Jonty Hearnden v Christina Trevanion - Car Boot Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

This is Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is -

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against each other in an all-out battle for profit.

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And giving you their top tips

and savvy secrets on how to make the most money from buying and selling.

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Today, the fearsome furniture fanatic Jonty Hearnden

takes on the incredible auctioneering ace

Christina Trevanion at a car boot sale in Essex.

Coming up, Christina's haggling from a height

and Jonty's none the wiser.

What's she doing up a ladder?

Very strange.

Christina has a top tip for car booting in Britain.

Always be prepared for whatever the weather will throw at you.

And Jonty strains every sinew for a deal.

The lengths I go to make a sale.

This is Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is.

Prepare yourselves for some winning wheeling

and dealing, as our experts take on one of the United Kingdom's finest

institutions - the car boot sale.

It's a place for the haggle hungry and the bargain baggers,

but it's a high-risk mission.

Finding real gems is tough going and to get them

for the right price means dicing with dealers who put up a good fight

and don't mince their words.

So are our experts good enough to stop this field of dreams

turning into a meadow of 'mares?

You bet they are.

First up, it's the man who gets fired up over the furniture.

Never scared of a scrape,

he rolls with the punches until the deal is dead on.

It's the master of the market, the prince of the profit margin.

It's Jonty "The Hitman" Hearnden.

The competition is hotting up.

His imposing opponent is impressive, to say the least.

She can clock a masterpiece in a millisecond,

find a first edition at first glance.

It's the duchess of dealing, the heroine of haggling.

It's Christina "The Magpie" Trevanion.

Let's get going.

Today's battlefield is the massive Marks Tey Car Boot Sale near Colchester.

But the bleary-eyed beware.

It's early in the morning.

Trading starts at 7am and everyone's on-site well before then,

including our experts.

Each of them has brought £250 of their own money to spend.

Once they've bought up, they must sell on for as much as they can

and any profits they make will go directly to

the charities of their choice.

So let's do this.

Jonty Hearnden and Christina Trevanion,

we want a good, clean fight - for the most part.

It's now time to put your money where your mouth is.

-Good morning.

-How are you?

-Very well. How are you?

-Bit early, isn't it?

Oh, I've got two young children. This is kind of a lie-in.

SHE LAUGHS

-So we have £250 to spend.

-Yeah. Marks Tey Car Boot Sale.

-Yeah.

-Do you enjoy car boot sales?

-I love car boot sales.

-Are you a regular?

I'm not a regular, but I love the banter

and it's a very different atmosphere to antique markets.

And do you think you'll blow your entire budget today?

I never spend £250 at a car boot sale.

-SHE LAUGHS

-I try. I try.

-I'm sure.

-What about you?

-I love them. Yeah.

Have a good rummage and I'd like to say, just some really wacky,

great people here, so yeah, I'm looking forward to it.

-Well, best of luck.

-Let's do battle.

-Let's do battle. See you later.

The battle lines are drawn and these two will be taking no prisoners.

Right. Let's get serious.

It's dog eat dog out there, so what's Jonty's plan to survive?

£250 is still an awful lot of money in my pocket,

but I'm determined to invest as much as I possibly can.

That's my challenge. Whether it will be so, I have no idea.

Well, that's pretty straightforward,

but Christina's going back to basics.

My strategy is buy whatever I can that's going to make me

any kind of profit.

So basically just following the rules of the game, then, Christina.

Ingenious, but it does pay off almost immediately.

Our lady buys an artist's easel from someone who's a little camera shy.

She pays £4, but will it turn out to be a masterstroke?

Just bought myself this artist's easel.

I think it's relatively modern.

I only paid £4 for it. I know quite a lot of artists that

I could potentially sell this to, so hopefully I'll make a profit on it.

Well, Christina's hit the ground running

and she disappears at a pace across the pasture.

The Hitman, however,

has chosen a far more relaxed policy of observation and assessment.

This is what I like. Coming to a market like this.

You kind of have a sense that this stallholder here is new to the game

because it's like bees around a honeypot.

Just going to have a look to see what's happening.

-And as I thought, there was nothing to buy.

-So no joy there, then.

But the buying psychology is a useful tool in the cut

and thrust of car booting

and it's not long before Jonty does see something that he likes.

-A brass-top table.

-Let's have a look at the stand.

-That looks in pretty working order.

-Yeah.

It's a bargain at £5.

-But me being me, I never pay the full asking price.

-So you want to pay me £4.90?

-Shall I pay you £4?

-£4.50.

-£4.50. I'm buying it.

-OK.

-Thank you very much indeed.

Almost exactly the same price as Christina's first purchase.

This is clearly going to be a tightly fought contest.

And even the thrill of the chase can't take away

the chill of early-morning Essex.

Just look at that lovely jumper.

