cash in the cupboard, the garage and the cupboards more often than not!! (Cash in the Attic)

Member Name: dove3066

Product:	Cash in the Attic
Date:	05/06/09 (15 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Interesting to see what sells

Disadvantages: A little bit contrived at times

This si one of the daytime delicacies which is provided by the BBC for our Daytime viewing.

The series has had a number of different presenters over the years from Lorne Spicer to Angela Rippon and even Jennie Bond.

The idea of the show is that someone has an amount of money they wish to raise for aspecific purpose, new car, holiday, painting the house and they have lots of antiques that they want to get rid of.

The resident expert then goes around the house and finds items they believe would sell at auction and then they give them an estimate. The householder decides if they want to sell them and then when they have found enough items they go off to the auction.

Sometimes the items sell for more than the estimate and sometimes they don't sell at all. I remeber one programme when the owners had put reserves on every item and most of the reserves were above the losest estimate so they hardly sold a thing!!

I think a lot of the people on the program are seeing it as a cheap way of selling stuff at auction because I think the BBC pick up the tab for the cost of selling the items at the auction.

It can be an entertaining programme but I find it alla bit too false and concocted - how many times can they find a piece of abandoned jewelry that the owner "had totally forgotton about!!!" which ends up worth a fortune!

Summary: A slightly fabricated programme but fairly entertaining