Storage Auctions
The Storage Locker => Reality Shows about Storage Auctions => Topic started by: MovieMan on December 06, 2011, 09:33:32 PM
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Stay tuned and get yer drawl ready !
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Smiths…neither has missed a meal in a while.
Victor…not from Texas!
Lesa Lewis…a 5 YEAR VET ! (and her employee Jerry) Again and Again Resale store.
Moe …. The Barry of the West ! (Hey, the shtick worked in California !)
Lesa likes to say “Bring it !”
Moe likes the lamps for $525.
Victor get maple dressers for $250
One of Moe’s lamps he values at $275 (price at Walmart …$45 new).
Moe gets something wrapped up….A lithograph…supplied by producers ?
A Peter Max lithograph…even I know this artist’s work….but I’ve never gotten one!
A new lkr up for grabs…. Contractor lkr ? Showcases, tools..the Smiths like it.
Bubba…you go boy ! Bubba I have two words for you….Jenny Craig !
Lesa has to get one to get her feet wet….not today though.
Victor’s maple dressers turn out to be….PARTICLE BOARD ! But, he gets body armor in black.
One of the Smith boys says “This accent is fake. I just use it so people will underestimate me.” IT’S WORKING … my estimate of him can’t be printed here.
Overall...pretty much what I expected...continues the tradition of the people finding at least one great item in the locker they buy.
Join in...what do you think ? As good as, better than .... you know what. ;D
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This show was just awful. People are so cheezy it was oozing out of the TV. :D :D
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Moe metal lamp light, ummmm that was $80 new(I know, I just got one in my last unit) at ART VAN furniture, dude is uber inflating the prices of his lamps.
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Stay tuned and get yer drawl ready !
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Smiths…neither has missed a meal in a while.
Victor…not from Texas!
Lesa Lewis…a 5 YEAR VET ! (and her employee Jerry) Again and Again Resale store.
Moe …. The Barry of the West ! (Hey, the shtick worked in California !)
Lesa likes to say “Bring it !”
Moe likes the lamps for $525.
Victor get maple dressers for $250
One of Moe’s lamps he values at $275 (price at Walmart …$45 new).
Moe gets something wrapped up….A lithograph…supplied by producers ?
A Peter Max lithograph…even I know this artist’s work….but I’ve never gotten one!
A new lkr up for grabs…. Contractor lkr ? Showcases, tools..the Smiths like it.
Bubba…you go boy ! Bubba I have two words for you….Jenny Craig !
Lesa has to get one to get her feet wet….not today though.
Victor’s maple dressers turn out to be….PARTICLE BOARD ! But, he gets body armor in black.
One of the Smith boys says “This accent is fake. I just use it so people will underestimate me.” IT’S WORKING … my estimate of him can’t be printed here.
Overall...pretty much what I expected...continues the tradition of the people finding at least one great item in the locker they buy.
Join in...what do you think ? As good as, better than .... you know what. ;D
A PETER MAX LITHOGRAPH IN A STORAGE UNIT!!! ROTFLMAO!!! YEA RIGHT!!! Had to be a poster of his art, don't tell me they found an original print!
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Hmm - didn't catch it on TV last night so waiting for A&E to post it up on the site. Or for hulu to get it. Guess I'll try and sit through it all. I just watch them when I can. Not even looked at auction hunters in months.
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Absolutely awful. The Texas version of the show is as bad as the original show is good - we love the original show, enjoy watching reruns, etc.. We couldn't finish this one. Obviously scripted in parts and almost completely void of entertainment value.
I'm a storage hunter in Austin who happens to know the "real" auctioneers for last night's show: Alan and Libby Wares of Ace Auction Company. In my opinion Ace is by far the best auction company in Austin, at least for storage auctions. Very professional and genuine folks.
They actually appeared in the background in several shots, wearing their bright-red company shirts and caps. Libby is leaning against a wall and Alan is standing next to her in the background. They described the experience to me at an auction they held in Austin a couple of months ago, though they didn't know for sure if they'd actually appear on the show. They have to call the auction first, and then the show recreates the auction a second time using the show's auctioneer. (This isn't done to deceive, it's for legal purposes..?)