Ooh. Come on, big man. Tell us what you've got.

Beautiful hand-beaten table.

And it's really in pretty good condition apart from the ring

mark that's in the middle.

So if you look at the front, which is all hand-beaten, all hand-decorated.

Quite extraordinary for £4.50. But have a look at the reverse.

And quite interestingly here - I hadn't noticed this yet.

But it says "Made in India". Exactly where this is from.

You look at the front there, you can see the Indian decoration.

The busy Indian decoration on the table.

Date-wise, it's probably between the wars -

1920s and 1930s, so it's a table that came home from the Raj.

If I get that cleaned, this is worth an awful lot more than £4.50.

Oh, let's hope so.

Both our dealers are fired up.

As Christina speedily trawls the stalls,

Jonty shimmies onwards.

-The Hitman does a deal with a disco dimension.

-Hey.

Now, don't you think he looks like me? He's as cool as I am.

WOLF WHISTLING

Fantastic. "50 Great Party Hits". This looks so up my street.

-How much is this great, fantastic album?

-£2.

-£2?!

-£2.

-I thought you were going to say 20p.

SHE LAUGHS

-I'll give you £1.

-OK. It's a deal.

So, pop pickers, amongst the dazzling dynamite on this double

disco delight is the one and only Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep(!)

SONG: "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"

Yes. Relive long Spanish summer evenings with Y Viva Espana.

SONG: "Y Viva Espana"

And everyone's party essential, My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean(!)

-RECORD SCRATCHES

-Don't worry, music lovers.

You have to draw the line somewhere.

So will Jonty's '70s LP give him

a high-octane hit or a low-mileage miss?

On the far side of the field and right alongside the busy A12,

Christina clocks a cocktail cabinet.

-I could come down to 100 quid comfortably.

-£90.

-90 quid.

-90 quid.

Thank you very much.

Yes, OK, this piece of furniture cost me £90.

You might think I'm slightly mad, but for me,

this is an iconic piece of furniture.

I just couldn't leave it here.

And to find it here of all places was a real treat for me.

It just says "I'm 1950s".

It's made of relatively cheap materials, however it was a time

when they were experimenting.

At the turn of the century, it was all very heavy wooden furniture

and then in the mid-20th century you've got this really light,

almost space-age-looking furniture.

It looks a bit Sputniky.

It's covered in material.

Whoever would have thought of putting material over a cocktail cabinet?

I love it.

I'm really excited about it and I can't wait to get home

and find out who that maker's label is.

That's a lot of money for a car boot purchase and in doing that deal,

The Magpie treads on The Hitman's toes.

Furniture is firmly his territory.

But now he's got his small table,

he's not giving the brown goods a second glance.

His next deal is pure glass.

A multiple mega-purchase from one lady.

He picks up an enormous collection of paperweights, a decanter

and a set of shot glasses, all for £13.

So voila.

Here is my £13 worth of investment of glass. It's extraordinary, isn't it?

These lovely paperweights. All for a tenner.

Now, the history of paperweights really goes back almost 200 years.

Very, very popular in the mid-19th century.

These, however, are very contemporary.

Some are nicer than others.

And my kitsch cocktail set. I have my four shot glasses.

I have my decanter. Have I shot myself in the foot with that?

Well, I don't really think so because that cost me three quid as well.

So if I can sell the whole thing, I could be in for a substantial profit.

And that's what you call a GLASSter plan, Hitman.

But Christina is a force to be reckoned with.

Her business brain is bleeping with bargain potential.

She's spotted a laundry basket.

Want me to sell it to you? It's the best one you'll ever see.

-It depends how much it is, doesn't it?

-£45. 1900, 1930s.

-No.

-Well, I was going to say 1920, 1930.

-Within that sort of period.

Will you take 20 for it?

-Deposit?

-Go on. Take 20 for it.

-The death on it, and I mean the death...

-Yeah.

-What's your death on it?

-35 quid.

-And that's the death.

-30.

-35's the death.

-£32.50.

HE LAUGHS Oh, no.

Don't deal in 50s. It's got to be 35.

Go on. You've got a deal. £35. You're a hard man. Thank you.

Yes. He's a man who knows what he wants and Christina paid the price.

But despite that, she hangs about at the stall.

-Are those your stepladders?

-Um, yes. English set.

This is a woman who thrives on the rough

and tumble of a trading tussle.

Either that or she's a glutton for punishment.

-50, 60 years old. Something like that.

-Do they work? Can I...?

-Are they going to fall apart when I...? What's your price on them?

-£35.

-£35?!

-£35.

-It would cost me less to buy a new pair.

Christina doesn't know it, but The Hitman has her in his sights.

What's she doing up a ladder?

Very strange.

Hmm. Jonty's nonplussed, but Christine continues her haggle

and lands the ladders for £25.

