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Storage Wars on A&E TV (1 Viewer)

'Yankee23Fan said:
Boring episodes for the most part. The Barry training like Rocky stuff was stupid.
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Didn't watch, but seems like they are already making the show about the characters, and not the auctions.Seems most reality shows like this do this. I lose interest at that point. I guess it somewhat works as they still get some ratings, but meh
 
'by_the_sea_wannabe said:
'17seconds said:
No bumps from the new shows last night?I thought they might do something different this season but it's the same. Good lord Brandi's cans are amazing. I don't care if they are fake.
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felt really stale to me
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OMG. You felt Brandi's cans? Why do you feel they are stale?
 
Pretty bad so far this season. The Barry training and Darrell fued with his son were painful to watch. Dave bidding people up and Brandi/Jared fighting over nothing... I could handle it better if it all didn't seem to forced and fake.

 
They should just put Brandi in the Big Brother house this summer so we can skip this show all together.

 
tell me I wasn't the only one who paused it on the butt shot of Brandi in those jeans.

Interesting and kinda funny "the mogul" Dave doesn't have a store at the moment....

 
'mozzy84 said:
tell me I wasn't the only one who paused it on the butt shot of Brandi in those jeans.
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I paused it with my wife next to me. She hates Brandi - thinks she looks like a cabbage patch doll, doesn't understand why guys think she's hot. She's right, but women don't understand the Brandi kind of hot.
 
'17seconds said:
'mozzy84 said:
tell me I wasn't the only one who paused it on the butt shot of Brandi in those jeans.
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I paused it with my wife next to me. She hates Brandi - thinks she looks like a cabbage patch doll, doesn't understand why guys think she's hot. She's right, but women don't understand the Brandi kind of hot.
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see my wife thinks shes hot, or at least way to hot for that loser Jared.
 
'Pick said:
'mozzy84 said:
tell me I wasn't the only one who paused it on the butt shot of Brandi in those jeans.Interesting and kinda funny "the mogul" Dave doesn't have a store at the moment....
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What's the story there?
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dunno he just said he had a rough year last year and was looking for a different place. All his stuff was in a warehouse and he wasn't one of the four bidders at the auction. That ugly dude who always flashes his money around took his spot.
 
'mozzy84 said:
'Pick said:
'mozzy84 said:
tell me I wasn't the only one who paused it on the butt shot of Brandi in those jeans.Interesting and kinda funny "the mogul" Dave doesn't have a store at the moment....
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What's the story there?
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dunno he just said he had a rough year last year and was looking for a different place. All his stuff was in a warehouse and he wasn't one of the four bidders at the auction. That ugly dude who always flashes his money around took his spot.
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He made it sound like he sold his old store, or isn't renting it anymore if he didn't own it outright, and was looking for a 50K sqft place to move into. Which fell apart because he hadn't done more than just drive by the place. I think he's OK on cash and I know he was arguing with the producers for a bigger payday. I don't think he's hurting, but I don't know what his cashflow inward is like.
 
'Sarnoff said:
'mozzy84 said:
'Pick said:
'mozzy84 said:
tell me I wasn't the only one who paused it on the butt shot of Brandi in those jeans.Interesting and kinda funny "the mogul" Dave doesn't have a store at the moment....
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What's the story there?
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dunno he just said he had a rough year last year and was looking for a different place. All his stuff was in a warehouse and he wasn't one of the four bidders at the auction. That ugly dude who always flashes his money around took his spot.
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He made it sound like he sold his old store, or isn't renting it anymore if he didn't own it outright, and was looking for a 50K sqft place to move into. Which fell apart because he hadn't done more than just drive by the place. I think he's OK on cash and I know he was arguing with the producers for a bigger payday. I don't think he's hurting, but I don't know what his cashflow inward is like.
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Obviously a total guess but he probably bit off more than he could chew trying to scale his business. Because he's such a badass mogul.
 
Darrell looking like a big tool. I liked him before kinda like Bill Walton. Loud and obnoxious but he knew it. Not a fan of how he treats his kid.

