Storage Auctions
The Storage Locker => Reality Shows about Storage Auctions => Topic started by: MovieMan on May 03, 2011, 09:57:35 AM
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Check this out !
http://davehesterauctions.com/Auctions.html
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Movieman
Yeeep I've checked out his auction online you can actually purchase from his store online as well if memory serves me correct.
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omg, are you serious. Maybe he aint so fake after all. Or it is just a way to get more revenue on the show, lol.
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omg, are you serious. Maybe he aint so fake after all. Or it is just a way to get more revenue on the show, lol.
None of the guys from Storage auctions are fake. They all do this for a living. Just because they are on tv does not mean they are fake.
Auction hunters i think is more in the fake street. Yeah they might do this, but some of the stuff they pull up is sometimes to good to be true.
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I beg to differ..Barry strikes me as the Hollywood type. Perhaps they just threw him in there to spice things up.
From the amount of merchandise listed, it looks like he may be having a hard time selling the overpriced items he had to purchase just so they could film the show.
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The way I look at both of those shows is, or should I say was:
Auction Hunter: Real Guys (no script, etc) But units are staged to be more glamourous then what they really were to begin with for the sake of Entertainment.
Storage Wars: Hired small time actors, maybe a real storage vet, but everything is scripted. Kind of funny that they all (with the exception of the Collector) that they are at every auction all together, including in Las Vegas.
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There are several threads about both shows and a couple of interesting points in each one.
More than one thread has had someone who talked to a show "associate" and the indication was that the auction was held first, then they went back and recreated it for the cameras. The same guys would have won each time, but still....bending it right there instead of shooting it as it happened. I don't remember which of the two shows that was...maybe both.
Dave and Jarrod both have stores and they represent the opposite ends from a dollar standpoint. Darrel appears to have been doing it for some years. I saw one thread somewhere (not here) where someone seemed to actually know D and son; said the son was a drug addict at one time. By the way, Dave did a 30 day community service at Goodwill for some violation...could have been bad driving or almost anything; they showed that in a recent episode as he took some clothes to Goodwill and mentioned it himself.
Barry is there for color I'm sure. He loses on a regular basis. We don't know if these guys get paid or not or if the price they pay for the lkrs is provided by the show's producers.
Yes, the same four guys are there, and that's just a convention of the show. People (IMHO) want familiarity and they want to love or hate a character on a regular basis...we need to get to know the guys and we can only do that if they are always there.
What we do know is the shows are successful and will be around for a while yet.
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So they did the auction twice, once for real (the first one) the next was done for cameras and the created hype? No wonder it just seems so scripted. I dont see Barry ( I am guessing that is the Collector) on every show, But I seem to always see the rest.
The only thing I do like about the show is on the part for both the Collector, and Jarrod (damn his wife looks good) get alot of lkrs that they lose money on. Both because they over look something, that has value, or they over bid on stuff.
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Yeah, I'm guessing Brandi didn't get those in a storage locker.
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The Stories are 100% real, The Auctions are 100% real, but the items are 100% Fake!
Here's what Ive heard is the Process of the Show.
1) They interview these guys about some of their greatest "Finds"
2) They look for a Real Auction and everyone agrees to be there that day
3) The Show then provides a mock up of an item from one of their real stories and they plant it in the locker they won.
For example.....
Darrel tells the producer about money he found behind a picture frame years ago, The Show then provides a picture with hidden money, and then they plant the painting in one of the lockers Darrel won that day at a real auction.
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The Stories are 100% real, The Auctions are 100% real, but the items are 100% Fake!
Here's what Ive heard is the Process of the Show.
1) They interview these guys about some of their greatest "Finds"
2) They look for a Real Auction and everyone agrees to be there that day
3) The Show then provides a mock up of an item from one of their real stories and they plant it in the locker they won.
For example.....
Darrel tells the producer about money he found behind a picture frame years ago, The Show then provides a picture with hidden money, and then they plant the painting in one of the lockers Darrel won that day at a real auction.
And you have heard this from who?
It will be alot of fun in the comming months, as i am going to CA on a trip, i will then make sure i attend auctions as much as i can. I will time it so i can be at one of the auctions run by Laura and Don, as i have talked to them a few times. Don is the man behind it all. I doubt he is willing to loose his license over fake auctions.
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And you have heard this from who?
It will be alot of fun in the comming months, as i am going to CA on a trip, i will then make sure i attend auctions as much as i can. I will time it so i can be at one of the auctions run by Laura and Don, as i have talked to them a few times. Don is the man behind it all. I doubt he is willing to loose his license over fake auctions.