I am feeling on top of the world.

I just bought this gorgeous set of ladders.

This is a great example of a piece that was made as a functional item

and has now become quite a decorative thing.

And I think it could be a great display piece for a shop.

I love the fact that this has still got its original paint on it.

It looks like it's been worn. It looks like it's being used.

And I think they're great.

On top of the world, she said. What will Jonty make of it?

-Time for our little spy to come out of the shadows.

-Hello.

-Suits you, sir.

-Yeah, I know. I could spot those wellies a mile off.

They're my lucky wellies. SHE LAUGHS

-How's it going?

-Yeah, good. Quite busy, I think.

I've just seen you up a ladder. Please explain.

-Well, I'm trying to get one step ahead.

-Ahh.

-Wants a better view.

-Oh, really? Do tell me.

Without buying ladders.

One step above. HE LAUGHS

Have you bought anything that you're really, really pleased with?

-Everything was an absolute bargain.

-Don't tell me things like that.

-Well, I think it's time for a bacon butty.

-Do you reckon?

What do you reckon? I can smell them.

-I can sort of smell a bacon butty.

-Let's go and hunt them out.

Oh, the humble bacon butty. As British as the boot sale itself.

And while they fill up, let's find out the figures.

Each of our experts arrived in Essex with £250 of their own money.

Jonty has hardly made a dealing dash.

Three purchases for £18.50, leaving him with £231.50 to play with.

Christina, however, couldn't be more different.

She has spent £154 on four items,

meaning there's just £96 left in her kitty.

So, two distinct approaches to the sale,

but who will bring home the bacon and who has made rasher decisions?

Jonty tells me that he's got loads of bargains, that he's going to make

lots of money.

I'm starting to see through this man, I think, a little bit.

Besides, sustenance time.

Bacon butty will give me loads of energy

and there'll be lots more bargains now.

That's our girl. A fire in her belly.

But there's a change in the weather.

That chill is back and Christina doesn't want to freeze her assets.

My top tip for car booting in the great British summer -

always be prepared for whatever the weather will throw at you.

And Jonty's jaunty jumper goes back on as well.

And he's intent on keeping up the heat on his challenger.

So, Christina buys a ladder. I think she's doing very well.

Well, I have to say that I think I'm steps ahead because I've bought

a load of bargains.

The competition's hotting up.

While the pressure ramps up, the weather cools right down.

In fact, you could say it's got chills and they're multiplying.

I swear, I watched this film pretty much every day on repeat

when I was about 10 or 11, I suppose. I loved it.

-Excuse me, are these yours?

-Yeah.

-£2.

-Can you do any better?

-£1.

-Perfect.

-You've got a deal.

-You're a deal.

That's fantastic. Thank you ever so much.

I've just spent £1 on this record.

To be perfectly honest, records are a very, very specialist field

and not something that I know a lot about.

But I do know that it's got the record in it, which is always a bonus.

Obviously it's got its literature there as well.

It has got a date on the back.

I don't know if it was a limited edition,

but I will take it home and find out.

To be perfectly honest, for £1 and for one of my favourite films,

I don't think I've gone too far wrong.

Interesting. Both our dealers have seen value in vinyl.

It's Grease versus the greatest party hits.

So which will top the selling charts? Only time will tell.

Christina may be way out in front,

but Jonty's supreme confidence is undeniable.

Out there in the thick of things,

he's thrown his weight behind another item.

£12 buys a set of scales.

They are really good quality.

So the weights aren't complete, but I'm not too worried about that

because this dish here is in really good order.

In fact, the whole thing is perfect.

Now, date-wise, I don't think this is particularly old.

And the giveaway really is looking at the Salter label.

That doesn't look period to me. I think it's more of a reproduction.

So my set of kitchen scales for £12.

There has to be a profit in there somewhere.

But a £12 purchase hardly dents Jonty's wallet.

And there's Christina, faster than a firework,

flashing the cash all over the place.

In percentage terms, Jonty will have to work a lot harder to make

more money when he sells on his stash.

But just as things are starting to look a little worrying for The Hitman,

there's a hint of vintage Hearnden.

Yes, the nation breathes a collective sigh of relief as Jonty

eyes up some furniture.

This has probably been stripped once upon a time.

And now somebody has painted it. These handles aren't original.

You would have had bun handles. So rounded handles.

But if you look on the inside of here, very,

very typical construction. Dovetailing here.

So this chest of drawers is probably a good 150 years old.

Very commercial at the right price. Just a question of how much it is.

-What's the death on your chest of drawers?

-The death?

-Yeah.

-£180.

Will you take something like £120 for it?

£150 or that goes back on the van at that price, I'm afraid.

I'll take it off your hands for £140.

-It's a done deal.

-140 quid.

-All right.

-That's a done deal.

-Perfect.

