Nigel Havers presents a new BBC One series, The Bidding Room from the makers of The Repair Shop

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From the award-winning makers of The Repair Shop, Nigel Havers presents a new BBC One series, The Bidding Room, in which a group of expert dealers attempt to outbid each other to buy extraordinary items brought in by the public.

From a wondrous old mill, deep within the rolling hills of the Yorkshire countryside, Nigel welcomes people with an item they’d like to sell. First, he introduces the seller to The Bidding Room’s resident valuation expert Simon who has more than thirty years’ experience as an auctioneer. Simon will examine the item and tell the would-be seller all about its key selling points before valuing it. All this advice will help the sellers know how best to sell their item when they come face to face with five eager dealers - all ready to spend their own money.

The dealers have no idea who is going to walk in or what they’ve brought in to sell. When the seller enters the bidding room, they’ll present the item to the dealers who then try to work out what it might be worth. It’s the seller’s opportunity to talk up the item in the hope of pushing up the potential bids, without giving away Simon’s valuation.

Then it’s on to the bidding - a high stakes, tense game of bluff and double bluff. The dealers bid against each other; the more of them who bid, the higher the price will go. The seller will try to push them up as far they can - hopefully without giving away any idea of the price they might sell at. It’s a real battle of wits, as the dealers will not want to give too much away either!

As the bidding progresses, each dealer will have an idea about what they’d prefer to pay for the item - so if the bids go beyond that, they’ll drop out. One by one, the dealers stop bidding until there’s just one left. The seller can then decide if the final price offered by the last remaining dealer is high enough for them to sell. Can they keep a straight enough poker face to get the dealers up to the highest possible price? Will that be enough to tempt them to sell?

The objects and sellers

Each show will feature four sellers - and four high stakes bidding battles

All sorts of items come through the doors of the bidding room: Musical instruments, classic Chopper bikes, Japanese whiskey, film props, classic toy trains and cars, vintage phones, model aeroplanes, statues, furniture and jewellery

Many of the sellers are looking to raise money for good causes - a safe is brought to the bidding room in the hope of raising money for a community project, a teddy bear going on sale in an effort to raise money for a gravestone to commemorate the late bear’s owner

Other sellers were grandparents wanting to help their grandchildren through university or ones looking to make donations to charity

Some are for more prosaic reasons - one seller hopes to shift a movie prop and use the money to take his wife out for dinner because the prop has been clogging up their garage for years!

The sellers come from all over the country, with the youngest an eleven year old who hopes to become a dealer himself one day and is trying to sell a scooter in the hope of turning a profit

The show features eight different dealers, put together in different combinations of five, across the 30 shows

Source BBC One

June 4, 2020 4:05am ET by BBC One  

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