Storage Auctions
The Storage Locker => Reality Shows about Storage Auctions => Topic started by: Travis on March 20, 2011, 06:56:55 PM
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Just wondering if anyone has been to Newport Consignment Gallery or Rags to Riches Thrift Store?
I used to live in Laguna Beach and in Costa Mesa, but I have never seen either of these places. The consignment gallery looks huge on their website.
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Dave Hester is a made up character just for reality TV. What you see on that website took weeks for a Hollywood prop department to create!
YEAP!!
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I wouldn't do business with him just because he's such a douche lol
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I wouldn't do business with him just because he's such a douche lol
One of the guys on our regular runs went down to CA for a couple of weeks and went to some auctions and met him at an auction. He said he was actually pretty decent in person. They weren't filming any shows when he was there. He also met Jerrod at another auction.
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One of the guys on our regular runs went down to CA for a couple of weeks and went to some auctions and met him at an auction. He said he was actually pretty decent in person. They weren't filming any shows when he was there. He also met Jerrod at another auction.
Your probably right thats probably more an act for the show. I still don't like him though lol.
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It is a real store, and he does this for a living.
Yeah he is also a person on the show, and we all know what kind of person he is on the show.
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I wonder why he calls it Newport Consignment when it's located in Costa Mesa. I used to be in real estate appraisal and my guess is that even though the two cities are right next to each other, Newport is a more prominent location.
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I wonder why he calls it Newport Consignment when it's located in Costa Mesa. I used to be in real estate appraisal and my guess is that even though the two cities are right next to each other, Newport is a more prominent location.
His old location was in Newport, when he had to exspand, they moved to the building they are in now.
They kept the old name, as i understand 100%.
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One of my Techs that works L.A. and S.D. area stops by there on a regular basis, and has made some really great buys there. He hasn't ever met Dave YEEEEEEEAP! Hester at least not yet.
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Good answer Mr. A, I didn't know that.
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yes.. I have been many times.. He used to have shelves with nick nacky stuff and then he cleared all that out to put "high" end stuff in.. The prices are WAY OVER what they should be and I think he just prices things to see if some smuck will come in and pay for them. I also remember seeing that stupid rock collection and he had it priced super high at retail if not more. He also has "art work" on display on the walls that is cheap imitations and tries to get top dollar for that too. Mind you I visited his stores many times before I EVER saw him on the show and thought all these things before hand. Now knowing what I know you couldn't PAY me to shop there.. i think he is an ass on the show and I have NO respect for someone with the character he displays despite it being for TV I would imagine the character is not far from the truth. I also think his store is a sham for the prices he charges.. I'd rather spend my time at a good ol' fashion thrift store that actually goes to a charity then to line this jerks pockets..
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Ya i been there. Its pretty big actually. An ^ is completely right about the pricing. However to his credit newport beach has to be on the top 5 list for richest communities so his clients prolly wouldnt notice. I wanna see jarrod and bradys place tho. They make me feel like if they could run a successful turn around shop i certainly could. May be a future endevour.
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However to his credit newport beach has to be on the top 5 list for richest communities so his clients prolly wouldnt notice.
His place is in Costa Mesa which is next to Newport Neach. Even though they are both beach front communities, the median family income differs drastically. I lived there for about 6 months before I moved to Laguna.
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Im not a big orange county connosuer but i gather its mainly over 40 an retirement communities. I would up there by happen stance comin bak from san diego
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There are a lot of retirees in Newport but there are mainly just a lot of wealthy people there. You can't buy a run down house for less than a million dollars in Newport.
Cost Mesa on the other hand has it's nicer sections but they have a lot of middle class as well. You can buy property as low as a half a million dollars there, which might sound like a lot but it's actually the average value of homes in California.
Newport has a lot of property that is actually on the beach and the marina. Costa mesa has no beach front property except for strip centers and restaurants.
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I wanna see jarrod and bradys place tho. They make me feel like if they could run a successful turn around shop i certainly could. May be a future endevour.
Ain't that the truth! After Hester, Jarrod and Brandy are my least favorite people on SW. Jarrod's mouth writes checks it can't cash and Brandy is about as trailer-trashy as you can get. She treats Jarrod about the same as that Kate chick treated John on "John and Kate Plus 8". I would guess there isn't one high school diploma between the two of them.