Christina struggled at the same stall,

but Jonty gets a drop on his drawers.

That's a much needed yet low-risk purchase from The Hitman.

That's not the name of Christina's game, though. No.

This girl will push the boundaries, guided only by her guile

and gut instinct.

-How much is this sledge?

-£10.

-HOW much?!

-Where's the snow? Go on. £6.

-Nah, love. It's got to be eight quid.

-Eight quid is the best I can do.

-Can I meet you in the middle at £7?

-Go on.

-Go on, then.

-Yay! Thank you.

It's probably mid-20th century. It's a...obviously a snow sledge.

Can you think of the hours of fun that somebody's had on this?

I think it's seen a bit of action.

And you can tell by a little bit of damage at the back as well, sadly.

But I think that's quite nice.

It shows that it's been used and it's had a lot of fun in its life.

Yes, it's downhill all the way for Christina.

But selling it on in such mild conditions is snow easy task.

She's so pleased with herself, she decides to call it a day

and what better way to relax than to gloat as The Hitman hunts on?

Look at that determined walk. That's a man on a mission.

Or is it a man defeated?

A morning on his feet and Jonty's exhausted

and starting to get a bit anxious.

Time is running out.

It's quite extraordinary. People are packing up.

I feel like I've been round here several times already.

And it's getting a little bit frustrating

cos I've still got one more purchase to do.

And I know that it's here somewhere.

The boot sale's closure is imminent.

No extended opening hours on this field.

At the 11th hour, though, Jonty finally spots something.

But will it turn out to be his saviour?

£1?

-That's got to be worth £1. There's no chips.

-No. No salt.

-No salt? No fish?

-No. No fish.

-And this is £1?

Little hors d'oeuvre dish. 1930s hors d'oeuvre dish. Falcon Ware.

Made in England. It's in mint condition.

Do you know what?

Somebody will buy that. And somebody will buy it for more than £1.

-Here we go, sir.

-Thank you very much, young man.

-There we go.

-You've waited all day for that, haven't you?

-Yes, I have. Thank you.

Great. What a great buy.

Yes. That seems incredibly cheap.

But that last-minute dish of a deal

brings our car boot chaos to a close.

Let's see how our pair of premium profit hunters have got on.

Both our experts arrived with £250 to spend.

Jonty had a very cheap start, but the drawers cost money.

He made six deals and ended up paying £171.50.

Christina had a much more steady spending spree.

She also bought half a dozen items. All up, they cost her £162.

There's less than £10 between our dealers,

so what do they make of each other's booty?

-You've grown.

-This is the only way I could almost be as tall as you.

SHE LAUGHS

Now, I'm looking at everything in front of us here.

I kind of feel that this is... It feels like a very domestic scene.

-Loving all your glass. You got a bit glass happy.

-Lots of glass.

Well, I did really well purchasing all of my paperweights

-and my decanter and shot glasses all for 13 quid.

-Oh, that's not bad!

Not bad. Not bad.

So tell me, what bargains have you got here?

-For me, personally, it's got to be...

-Hey. Grease.

-Grease.

My vinyl. I literally lived on this film when I was about ten.

-I can match you on this.

-Yeah?

-Because I can feel a bit of dad dancing coming on.

-Oh, no. Not that.

No. Please, please. Save us from the dancing. Oh, it's you!

THEY LAUGH

-I've got to put it back.

-Jonty, when did you pose for a record cover?

Guess how much I paid for my table.

I love the marquetry or parquetry inlay on that.

-That's beautiful, isn't it?

-It's nice, isn't it?

-Yeah. 20 quid?

-What?

30 quid?

-What?

-40 quid?

-£4.50.

-No. Really?

-Yes. Get in there.

-At least we are both standing six feet tall.

-Oh, the dizzy heights.

SHE LAUGHS

Both our daring dealers head home with their hauls.

They may have breezed through the buying, but here comes the hard bit.

Success in selling. And that's no walk in the park. Far from it.

In fact, this will stretch their supreme skills to the limit.

It requires research, serious phone bashing, some heroic haggling

and all the luck in the world.

And whoever pops the biggest profit will be the winner.

In Oxfordshire, Jonty is in his back garden,

taking stock of his purchases.

Car boot sales. The amount of stuff you see is just amazing.

So no wonder I brought back an eclectic mix. Look at it.

My first purchase was my Indian table.

Now, it's got a ring mark on the top. It was a bargain.

If I can get that off, fine.

But if I can't, then it won't have turned into the bargain that

I initially thought it might have been.

But the big bargain of the day might well be my glass collection.

The paperweights. There's so many of them and they were so cheap.

I could be into a massive profit.

My little hors d'oeuvre dish. £1. It's Falcon Ware.

Not the most collectable name on the planet, but hey-ho.

For £1, goodness me, that's a bargain.