Keep us posted on that.
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Keep us posted on that.
I will, and i will be taking pictures also.
See if i can stop by Dave Hester's store also.
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And you have heard this from who?
It will be alot of fun in the comming months, as i am going to CA on a trip, i will then make sure i attend auctions as much as i can. I will time it so i can be at one of the auctions run by Laura and Don, as i have talked to them a few times. Don is the man behind it all. I doubt he is willing to loose his license over fake auctions.
I never said the Auctions or Bidding was faked or staged. I was saying that after the units are bought and are in the the hands of the buyers.
How would Laura and Don be involved If I pay for a locker and when everyone moves on to the next locker I throw something valuable in the locker I just bought and say "Hey look what I found in this locker"?
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I never said the Auctions or Bidding was faked or staged. I was saying that after the units are bought and are in the the hands of the buyers.
How would Laura and Don be involved If I pay for a locker and when everyone moves on to the next locker I throw something valuable in the locker I just bought and say "Hey look what I found in this locker"?
THAT is certainly possible. It could also be true of Auction Hunters. The last half dozen posts or so kind of went off on a tangent from the original intent of this thread which was to simply show the Dave Hester website, but sometimes threads take on a life of their own.
There are 3 or 4 threads about either or both of the shows being fake, but that's OK, continue on troopers ! ;D
Storage Wars threads:
http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=866.0
Auction Hunter threads:
http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=574.0
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THAT is certainly possible. It could also be true of Auction Hunters. The last half dozen posts or so kind of went off on a tangent from the original intent of this thread which was to simply show the Dave Hester website, but sometimes threads take on a life of their own.
That would be my fault, but all I was stating is that I originally thought he was fake.
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That would be my fault, but all I was stating is that I originally thought he was fake.
Not a problem for me jross....nor the others that followed up. Threads have a life of their own, and are like
one-on-one (or small group) conversations people have in person. They often go off on tangents. That's just the way
interaction is.
The only real problems I see with either live or written communications is mis-understanding because of the
definitions we have of different concepts and our individual ideas of what a word or a concept represents.
That may be too deep to investigate in a written thread, and as I said elsewhere, I'll never participate in a "live" chatroom if it ever develops here.
Now did anyone notice how I hijacked this thread to even a different area of discussion...to heck with Dave Hester ! ;D
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Hey guys,
I can put an end to all this speculation and answer most questions you have about the show. Thomas is my middle name - use it sometimes. I am an owner of storage facilities in Southern California and was one of the first to be involved with Original Productions (OP), allowing them to film SW at our locations. If you watch the show I am the one that has my store name visible in the shots. StorageOutlet.net
Dan Dotson has been my auctioneer for 14 years and he is real as they get - 100% what you see on TV.
All the buyers are real buyers with the exception of Barry. Barry has friends at OP and the wanted a character who was not a Pro. Barry has been a collector all his life and that is what they say. BTW Barry is actually 500% nuttier off the camera. His nickname for the film crew is the "Time Bandit" from another OP show im sure....
Look up OP on line and look at the shows they have made. OP are masters at casting characters. They have great TV and its about the PEOPLE not the crabs, trucks, trees and storage units - about people!
I will only speak for the auctions that have been filmed at my stores, bc i have been there for every second. The units are real. There are 47 state laws we as storage owners have to live within and breaking the laws has substantial liability. I would never risk my core business or subject my investors to liability for a few hits on our website.
Those of you on this site that are Pros know that the Tenant can come in and pay for the unit up until the auction has started. We (storage outlet) and any operator following CA law have taken possession of the property between the time we cut the lock and take the inventory (state law) (all done video camera and a witness).
Now lets get to the conspiracy theories I keep hearing. I have the key to the door and a seal on the auction unit and I am going to give it to (OP) and let them into the unit before the auction so they can stack gold bars in there to make it interesting? ...lest go down that path and say I do? what happens when the tenant sees their unit on tv and says wow "I had gold bars in my unit" maybe I should get an attorney? Or if OP put the Gold Bars in there and the tenant came and paid the bill just before the auction starts? Demands control of the unit - which they would get. Do we sneak in in front of 200 people and get the Gold Bars? BTW im using "Gold Bars" substitute anything you want.
If you have any questions I will try to answer...
SW is now starting to film in other markets
Lance Watkins
storageoutlet.net
storagetreasures.com
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Thanks for some insight!! and welcome to the forums!
