auction hunters - storage wars - american pickers - pawn stars - shipping wars - american restoration - hardcore pawn - auction kings - storage hunters

jennifer from shipping wars imo
http://i.imgur.com/UExC7.jpg

only familiar with auction hunters and storage wars, to both of which i have been briefly addicted. the argt. for why the former seem to only find interesting stuff is that they do this all the time and the tv show covers their 5% most interesting finds, whether you believe this, enhh

barry from storage wars took up the storage bidding thing at the behest of the show's producer apparently

barry needs his own spin-off

Kickin' It With Barry

this is actually my father's job. Is it like UK antique shows where they paint this nice ideal of antiques and auctions when in reality antique dealers are pretty much scum drunks?

Yeah, Barry is apparently independently wealthy (he ran a food distributor?), and only is on the lookout for stuff he can personally collect. Allegedly, everything else he buys he donates to charity.

One thing I don't get on this show is why you almost never see anyone else outside of the core "stars" bidding.

thats prob just basic reality-tv-editing-room-floor stuff

i wonder if someone could do a gut-punch type reality show (like intervention or hoarders) abt ppl who abandon these storage units

I have only seen pawn stars but I love it.

Which should I watch next.

i would say storage wars is the least like pawn stars

but go for auction hunters or american pickers for "neat stuff"

K, thank u

There was a Southern low-budget version of this sort of thing on Turner South a few years ago called "Junkin'" featuring an aspiring standup comedian and a, I dunno, a Zooey Deschanel wannabe I guess. It was pretty bad.

xpost That's the thing, these aren't all "abandoned." Right? I think storage facilities are pretty hardcore, in the sense that once you miss a payment they don't give you much of a chance and immediately put stuff up for auction. That said, I would be curious to know to whom this crap belongs.

yeah sometimes its a business that goes bankrupt but the sad fact is that a lot of times its people who are deciding to eat or pay rent instead of pay the storage locker bill that month.

this episode of This American Life aired before any of these shows were on the air, and among others, features a guy who grew up w/ drug addict parents and had to watch a lot of his childhood possessions get bid on by strangers:

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/399/contents-unknown?act=1

...and now he makes a living bidding on other people's abandoned storage lockers DO YOU SEE?

You forgot Pawn Queens.

xpost to myself: lol when the guy kind of gets hopeful at finding an unopened bottle of charles shaw wine in a locker

My Mom likes to watch these shows and now she'll rummage through her house asking me what I think certain things are worth! It was kind of funny at first but after sorting through five boxes of comics taken down from the attic which I know nothing about, looking up other shit I know nothing about, I told her I don't know anything about antiques!!!

the place I have stuff stored lets u go 3 months I think before the pickers swarm

lagoon what would be the most tv-worthy item in your storage locker

well theres a tv in there haw haw

You forgot Pawn Queens.

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good call. that's a big one

Oddities is way better than all these. Giant gallstones, Amy Sedaris, Genesis P-Orridge, Victorian hair sculptures, skull collections...

Also, no Cash in the Attic on this poll? I guess only American TV counts, huh?

Pawn Stars is my favorite on the list... the Old Man and Chumlee really make it something *extra special*

also the Kount - he always seems so stoked to work on any fucking project they give him. They wheel in any ol peice of shit and he's like "Oh man we're gonna make this POP!! Its gonna look AWESOME!!"

He obviously really loves his job, its refreshing.

I voted Pawn Stars but just as easily could've gone with American Pickers.

Really, it's the "history unearthed" and "everyday junk of yesteryear and tge value it somehow contains in contrast to the present's ephemerility" that facinates me. Or something.

The next series will totally be called "Estate Sale"

i'm watching storage wars now and if you watch it w/ the understanding that its one actual pro and three weirdos who got talked in to faking it to be on a reality tv show its way funnier

ha since my last post i watched maybe the single fakest episode of this show i have yet seen - three units full of total junk except for i. a professional magic trick ii. an antique telescope iii. a miniature track car worth several thousand dollars

i'm still not sure i buy your version tho - who's the actual pro, hester?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjBfRWRe9Ag

re: ppl who abandon storage units, had an interesting talk with a co-worker about this. Some years back, his mom got out of a bad marriage in California. Put her part of the household in an inexpensive storage unit there and headed to Arkansas. Paid like $30 a month for it or something. One month, the check bounces. It was a tiny hiccup in her account and she never noticed. Things rolled on. The storage people never told her. A year later she inquires about getting her stuff. They had auctioned it off a year earlier without telling her. She had zero recourse. What a racket! Worse than the impound lot!

What about a show like "Hey, That's My Shit!" and they show up at one of the stores in Hester's empire of stores full of worthless shit and make a scene

every episode starts with a guy watching Storage Wars, btw

xposts

My wife lost a lot of her possessions in similar fashion when her previous relationship ended, he'd put a lot of (both of their) stuff in storage while they were sorting out moving out of their house, didn't keep up the payments, gone. She still watches the show so I guess she's over it now, well it was 9 years ago. Occasionally she'll think she still has an LP she used to have and I have to tell her no we don't have that :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAomVYXQGb0

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i watched a few episodes of oddities and holy shit that dude is annoying

Watched a couple eps of Storage Wars today. I hate the Yuuuuuuuuup! guy already.

And I like the guy who buys the shit storage rooms nobody wants. I can't remember his name.

barry, and yeah, he's the best thing about the show

Yep, Barry. Watching another in which he just rolled up in some ridic truck with a crazy person he's calling his "good luck charm". He's great.

s1ocki's right: he'd be a pain in the ass to kick it with

also i need more occasions wirl where its appropriate to say "YUUUUUUUP!"

like when they call out my coffee order to let me know its ready:

"YUUUUUUP!"

NOOOOOOOOOPE!