They are being way more lenient now on values. The kinda itemize still but now we're getting "The rest of this stuff is worth this".

 
'Pick said:
Darrell looking like a big tool. I liked him before kinda like Bill Walton. Loud and obnoxious but he knew it. Not a fan of how he treats his kid.They are being way more lenient now on values. The kinda itemize still but now we're getting "The rest of this stuff is worth this".
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That is the wow factor...
 
Ya kinda boring this season. I feel like this show is kinda like survivor where it's great to have a villain to root against. No Hester, no fun.

How bout Jared telling Brandi she was kinda trashy when he first met her but he stuck with her. She didn't even say much about it. She used to shake her ### for dollars bills, no doubt.

 
I'm surprised the show made it this long, honestly. There is a definite shelf life with this product.

How many lockers can you watch someone buy and still care about any of it?

 
'Raider Nation said:
I'm surprised the show made it this long, honestly. There is a definite shelf life with this product.How many lockers can you watch someone buy and still care about any of it?
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If it were completely legit, I probably would not get bored with seeing actual discoveries for quite a while. Manufacured drama and finds will do in my viewership.
 
'Sarnoff said:
New guy has zero personality :yawn:
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They're trying the best to make him the new villain. Having him talk about a level playing field and then hangs a disabled sticker up so he can park front and center and get out without a limp.Oh, and he's a former umpire, too.
 
'zander_s said:
I mentioned previously that my ex and her husband have been doing this for a while. They were even interviewed for potentially being part of the show at one point.

Here is how they see it now and some insider info that answers some of the questions brought up in this thread.

The storage shows have ruined the market. People think they can make money spending what they do on "Storage Wars", not realizing that it is in fact a tv show and isn't real. You should see what people are willing to pay for SUPER crap these days.

We were at a moving and storage auction a month or so ago... (Moving and storage would be crates up for sale because people have moved using a moving company - Bekins - and not paid the bill.) Someone spent $300.00 for a box.... and because it was stacked had to buy the whole stack - ended up costing the guy $1000 (3 times $300, plus 10%) for 3 boxes... unless there was gold bars in the box.. he was an idiot. But he was bidding against Jerad from the show.

The people on the show are given "buy" money... plus their salary - Dave Hester just signed for 3 million for the season... They can spend whatever they want... Little guys like us can't compete. So we follow the "big buyers" and buy there stuff at an auction house.
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Apparently a LOT of the stuff the show guys get just gets sent on to an auction house.
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3 Million what?
 
I checked out about 3 episodes in some downtime. I seriously don't get the appeal and it looks staged as hell and the drama beyond forced.

It's basically antiques roadshow in a 9x12 chamber plus the fake auction thing.

 
'culdeus said:
I checked out about 3 episodes in some downtime. I seriously don't get the appeal and it looks staged as hell and the drama beyond forced.

It's basically antiques roadshow in a 9x12 chamber plus the fake auction thing.
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Brandi is the only thing appealing about the show. I've only seen a few episodes but I would watch it religiously if they got rid of the rest of the cast and the whole storage locker thing. Just Brandi prancing around in various skimpy outfits...
 
'culdeus said:
I checked out about 3 episodes in some downtime. I seriously don't get the appeal and it looks staged as hell and the drama beyond forced. It's basically antiques roadshow in a 9x12 chamber plus the fake auction thing.
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Like most reality shows like this, 1st season or 2 are good, and mostly real/believable then producers make story plots try to sell us the characters, stage stuff instead of just letting the items be the story
 
'comfortably numb said:
'culdeus said:
I checked out about 3 episodes in some downtime. I seriously don't get the appeal and it looks staged as hell and the drama beyond forced. It's basically antiques roadshow in a 9x12 chamber plus the fake auction thing.
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Like most reality shows like this, 1st season or 2 are good, and mostly real/believable then producers make story plots try to sell us the characters, stage stuff instead of just letting the items be the story
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:goodposting:
 
'culdeus said:
'zander_s said:
I mentioned previously that my ex and her husband have been doing this for a while. They were even interviewed for potentially being part of the show at one point.