Here are some of the things we didn't like:
Having the guy who keeps saying "fabulous" use it in an obvious attempt to force it into the storage-auction lexicon much like Dave Hester's "yuuup." The guy is also a talentless caricature of Barry Weiss. The reason Barry Weiss is so fun to watch is because he's authentic. This guy is just..boring.
$14,000 in artwork? $275 lamp? (your price at Goodwill: $4.99) $5,000 antique? Yeah, it *could* happen, I suppose ANYTHING could happen, but gimme a break.. this kind of exaggeration is what makes Auction Hunters and that "other" show so silly and un-watchable.
Injected drama and poorly-written/poorly-acted humor. Jesus, it's like they were reading from a cue card. From start to finish. Just awful dialog, and zero personality. Unless you consider two fat guys in a 5x10 to be funny (I kinda do). Although we agreed that the comment about finding something other than a Mexican restaurant in Texas was funny.
Speaking of the twin XXXXX-large jumbo geniuses.. I'd *love* to see them digging through a unit. They can't reach to tie their own shoelaces, but they're picking apart a storage unit? How efficient can they really be at this kind of manual labor? I'm 6' and 200 lbs and it wears ME out!!
We watched almost to the end and just couldn't take anymore. Is it just us?
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The show is pure crap! Ive heard a rumor that the network is thinking about doing a show called Storage wars US Tour. They way I heard this is I have a friend that is AE (Account Exeutive) aka alesperson for A&E network and this is an idea they will pitch to bussiness to sell them ad space
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I'm a storage hunter in Austin who happens to know the "real" auctioneers for last night's show: Alan and Libby Wares of Ace Auction Company. In my opinion Ace is by far the best auction company in Austin, at least for storage auctions. Very professional and genuine folks.
Glad you mentioned this. At one point, I thought I had recognized Alan, but I wasn't sure, so I'm glad you confirmed that.
Ace Auction runs a solid operation, but they tend to have huge crowds, which I could live without.
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I agree with the huge crowd comment.. definitely a PITA when it comes to auctions. To their credit, however, Ace does a better job than most of controlling the crowd by forcing them to form a line, etc. I also like they way they'll open two lockers at once so if you're not interested in locker #1 you can get an early look at locker #2.
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Pure crap!
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Episode #2 in the great Texas Take-Off with a crew designed to be “just like” the original SW guys and gals (too bad it didn’t work out that way…maybe they’ll grow on us).
The “Barry” character shows up in colorful shoes and a colorful car. Let the rip-off continue.
The Smith accent….like fingernails on chalkboard.
At least the production values are good…same narrator, same camera work…too bad the main players are losers (IMHO).
Bubba takes up ¾ of my screen !
I liked seeing the “no name” bidder carrying a baby…now that’s REALITY TV auction style !
A trash unit come ups and they all bad-mouth it….Victor gets it for $20. I predict it will produce a $500 plus item ! He ditches the auction and checks out his lkr…they don’t let us do that !
A black bag…has a goodie…after the commercial ! OK, we’re back…item is… INCREDIBLE Swiss Army Knife about 1 foot wide...this is so SET UP it's RIDICULOUS!
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Ok, NEXT one has an old Kirby….almost a dime a dozen in my neck of the auction woods.
Moe and Lesa go at it….”Oh my god, who knows where that hand’s been?”
“Bring it !” she says…to which we suggest “Get out of here you wart hog !”
Moe gets it at $750. We know he won’t regret it.
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Now Bubba and brother find….fencing foils (probably used by Louis XV).
Bubba finds some “originable” Star Wars figures…even Webster never heard this word!
Moe puts on surgical gloves (says he’s a podiatric surgeon)…finds a new sewing machine to go with his old fabric. “fabulous”.
Wooden box…”that’s a good sign”. Give me a break…it could contain junior’s first lost baby tooth but on this show it would be grandpa’s gold teeth taken out before he was buried ! Nope, old playing cards which have “maintained their level of brightness.”
A crystal ball to go along with the brass balls they all exhibit.
