Yee-Haw ....   see the link below for Storage Wars Unlocked shown on 8/31/2011 with actual footage of Dallas episode and the Dallas guy sitting around a table with LA buyers, exec producer and Dotson ! 

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=1662.0

About 40" in the exec producer says words to the effect .."..they don't realize you buy 10 or more lkrs to find something good." The guys interject and Darrell says, "...30, 40,50" and Brandi comments on all the dump runs!

Cool....I like the honesty here. The guys are earning points with me. I think the producers got a message some weeks ago that reality would be a good component of the show. The Auction Hunters doesn't compare...IMHO ! 

Will be watching later tonight, lol, I cant believe he is going to stoop that low, saying a violin of any kind is worth a mill. Unless its dipped in gold, laced with diamonds and is from the 12th century, lol. But what are those odds. Damn Dave a dumbass.

jrosss.....

check out this thread....my reply #11 in regard to violin value.

http://storageauctionforums.com/index.php?topic=1422.msg8862#msg8862

 No violin in the world is worth the M word.

Do a Google search on "Stradivarius value".

Here's just a piece of Wiki info:

The film The Red Violin was inspired by one of Stradivari's violins, the Red Mendelssohn (1721),[66] which is currently played by Elizabeth Pitcairn, heiress to the PPG Industries fortune, whose grandfather purchased it for her 16th birthday for $1.7 million at auction at Christie's London. She is one of the few soloists who performs the Red Violin Chaconne composed for the film by John Corigliano. The notion that the fictional violin is red because it is painted with the blood of the maker's wife, who died during childbirth, is a creation of the filmmaker and is yet unsubstantiated. The real violin is called "The Red Mendelssohn" because of a unique red stripe on its top right side, but how the stripe came about is unknown.

If you haven't seen the movie "The Red Violin" check it out. It's actually an "action" movie (but a high-class one).

Here's some dope on tonight's two shows.  I'm in the middle of the Unlocked at the moment.

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Barry gets a lkr for $350 with 3 ez-ups and 3 circus sideshow canvas sheets.

Jarrod gets the “wine box” locker for $1700…..gets silver and gold but not a winner.

Jarrod tweeks Dave and raises him 2 grand and Dave gets it for $8K…..car parts and a violin by Stradivarius ?

Darrell goes away without anything again…..

Two of the 4 lost money….reality TV !


Storage Wars….Unlocked !

The four bidders get together with Dotson and the executive producer of the show in the now shuttered Sahara casino in Las Vegas and ditch the dirt on the show and the personalities. You gotta watch this one whether your’re a “newbie” or a “pro”.  Good stuff. 

Remember one thing about those Beanie Babies, Movie.  Some of them are actually rare and can run up some bucks.  If you aren't interested in going through all the headaches, I will seriously make an offer of $75.00 right now, and I'll pay shipping and handling for every one of them.  I know that some can be worth some money, but realistically, those are rare and hard to find, but I happen to be one of the weird guys that will buy them and sit on them for a while.  Let me know if you're interested in selling them.

Well, if you're serious, I accept your offer. I am going to the lkr at 11 a.m. pacific time...20 minutes from now and will bring them home, pour them in a cardboard box and weigh it. I will then ask for your zipcode so I can get a UPS estimate for shipping and we can go from there. Payment should be by PayPal as an "other" payment.

I will not go through the babies and I will not picture them to you based on your offer of "$75.00 right now".

They are in a white "bucket" sustanially taller and more diameter than a 5 gallon bucket you would buy at Home Depot.

Do you still want to do it based on these conditions?

Well, got mad respect for you movieman, I would have told the women to save her tears and move on.

Well, believe me it wasn't all trying to give her a break. Part of it was trying to benefit me; here's how.

1) I don't usually deal with big furniture unless I have to; wanted her to move it but pay me for the chance to do so.

2) If she came through on first payment (or even on 2nd) and then bailed out, I would have had the money AND
    the goods !

In regard to point 2, this happened once on an eBay sale.

I sold a guy a nice pair of Peavy spkrs (local pickup). He was in southern CA. I think he paid $500 for them with his eBay bid. He couldn't seem to get up north to me in the 2 week time frame we set up, so I told him to send me $100 via
PayPal as a deposit for my continued holding them for him. He did that. More time went buy (maybe 3 weeks). I told him to send me another $200 for holding purposes. He did that.

More time went by (maybe another 2 or 3 weeks) and I told him that if he couldn't get them by a certain date I would no longer store them for him. All this was done through eBay email so there was a nice SOLID record of the dealing with his emails being saved along with mine by eBay.

He didn't come through by required date and I kept his $300 I had collected and I kept the speakers. Relisted them on eBay for local pickup. I think I got $300 for them the second time around and THAT guy picked them up in a week and gave me cash on pickup.

Overall worked out well for me and the speakers were in my permanent locker stacked on each other so weren't that much of a storage problem.

Now watch, before mid September I betcha she will call with some sob story, from there it will even get more dramatic. Hope you gave her a google number or something.

By mid-September she would be 2 weeks BEYOND her deadline for the first payment which expired about 2 hours ago.
Frankly, the only reason I would deal with her now is just for the satisfaction of getting any kind of cash out of her.

Her daughter wanted to get in and rummage around until she found a large white round tub with the Beanies in it. I didn't let her. Today I found it 7 feet up at back of locker. Haven't counted them, but has to be 50 plus. Anytime I put out that many  I might sell 1 for $1. IN MY OPINION they're a dead deal but I do know one fellow in TN who sold some for about $600 a few months ago .