristwatch.

'300 for it?'

150.

150 I have.

160, 170, 180, 190, 200, 210, 220,

230, 240, 250, 260, 270, 280,

290, 300, 310, 320, 330, 340, 350.

350 to my right, at £350.

HAMMER DROPS

Jamie's won the Cartier.

The only other prize Toni's interested in

is the job lot containing the Gucci.

Lot 243, £30?

30 I'm bid. 32, 34,

36, 38, 45, 50,

55, 60, 65, 70...

'It's like a poker game.

'You know, you have got to have that poker face.'

100, and five, 110, 115, 120, 125,

130, 135, 140, 145, 150, 155,

160, 165, 170, 175,

180, 185, 190, 195, 200.

With the price going up and his profit margin falling,

Jamie decides to drop out of the bidding.

£250, sitting down at 250.

-HAMMER DROPS

-Yes.

'Well, you've now met Jamie and I knew he was going to turn up,

'but I've got the Gucci watch.'

I didn't think I was going to get the Cartier.

I started it off, but got too high.

But, yeah, I'm pleased.

Thank you, darling, thank you.

Toni heads home with her winnings,

where the first priority is to check out the Gucci.

A lovely little, delicate watch. Look at that.

Absolutely gorgeous.

The strap is genuine, it's got it all stamped on there.

So I'm not changing the strap.

When I have multiple items in a lot,

I'll break the value, or the cost, down between them all.

I've broken it down. It cost me £49,

and I can sell that between 100, £150, I can sell that watch for.

Shall we go and earn some money?

Hopefully.

Everything Toni buys at auction goes straight into another one.

This time online.

Condition? Used.

So that is now on eBay,

I don't have to think about that for another three days.

Shall I open it?

After spending £28 on a second-hand suitcase,

Sharon and Al are about to find out what it holds.

There's not any drugs or anything tucked in round the poles and that, is there?

-I wish I'd put me gloves on now.

-Trousers...

Yeah, ooh!

How used is that?

I don't know, but whoever it was had dandruff.

"Madras curry powder."

It's in date, 2014.

I don't know what that is.

-I don't think I want to know, thank you.

-What's that?

-What is it?

-It looks like half a bra.

-Here, look.

-What is that?

-It's a truss!

-It is, isn't it?

-Ergh.

-Ergh!

Imagine where that's been!

Thank God I didn't put my hands in there.

I hate to think.

-If it's got a name on it, I'll wash it. If it hasn't, I'm not bothering.

-Adidas.

Oh, well. Those T-shirts, to be honest with you,

I'm not even going to bother washing.

I'll just take them round the recycling.

Got some new towels here.

Could do those up as a bale.

Maybe get £3.50 for them?

What do you think, Al?

Not very good.

Not very good at all, but...

-It's a challenge, but...

-It's a challenge.

Right, now let's work out what we can get. Right.

Other than Al's £120 a week pension,

the little money they make trading is their only source of income.

'I must admit there's been a reflection since we've been doing this.'

I'm thinking, yeah, probably a big mistake to give in me job,

thinking this was going to pay off.

I had a regular wage, you know.

All right, not a lot, but I still had it.

And I've now actually gone down to nothing.

But I can't give up yet.

It's still only early. Rome weren't built in a day.

And Alan Sugar didn't become a millionaire overnight.

Hacousi, yeah? Hacousi.

Say it one more time. Hacousi, Hacousi.

Spell it if anything, darling. You got the spelling there?

No, I ain't.

New print in hand, Ritchie and Nikki now need to find themselves a buyer.

Who are you ringing?

Just phoning the British Museum about this picture that we've bought.

Hello there. I've bought a print today in an auction

and it's by - who's it? Um, it's...

You've got one in your gallery of The Great Wave by Houn...

Hounski, it's a Japanese artist.

Hokusai, sorry, sir, I can't pronounce it properly.

Yeah it's Hokusai and I bought, um, it's the Mount Fuji.

It's a print. I just want to know, I want to get it looked at.

OK, lovely, thank you, cheers. Sorry? It's Richard Packham.

Yeah, lovely, thank you very much. Cheers, thank you. Bye-bye.

He's given me an email address and he said about, um,

he's going to give me an appointment,

you've got to send him an email with a picture of the picture, yeah,

and he's going to give me an appointment to go and see him

and he seemed quite interested actually.

He asked my name at the end and he said he's going to look out for the email from me.

He seemed quite interested, so fingers crossed.

How did this all get started then?

Realising you can make money out of nothing really.

-Yeah, things that we normally throw away.