Victor’s display Swiss Army knife…found in a crap locker…not in any of our lifetimes !
Moe’s crystal ball….Oh yeah…I found one of those in the 3rd locker I bought 8 years ago..of course it came from the 99 cent store…his good for $100 and the antique fortune telling cards…valued at….$350. I found those too, but they had pictures of pandas and elephants….my value… $1.50.
Star Wars collectibles for the bubbas …. $3,000 or so for just ONE of the 3 they took to a dealer. Total for that batch….$9,000 plus. Storage Wars Texas aims for a new low in REALITY tv …. And they succeed.
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Moe’s crystal ball….Oh yeah…I found one of those in the 3rd locker I bought 8 years ago..of course it came from the 99 cent store…his good for $100 and the antique fortune telling cards…valued at….$350. I found those too, but they had pictures of pandas and elephants….my value… $1.50.
I got a pack of unopened/original seal and tax stamp playing cards from the 1940s-1950s I could'nt sell for .99 cents on Ebay. Guess I don't have the right "dealers" in my area. ::)
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Moe’s crystal ball….Oh yeah…I found one of those in the 3rd locker I bought 8 years ago..of course it came from the 99 cent store…his good for $100 and the antique fortune telling cards…valued at….$350. I found those too, but they had pictures of pandas and elephants….my value… $1.50.
I got a pack of unopened/original seal and tax stamp playing cards from the 1940s-1950s I could'nt sell for .99 cents on Ebay. Guess I don't have the right "dealers" in my area. ::)
OMG! Tell me how can you watch the whole 30min of that show? Its has to be the worst show ever made. I would rather sit through an episode of dog the bounty hunter and thats a horrible show.
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OMG! Tell me how can you watch the whole 30min of that show? Its has to be the worst show ever made. I would rather sit through an episode of dog the bounty hunter and thats a horrible show.
What can I say? I'm a glutton for punishment. Actually, I just want to see what happens and how "far out" they can get. I'm interested in the mechanics of the production and how it mimics the original. Must be a different producer, but as I mentioned earlier there are a lot of production consistencies.
As to it being the worst show ever made I think that honor still goes to that show about auctions on TruTV. I watched just 15 minutes of that one and haven't been back.
One member in this forum suggested that the Texas SW would be the end of the era for these shows, and that might be true...the next year or so will tell the tale.
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Tuesday, Dec 20, 2011...
OK, I don't have the energy to give an accounting of this one....it will be poorly acted and unbelieveable though....you can count on that.
I do want to rewind the tivo though...these clowns each have "monikers" now:
They are:
The Rangers, The Outsider, The Boss and The Doc...I'll let you guess who is who if you didn't watch it.
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OK, that's it.....One of the Smiths comments about a picture:
"JC and the boys"...I'm sure Leonardo DaVinci is turning over in his grave at this description of the Last Supper !
AND....
"lookee here what I done found"...thrown the "twang" on top of that and what have you got....a Californian's worst nightmare....a hick on tv buying a storage locker.
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I watched the Texas show for the first time last night as my daughters wanted me to watch TV with them. One thing I thought during the show was - at least the prices are more decent then CA. Other then that I mostly tuned out the show.
Honestly who thinks that a small unit of rental furniture would contain a 7k ink well in it. It was the only thing "collectible" in the unit. At least the hat, belt, snake skin boots were not too much of a stretch for that unit. Of course the hat being the only thing in the drawers makes you go "ok??".
I still watch the shows online for entertainment value. Think the original SW is way better then Texas. However, after seeing a few hundred lockers and doing this for 7 months now I have a better appreciation for my local oldtimers, and people like MovieMan and others that have been doing this for years. You quickly learn how fake the shows really are.
Side note - I'm interested in watching the "moving wars" show in January. Part of me was like -- dang they will make a show about anything. Rest of me was interested to see how they move some of this stuff.
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Has to be the worst scripted show ever! Some people still belive this show to be all true! I bet the people who think the show is 100% real also think they did a one take when filming the subway commerical they all did! Or could it be they are all trainable actors they were taught to do the subway commerical.