Now, sometimes you buy in haste and repent at leisure.

Say no more. Weighing scales. Great. Really decorative.

So who's going to buy them? Somebody for a kitchen.

Somebody for a display. I'm not quite sure.

But I've thrown a lot of money at my chest of drawers

and I brought it back and it's not the best specimen I've ever

seen as far as Victorian chest of drawers are concerned.

What I now need to do is get on the road.

Get into my car and start making those sales.

Indeed you do.

Christina is back in Shropshire at Trevanion HQ

and she's feeling confident.

The thing I love about car boot sales is the really,

really quirky things you can find.

And I certainly lucked out with quirky on this one.

My 1950s cabinet, I absolutely adore,

but it's very in vogue at the moment

so I'm hoping to make a good profit on that.

My ladders. I think they'd be a really good shop dressing prop.

My sledge.

You can see, by some slight damage,

obviously it's been through a few hedges.

But again, really good, quirky item.

The hamper. I've done a little bit of research.

And I think there is a hotel and restaurant in London that I'm

hopefully going to maybe sell that one to.

So very excited about that.

The artist's easel, I'm hoping that we can find a good home for that.

Every artist needs an easel.

And my Grease record, which only cost me £1,

I could not leave behind.

It was one of my favourite films as a child and it brings back some great

memories of dancing around my bedroom with a hairbrush.

So all in all, yes, OK, not many antiques

but shabby chic

and good decorative vintage things are very in vogue at the moment.

Sadly, no time for any hairbrush action just now. Oh, no.

It's full concentration on the balance sheets.

Our rivals dig deep in their contacts books

and start setting up sales all over the country.

And that's all very well, but remember, until they've shaken

on it and the money has changed hands, no deal is ever sealed.

They both get their noses to the ground, but it's Jonty who sniffs

the whiff of a potential sale first and he's keeping things local.

Now, I'm here in beautiful Henley-on-Thames to hopefully

sell my weighing scales to Shaun Dickens,

who runs a restaurant here on the banks of the River Thames.

Now, every good chef needs a set of weighing scales,

but he's not making life easy for me.

The lengths I go to make a sale.

SONG: "Rock The Boat" by Hues Corporation

Well, that's what happens

when you decide to sell to someone based in a boathouse.

Come on. Put your back into it, Hitman.

Our finely honed oarsman is on the quest of a regatta-sized deal, so

will he propel himself to a profit on the £12 he paid for the scales?

-Shaun, how are you?

-Very well. Very well, thank you.

-Good to see you.

-You too, sir. How are we?

-You've chosen a lovely day.

-Couldn't get much better.

-Now, here I am with my set of weighing scales.

So you're interested in this possibly for decorative purposes only?

Yeah. I think so.

I think with the restaurant it's always nice to have a talking point,

-almost a focal point.

-So, this is a set of weighing scales made by Salter's.

The company goes back to the 18th century.

-So you have the Rolls-Royce of weighing scales.

-Very nice.

Well, it's a bargain. 60 quid to you, sir.

I was thinking more around the 25-30 mark, if I'm honest.

What about 50 quid?

-If I was to say £40?

-You have a deal.

-Thank you ever so much.

Shaun put up a fight, but the deal is done.

The scales tip in a profit of £28.

In percentage terms, that's what I call a weighty profit.

But on balance, that's only 28 quid in my pocket,

so I've got some more work to do.

Well, no more messing about on the river, for a start.

The Magpie may be hot on Jonty's trail,

but she's not quite swift enough.

Our man stops in Wantage with his glass decanter and shot glasses

and the 1940s hors d'oeuvre dish.

All up, this little lot cost him just £4

and he's hoping for a mega multideal from pub landlord Peter.

-I want £40 for my decanter set.

-Yes.

-And £40 for my hors d'oeuvre dish.

-How does that sound?

-A little bit high.

-Well, I'm here to do deals.

-Well, I would have said £40 for the two of them.

-You would?

-Yeah.

-£60 and they're yours.

-Thank you.

-Brilliant.

Thank you very much indeed.

That is a truly tremendous mark-up.

Jonty pockets a combined profit of £56. That's 14 times what he paid.

So The Hitman's off to a flying start, but Christina's got

the bit between her teeth and is determined to catch up.

She's not travelled far from home,

but is firmly focused on her first deal.

I've come to Whitewell Parish Rooms this morning

because I believe that there's an art group on this morning

and I'm hoping that I can find an artist that will purchase my easel.

Because every artist needs one, don't they?

Well, there's plenty of painters here.

Christina paid just £4 for her easel.

Will her selling skills turn out to be a work of art themselves?

-Good morning, Diana.

-Good morning, Christina.

-This looks very, very industrious, doesn't it?

-Welcome to our art group.

-And I see you've already met my easel.

-Yes. It looks very smart.

