“Fucked in”: “Bares for Rares” dealer loses tens of thousands of euros
Created: 11/26/2022, 07:12
By: Lukas Einkammerer
The "Bares for Rares" dealers have the right nose for great treasures.
They regularly offer large sums for rare objects and pieces of jewellery.
But even professionals can make mistakes.
Pulheim – Anyone who pays a visit to the awesome halls of “Bares für Rares” usually hopes for one thing above all: to be able to go home with a fat wallet.
After all, the popular ZDF flea show with Horst Lichter (60) is the right place to turn to dusty treasures that you discovered in your grandparents' attic or in the depths of your own garage.
That doesn't always work, but here and there a true treasure turns up that conjures up dollar bills in the eyes of everyone present.
Accurate Judgment: Cash for Rares dealers (almost always) recognize what's worth a lot
The concept of "Bares for Rares" is simple: If you want to sell a valuable-looking item, you first have it approved by the team of eight experts led by Dr.
Estimate the price of Heide Rezepa-Zabel (57) and Sven Deutschmanek (46).
The object of desire is then presented to the dealers in the sales hall, who make their own offer – which ideally is so good that the customer can no longer refuse it.
Of course, not every retro vase is an antique Ming vase, for which it rains millions, but plenty of treasures are already wandering over the sales table in the ratings hit.
Despite all the specialist knowledge and know-how, even the experts sometimes make the wrong decision.
David Suppes (34), who has been at the dealer's desk since 2019, remembers his biggest bad buy in a "Bares for Rares" Instagram video: a terracotta warrior that he once bought at a household sale.
"There really are replicas that cost tens of thousands of euros," he explains in advance, "I thought to myself: Oh my God - I actually know them quite well."
But it was an antique treasure of incomparable value not, just a piece of garden decoration.
The biggest "Bares for Rares" treasures
Ever since the very first episode of “Bares für Rares” premiered on ZDF on August 3, 2013, the bargain-loving dealers have acquired a few real treasures – at breathtaking prices.
In 2019, Cosima Birk and her daughter Stephanie Huber received 42,000 euros for a piece of jewelery containing splinters of wood from the cross of Jesus Christ.
In 2021, Marlies Fischer received 30,500 euros for a lithograph by the expressionist painter Otto Mueller, of which only 20 exist worldwide.
In the same year, Sabine Riemer was delighted to receive 29,000 euros for a gold-plated drinking vessel from the court of the Russian Empress Catherine the Great.
So you can tell: visits to the flea market and rummaging around in the attic pay off.
(Source:
berliner-kurier.de
)
From the garden market: "Bares for Rares" dealer David confused decoration with antique treasure
A garden article manufacturer seems to have done a great job, because the sympathetic antiques connoisseur actually thought the sculpture was authentic.
"A couple of weeks later I was buying flowers at the garden center and saw exactly this figure, standing 20 times in a row for 199 euros," David Suppes looks back, "It was just a decorative garden object that I fell for."
Luckily, his fans fully understand this: "It's reassuring that the dealers aren't that perfect either," reads a comment under the video, "It's nice that David is so relaxed about it," says another.
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Today he takes the statue blunder with humor - after all, even the most accurate expert can sometimes make a mistake.
"She's still very beautiful and she's still with me," explains the Wiesbaden native, "but the magic is a bit gone." he lost 10,000 euros because of a sales error.
Sources used:
Instagram/baresfuerrares, berliner-kurier.de