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Storage Wars Texas…Tuesday, 12/27/2011
Moe…the Barry clone…pulls up in a classic car….just like Barry!
“right here”…..that’s Victor’s call ! (and he gets dumped on by Moe)
I’m guessing the room will pay off big anyway…this IS Texas after all…AND…TV !
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“bring it!" Lesa bids but doesn’t get #2
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Victor finds something ..”holy crap” he says…and we break for commercial #1 !
When we come back…he finds 4 old clocks. He does say one thing I found “real”…he comments “unbelieveable” twice…and that certainly pertains to this show !
I’m outa here !
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I keep forgetting all about the show being on. Not posted on the website yet so I'll have to wait for re-runs....if I even bother watching it. I now get a kick more out of listening to people in the gas station, store, or what not talking about the show then I do watching the show.
I had to re-educate a guy the other day. He was talking about the 1 show I did watch where they pulled a 7k inkwell out of a locker. I was like now think. Everything in that unit was rental furniture. No papers, boxes, personal items, cloths, or what not. They don't even have enough money (assumption) to buy furniture so they rent it. Yet, the people that bought the unit pull out a 1800s something blimp ink well worth 7k.
I could fall for a 7k lottery ticket tucked in between the seat cusions of the chair or couch before a 7k inkwell in that unit.
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I take it some of you watched 2 storage wars TX shows last night. Did you see the 2nd show with the handicapped lady in a wheelchair? did you see that old guy with the cowboy hat with overalls leaning to the lady in the chair?
that guy is what I deal with in my town, I call him the $10 dollar man. He bids me up on every frickin auction there is, nickel and diming when Im going in 50 to 100 dollar increment to shake him off.
In the other thread, I was griping about him and some of you bashed me for it.
anyways. ::)
last night, i saw the 10 dollar man on storage wars and I had to look the auction up. The auction that took place in River oaks was October 10th (something like that)
he was on the show before I met him.
coincidence.
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I take it some of you watched 2 storage wars TX shows last night. Did you see the 2nd show with the handicapped lady in a wheelchair? did you see that old guy with the cowboy hat with overalls leaning to the lady in the chair?
that guy is what I deal with in my town, I call him the $10 dollar man. He bids me up on every frickin auction there is, nickel and diming when Im going in 50 to 100 dollar increment to shake him off.
In the other thread, I was griping about him and some of you bashed me for it.
anyways. ::) I watched the first 15min of the first episode! The show is so stupid and fake that I won't waste my time on that show anymore. But you keep watching and fill us in! That way I can do something better for that 30 min time slot. I would have more respect for A&E if the did a show called storage animals were different breds of animals bid on sheds! It would be better than that have a** show storage texas! What an insult the show is.
last night, i saw the 10 dollar man on storage wars and I had to look the auction up. The auction that took place in River oaks was October 10th (something like that)
he was on the show before I met him.
coincidence.
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I could fall for a 7k lottery ticket tucked in between the seat cusions of the chair or couch before a 7k inkwell in that unit.
The lottery ticket would be a good one, but when thinking about it, the following would need to apply:
1) If it was a scratch off it would have to be unscratched and then the producers who put it there wouldn't know it was a winner...that violates their #1 reason for planting good items in a locker.
2) If it was scratched off revealing a $7,000 win, that would mean the dumbass who lost the locker was even dumber than the producers...a big stretch of the imagination.
3) If it was a regular lottery ticket with winning numbers and the producers planted it, they would be the luckiest sons-of-b**s alive as the odds are in the hundreds of millions just to GET one of those tickets if you bought one, then to be compounded by coming up in the one of 10s of thousands of lockers sold in a month's time across the country!
There's dumb luck in finding the goodies WE find, then there's "manufactured" luck .... producer style!
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bwd111,
if you were on the show, you wouldn't mind if we called you inbreds?
that ll change your tune pretty fast if they came to you and said, we ll pay you to be on the show.
so knock it off.. If you dont have anything positive to say about the show, then keep quiet.