-And we have loads of exhibitions.

-So you always need something to put...

-We need an easel. Yes.

-To put your works of art on.

-That's right.

I'll tell you, I was hoping maybe in the region of maybe £30.

Something like that.

-Is this where I go...?

-SHE INHALES

Yes. THEY LAUGH

-I was thinking, um, £15.

-Shall we say £25?

-£20.

-£20. Brilliant.

It's a deal. Thank you very much. You're a star.

No room for critics round here.

Just all-round admiration for a stunning sale.

Christina brushes in a picture perfect profit of £16.

But she can't rest on her laurels just yet,

as Jonty is off again.

He's gone back to Essex with the rest of his glassware to

try his luck with a dealer in Battlesbridge.

There we go. They're all out on display.

All I need to find if the owner to see if he's interested.

There's 22 paperweights in total.

They cost him £10, so what will shop owner John think of them?

-So I've got 22 in all.

-Right. OK. I tell you what I'll do, Jonty.

I'll make you an offer of £40.

-That really is the very most I can pay for them at the moment.

-40 quid.

-Any good to you?

-40 quid. I'm happy with that.

But before I walk out the door,

there's something else I want to show you, which is priceless.

-Yours for only £2.

-You're right. It probably is priceless.

Right. Not for me, but we do have a record specialist here on site.

I'll point you in his direction

-and he might be very pleased to give you some pounds for it.

-Brilliant.

Yes. And that's how this business works - a man who knows a man.

We'll find out if the tip-off comes to anything later,

but for now, Jonty makes a profit of £30 on the paperweights.

Back in Shropshire, Christina's looking to sell her sledge,

and since it's not exactly wintry weather,

she could have an uphill struggle.

I'm here in Whitchurch to see Julie,

who runs this clothing and interior shop.

It may seem a little bit strange to bring a sledge to a clothing shop,

but don't worry - I've got a plan.

Well, thank goodness for that.

-Our Magpie Christina swooped on the sledge for £7.

-Ta-da!

-Oh, it's fabulous.

-Do you like it?

-That is great! Yes!

It would look absolutely fantastic for our Christmas window display.

-I have to confess...

-Oh. Right. There is a little bit of damage.

-Yes.

-Not me playing on it, I promise.

-Right. OK.

I think it's probably sort of 1950s, 1960s maybe.

I was hoping to get maybe 50, 60 quid for it, to be perfectly honest.

-Well, I'm quite happy to offer £30.

-Can we go £40?

-We certainly can. Yes.

-Brilliant. That's fantastic.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

That is quite a mark-up.

The sledge helps Christina slide away with a profit of £33.

Oh, brilliant. I'm really pleased with that.

And a good healthy profit as well.

I tell you, this selling lark - snow problem.

And snow more snow jokes.

But Christina is taking this game very seriously.

Almost instantly she heads to Shrewsbury to sell her stepladders

to a farmer who makes cheese.

She pays £35 and Christina leaves £10 better off.

So has Christina climbed the rungs of trading success or is

Jonty on a whole different level?

Let's find out.

Jonty "The Hitman" Hearnden has stormed ahead with three quick deals

and so far he's nailed a profit of £114.

Christina "The Magpie" Trevanion is playing a good game of catch up.

She's also sold three items and has pocketed a profit of £59.

So Christina has only made half as much as her nemesis.

She must really dig deep if she is to stand any chance of ultimate

antiques glory.

But there's no-one more determined than our Magpie.

Jonty could be about to press further ahead with his 1970s LP.

He's following up that tip he was given earlier

and he's on his way to the man who specialises in records.

So this is it. My double album. My 50 party greatest hits.

Somebody's going to buy it.

I'm hoping this record shop is going to be the...

It's closed.

Oh, no.

And it's...look. It's closing time too. Everything's closed.

HE SIGHS

I'm just going to leave it here.

RIP Greatest Hits.

With no time to make a return journey, Jonty donates the record to

the shop, leaving him without any kind of deal at all.

And so he loses the whole £1 that he paid for it.

Which leads very nicely into Christina's next potential sale.

Her Grease record.

It also cost £1,

but she think she's got the perfect buyer cued up and standing by.

So I'm just waiting for my friend Rhiannon to arrive.

Now, Rhiannon and I used to work together over a decade ago,

but in a previous life, she was a stage manager for the national

touring production of this musical.

So I'm hoping that she might want to take a trip down memory lane.

So is this album the one that Rhiannon wants?

Wowee. So what's all this?

Well, these are just the bits that I've kept from, um, the tour.

-Um, a little...

-Oh, look at!

An award that was given to me at the end.

This is what we had to do, you know, for each venue that we went to.

-Sometimes we were at venues for...

-Is this Milton Keynes?

-Milton Keynes.

Yeah. That was quite a big stage.

