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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: January 11, 2012, 05:50:54 PM »
So, here’s me and the hosts.
All I can speak for is the episode I was on.  There were no scripts, no pre-arranged prices or negotiations.  I didn’t see the bike until the day they and their crew came in.




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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: January 08, 2012, 03:52:08 PM »
Oh, I dunno... pics of you with the cast? Pics of anything having to do with the show? Wouldnt prove whether it was real or fake, but would certainly tell us a few things.


But the show is fake and that is fact.


And so we dont get lost with semantics, fake meaning staged or pre arranged, acted out.


Yeabut, you don’t know what I look like, so how you going to know it’s me?



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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: January 01, 2012, 01:37:54 PM »
I can only speak for the part of the show I was on.

So, what kind of pictures?

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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: December 26, 2011, 07:32:57 AM »
Quote from: OldRoads on December 12, 2011, 03:00:37 PM

And regarding a buyer paying retail, remember this, the fact that an item showed up on a TV show adds to it’s ‘provenance’!

Isn't that a city in Rhode Island ?

Heh heh.  Missed that one.

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Welcome to the Online Storage Auctions Forum / Re: Hello from Eastern MA
« on: December 21, 2011, 06:52:07 PM »
Hello Nashoba.  That's an important name, do you know the history?
-Vinny from Acton

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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: December 19, 2011, 10:56:19 AM »
On the Boston episode, they showed that 2 units were bought, neither of which looked that great in the few seconds we got to look inside. In one, they found a great vintage bike and some valuable, random bike parts.   

That's the bike and barrel of bike parts they brought to my shop.  The program only showed a few of the parts, but after selling the parts, I pretty much got the Schwinn tandem for free.  They don’t want to have to ship this stuff back home.

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: Scrap metal - is it worth it?
« on: December 16, 2011, 08:09:23 AM »
Old bicycles are usually good for scrap value at least.
Many of them have alloy parts (stems, seat posts, brake calipers, etc.) and these are worth taking off and scrapping at a higher rate than steel.

A 1/2 ton pickup load of bikes, usually 25 or so bikes yields about $75 (dirty steel - including tires, seats, etc. - nothing stripped off)

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General Storage Auction Talk / Re: What about American pickers?
« on: December 16, 2011, 07:52:35 AM »
The old timers who don't use the internet are dieing off pretty quickly now, so give it about 10 years and everybody will know the going retail price of what they have, even used property.

Ain’t that the truth, but maybe not a bad thing.

I deal only in bicycles and every time I see Mike grab on to a rusted bike frame I have to wonder if he every actually makes any money on it.  
All-in-all though, as far as these types of shows go, I think American Pickers is the most interesting and ‘realistic’.

Another thing that gets me, besides the rusty bicycles, is when they find a good place and a willing seller, they only buy a few things and then they move on.  
I’d get heading down to the ATM and getting a rental truck!

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Reality Shows about Storage Auctions / Re: Auction Hunters is FAKE!!!
« on: December 12, 2011, 04:00:37 PM »
As said above, ALL of TV is entertainment. 
Auction Hunters cuts out the tedious stuff and keeps the show moving.

Regarding “they ALWAYS personally know a buyer for whatever valuable item they've found” – not true. 
I was on the show and their producers did the research on shops in the Boston area to find me. 
And regarding a buyer paying retail, remember this, the fact that an item showed up on a TV show adds to it’s ‘provenance’!

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