Money for nothing or what a load of bo***cks

[Phil Pascoe]

They don't like the economic truth much. I remember watching one of the property renovation programmes and the alleged total cost cost of the job wouldn't have paid the tradesmen working on it had the job been done properly.

 

[Tasky]

Not seeing the whole programme it seemed that Money For Nothing didn't take into account the labour costs.

It does.
Usually it costs hundreds, which is what the thing sells for, plus the £30-odd that ends up being the 'profit' that gives the show its title. Hundreds, for cutting something in half and screwing a metal leg onto it.... Guess why it's called money for nothing!!

Quote from fashionable 1920s working man Jay Blades himself:
“I can’t afford my own stuff. It starts from around £175 for the most basic chair but most of it is in the hundreds. It’s hand made with my own distinctive signature style – a pompom, one leg of a piece that is a different colour to the other three, or a coloured seam. People buy it to have a one-off, individual piece of furniture.”
In this case, "hand made" means taking one free dining chair from the tip, painting one leg a different colour, sticking a pom-pom on it and that'll be £800 if you please!!

More absolute gems quotyed here: https://www.shropshirestar.com/entertai ... pton-city/

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Oxymoron of the week - Jay Blades loves furniture.

 

[thetyreman]

there's another one to watch find it, fix it, flog it on ch4, any thoughts on that?

 

[Dalboy]

My wife likes to watch this program and tonight two blokes made a light from twigs and small branches I looked up to see one of the idiots using a spindle roughing gouge on a bowl type blank. Those that turn will know what I am on about

 

[MARK.B.]

Like or loath these sort of programs they will continue to churn them out as it seems there is an appetite out there for them.
Personally if i turn on the tv and like what i see i will watch, if i dont i turn the channel to something else or off.
One thing i do know for sure is that if by painting a chair leg a different colour and adding a button or two i could then sell it for a nice profit to someone who will willingly give me that money them i would do just that and i reckon that a lot of others would do so as well.

 

[Fergal]

One thing i do know for sure is that if by painting a chair leg a different colour and adding a button or two i could then sell it for a nice profit to someone who will willingly give me that money them i would do just that and i reckon that a lot of others would do so as well.

Indeed.

I'd like to know where to find customers willing to buy this stuff. I wonder if they actually like it, or are they just buying it because he's a "celebrity".

 

[lurker]

I caught one of the antique programmes where "an expert" went into a shop and haggled the price of something down by 50%. This shop is local to me and a few weeks beforehand I had spotted and interesting tool (that I did not really need) it was marked at £25 so I offered him £20. He virtually threw me out.
Clearly on the programme, he thought the loss was well worth the advertisement but he is generally a grumpy old sod, nothing like the jovial chap he came across on the telly

 

[Fergal]

I had a look at Mr Blade's website. He definitely has a signature style.

I was impressed with the amount of work that must have gone in to this "dinning" chair:

http://jayand.co/shop/chrome-frame-dinning-chair

 

[lurker]

I had a look at Mr Blade's website. He definitely has a signature style.

I was impressed with the amount of work that must have gone in to this "dinning" chair:

http://jayand.co/shop/chrome-frame-dinning-chair

The frame was actually quite nice until he painted the leg in "bright ornage".

 

[Phil Pascoe]

I've always wanted a dinning chair with an ornage leg. By the bye ..........

The thing that most amuses me is when someone says you've got £100 on that ............ will you take £25? And the guy says make it £30 and you've got a deal. I wouldn't buy anything from him ever again.

 

[Tasky]

I'd like to know where to find customers willing to buy this stuff. I wonder if they actually like it, or are they just buying it because he's a "celebrity".

They may like it, but chances are they haven't a scooby on whether it's modern art or a tepid puddle of afterbirth mopped up from a delivery room floor.....
As for where to find people who buy this ****, try starting with owners of fairly large motor yachts. Generally, look for people with loads of money, who pay other people to tell them what to spend their money on......

I had a look at Mr Blade's website. He definitely has a signature style.

Abysmal spelling and grammar aside, that style seems to be buying existing furniture, painting on the leg/button, and then admitedly and openly flogging it at rip-off prices....
It's like shabby-chic'ing something, but several levels more pretentious!

 

[selectortone]

I Saw You Coming

 

[Phil Pascoe]

or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUnvgKhWZdI

 

[Trevanion]

I had a look at Mr Blade's website. He definitely has a signature style.

I was impressed with the amount of work that must have gone in to this "dinning" chair:

http://jayand.co/shop/chrome-frame-dinning-chair

Reminds me of this:

Does that make it art?

 

[rafezetter]

Another one for the pile:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12-inch-EXTR ... 2498422802

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Today's masterpiece - a nice clean Woden metalwork vice the size of a 3 or 4 ............ turned into a wall light. F***ing unbelievable. She paid a guy £95 (he did her a bit of a favour :shock: ) to have a bit of tube bolted to it and a lampfitting wired on, and sold it for £115 - to someone who was going to sell it on again.

 

[Stanleymonkey]

Saw You Coming

Love the grocery one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq7-cXqDIFM

 

[Stanleymonkey]

Can't get my head around that website. Openly says found in local market. Then basically states that these aren't the greatest so we've added an exclusive logo to it and we are now re-selling it!

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Saw You Coming
Love the grocery one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq7-cXqDIFM

or -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyNQuLPTkvM