BBC Bargain Hunt star admits 'that's terrible' after suffering huge loss

BBC Bargain Hunt prima Sunjit was near disappointed aft she failed to marque a nett connected the items she purchased with her daughter.

Viewers of Bargain Hunt were successful for a astonishment during Wednesday's variation of the amusement erstwhile Sunjit and her girl Simran experienced a streak of atrocious luck.

In this repeated episode, which was changeable successful Peterborough, the mother-daughter squad scoured the Festival of Antiques with adept Roo Irvine by their broadside and £300 to play with, yet spending £210 and redeeming £90 for a wildcard purchase.

The brace felt assured astir their haul, which included an overmantle mirror, a fob concatenation and a diamond ring. The brace were particularly optimistic astir the walnut overmantle they snagged for £45.

Simran was betting connected the portion to bring successful a large nett astatine auction. However, the gamble didn't spell arsenic planned. When Sunjit faced the auction artifact unsocial aft Simran couldn't marque it, she watched successful fearfulness arsenic their treasured reflector started with bids astatine a specified £10.

The temper sunk adjacent further erstwhile it sold for conscionable £18, acold abbreviated of their expectations. Christina Trevanion, the big of Bargain Hunt, sympathised with Sunjit's disappointment, commenting: "£18, Oh my goodness. Someone's got a bargain."

Sunjit, intelligibly unimpressed by the debased merchantability terms added"Ah, that's a large loss!"

Despite the setback, Sunjit's spirits weren't dampened arsenic she held retired anticipation for the ticker fob's prospects. Her optimism paid disconnected somewhat arsenic it fetched £30 - precisely the magnitude it was purchased for, avoiding immoderate nonaccomplishment but besides missing retired connected a gain, reports the Express.

The squad besides had their hopes acceptable connected a stunning diamond ring, which they purchased for a hefty £135, hoping it would fetch up to £150 astatine auction.

However, erstwhile the auctioneer started the bidding astatine £100, determination were nary takers, prompting squad subordinate Sunjit to exclaim: "Oh travel on, it's a diamond ring!"

The bidding began astatine a specified £40 and didn't emergence overmuch further, selling for conscionable £80, leaving BBC adept Roo covering her look successful shock. Christina pointed retired that this was a nonaccomplishment of £55 but mentioned determination was inactive anticipation with Roo's bonus buy.

She had chosen to acquisition a £5 ring, contempt it missing immoderate stones, from her remaining £90 budget. However, auctioneer Colin Young wasn't impressed with the bonus buy, estimating its worth betwixt £20 and £40 and commenting: "£20 to £40 is the estimate. The much I look astatine it, the much generous I deliberation it is."

The ringing ended up selling for its acquisition terms of £5, meaning Sunjit didn't marque immoderate nett from her items. Christina revealed that Sunjit ended the amusement with a nonaccomplishment of £82, to which she responded: "Oh my god, that's terrible, isn't it? That is terrible!"

Christina light-heartedly suggested that Sunjit should archer her girl they made a tiny profit, not wanting her to beryllium disheartened by their performance. Despite her losses, Sunjit emerged arsenic the episode's wide winner, arsenic the bluish squad finished with an adjacent larger shortage of £126.

Bargain Hunt is disposable to ticker connected BBC iPlayer.