You really have no idea about anything. It's a reality show that's edited for TV. You don't see the 30 loser lockers they buy in a week. You don't see a lot of things.
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Pool Treasure Found On Storage Wars . . .
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You really have no idea about anything. It's a reality show that's edited for TV. You don't see the 30 loser lockers they buy in a week. You don't see a lot of things.
Freddie <~~~ doesn't care if her boobs aren't real
Darrell is a clinical idiot and Dave is the biggest arsehole on the planet. About the only thing realistic on the show is Jarrod and Brandi: A married couple that obviously hate each other.
I don't think Dave is an arsehole. I think he's the smarter than all of the other contestants duct-taped together.
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I actually bought a Buckhorn pool table off a guy who bought a storage locker with it in it. It was missing pockets and hardware and needed new bumpers but otherwise was perfect. I gave the guy $40. I sold it for $800 2 days after doing the rails. He threw in a nice light too. The storage hunter didn't strike it big on that one but I did. Point of my story, there can be some valuable things found in storage units. I don't know if Storage Wars is staged or not buy I think it's pretty entertaining. I've learned some things too.
This. He is a good business man and the other people are just little kids with money.
I do love Barry though. He is one rich son of a *****, he has good taste in cars/motorcycles, and he can be funny as ****.
Edit: Also, I think Brandi is hot trailer trash in the same way that Britney Spears is. Although recently I have begun thinking that her husband is dumb as dirt and she is the brains. So she is smart, hot trailer trash with beautiful tits.
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Smart and arsehole are not mutually exclusive. Personally, I think he's both.
If someone is motivated to find screen shots of the actual cue holder its from: Storage Wars Season 2 Episode 7 – Fire In The Hole
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I have a friend/co-worker who was on the show, at least in his case, it wasn't fake. Yes they know what you're bringing in months before the show airs, but the actual negotiation was real, with him. He brought in an original program from the first super bowl (NFL championship). He sold it for $3000 or something.
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They already have one. It's called Chia Homer. :grin:
Is that a toilet bowl, where you grab Homer's upper lip and lift, to expose the "seat" (i.e. you would sit in Homer's mouth)?
No kidding, I actually saw one of these somewhere in my travels -- and yes, Homer's head was a giant Chia-pet. I about fell over laughing!
-Sean
Homer has boobs for eyes.
This show really has very low credibility when it comes to value of their finds.
Old surround sound receiver worth $300 ? Sure.
You'd be lucky to get $30 in the used market.
Old surround sound receiver worth $300 ? Sure.
You'd be lucky to get $30 in the used market.
Except Barry, they pretty much all inflate the values to make it look like the out smarted each other or didn't get stuck with a loser. Dave is the worst offender. "This used TV snack tray is worth about $2,500 so I've already made money and I still haven't looked through everything. I stole this locker from those morons."
In a recent show, that new guy who lives out near Lancaster or something shlepped to Laguna Beach to have Russian nesting dolls appraised? Yeah, sure.
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^^^ this is not possible, because no reality shows are ever faked, staged, edited or scripted ! :killingme:
When you assume you pretend to know. Maybe if you read the News you would find out about all the UNREAL STAGED REALITY SHOWS, think you have a better chance of truth from the Globe, and National Enquire.
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A&E's "Storage Wars" is FAKE!
by Russell Scott - Feb. 12, 2012
Although it may not come as a huge surprise that "reality" TV is somewhat contrived, Storage Wars has taken it to a new level that places the entire industry in doubt.
Storage Wars is an American reality television series on the A&E Network that premiered in 2010. The show features auctioneers Dan Dotson and Laura Dotson, as well as auction hunters Dave Hester, Darrell Sheets, Barry Weiss, and the team of Jarrod Schulz and Brandi Passante. When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the contents are sold by an auctioneer as a single lot of items. The show follows professional buyers who purchase the contents based only on a five-minute inspection and what they can see only from the door when it is opened. The goal is to turn a profit on the merchandise.
Great concept, and the show is entertaining, the only problem being the show is completely fake. And I mean 100% phony...as for Brandi's breasts, the jury's still out on that one.
Personally, I suspect they're real and they're spectacular!