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Damn, I'm not one to say I told you so, but I have been saying Barry was an actor from the beginning. He just struck me as the Hollywood type.
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Thanks for the insight :)
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Thanks....good to hear from someone who appears to really know what is happening there.
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Damn, I'm not one to say I told you so, but I have been saying Barry was an actor from the beginning. He just struck me as the Hollywood type.
tc I didn't see where he said Bary was an actor?
"All the buyers are real buyers with the exception of Barry. Barry has friends at OP and the wanted a character who was not a Pro."
I think Barry just knows people at (OP). JMO
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I cant say 100% that Barry has never done anything to do with acting, (I have only know him since all this madness has started) but I do know he made his money in produce and he is the Godfather for Jessy James. He is a car guy, retired and generally nuts. He is a good guy and if he is acting he is doing a good job of not being as goofy on camera as he is off camera.
Lance
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That explains the chopped Cadillac on hydraulics.
Barry may not have been a professional actor per se, but I bet you he had an agent and was looking for work.
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No, just buddies with decision makers who has known him as a friend for years. I think he finally saw a place to plug Barry in... Cant imagine Barry on the deck of a crab boat or trusting him with a chainsaw. LOL
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Now lets get to the conspiracy theories I keep hearing. I have the key to the door and a seal on the auction unit and I am going to give it to (OP) and let them into the unit before the auction so they can stack gold bars in there to make it interesting? ...lest go down that path and say I do? what happens when the tenant sees their unit on tv and says wow "I had gold bars in my unit" maybe I should get an attorney? Or if OP put the Gold Bars in there and the tenant came and paid the bill just before the auction starts? Demands control of the unit - which they would get. Do we sneak in in front of 200 people and get the Gold Bars? BTW im using "Gold Bars" substitute anything you want.
I understand before and during the auction But what about hours after the auction is over and they are unloading the unit? Is it possible they could put the gold bars in "later in the day" to make it more interesting?
Hell a lot of the "finds" are back at the store when they process it. How does anyone know that Brandy didnt slip that money in the book at the store? Yes, the painting Darell found was in the unit when he bought it But was the money planted there while they were going through this unit?
I don't mean to criticize I just know a guy....... how do i say......
I helped a guy unload a unit and there was nothing there but garbage. At the next auction I hear him gloating about his finds to the guy who lost the unit by a dollar.
He out bid the guy by a dollar for a garbage Locker and then flat out made a story up to poke the other guy!!!!
So when I hear people making great finds at every locker they buy im very critical.
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That is totally possible....However they have been showing less and less of that stuff. And they film LOTS of units that never make it to the public. Im guessing about 250K of film and edit to get 22 minuets. We can think about conspiracy theories forever... All I can bring to the discussion is my experience with all involved, which is extensive.
Dan is not only my auctioneer, but a business partner on the "Auction" site which is about 50% complete. I did not expect this show to be very popular, was helping Dan more than anything (getting him places to film when everybody else was afraid of the concept) in the beginning and whore out my website. Thats all I ever expected....along the way I realized our industry (storage) has done a real poor job running our auctions and I/we wanted to create a model to protect everybody involved and have the industry run professional auctions. You guys should have a fair chance to buy whats actually in the unit and a way to find out when the auctions are going on and not going on...
Lance
sorry for misspellings - im so dyslexic I can barley get a phone number correct...lol
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Thanks for all the info, Lance. Great to get to hear from someone who actually has some realy insight instead of everyone else putting out all these claims of "oh, I read this somewhere or heard this."
As far as the 5 of them usually all being there, this is what they do for a living. I normally see the same handful of guys at almost every auction I go to around the Raleigh, NC area. They probably try to cordinate them getting together more so for the sake of the show, but all of these consipiracy theories are kind of funny. There is also the point that they probably follow them day after day and just use the handful of best auctions that will make for a good show to make their handful of shows for that season. Also, they always add the value of the locker up and round up, not to mention that they are saying what the estimated value may be and don't factor in that, for the most part, that is not what they are going to receive for the item. If I find an item with a value of 500$, I am glad if I can get 350 for it. Dave Hester is probably the only one getting close to full potential value. What they show at the end of the recap of winners and losers is always less from when they do the little adding up the value of everything in the lockers.
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Totally agree with the "retail" value they use - I would imagine they rarely see those numbers.
Kind of like the news uses on "street value" lol
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:-[ That link gets you to Dave Hester Entertainment
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Where is Dave's new warehouse at? Is he still doing the Dave Hester auction thing?