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?

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.

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.

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!