There was quite a lot of scenery.

So everything had to be worked out where it was

going before we actually got there.

So I'm hoping to add to your memories. I bought this LP record.

Wow.

And I thought you might want to have it as a bit of a memory of your time.

I reckon that would be lovely. I really do. And do you know what?

I really look forward to playing that to my daughter as well.

-But I was hoping for a tenner for it.

-That sounds a good deal to me.

Yeah? Happy? Brilliant. Excellent. Thank you very much.

-Can I come and join you with my hairbrush?

-Of course you can.

THEY LAUGH

Well, that couldn't have gone better.

Rhiannon jumped at the deal and Christina makes a profit of £9.

And if she keeps making mark-ups like that, she'll win this

competition hands down.

But there's still a long way to go.

Both our excellent experts have two items each to sell,

including their most expensive pieces.

Nerves of steel needed for this final push.

Jonty is going in first.

Time to part company with his beloved furniture.

So this is the big one for me.

I've already had my chest of drawers delivered to this shop

here in Marlow Buckinghamshire, which is not too far from my house.

And this shop here belongs to Sara. Now, she is a paint expert.

A paint specialist. And she has a shop full of painted furniture.

She could be just the right person to make that sale.

The chest was Jonty's star buy, but he's already admitted that at £140,

he may have paid over the odds.

Will the paint effect leave Sara impressed or distressed?

-There she is, hard at work.

-Hi. Hello, Jonty.

-How are you doing?

-I'm all right. How are you?

-Good.

This is a nice chair you've got here. What are you up to here?

-Are you sort of distressing it?

-I am distressing it.

I painted it white first,

and this colour, Rain Day, is very popular at the moment so I've given

it a coat of Rain Day and I'm just sanding it off a bit.

There's a reason that I've come in here, as well you know.

-Your chest of drawers. It is here.

-Here it is. Look at this. What do you think?

Well, I've had a bit of a poke over.

-As you know.

-Yes. It's the drawer stoppers.

These are tiny little bits of timber that often sit here that have gone

missing. I'm not going to be greedy.

I'm going to go for £225,

which I know is way under the retail price for this lovely object here.

-I would have been looking at £150 for it, Jonty.

-I tell you what.

-I'll do £200.

-You want to do £175?

-£185. You can have it.

-As it's you. OK.

-HE LAUGHS

That's a top drawer profit of £45,

but Sara does get a little more for her money from Jonty.

The Hitman's raised the profit bar to a new height,

so our battle for selling supremacy goes into overdrive.

Christina's decided to pull out her big weapon -

the cocktail cabinet that cost her £90, and she must be onto something.

She's travelled all the way to London to try to do a deal.

I've come here to meet a lady called Keeley who runs a vintage home show

here at Chiswick Town Hall.

I've had my cabinet delivered

and I'm hoping that it's going to be just up her street.

Well, it looks like the funky furniture would fit in well here.

Crucially, does Keeley agree?

-So it's arrived.

-Yes.

-Have you had a chance to have a look at it?

-Yeah.

-I think it's nice, actually. I really like it.

-OK. That's great.

-It was sold to me as a cocktail cabinet.

-OK.

But I don't quite know how you'd use it as a cocktail...

Have you seen one similar before?

I've seen some of this kind of stuff before and actually

I think it's for a kitchen.

-Kitchenware.

-Yes. I think so. I don't think cocktail at all.

I would say it's late '50s, probably, going into '60s.

But it's a nice background to put lots of bright pottery

and all the kind of cool funky stuff that was around in the '50s.

I was looking somewhere in the region of maybe a couple of hundred

-pounds for it.

-Right. OK.

I would probably be looking to probably pay about £100 for it.

If I went down maybe £180?

-£150 and that's probably the maximum.

-Is that your top end?

-I think so. Yeah.

-OK.

-How would you feel about that?

I think I would be very, very happy to sell it to you for £150.

I'm delighted. Thank you ever so much.

Well, there's no doubt that Keeley loves the 1950s cabinet.

And Christina brings in a £60 profit,

which, at this point, keeps her firmly in the running.

Well, I have to say I'm jolly pleased with that.

It looks so at home in there, doesn't it? It's brilliant.

I was quite worried about it.

It was the most money I spent at the car boot sale.

But I'm really pleased with that profit. So it's all good.

Indeed it is.

Jonty has got one last chance to plump up his profit pocket.

He's back in Henley and he's calling in on Molly

and Amy, who run a florists.

The Hitman is hoping to knock their socks off with his brass-top table.

What's your first impressions?

-I like the pattern on the top.

-It's amazing.

To think that all of this work here is all hand-beaten.

-And how old did you say it was?

-It's probably about 100 years old.

-Wow.

Maybe 1920s.

But you can see here I've got a little ring mark here on this table.

