Sebastian and Oliver Kester were offered only 1,500 euros for their designer chair at "Bares für Rares" The brothers were hoping for 8,000 euros for the noble seat, which resembles a harp. Since the very first episode of the ZDF junk show premiered on August 3, 2013, the negotiating dealers have bought a few real treasures – at breathtaking prices.
In 2019, Cosima Birk and her daughter Stephanie Huber received 42,000 euro for a piece of jewelry that contained splinters of wood from the cross of Jesus Christ. Marlies Fischer was awarded 20,30 euros for a lithograph by the expressionist painter Otto Mueller.