Even my halo is square.

I think they will still call them checking accounts even if there are no checks, because the bank will be checking to see if they can charge another fee.

I ran into the Storage Wars crew Jan 11. They were at that same facility in Montebello California, where I saw them last year. About half the lockers had already been sold when I arrived.

No Dave Hester, but they brought Mark Balelo back. Tweedle-dee-dee, tweedle-dee-dum. Barry was hanging out with a Chinese guy, who was dressed in red with a matching cowboy hat and very long (approx 20 inches) pointy shoes flecked with small mirrors. Five of the lockers were from some furniture store that had closed. Barry bought the one with paintings and mirrors. Brandi and Jarrod got the other four. I bid to $3500 on one of them, but didn't get it.

The last locker they shot probably won't appear on the show, because I bought it. There was good quality used furniture visible, what appeared to be auditorium speakers and quite a stack of white file folder boxes. When Dan started the bidding, I rolled a pair of 10 inch white cardboard dice on the pavement.  Box cars came up, so I shouted, "You have $1200". Dan asked, "Is that your bid?" I replied, "Yes, thats my bid". Dan tried for $1300, then $1250 and finally $1225. No one else bid.

There simply is no prize or contest being offered to the public on Storage Wars.

Perhaps Dave Hesters lawyers should have filed suit citing the federal whistleblower law.

The Storage Wars characters seem to value their finds on the high side of retail. Their "experts" value items at specialty shop or fine gallery prices up to dream on or something like it.

One episode's appraisal made me laugh so hard I almost sneezed my beverage. That was the one where they took a couple of items to a tribal arts expert. One item he correctly identified, the other stumped him. He thought it was Indonesian but added that it seemed to have elements from different tribes. He gave it a value of $500.

I happen to have imported containers of furniture and handicrafts from Indonesia. I know exactly where that novelty item is made. I can buy as many as I want for $11 each. I sold mine for $67.50 each.

The $4350 unit was a 10x25. It had a Husky and a Craftsman tool drawer cabinets visible near the front right. A few doors and some other construction materials were on the left. There were gardening tools visible, some hardware and camping gear. What appeared to be a power washer was partly visible. The stack was low in the first 10 feet. After that there was a 7 to 8 ft high wall of boxes. No clue as to how deep or what was behind there. It appeared to be some sort of contracter unit. The city was Camarillo CA.

I ran out of cash at $4000. Nabila, who appeared on some Storage Wars episodes, bid it to $4300. The winning bidder I have seen at a few sales, but not spoken with. It was not a Dan Datson (American Auctioneers) sale, but one of the other not as busy auctioneers. There were about 30 people at the sale.

Didn't Hester voluntarily close his store when he opened his (failed) auction house?

At the Montebello auction where Sheets found the valuable paintings, I also bought a locker. I broke away from the auction to take a look at my then unpaid for unit. A unit that I had outbid Barry on. Apparently the usual auction protocol is not followed when they are shooting.

I have been where storage wars was being shot, three times in 2012. I saw the show characters buy about 20-24 lockers collectively. Only 2 of those made it onto the show. So they appear to be showing something like the best out of ten or twelve.

I bought 50 lockers in 2012. My best  4 or 5 were show worthy. So if they are staging it, I wonder why? Why shoot 10+ times what you need when you could cover your "story" with far less. Why stage it when someone whose locker was purchased could step forward and state that those items were not in my locker?