And the reason why this has happened is

because this whole tabletop here has been lacquered.

The only thing is I noticed is that all of your pieces of furniture

are painted blue, for obvious reasons.

But, um, is this going to be an issue?

What would you do with something like this? Would you paint the stand?

Jonty, what are you doing?

They can see it doesn't match their colour scheme.

You don't need to point it out.

We wouldn't like to spoil it, but we might paint it blue.

As a piece of furniture, do you think you might be interested in it?

-For display?

-I think we might.

I suppose it depends, really, what you're asking for it.

It certainly does. It certainly does.

This table here is only £50.

Perhaps there might be a little bit of room for manoeuvre on your price.

Of course I can. I'll come down instantly. How about 40 quid?

-£40 seems...

-That seems quite reasonable.

-Are you happy, girls?

-Do we have a deal?

-We have a deal.

-Brilliant.

-Thank you, Molly. Thank you, Amy.

-Thank you.

So even with the ring mark, the table makes a very good return.

The profit is £35.50.

Well, that's great. Another satisfied customer.

Well, two, to be precise. And that's me done. All sold up. What a relief.

Well, Christina is only one sale behind him

and if this goes well, it will lead to a very close final result.

She's still in the big smoke

and she's rather excited about this big moment.

I'm here in the heart of London in Piccadilly Circus,

which may seem a slightly odd place to bring a hamper, but don't worry.

I have a plan. I want to return this where it came from.

Another big plan, hey? Well, it worked out well last time.

Christina's detective skills suggest her laundry hamper was

used by the restaurant nearly a century ago.

The likes of Sir Winston Churchill and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle have

dined here, so were their tablecloths

whisked away in Christina's basket?

And more importantly, will the current owner, Irakli, want it back?

-Here is the legendary hamper.

-Yeah. It looks quite interesting.

It looks quite old, just like the building.

And I brought it to you

because we've got this wonderful Criterion name on the front.

It says laundry on the back and then we've got this number on here, 18.

So it was obviously one of a series that was produced.

And I think it would have been very utilitarian piece when it was made.

But obviously you have a lot of laundry that needs doing,

so I think it would have been part of the history of the building.

And obviously the stencil on the front would show the laundry company,

whoever was during the laundry, who it belonged to.

-So do you like it?

-I like it. I think it looks interesting. What's the damage?

I was hoping to get in the region of about 100 quid for it.

-My thoughts were half that.

-It's beautiful.

-Half that.

-Half that?! No! Irakli.

Come on.

Oh, Christina has a tough customer on her hands.

But this is crucial. It's her one and only opportunity to beat Jonty.

Let's not do 100, but let's do something like...£85.

My thoughts - if I could push you slightly to £90,

that would be wonderful.

-Go on. £90.

-OK. Fine. £90.

-Brilliant. £90. It's a deal.

Yes. The girl done good. A bumper profit of £55.

So has the laundry basket helped her clean up?

We'll find out in just a moment.

Both our experts started out at the car boot sale

with £250 of their own money.

Jonty bought six times and spent £171.50.

Christina also left with six items, but spent marginally less - £162.

But now it all comes down to profit.

All of the money that Jonty and Christina have

made from their challenge will go directly to their chosen charities.

So let's find out who is today's Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is champion.

-Hello.

-Hi. How you doing?

-Very well. How are you?

-I'm very good.

-Very good.

-Good, good, good. So...

..what was your most favourite item that you bought at the car boot sale?

I was really thrilled

and I negotiated hard on the chest of drawers,

but it didn't return me such a huge amount of money that

I thought it was going to be because actually, really looking at it,

it needed quite a lot of work doing to it.

So that was a disappointment for me.

I'm still glad I sold it and I sold everything at a profit,

which was a relief.

-Brilliant.

-Apart from my album.

Oh! Your party hits. Jonty's special party hits.

Didn't happen. Nobody wanted to party with me. How about you?

The hamper that I bought went to the most beautiful restaurant.

-It was just heaven. So, no. Really enjoyed it and, yeah.

-Ooh!

Well, we'll see. I don't know. SHE LAUGHS

-Shall we see?

-Let's see.

-OK.

-Ready?

-One, two, three.

-Ooh!

-SHE LAUGHS

-So close!

-How close was that?

Oh, wowee.

You are a force to be reckoned with.

Just £10 in it. So near, but yet so far.

And Jonty walks away today's winner.

Well, I suppose my best sale was my chest of drawers,

but I didn't make as much as I'd really hoped. And the party hits.

Couldn't sell that for love nor money. I wonder why.

I lost by such a tiny amount to Jonty. It was gutting.

A very bitter pill to swallow but, hey, there we go.

Next time, Jonty Hearnden.

Yes, that's fighting talk. And tomorrow, it's the big one.

Batten down your hatches

for the mighty Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is showdown.