Here is how they see it now and some insider info that answers some of the questions brought up in this thread.

The storage shows have ruined the market. People think they can make money spending what they do on "Storage Wars", not realizing that it is in fact a tv show and isn't real. You should see what people are willing to pay for SUPER crap these days.

We were at a moving and storage auction a month or so ago... (Moving and storage would be crates up for sale because people have moved using a moving company - Bekins - and not paid the bill.) Someone spent $300.00 for a box.... and because it was stacked had to buy the whole stack - ended up costing the guy $1000 (3 times $300, plus 10%) for 3 boxes... unless there was gold bars in the box.. he was an idiot. But he was bidding against Jerad from the show.

The people on the show are given "buy" money... plus their salary - Dave Hester just signed for 3 million for the season... They can spend whatever they want... Little guys like us can't compete. So we follow the "big buyers" and buy there stuff at an auction house.
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Apparently a LOT of the stuff the show guys get just gets sent on to an auction house.
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3 Million what?
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There is nothing that remotely states these guys make 3 million doing these shows. Most speculate between 5 to 10k an episode and they don't always feature each cast member in each episode.
 
My wife and I stumbled across this show a couple weeks ago. It might be covered here already but where on earth do these yahoos come up with these estimated values? Can they really get that amount for this crap? I can't and have a garage full of stuff to prove it.

 
'The Commish said:
My wife and I stumbled across this show a couple weeks ago. It might be covered here already but where on earth do these yahoos come up with these estimated values? Can they really get that amount for this crap? I can't and have a garage full of stuff to prove it.
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Dave probably could. Darryl and Jarrod & Brandy couldn't. Marketing is a huge part of it. There are plenty of thrift/antique/consignment stores here in Columbus. I've seen the same stuff at a place in Short North (the trendy, artsy neighborhood) go for a lot more than a place in Reynoldsburg (a not so good neighborhood)
 
'The Commish said:
My wife and I stumbled across this show a couple weeks ago. It might be covered here already but where on earth do these yahoos come up with these estimated values? Can they really get that amount for this crap? I can't and have a garage full of stuff to prove it.
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Many times, they don't even show or describe the items that are getting listed for a value. "Those boxes over there are $100 each," "the stuff over there is an easy $500," "$1500 in varied furniture," "another $800 in miscellaneous."The one that hardly even does stuff like that is Barry. He usually doesn't claim a value for anything expect the one piece he plucks out of a locker. The rest he usually takes $0 for.A case could be made for intentionally inflating the numbers to make it look like people are making a profit, but most folks know they are pulling numbers out of a hat. I love when they find record albums and say they are worth $3 a piece = $300. It could take years to sell them and I doubt they would ever sell all of them.In reality, it could take them 6 months to a year to recoup their money for a storage unit and even longer than that to turn a profit . . . and that doesn't count any labor, insurance, rent, storage costs, etc.
 
Stopped watching the show when I couldn't stomach the rediculous valuations anymore.

This old, beat up, used book has a $14.99 retail price. Even at $10 a book, with 30 books per box, and 30 boxes in this locker, I just made myself a cool NINE THOUSAND BIG ONES! $$$...probably immediately wheeled those boxes off to the dump as everyone knows they are worthless.

The worse episode ever was the one where the entire locker was filled with stacks of what looked like newspapers. It turned out that they were replica papers that had something to do with Elvis. EVERY SINGLE COPY WAS IDENTICAL. They took one of them to a collector who said something along the lines of "If you find a big Elvis collector, you could probably get $10 for this paper". That then translated to "Ok, I have 3,000 copies in this locker, so that's $30,000 in profit!"...good luck finding 10 Evlis collectors that want that newspaper...much less 3000 of them.

 
'Warrior said:
Stopped watching the show when I couldn't stomach the rediculous valuations anymore.

This old, beat up, used book has a $14.99 retail price. Even at $10 a book, with 30 books per box, and 30 boxes in this locker, I just made myself a cool NINE THOUSAND BIG ONES! $$$...probably immediately wheeled those boxes off to the dump as everyone knows they are worthless.