Not all Texans are inbreds. I travel all over the united states and I have seen people worse than Texans but I am not going to name names.
bwd111 - take your bashing and your hate somewhere else.
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I must of missed a posting that was deleted by the mods.
I've been to Texas several times for training and once just to travel. I love the state. Some very cool waterparks and such are in Texas. Slitherbauhm (however spell it) outside San Antonio has a cool water coaster. No other type ride in the US.
Anyways - this is about storage wars, not really about the people that make up a state. Lets talk about the units, story plot, or prices. Who cares about the people. I rub shoulders with worse looking and sometimes acting people then what is on TV at my local auctions.
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I must of missed a posting that was deleted by the mods.
I doubt the deletion scenario; perhaps post #20 above is the one in question. On the surface it looks like BWD just reposted (a quote), but if you look one line down from the first smiley face and go 10 words to the right BWD says something about farm animals.
My main complaint is not with the show's bidders per se (though some aspects are alarming), but rather with the human beings who are the producers of the show. It just seems to me to be such an OBVIOUS (attempted) CLONE of the original show that it is insulting to the viewer.
Also, the details of the characterizations of each of the bidders is bothersome. Some producer glommed on to the idea that "yupp" had made its way into our lexicon SOOOO....we now have "Bring it!" and "Right here" as new possible catch phrases for the lookey-loos to shout at the next auction we attend locally.
Also, the very poor ways in which the lockers are set up has been mentioned by several people. I think Craig*** mentioned the very unlikely presence of a $7,000 inkwell in a lkr that had half a dozen pieces of rental furniture. If there had been 20 boxes in there too it would have been more realistic (but still fake).
Then there was the single cowboy hat in a six drawer chest to go along with the separately stored snake hat band and other snake items. Some producer or assistant didn't use too many brain cells there.
Just a show that begs for critical analysis all the way around, and the loopy bidders there are the easiest things to attack first. So this show definitely deserves 1/4 of a "Yee-Haw! on the popularity scale and that would be a limp "ye" from me.
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bwd111,
if you were on the show, you wouldn't mind if we called you inbreds?
that ll change your tune pretty fast if they came to you and said, we ll pay you to be on the show.
so knock it off.. If you dont have anything positive to say about the show, then keep quiet.
Not all Texans are inbreds. I travel all over the united states and I have seen people worse than Texans but I am not going to name names.
bwd111 - take your bashing and your hate somewhere else.
I Think you might have read the wrong post! cause I never have even used the word inbreds or anything thing bad about Texans as my grand-ma is from texas. I did how ever say the show is stupid and that I did watch first 15 min of the show tuesday. So you might want to re-read all post. Think your upset cause we all can't stand the show and you feel left out. Sorry for the confusion. Nice try thou. The show sucks
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I doubt the deletion scenario; perhaps post #20 above is the one in question. On the surface it looks like BWD just reposted (a quote), but if you look one line down from the first smiley face and go 10 words to the right BWD says something about farm animals.
My main complaint is not with the show's bidders per se (though some aspects are alarming), but rather with the human beings who are the producers of the show. It just seems to me to be such an OBVIOUS (attempted) CLONE of the original show that it is insulting to the viewer.
Also, the details of the characterizations of each of the bidders is bothersome. Some producer glommed on to the idea that "yupp" had made its way into our lexicon SOOOO....we now have "Bring it!" and "Right here" as new possible catch phrases for the lookey-loos to shout at the next auction we attend locally.
Also, the very poor ways in which the lockers are set up has been mentioned by several people. I think Craig*** mentioned the very unlikely presence of a $7,000 inkwell in a lkr that had half a dozen pieces of rental furniture. If there had been 20 boxes in there too it would have been more realistic (but still fake).
Then there was the single cowboy hat in a six drawer chest to go along with the separately stored snake hat band and other snake items. Some producer or assistant didn't use too many brain cells there.
Just a show that begs for critical analysis all the way around, and the loopy bidders there are the easiest things to attack first. So this show definitely deserves 1/4 of a "Yee-Haw! on the popularity scale and that would be a limp "ye" from me.
