DURING and in the immediate aftermath of Wednesday’s Goffs UK Breeze Up Sale, it was easy to focus on the extremes of the market, as is the case with any sale.

A low clearance rate in the early stages (which improved as the day progressed) and a large number of withdrawals suggested vendors were completely friendless if they didn’t tick all of the boxes, but after crunching the numbers and comparing figures to earlier years, it appears that the market might not have been as weak as it first seemed.