The worse episode ever was the one where the entire locker was filled with stacks of what looked like newspapers. It turned out that they were replica papers that had something to do with Elvis. EVERY SINGLE COPY WAS IDENTICAL. They took one of them to a collector who said something along the lines of "If you find a big Elvis collector, you could probably get $10 for this paper". That then translated to "Ok, I have 3,000 copies in this locker, so that's $30,000 in profit!"...good luck finding 10 Evlis collectors that want that newspaper...much less 3000 of them.
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The papers weren't replicas. They were actual newspapers from Memphis announcing Elvis's death. One was the regular daily paper and the other one was a slightly more obscure one.But the valuation was definitely off. Although I bet he could still get $2-3 a paper fairly easily. The biggest problem for him, is that his stash flooded the market and made it something not rare anymore. On the other hand, he was still the only one that owned them, so he could still control the price a bit more.

 
They had some marathon on the other night and I watched. They had some annoying guy who called himself Mr Storage or something and had a truck with YUUUUUP written on the side. I later found out that's his catchphrase he uses to bid. Then there was another annoying old guy who got in good with the lady that ran the storage place and she told him there was an old Harley in one of the stalls... he bid a bunch for it and ended up with like the front wheel or something from some POS bike... that was awesome.

I did end up watching part of another episode before my parental responsibilities forced me away. Overall I came away from thinking it's very similar to that Pawnstars show. Entertaining and interesting to see what they find. I won't turn on the TV just to watch it but if the TV is already on and I see it on the guide, I'll probably watch.

 
'GroveDiesel said:
'Warrior said:
Stopped watching the show when I couldn't stomach the rediculous valuations anymore.

This old, beat up, used book has a $14.99 retail price. Even at $10 a book, with 30 books per box, and 30 boxes in this locker, I just made myself a cool NINE THOUSAND BIG ONES! $$$...probably immediately wheeled those boxes off to the dump as everyone knows they are worthless.

The worse episode ever was the one where the entire locker was filled with stacks of what looked like newspapers. It turned out that they were replica papers that had something to do with Elvis. EVERY SINGLE COPY WAS IDENTICAL. They took one of them to a collector who said something along the lines of "If you find a big Elvis collector, you could probably get $10 for this paper". That then translated to "Ok, I have 3,000 copies in this locker, so that's $30,000 in profit!"...good luck finding 10 Evlis collectors that want that newspaper...much less 3000 of them.
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The papers weren't replicas. They were actual newspapers from Memphis announcing Elvis's death. One was the regular daily paper and the other one was a slightly more obscure one.But the valuation was definitely off. Although I bet he could still get $2-3 a paper fairly easily. The biggest problem for him, is that his stash flooded the market and made it something not rare anymore. On the other hand, he was still the only one that owned them, so he could still control the price a bit more.
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Plus he wasn't going to sell them all at once (at least not at that price.) His profit did not include the cost of storing and slowly selling off those things. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what the original guy was trying to do, but he couldn't make money and ended up losing the locker.
 
'Rayderr said:
'GroveDiesel said:
'Warrior said:
Stopped watching the show when I couldn't stomach the rediculous valuations anymore.

This old, beat up, used book has a $14.99 retail price. Even at $10 a book, with 30 books per box, and 30 boxes in this locker, I just made myself a cool NINE THOUSAND BIG ONES! $$...probably immediately wheeled those boxes off to the dump as everyone knows they are worthless.

