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I don't watch this show too often because it makes me sick some of the items they just 'toss' aside. Well the one episode I'm watching, not sure if it is this season or not, Darrel buys this unit for $400 and he ended up finding a large tote chock full of coins. Silver, mint sets, world coins, you name it.
Don't watch the show but did this weekend. Anyway, a friend of mine decided to try it locally and said the crowd was huge...over two hundred people ! They stayed for 5 lockers and left.
Saw that one Lara, back before I got disgusted and gave away my TV (seriously, don't have or want one). I think it's last year's or the season before.
Always wanted to go to a storage unit auction, as I buy and sell antiques as well, but when that show and the several others hit the TV, I knew it'd be a waste of time, maybe a couple of years after the show goes off the air.
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I just started randomly watching it. I saw it for the first time during your Black Friday shopping weekend when hubby and I were in PA. We were so addicted to it (either that or we were just enthralled with being able to watch TV again lol) that we stayed up both nights until 3:30am watching them over and over and over again.
Now that we subscribe to cable, I will watch small portions of it.
I have come to the conclusion, Barclay and I would be like Jarrod and Brandi.
There is another episode in which Jarod and Brandi win a locker with a huge safe stuffed to the gills with all kinds of coins. They had it appraised on the show with a value of 10K, but I say it was worth at least 5 times that.
I think these 'people' on the show, the 'stars' of the stars are idiots. They way the handle the items from within each storage is atrocious.
And yeah, I agree, most of the items they pull, they under estimate and it drives me nuts to see this. I have found myself yelling at the screen like a lunatic lol
The thing about the show is they don't air the episodes where they lose money on the locker...it's a scam I tell ya!
I agree with simonm, you rarely see how much they loose on a hundred lockers before the score.
I do not watch the show myself and find it annoying that these probably belong to a family that someone died and didn't know the locker existed. The buyers have little respect for the history of the items but only see green from it.
Last edited by uglycent; 12-27-2011, 09:07 PM.
Reason: spelling
Even a fool can look wise if he keeps his mouth closed.
For another perspective, I have a friend that works for a storage locker company. He says that most of the repossessions are for non-payment. He used to get lots of cool stuff until the owner saw the concept of storage wars...then my friend lost his fringe benefits.
I have seen that episode when Darryl found those coins and wondered how many of those coins had errors or key dates to them.
This is not the first time coins were found in those lockers. If they only knew what we know about errors...
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