-Yeah, out of rubbish. You can make money out of rubbish.

Some of my mates come round to me and go, "I don't know how you do it."

If they had an old DVD player, they'd chuck it out their house,

leave it outside. Me, I would pick that DVD player up

outside your house, take it down the boot sale

-and sell it for £4 or £3 or £2.

-Yeah.

-But I've just got £2 out of nothing.

-Just picking something up.

If you can walk down the road and pick two quids up all day long, you'd do it, wouldn't you?

I hope to be Del Boy one day, that's what I, that's what I see.

-Yeah.

-I hope I find a nice something that's worth millions of pounds

and I can never work again.

-But then again I'd still always go down the auction.

-Yeah.

TANNOY: 'Announcement for all boot sellers.

'If you're working in the boot fair, it's second-hand goods only.'

Toni's Gucci watch hasn't sold online,

so as a last resort she's brought it to her local car-boot sale.

By her own reckoning, she needs to sell it for £49 just to break even.

I need to turn money over. I can't go to Greasby's without doing it.

I've got to have money to spend there.

The lowest I can go on that is 20,

and that's a good price for the weight.

That one is £175.

25 jewels, automatic, it's 400 quid normally.

But for Toni, buying and selling isn't just about the financial gain.

'I've got to be socialising, otherwise I'd go mad.'

-As it's you, I'd do it for £1.

-OK.

I love interacting with people. I love it.

When I became ill, that's what put me over the edge

because I spent two years of my life not being able to go anywhere,

do anything. On several occasions I felt like killing myself,

I'd had enough.

So this has given me my life back.

I'm meeting people because I'm doing this.

It is lovely.

-Yeah, it didn't come with a box.

-Yeah.

-So I had a Gucci box.

Yes, it's in full working order and I give a guarantee.

I've got it up for 100, but I would take 80?

So, er...

-Yeah.

-80?

Go on, I'll do it for 70.

OK, I will take it.

-Yeah? So any problems, come back.

-Thank you so much.

-That's all right, you have a nice day.

-You too.

Let's just say, I've had a good result on that.

I got it cheap, I'm passing it on to the customer cheap.

So I win, they win. Yeah, I'm rather happy.

Sharon and Al are also car-booting

to try and sell the second-hand suitcase and its contents.

What's the time, Al?

-Ten past six.

-Ten past six.

First time we've been here, we've got to start making some money.

It's not the warmest of days, but here's hoping.

There's that bloody suitcase.

-Hoping to make good on your outlay?

-Be a bloody miracle.

Trading starts early.

-The bag's a fiver?

-Is it?

Yeah, I can't go no lower than that.

The suitcase towels are snapped up.

-Is that all right?

-Yeah.

-It's a promising start.

-There you are.

-Thanks a lot.

OBJECTS SMASHING Oh, no!

You, you! Have you broke it?!

-But it doesn't last.

-Why do you interfere?!

Cos I was...helping.

What's happened?

He has smashed my Slova... Get off of it!

He has smashed my Slovakian coffee set,

one that I've been saving especially for an antiquey-type boot fair.

-And what have I always said to you? Don't touch the china.

-All right.

Now you know why I'm grey.

Do you see yourself as Del Boy characters?

Sharon is, I'm not.

I'm Rodney.

Yeah, he's Rodney!

I must admit, my nickname at work was Arthur Daley.

Well, I think it's Rovers Return, Queen Vic and, er, Woolpack.

In all honesty, if you'd want one of them?

-No.

-No?

Would you like to get the lady some change, please, Al. 19.

As the day progresses, business is picking up.

-How much you offering me?

-Five.

-Yeah, OK.

-Yeah?

-Yeah.

That's magic, thanks a lot.

Sharon's started to make her money back on the contents of the suitcase.

But on the case itself, offers are underwhelming.

Oh, I'd go down to 15, but...

My arse.

The suitcase a fiver? At that size? Who's she bleeding kidding?

I thought, actually, the suitcase itself would sell quite easily.

I didn't think it was going to be a problem. I was wrong.

Not much different to when we started, is it?

22. At 20 now...

A week on, and still with suitcase,

Sharon and Al are putting it into another auction

in a last-ditch attempt to get rid of it.

There's our baby.

Not quite as smart as them.

Start me straight in. I've got 15. 16 I'm now looking for,

for the big black suitcase. Are we all done then at £16?

I'm going to sell it at 16 on a commission bid.

It sold for 16.

Not as much as I wanted, but it's sold.

With the case finally gone and having made a £7.50 profit,

the pair are topping up on new stock.

And lot number 541...

