One – two – three – sold. An auction outside means summer. All around Sweden you will find summer auctions, where people put up their unwanted items for sell. Often things come from homes of people that have died and new generations want to have things from the older generation and if you are lucky you may buy things very cheaply.
The auction is totally run and ruled by the auctioneer. Sometimes the bidding is slow and suddenly he just knocks the gavle down after the first bid. Someone just got something very cheap. So you have to be attentive. And as that, you also may buy things you didn´t plan to buy. But that's is a part of the game.
So what can one buy? The answer is easy, everything – furniture, skates, carpets, paintings, bikes and you name it, everything is possible. It is very common to later see people on a TV program telling stories of how they bought a box of something at an auction for no money and in the box they found a small statue which happens to be worth millions. So it is really fun, ten crowns, twenty crowns, one – two – three – sold
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