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Old 30-04-2009, 13:12
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I'm actually surprised they had any trouble selling it at the price they were prepared to accept.

To anyone who has a basic knowledge of those sort of rugs it would have appeared to be a huge bargain.
I know, my bf's been looking for a medium sized rug for his room and I'm surprised at how expensive rugs can be!
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Old 30-04-2009, 20:41
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it could have been moth eaten or contained a dead body for all the 'customer' knew
Even though they wouldn't say which show they were filming for, it'd clearly be the BBC, and that's not how they dispose of their dead bodies. If he had any savvy he probably figured out the show anyway. I wouldn't be surprised if he's now put the rug on EBay for 3 times what he paid. That's what people did with the honey soap.
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Old 30-04-2009, 20:58
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Is it any more suspicious than that a random bloke in a bar might want to buy a skeleton.
The clue's in the fact that the first guy was in a pub and the guy who bought the rug also seemed half-cut
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Old 30-04-2009, 21:04
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im not completely sure, i may have to watch it again, but did the man who bought the rug come towards them one way, then go back the other way? he must have been going somewhere, nobody just walks up to a street corner and then goes back do they?

i may be wrong, it's just what it looked like to me
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Old 30-04-2009, 21:16
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im not completely sure, i may have to watch it again, but did the man who bought the rug come towards them one way, then go back the other way? he must have been going somewhere, nobody just walks up to a street corner and then goes back do they?

i may be wrong, it's just what it looked like to me
They do if they've just come from home, then randomly bought a rug that they don't fancy carrying round with them for the rest of the night!
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Old 30-04-2009, 21:17
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The clue's in the fact that the first guy was in a pub and the guy who bought the rug also seemed half-cut
Exactly, they were just fortunate enough to bump into drunk people who like shopping
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Old 30-04-2009, 21:19
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They do if they've just come from home, then randomly bought a rug that they don't fancy carrying round with them for the rest of the night!
i hadn't thought of that

i still think it was set-up though.
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Old 30-04-2009, 22:24
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im not completely sure, i may have to watch it again, but did the man who bought the rug come towards them one way, then go back the other way? he must have been going somewhere, nobody just walks up to a street corner and then goes back do they?

i may be wrong, it's just what it looked like to me
I must admit to occasionally have been going somewhere but changed my mind and direction.
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Old 30-04-2009, 22:30
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The man buying the rug and to a lesser extent the man buying the skeleton seemed abit contrived to me. However, I reckon the man with the rug had had abit too much to drink, so that might explain it.

ON the other hand, what with Margaret lurking in the background it's abit of a giveaway that they were filming The Apprentice so that might explain it.
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Old 30-04-2009, 22:41
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so you just buy rugs for £50 without even looking at them

it could have been moth eaten or contained a dead body for all the 'customer' knew
Agreed - he didn't even feel it or look at it - total set up - they might have clinched the deal earlier but then got the bloke to play along as if it was an impulse buy.

These filmed things are a bit of a con - I know because I went to Dickinsons' thing in Belfast and they filmed us sticking our hands up randomly to edit in later - I agreed as it was just a bit of fun but after the thing was shown, I looked like I had bought a manky old walking stick, and loads of friends were asking me why I'd paid for such a grotty item!!
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Old 30-04-2009, 23:04
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I think that sometimes things are staged, for the purpose of the cameras. It seems likely that they did approach the chap, who obviously agreed, and then had to perhaps re-film the interaction to be more show friendly, or because it was missed in part, something like that. So it is staged, but not set up, if you see what I mean.
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Old 30-04-2009, 23:38
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I think that sometimes things are staged, for the purpose of the cameras. It seems likely that they did approach the chap, who obviously agreed, and then had to perhaps re-film the interaction to be more show friendly, or because it was missed in part, something like that. So it is staged, but not set up, if you see what I mean.
I suppose I can see that happening if they miss the shot of something they think will be particularly good.

Although the amount of footage they get in a day you wouldn't have thought they wouldn't have needed to do that very often.
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