So, yes, if those two idiots can run a business, my guess is that any of us could certainly do better than them.
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Ain't that the truth! After Hester, Jarrod and Brandy are my least favorite people on SW. Jarrod's mouth writes checks it can't cash and Brandy is about as trailer-trashy as you can get. She treats Jarrod about the same as that Kate chick treated John on "John and Kate Plus 8". I would guess there isn't one high school diploma between the two of them.
So, yes, if those two idiots can run a business, my guess is that any of us could certainly do better than them.
I don't know.......did you notice how much their business grew from season one to season two? I'm thinking they are making "show money" that we aren't going to get!
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Maybe for appearances. But mainly their growth is due to exposure. 8)
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Cant wait for the dvd Behind the storage door with tthe cast of SW. lol. Masybe they will show his store.I would be suprised if they did make such a crazy dvd. ::). That show has be come a sell out fast
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Ain't that the truth! After Hester, Jarrod and Brandy are my least favorite people on SW. Jarrod's mouth writes checks it can't cash and Brandy is about as trailer-trashy as you can get. She treats Jarrod about the same as that Kate chick treated John on "John and Kate Plus 8". I would guess there isn't one high school diploma between the two of them.
So, yes, if those two idiots can run a business, my guess is that any of us could certainly do better than them.
Jarrod and Brandy are actually the only 2 buyers from the show who are fairly tolerable.
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Ain't that the truth! After Hester, Jarrod and Brandy are my least favorite people on SW. Jarrod's mouth writes checks it can't cash and Brandy is about as trailer-trashy as you can get. She treats Jarrod about the same as that Kate chick treated John on "John and Kate Plus 8". I would guess there isn't one high school diploma between the two of them.
So, yes, if those two idiots can run a business, my guess is that any of us could certainly do better than them.
How do you define Trailer Trash? Everyone view TT in different ways, and I for one dont see Brandi as TT. She dresses well, she has decent work ethic and I imagine she grooms properly. To me that's not TT.
Also, I don't think anyone can compare to Kate, she was a ***** before her show and her fame made her 10x's *****ier!
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Shes the type of chick u ****, but dont cuff. Poor jared. Whoever she cheats on him with is getting the best deal out of that situation :D
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The worst thing about the John & Kate break up was that John was made out to be a douchebag. The guy married a total ***** and was trapped. She treated him like crap and and he had enough. I don't blame him for walking out. He woke up one day and realized that he was filthy rich and decided that he wasn't going to waste his life being miserable.
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How do you define Trailer Trash? Everyone view TT in different ways, and I for one dont see Brandi as TT. She dresses well, she has decent work ethic and I imagine she grooms properly. To me that's not TT.
Dresses well? Maybe for a streetwalker. Decent work ethic? She sits on her arse, *****ing about Jarrod until he finds something with potential value and she launches up and snatches the item before rushing off to get it appraised.
Did you see the episode where Jarrod intentionally tried to piss Dave Hester off and they ended up getting in a shouting match? Brandy was egging them on and then told Jarrod to "kick his ass". Do normal, well-adjusted women behave like her? No.
Brandy may have graduated out of the actual trailer, but she's trailer-trash ,through and through.
And, before anyone thinks that I am of the opinion that EVERYONE who lives in a trailer is trash, not true. There are plenty of decent, hard-working folks living in trailers. But, the percentage of trash living amongst them is much higher than in neighborhoods with fewer wheels under the homes.
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I just moved to NC from Costa Mesa, where I lived since 1987. I am a SoCal native making my living at all kinds of auctions since 1981, and I NEVER saw Dave at any auctions other than Storage units. From 1998 to 2010, I specialized in high tech equipment. If Dave didn't go to the DotCom auctions, he was never a serious auction buyer, because we killed it in that period. I put 150k miles on a Suburban and a 16' Wells Cargo trailer during that period. So, Dave is NOT an auction whale for sure.
