A&E Storage Wars - interesting show :)

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allisolm

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If the lockers are rigged, the producers must really love Darrell (although I can't imagine why), what with the big hauls they've given him.

For our neighbors to the north who have undoubtedly been glued to their TVs watching this show, they're going to have Storage Wars: Canada on OLN.
 
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I've been watching "shipping wars" a lot lately, seems more realistic and I enjoy it more..
 
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allisolm said:
If the lockers are rigged, the producers must really love Darrell (although I can't imagine why), what with the big hauls they've given him.

For our neighbors to the north who have undoubtedly been glued to their TVs watching this show, they're going to have Storage Wars: Canada on OLN.
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I also love how everything gets overpriced when they're going through their winnings:

"Let's see, crappy, moldy couch? That's good for $500. Huffy mountain bike? $250. Nicked up IKEA kitchen set? $800..

Darrel is today's winner, with an estimated haul of $7000...but in reality he'll be lucky to get $1500 for everything."
 
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I like the idea of the show but once again they have to make it totally fake. I'm waiting for them to open a locker a little to soon and you see movers still loading it up from a back door lol. It's just so obviously fake I can't even watch it, I have to change the channel it's so obvious and bothersome.

Shipping wars is pretty cool. But notice that they only seem to be the ones bidding on things? They never get beat out from some random person. The shows obviously set up many of the clients before they even bid. And plan it all out before hand.
 
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T9D said:
I like the idea of the show but once again they have to make it totally fake. I'm waiting for them to open a locker a little to soon and you see movers still loading it up from a back door lol. It's just so obviously fake I can't even watch it, I have to change the channel it's so obvious and bothersome.

Shipping wars is pretty cool. But notice that they only seem to be the ones bidding on things? They never get beat out from some random person. The shows obviously set up many of the clients before they even bid. And plan it all out before hand.
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Yeah they certainly set-up the auctions to be only between them but the rest does at least appear to be realistic.
 
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Fritzo said:
I also love how everything gets overpriced when they're going through their winnings:

"Let's see, crappy, moldy couch? That's good for $500. Huffy mountain bike? $250. Nicked up IKEA kitchen set? $800..

Darrel is today's winner, with an estimated haul of $7000...but in reality he'll be lucky to get $1500 for everything."
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Some of the buyers are guilty of that. Other's are pretty realistic I think.
Dave Hester was the worst at overpricing/estimating things.
 
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My brother-in-law reminds me so much of the white Jesus guy :D
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He's kind of an asshole but usually knows how to get things done, what I find LOL is Jarret who had a van as a tow vehicle and buys an ex-church mini bus with only the front door to load/unload stuff from, WTF was he thinking?.
 
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boomhower said:
Yeah they certainly set-up the auctions to be only between them but the rest does at least appear to be realistic.
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As I understand it, the UShip site they use is real but the items shipped on the show are only available for bid by the cast. So the item shippers and shippees have pre-agreed to have their items featured on the show. So it's only partially 'faked'. I'm sure the producers pick only interesting items that are destined to fail; how interesting would it be if they shipped a bunch of crates smoothly across the country?
 
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They did one recently where they opened a small unit and there was only an old couch in it and no one even bod $5 lol.
 
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Andy22 said:
They did one recently where they opened a small unit and there was only an old couch in it and no one even bod $5 lol.
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Saw that one.
It would seem that would happen more often in the real world. People just ditching pure crap/nothing in a locker and not caring about it versus people leaving entire lockers full of (possibly) valuable stuff.
 
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