Sorry for the confusion. The animal thing I was talking about was I would have more respect for A&E if they did a show called Storage animals where you have differant breeds of animals like dogs,cats,lions,bears,deer,beavers bidding on sheds. Its a parday thing on the show. Jarred would be Squirrel, Dave would be the panda bear, Darrel would be the bear, Barry the dog. Meaning the show would be as riddiclous as the texas show. So have no idea why the person got mad!
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The cowboy hat, snake boots, hat band, and belt buckle was a stretch...but I could see it as a remote possability. I think it was more of a poor joke or play on the show being in Texas. Texas isn't the only state with 1/4 of the population wearing a cowboy hat. Any of the states in that area has people that wear them. Not for a fasion or style sense but for practical purposes. Those places you wear either a cowboy hat, boonie floppy hat, or sombero (sp). Baseball cap is good for your face but your neck gets burnt.
I know people have already mentioned New York and Miami as other locations they may or are doing shows at. I just really hope they just stop. Is what kills many a show I think....the over saturation.
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Tonight, Jan 10, 2012....
I'm only going to report on the most OUTRAGEOUS thing I see on SW Texas.
Be back when it's over. With 10" left in the show the best part so far was the two Smith boys going back home (a fair distance from what they said)...with...NOTHING! Now THAT'S reality in the storage biz.
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The Barry clone gets a Ms. PacMan cocktail table game..value about $1200. In 8 years of doing this I've seen three pinball machines come up...I got one of them.
Lesa scores a Davy Crocket tent from the 1950s. Value $100.
Promo for next week shows back to back episodes of the original Storage Wars. I wonder if they didn't make all that many episodes of Texas and if this is their way of spreading them out until (hopefully) they die off.
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The Barry clone gets a Ms. PacMan cocktail table game..value about $1200. In 8 years of doing this I've seen three pinball machines come up...I got one of them.
I have seen one arcade game in a unit. It was a Donkey Kong, looked original from the 80s. Well the facility manager put a minimum starting bid on that unit at $3000. Nobody bid on it. Never saw the unit come back up for auction so don't know what happen to the unit, it's contents, or the arcade game. The facility manager probably just kept the unit and parted out the contents himself. It's legal to do that in Tennessee.
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Any news on the future of Storage Wars Texas?
I don't think there's been a new episode on since late Dec, 2011 unless I missed it and I direct my Tuesday night to watch Storage Wars (original) and whatever else pops up there.
Hard to believe they would have made only 4 or so episodes....usually would go for 10 to 13 I think, but things have changed in the TV business with all the hundreds of channels available.
SW Texas demise would be a sweet surprise...I doubt the original will go away anytime soon.
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I've been thinking the same thing. The Denise of the show would be because it wasn't original and the cast sucked. Moe was a more annoying, more boring, less funny version of Barry, Lesa was just annoying and The bubba twins were ok. Vic was really the only one that peeked my interest.
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And the actual boring SW is back. Damn! Just for the love of everything holy please get rid of Moe.
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Lookee here what I done saw....
a promo on SW original for SW Texas starting in March, 2012...season 2. Yikes, season one went fast...don't know how many episodes it was, but didn't seem like more than 6 or so.
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Lookee here what I done saw....
a promo on SW original for SW Texas starting in March, 2012...season 2. Yikes, season one went fast...don't know how many episodes it was, but didn't seem like more than 6 or so.
I think this will still be considered season one. The plan was to do 6 shows and see how it goes. If okay it was to do 10 shows. It looks like it it has been picked up with new shows coming in March.
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They are not done yet, The next one will Storage Wars N.Y.
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Lookee here what I done saw....
a promo on SW original for SW Texas starting in March, 2012...season 2. Yikes, season one went fast...don't know how many episodes it was, but didn't seem like more than 6 or so.
The one interesting note I have about the promo: NO MO' MOE?!?
I may have missed him, but I did not see Moe anywhere on that promo.
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I downloaded all six episodes because I was hoping for a character similar to Barry... Unfortunately, Moe is no Barry... Oh well. None of these shows are fully entertaining... I usually skip to the parts with Barry. What a cool guy.