The show was started by Dan Dotson and his wife, Laura. Dan and Laura Dotson appear in every episode as the auctioneer and his wife. Dan has been been playing this role for nearly 40 years and is the owner of American Auctioneers.
Dan Dotson paid Dave Hester, Darrell Sheets, Barry Weiss, Jarrod Schulz and Brandi Passante $12,000 each for 6 episodes of Storage Wars in 2010. Of course these salaries are about 20X higher now and all the fake money they don't make each episode is peanuts to the real money A&E shells out.
This is where the reality ends and the fantasy begins.
The show is fake. The show is scripted. All the 'standerbys' that never seem to win a bid are simply extras placed there for atmosphere.
The lockers are loaded with unique and unusual items that are supplied by the very 'appraisers' that value them..and value them very high! The symbiotic relationship of lies and greed between the appraisers and Dan Dotson is the real genius of the show. The appraisals come from the owners of local specialty shops that get free advertising for their store while producing an inflated evaluation on the salvaged treasures. This gives the local store much needed exposure and Dan Dotson's real-life storage locker business filled with customers.
Dan Dotson is a skilled carny who uses all the crowd psychology tricks to separate his clientele from their hard-earned money and the appraisers are the stooges who shill the legitimacy of A&E's hit show.
So what!?
Well in a time that Barack Obama calls "the worst economy since The Great Depression", snake oil salesmen and purveyors of false hope lurk around every corner. Dan Dotson has increased his personal fortune by manipulating the audience into believing spending your rent money on a storage locker is a wise idea or a sound financial investment. This combined with what must be at least 50 programs that feature the buying and selling of junk/antiques and a culture of bullshit is born. People all over America are losing every dime they have to the false hope this show creates.
End of story, right? Actually it gets worse; The Blatant breaking of The Sherman Act of 1890 and "bid rigging".
Bid rigging is the result of a conspiracy between two or more participants entered into for the purpose of artificially affecting auction prices. The parties' agreement to the scheme is the necessary keystone to establish a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. Here are two important points about bid rigging that are not commonly known. First, a violation of the Sherman Act does not occur when a rigged bid is executed in an auction. The law is broken at the moment the conspiracy was formed by the co-conspirators. The Sherman Act outlaws a conspiracy made "in restraint of trade or commerce." The statute is triggered upon the parties' making an agreement to do what is impermissible, and it does not require execution of the plan.
Second, it is not necessary for the conspiracy to succeed for the Sherman Act to be violated. Again, the violation occurs immediately upon the parties making an agreement that is prohibited by law. If two or more would-be bidders conspire to depress bidding in an auction, they have violated the act even if their plan fails. Likewise, if an auctioneer and a shill, or a seller and an accomplice, conspire to artificially boost prices in an auction, a violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act has occurred regardless of whether they gain a higher selling price.
Upon conviction, the statute provides for a "fine not exceeding $100,000,000 if a corporation, or, if any other person, $1,000,000, or by imprisonment not exceeding 10 years.
This show, for dramatic effect, breaks this law several times per episode! Every time Dave talks about running up the bid against Darrell, The Sherman Act of 1890 is broken.
As employee's of A&E, none of the cast are liable, however A&E is guilty of breaking The Sherman Antitrust Act as the corporation that hired and promoted the activity. A&E should be getting a 100 million dollar fine. Wait! It's fake remember, so A&E will never see such a fine, proving this show is nothing more than a "show" and not reality.
~ Russell Scott is the editor of The West Coast Truth & host of The West Coast Truth with Russell Scott
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This show is obviously using "salted" lockers at the very least.
"Lets see we have an old vacume, some christmas decoration, a vibrator, a dead cat, an antique 1920's slot machine in mint condition, towels, plastic camping gear..."
Sorry, but no, just no.
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It's kind of hard to believe that many people stop paying for lockers that actually have something worth anything in them, let alone leave some 100yr old anything worth thousands in a locker, if you have a 100yr old family heirloom thats the one thing you wont store in a locker when you store shit IMO.
It's like going to the casino every once in a while you'll get $5 out of a slot machine, but most of the time it'll just eat your money and give you nothing.
It's like going to the casino every once in a while you'll get $5 out of a slot machine, but most of the time it'll just eat your money and give you nothing.