The worse episode ever was the one where the entire locker was filled with stacks of what looked like newspapers. It turned out that they were replica papers that had something to do with Elvis. EVERY SINGLE COPY WAS IDENTICAL. They took one of them to a collector who said something along the lines of "If you find a big Elvis collector, you could probably get $10 for this paper". That then translated to "Ok, I have 3,000 copies in this locker, so that's $30,000 in profit!"...good luck finding 10 Evlis collectors that want that newspaper...much less 3000 of them.
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The papers weren't replicas. They were actual newspapers from Memphis announcing Elvis's death. One was the regular daily paper and the other one was a slightly more obscure one.But the valuation was definitely off. Although I bet he could still get $2-3 a paper fairly easily. The biggest problem for him, is that his stash flooded the market and made it something not rare anymore. On the other hand, he was still the only one that owned them, so he could still control the price a bit more.
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Plus he wasn't going to sell them all at once (at least not at that price.) His profit did not include the cost of storing and slowly selling off those things. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what the original guy was trying to do, but he couldn't make money and ended up losing the locker.
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Aren't the totals at the end of the show less (sometimes a lot less) than the initial values?

 
'identikit said:
'Rayderr said:
'GroveDiesel said:
'Warrior said:
Stopped watching the show when I couldn't stomach the rediculous valuations anymore.

This old, beat up, used book has a $14.99 retail price. Even at $10 a book, with 30 books per box, and 30 boxes in this locker, I just made myself a cool NINE THOUSAND BIG ONES! $$...probably immediately wheeled those boxes off to the dump as everyone knows they are worthless.

The worse episode ever was the one where the entire locker was filled with stacks of what looked like newspapers. It turned out that they were replica papers that had something to do with Elvis. EVERY SINGLE COPY WAS IDENTICAL. They took one of them to a collector who said something along the lines of "If you find a big Elvis collector, you could probably get $10 for this paper". That then translated to "Ok, I have 3,000 copies in this locker, so that's $30,000 in profit!"...good luck finding 10 Evlis collectors that want that newspaper...much less 3000 of them.
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The papers weren't replicas. They were actual newspapers from Memphis announcing Elvis's death. One was the regular daily paper and the other one was a slightly more obscure one.But the valuation was definitely off. Although I bet he could still get $2-3 a paper fairly easily. The biggest problem for him, is that his stash flooded the market and made it something not rare anymore. On the other hand, he was still the only one that owned them, so he could still control the price a bit more.
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Plus he wasn't going to sell them all at once (at least not at that price.) His profit did not include the cost of storing and slowly selling off those things. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what the original guy was trying to do, but he couldn't make money and ended up losing the locker.
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Aren't the totals at the end of the show less (sometimes a lot less) than the initial values?
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First season, yes. I think they went with what the items actually went with. But now, they just go by whatever they say it's worth.
 
'identikit said:
'Rayderr said:
'GroveDiesel said:
'Warrior said:
Stopped watching the show when I couldn't stomach the rediculous valuations anymore.

This old, beat up, used book has a $14.99 retail price. Even at $10 a book, with 30 books per box, and 30 boxes in this locker, I just made myself a cool NINE THOUSAND BIG ONES! $$...probably immediately wheeled those boxes off to the dump as everyone knows they are worthless.

The worse episode ever was the one where the entire locker was filled with stacks of what looked like newspapers. It turned out that they were replica papers that had something to do with Elvis. EVERY SINGLE COPY WAS IDENTICAL. They took one of them to a collector who said something along the lines of "If you find a big Elvis collector, you could probably get $10 for this paper". That then translated to "Ok, I have 3,000 copies in this locker, so that's $30,000 in profit!"...good luck finding 10 Evlis collectors that want that newspaper...much less 3000 of them.
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The papers weren't replicas. They were actual newspapers from Memphis announcing Elvis's death. One was the regular daily paper and the other one was a slightly more obscure one.But the valuation was definitely off. Although I bet he could still get $2-3 a paper fairly easily. The biggest problem for him, is that his stash flooded the market and made it something not rare anymore. On the other hand, he was still the only one that owned them, so he could still control the price a bit more.
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Plus he wasn't going to sell them all at once (at least not at that price.) His profit did not include the cost of storing and slowly selling off those things. It wouldn't surprise me if that's what the original guy was trying to do, but he couldn't make money and ended up losing the locker.
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Aren't the totals at the end of the show less (sometimes a lot less) than the initial values?
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It seems that way to me. Actually in a few cases the numbers at the end of the show I noticed got better.
 
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