“Egg cooker or waffle iron?” asks Horst Lichter when he sees the strange device in the expert room. In fact, it is a sunlamp that the couple Beate and Hubert Krug from Vaihingen in Swabia would like to sell at “Bares for Rares”. The device fell into Beate’s hands when her grandmother was selling the house, and because of the beautiful color she took it with her. The term artificial sun lamp is derived from the ultraviolet component of sunlight, which is more effective in the mountains.
But now it should go. Lichter has a lot of understanding for this: “Nowadays it’s not quite as up-to-date anymore. I think the thing uses a little more electricity than a newly built single-family house,” jokes the moderator. Detlev Kümmel explains how the electrical device, which dates back to the 1950s or 1960s, works. There are two possible applications: Firstly, there is a tanning function, and secondly, heat treatment is possible. The expert emphasizes the good condition of the object, which also has a timer, comparable to an egg timer, so that nobody sizzles.
The Swabians are modest when it comes to their asking price: “Everything between 10 and 40 euros would be a success,” says Beate Krug. Since Kümmel goes over it: He thinks 50 to 100 euros is possible.
In any case, the dealers seem interested: “Stylish”, Christian Vechtel praised the design during the appraisal. And Daniel Meyer calls the device the “Cadillac among the sunlamps”. He also opens the bidding competition with 20 euros. When the bids have reached 35 euros, Beate Krug offers the possibility of continuing in individual euro steps. Meyer jumps on it immediately and offers 36 euros.
“Why are you doing that?” asked Vechtel, dumbfounded. The explanation is simple: “I’ve never bid a euro here,” says Daniel Meyer. This also arouses interest in Elke Velten-Tönnies, she offers 37 euros. In one-steps it goes up to 40 euros – for this sum Christian Vechtel finally gets the bid. Although this is below the estimated value, it is also the upper limit of what the sellers wanted. They leave the room with satisfaction.
Bidding in one-euro increments was also a lot of fun for the dealers. “We could also do that with objects that are perhaps worth a thousand,” suggests Vechtel – and his colleagues agree. However, that could take a little more time than usual: Daniel Meyer is already dreaming of going overboard like Thomas Gottschalk once did: “Three hours of ‘Bares für Rares'” – many fans of the junk show would certainly not mind.
Source: “Bares for Rares” in the ZDF media library
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