Possible Clues:

• Inexpensive (as muck?)
• Low-priced muck many make a pile from
• At very low price
• Hardly costing anything
• Scandal about wreck being a bargain
• Incredibly affordable
• Costing the earth? On the contrary
• Costing the earth? Far from it
• Poor chap tried going for almost nothing
• Sordid stuff: tweet, we hear, going for a song