Posted on 12/11/2012 12:27:20 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
NEW YORK – “Storage Wars” may have a real war brewing with one of its stars.
Dave Hester , one of the show’s cast members, has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against the show, according to RadarOnline.
In his lawsuit, Hester is claiming the series is fake, and he says when he made complaints to the network about the staged portions of the show he was fired, Radar reported.
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The worst thing that can happen to any auction is when the dealers come by.
If you are there you may as well go home.
It’s funny to me that these shows seem to make people want to do this. I watch the show and I see a really hard way to make a living and maybe once in a while you get lucky, the rest of the world apparently just sees the get lucky part. If I manage to retire with a bunch of money I might do it Barry style, but I’d totally team up with somebody running a business and “sell” them the useful but not awesome stuff, just to reduce my losses in between lucky hits.
Besides I am so jealous of the beards!
And, rightly so. LOL
That'll do it. Always the scope mounts or bedding! Never the loose nut behind the trigger.
Reality TV writers write “confessional” questions, in the case of challenge oriented shows (Survivor, Hell’s Kitchen, etc) write the challenges, and they do an initial pass on the stuff that got filmed to help construct the “plot”. So primarily they write structure, and pretty much no dialog you ever hear, which is why they don’t get paid as much.
Duck Dynasty is my favorite, damn funny and 95% true so back off, Jack.
My Dad dabbled in buying storage units, when he retired. He sometimes rented a booth in a flea market, and he made connections with other people there, who had booths full time, so he made a few bucks. It also helped that he had a portable building of his own, to store things in. You can't give away strands Christmas lights 47 weeks out of the year, but from the middle of November to the third week of December the sell like hot cakes.
These TV shows are about rivalry, but when he got to know some of the other regulars at the auctions, who were looking for particular categories of items, like construction equipment, or auto parts, he could sometimes make his money back right at a large unit, by selling air compressors, ladders or rims to guys who wanted them, but who were not prepared to buy a whole unit just to get those things.
I think the law there is you have to public auction the stuff off and try to return any money in excess of past due rental fees back to the renter. It used to be 2-3 regulars would show up, they’d open, bid, and they’d clean the place out, that would be that.
After these shows, those openings turned into zoos.
They have to be, especially the Storage Wars show. When they pull the camera back and you see a huge crowd of people there at the auction, but it is always the same four people bidding and winning the bids, it can't possibly be real.
Now there's something to really thing about.
Now there's something to really think about.
After a few moments of pondering this choice, the other person puts out his hand to shake on the deal. Okay, maybe this is a bit of an exaggeration but if you ever watched that show, such lopsided deals were common. I do barter and you have to trade for things that are approximately in the same neighborhood in terms of worth. "Barter Kings" had NO credibility which is why no new episodes. The viewers just weren't buying into their ridiculous trades.
Let’s not leave out the Pickers.
They have producers go out a months in advance to scout out locations they supposedly just happened to run across.
The deals are made before they ever get there.
A TV show is fake?
Hang on, is any of them NOT fake?
Yeah, I love how the participants reel off numbers on what they CLAIM items are worth like, "That's a hundred dollar bill every time."
Problem is what you CLAIM stuff is worth and what you actually get are two different things.
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I watched the pawn show from Detroit recently and noticed a customer had a piece of black tape covering a logo on his sweater. I’ve seen the same with caps. At some point prior to entering the store, someone associated with the TV show made a decision.
I’ve heard he is a gun grabber also.
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