Think about it

When the banker offered £110,000, he was offering to buy Box 5.

Therefore, the banker won £20,000

huh?

He definately beat the banker, but I guess in a waaay he wouldn't have because of the swap. Where did you get the £20,000 from?

bunney did beat the banker because he sold the box that contained 20,000

When assessing whether a contestant has beaten the banker the proveout hypothetical swap can't be included in the stats, so Bunney beat the banker, and very comprehensively!

Yes, Bunney did beat the Banker. The Banker offered £110,000 to buy Box 5 and Bunney took the deal. He only had £20,000 in his box therefore he sold a £20,000 box for £110,000, so the Banker paid out more than he needed to which to me is beating the Banker!

Also the Banker doesn't win anything, he only saves money.

I do believe that the box that the player is in possession of at the time of the deal counts in the result calculations, so Bunney still had £20,000 in front of him at the time of the deal, therefore scored an OPW!

On the other hand, Ned definitely lost to the banker as even though his original box contained £250, he was in possession of a box containing £75k at the time of the deal for £15k.

I do think that means someone could swap away the £250,000 after the first round for 1p, but still take the highest offer and beat the banker I think (as long as the swap takes place before the deal)!

He sold a £20,000 box for £110,000 when he could have had £250,000 - could we treat £250,000 as a proveout offer, given that the swap would effectively have been a seventh offer?

And honestly, who cares? He won ONE HUNDRED AND TEN GRAND TAX FREE. That's more money than I'd know what to do with.

i agree.

Bunney didn't beat the Banker, cause The Banker had millions more miles of common sense and decency.

I don't even get the whole Banker thing anyway. He never really wins anything, he just tries to lose as little as possible...he's meant to be mean yet he gives thousands of pounds away every day for seemingly no reason. Why does he bother?

But yeah, I'd say Bunney beat the Banker. Saying "He'd have taken the swap so therefore lost to the Banker" is a bit like saying "Leanne would have taken the £172k, so therefore she beat the Banker". It should be judged on what actually did happen...not what would/could have happened.

I would also agree that Bunney beat the banker, as the swap at the end is only what would have happened if he'd gone on, but he didn't go on, and dealt at £110k with a £20k box in front of him - therefore he beat the banker.