I can't believe I've got them tubs.

There's lots of them.

Got to love them.

How much do you think you can get for the meerkats?

-Meerkat? £1.

-What, for the meerkat?

Why, wouldn't you pay £1 for it?

Windmills in pots.

What does she want a leg for?

Eh, a wooden leg?

He's moaning cos I've bought a load of rubbish, but I know it'll sell,

-cos at the end of the day, shit sells.

-Rubbish sells.

Also back at auction,

Toni's reinvesting the profits from her sales.

Last week I had a good week.

During the week I'd had some sales at eBay,

so that helped me out an awful lot.

Having already stepped up from costume jewellery

to designer watches, now she's ready to make the leap

to trade in an even higher price bracket.

One, two, three...six, seven, eight, nine, ten...

The item I like, Mum,

but I don't think I'm going to be able to get it,

it's a 9-carat white gold chain...

with a 18-carat white gold, 16 diamond cross.

And they are gorgeous cut.

You ain't going to be able to afford that.

-I can...

-Don't look at me for a sub.

-I could get £1,000 for that straightaway.

-I say, don't look at me for a sub.

-Right, but I bet you tomorrow,

right, the likes of Jamie, I bet you he goes over it.

Jamie'll be here.

Lot 299 is a 750 white gold diamond set, cross pendant.

200 here, 210, 220, 300, 310, 320,

330, 340, 350, 400, 410, 420,

430, 440, 450, 460, 470, 500, 510,

520, 530, 540, 550, 560, 570,

580, 590, 600, 610. 610.

It's in the front at 610.

With commission on top, Toni has spent £719 on the diamond cross.

It is the single largest purchase she's ever made at Greasby's.

Jamie didn't get anything.

And he always was my competition.

I think I've come an awful long way.

I'm one of the big boys now.

So, how can I put it? I've upped my game.

I'm getting more specific in what I'm buying.

Instead of buying a load of jewellery

and ending up with it all in me house.

Having had no luck with the British Museum,

Ritchie and Nikki are taking their print to an upmarket auction house

determined to turn it into cash.

When you look online, what kind of prices do you see?

Well, from £1,300 to £12,000, isn't it, we've seen.

Might not even own that in another two hours.

Cos if they say it's worth money, they're having it.

Go for it mate, let's sell it.

I ain't going to hang about with it, no.

-Are you chaps a bit nervous?

-Yes.

-A little bit.

-Just get the valuation now, see what they say?

-Fingers crossed.

Yeah, fingers crossed, yeah. Hope for the best.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

If that picture's worth £10,000, I've cracked it, ain't I?

I've spent 250 quid and earned ten grand,

you ain't going to do that working every month.

The moment of truth, innit?

-So what have we got?

-Believe it to be Hokusai?

-Hokusai?

-Hokusai.

-Hokusai, that's the one.

You say it so much better than we do.

-What's your first take on that?

-It's moody, innit? I can tell by your face.

Yeah. You don't look very...

I'm not, I'm not 100% convinced by it, that it's...

-No, neither am I.

-..that it's, that it's an early one.

It looks as though it's been done from a plate.

I think it's just a later edition, yeah.

-Not 1830s?

-Not 1830s.

I mean, if you look there, on the early ones,

-the image is broken up in places.

-Right, yeah, yeah, yeah.

-OK.

Which it wouldn't have been on the original one.

-How much is it worth?

-So is that good or?

What's it worth? About £100, I guess,

-sort of 80, 150.

-Bollocks.

-Maybe 100 to 200, something like that.

-I gave two and a half for it?

-Did you?

-Yeah.

-Yeah.

Worth the risk, though, weren't it?

-I don't think its worth that kind of money.

-No.

-Oh, well.

-How was that?

I don't know, should I chuck it down the road or...?

No, no, no, no, no.

All right, it's not fully paid off,

but it don't mean we've actually done really bad.

-So it's not all bad.

-No, it's not terrible.

-No.

-No.

It is a bit of a struggle sometimes when you have a bad month.

If you was at work, at least you know you're getting your bit of money coming in.

-I mean, how do you see...?

-How do I see my life?

One day I'm going to go in,

I'm going to get a diamond in the rough out of a box of crap,

and I'll find something worth a lot of money in there,

that's what I'm hoping. That's what my dream is, to be honest with you.

I find something magical in one of these boxes at an auction.

Do you think you'd spot this diamond in the rough, then, if you found it?

I bloody hope I would, James.

Yeah, I hope I've got the knowledge to spot it, yeah.

I have got the knowledge to spot it

otherwise I wouldn't be bloody doing it.