Flog it!

[denis567]

Watching todays episode of Flog It!, I can't help but thinking that there is something wrong with the antique business when someone is willing to pay �2200 for the scruffiest looking teddy bear, just because it was a Steiff.

[MrBounty]

I find it crazy that anyone would want to pay anything like that for any sort of teddy bear!

[SeaJayPea]

Did you not see the Antiques Roadshow last Sunday? There was a report on there about somebody who brought a bear to a previous edition from Northern Ireland and sold it at auction in London, for - wait for it - �20 grand!

[willowman]

The value of a product is what somebody is prepared to pay for it. Simple as that. Luckily for the antiques market there are a lot of people about "with more money than sense", as my old Mum used to say.
It's the same in the art world - look at the rubbish that is sold for huge amounts of money, an unmade bed for example, or a large white canvas with different coloured circles painted on it.

[DaisyMae]

My argument with the antiques business is that it seems that something which is lovingly and sensitively restored is worth less than the same item in a tattered and useless condition.

[Everhelpful]

Well said,willowman.

[ladietrouble]

i hate this programme,if it got taken off the telly i wouldnt flutter an eyelid ;-)