As for his store, I agree his prices were high and not that much traffic. I believe he did $1.7 million in a year, but with his overhead he could not have made much net profit, as Darrel pointed out in the one shoe at the old Sahara sitting around the table. His Dave Hester Auctions in Orange just sold off all the remaining inventory from Newport Consignments (Rags to Riches, same store) that they didn't feed into the new auction biz. Word in the local auction scene is that he is burning through cash, and Billy Humphrey's South Coast Auctions pickers will not let him get a lot of deals to feed auctions every two weeks since Billy has an auction every Wed night. I had two auction locations (operated one at a time), doing sales every two weeks and then every three to four weeks in a newer larger location, and it is a TON of work, so Dave has his work cut out for him going heads up against Billy. A bunch of smalls and locker junk will not feed that beast, you would need probably $500k a month in sales to make it work at
the high costs in Cali.
I think Dave is mostly talk, like many people in Newport Beach that spout off about their money, but are in debt up to their eyeballs. People with real money don't act that way, cause they really have it.
Good luck to all of you this week.
J.R.
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Dave Hester is a made up character just for reality TV. What you see on that website took weeks for a Hollywood prop department to create!
YEAP!!
Dave Hester is a real person and NOT "Made Up". Dave actually started out as a furniture store owner. He was convicted of a D.U.I. and part of his sentence was to work in a local GoodWill Store. Seeing how much that could be made, he then turned his store into a thrift store. Now he has Newport Consignment (auction house) along with Rags-to-Riches (thrift store) . Dave is actually a good hearted person and in my opinion not the guy he is made out to be he's just competitive.
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I just moved to NC from Costa Mesa, where I lived since 1987. I am a SoCal native making my living at all kinds of auctions since 1981, and I NEVER saw Dave at any auctions other than Storage units. From 1998 to 2010, I specialized in high tech equipment. If Dave didn't go to the DotCom auctions, he was never a serious auction buyer, because we killed it in that period. I put 150k miles on a Suburban and a 16' Wells Cargo trailer during that period. So, Dave is NOT an auction whale for sure.
As for his store, I agree his prices were high and not that much traffic. I believe he did $1.7 million in a year, but with his overhead he could not have made much net profit, as Darrel pointed out in the one shoe at the old Sahara sitting around the table. His Dave Hester Auctions in Orange just sold off all the remaining inventory from Newport Consignments (Rags to Riches, same store) that they didn't feed into the new auction biz. Word in the local auction scene is that he is burning through cash, and Billy Humphrey's South Coast Auctions pickers will not let him get a lot of deals to feed auctions every two weeks since Billy has an auction every Wed night. I had two auction locations (operated one at a time), doing sales every two weeks and then every three to four weeks in a newer larger location, and it is a TON of work, so Dave has his work cut out for him going heads up against Billy. A bunch of smalls and locker junk will not feed that beast, you would need probably $500k a month in sales to make it work at
the high costs in Cali.
I think Dave is mostly talk, like many people in Newport Beach that spout off about their money, but are in debt up to their eyeballs. People with real money don't act that way, cause they really have it.
Good luck to all of you this week.
J.R.
true that. Hey can u reccomend any good auction houses i can take some nice sport memerabillia in la/oc
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I had heard they make 15K per episode each. Dont know how true that is but Im sure they are banking something. 1st season Jarrod and Brandy were struggling now they have an expanded store new truck and they bid way way way higher without hesitation this season.
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Dave Hester is a made up character just for reality TV. What you see on that website took weeks for a Hollywood prop department to create!
YEAP!!
WOW! Did you think anyone on this forum really was beleiving the show was real?
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It is a real store, and he does this for a living.
Yeah he is also a person on the show, and we all know what kind of person he is on the show.
Just like radio people. They are real people but different on air. Its what makes entertainment. It's so funny that A&E never said the show was real but yet people assume it is then bag on the network for something they never made a claim to. Lesson is never assume!
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Dave Hester is a real person and NOT "Made Up". Dave actually started out as a furniture store owner. He was convicted of a D.U.I. and part of his sentence was to work in a local GoodWill Store. Seeing how much that could be made, he then turned his store into a thrift store. Now he has Newport Consignment (auction house) along with Rags-to-Riches (thrift store) . Dave is actually a good hearted person and in my opinion not the guy he is made out to be he's just competitive.
OMG!