Walter “Waldi” Lehnertz is a true original at Bares for Rares. He has been on the show since 2013 and always brings laughs and funny moments. Along with Horst Lichter, he is one of the most popular stars on the show. He likes to cause offense with his cheeky manner, but despite his cheeky sayings, he shows that his heart is in the right place. We’ll tell you 5 exciting facts about “80-Euro-Waldi”.
Cash for Rares-Waldi privately: 5 exciting facts about the dealer
1) This is how Bares became a dealer for Rares-Waldi
Waldi wasn’t always a junk dealer. The trained horse manager has already completed many career stages, some of which even led him to bankruptcy. He learned about the antiques business through his ex-wife and fell in love with the profession. He has been running his own business for many years and ultimately became known as the grumpy junk uncle at Bares for Rares. He is said to have had his first dealer experience when he was 12 years oldwhen he resold cheap headphones at a high price:
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2) Waldi as a crime writer?! Nobody would have believed Waldi had this hidden talent
Waldi doesn’t just cut a really good figure on TV. Since this year he has also been a popular author of humorous crime novels. That’s right: The otherwise rather taciturn dealer shows his talent for entertaining stories in written form. In “Murder in the Antique Shop,” antique dealer Siggi Malich has to solve a crime. The first novel was so well received that a sequel is scheduled to appear next year. On Instagram he reveals that he was underestimated: “No one would have believed that I would write a crime novel.”
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3) This is Waldi Lehnertz’s shop
Many fans of Cash for Rares would like to see their idols up close. If you want to visit Waldi’s antique shop “Eifel Antik”, you have to look into the small village of Krekel, which is located in the south of the Eifel. There is all sorts of junk and strange rarities to see here. Whether the dealer is on site is a matter of luck: with 40 days of filming per year, the TV star is often on the move. There are private insights behind the scenes here:
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4) Waldi has a wicked erotic room
Anyone who regularly watches Bares for Rares knows one thing for sure: Waldi is always at the forefront when it comes to erotic objects. The dealer has a penchant for spicy art representations and collects the dirty treasures in his infamous erotic room. He presents the room on Instagram in knight’s armor, but for child protection reasons we see one thing: pixelated naked facts.
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5) 80-Euro-Waldi: This is how Walter Lehnertz got his nickname
Waldi became a cult favorite at Bares for Rares. He has become particularly famous for one thing: his starting bid is almost always 80 euros. He has been known as “80-Euro-Waldi” for almost 10 years; The TV star even had the name entered on his ID card as his stage name. But why 80 euros? As Merkur.de reports, Waldi once wanted to really annoy an arrogant seller with a deliberately low bid of 80 euros: “The guy was totally upset, stunned and made a huge circus of it.” This marked the birth of the 80 euro bids.