A BARGAIN Hunt expert turned a £40 car boot sale purchase into an incredible £1,000 profit.
Tim Weeks has been a regular expert on BBC hit Bargain Hunt since 2017.
The toy specialist has revealed his greatest ever profit – giving budding buyers a sense of what to look out for.
He shared: “I once found an old scrapbook containing 1940s football newspaper cuttings at a car boot sale.
“I asked how much it was and was told £40.
“It felt a little steep for a dirty old scrapbook until I flicked to the back pages, which had 21 wartime single sheet football programmes neatly stuck onto them.
At this point, Tim said he had “quickly realised it was a bargain.”
The star added: “It also had match tickets, bubble gum cards and autographs.
“I sold it for over £1,000 after I performed the painstaking task of steaming each item out of the book.”
On the flip side, Tim also opened up about the biggest loss he has faced at auction.
He recalled: “My biggest loss was when I ‘blind’ purchased a collection of rock and film star autographs for £220.
“When they arrived they were all facsimile and worth about a tenner!
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A previous Bargain Hunt episode saw a couple bag a rare three-figure profit after uncovering a hidden gem.
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The item – which dated back to the 1970s – was a very costly buy in Bargain Hunt terms.
In fact, there was so little cash left over that their other item was a £20 Clarice Cliff mustard pot that didn’t have have a lid.
However, the gamble – or shrewd investment – paid off, with the pair doubling their money, which almost never happens with big-money items.
They wound up making £260 for the vintage watch – and were seen jumping up and down with joy at the Somerset auction house.
And even the mustard pot with out the lid made Nathalie and Karl a £4 profit.
A set of bowls they’d bought earlier was also a modest winner, bagging the contestants another £16.
In the end, the pair made a whopping profit of £149 – a small fortune in Bargain Hunt terms, where contestants regularly go home with either pennies or a thumping loss.
Bargain Hunt airs on BBC One and iPlayer.
