Auction Hunters
behemoth
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first off, the networks are nailing me in the head with these types of shows. second, it has to be fake. because i have been to plenty of storage auctions on the record prowl and it's always like 40 Mexican dudes who will bid on a unit with a mattress and garbage bags contents unknown..
http://www.spike.com/video/auction-hunters/3491793
http://www.spike.com/video/auction-hunters/3491793
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because you are allowed to look and base your bid on what you see. every one i have been to has had all contents visible. the auctioneers say "no one has even stepped foot in there" but that is bullshit. they rearrange it all to make it look more desirable.
nothing desirable about a big screen TV from 1994
I have some ideas for shows....
"Celebrity Garbage Wars" - People pick the garbage of well known celebrities and see who gets the most on ebay for things like an empty Rosie O'Donnell estrogen pill prescription bottle vs a Justin Bieber pubic hair.
"Professional Evangelist Wrestling" better known as the PEW where TV Evangelists wrestle each other with the winner having to faith heal the loser.
"Guess Which Hooker Has AIDS" - Even Ted Turner turned this one down.
Little People Basketball League (LPBL) with 5 foot baskets.....I'm watching this and hoping there's a "Sky Lo Lo Hook" shot.
Celebrity Rap Battle - Mickey Rourke vs. Keanu Reeves
how about "Jack Moves"
chronicles the life of 2 kids robbing people
A Latin dealer told me he was about to buy a huge Latin collection full of serious heat from a storage auction. Gold label Fanias etc. He told me that he reckoned he could have retired on it. The owner turned up 30mins before the auction and paid the overdue fees.
Another guy told me he once bought a storage unit contents in Ft Lauderdale and when he opened it it had some shopping trolleys and useless junk in it. He was bummed until when he was cleaning it out found $10000 in cash
The dealers who do this shit in Chicago are some of the grimiest greediest grippers I've met. I saw a dude once outbid another guy $4K on a locker that didnt have shit in it but a box of records and some weights, just to spite another guy and show him who's the boss. Doing this shit for years turns dudes into Golem
ive gotten a good percentage of my records from these types over the years. i always entertained the thought of checking out the auctions, but then came to my senses. still, an interesting subculture. hopefully theyll profile more than just these two dudes
Some of these dudes do some pretty high turnover. I can think of a couple of fleas in NYC where about 10-20% of the sellers are actually working for one person who is out full time getting more shit. One vendor gets the clothes, one the furniture, etc etc. And they are spread out at different fleas.
When looking at the rooms they are usually looking for furniture that could contain jewelry, or better yet, old lady savings accounts - aka envelopes of cash hidden in said furniture.
One woman told me she bought 40 boxes of what she thought were records (to sell to me!) but turned out to be porno mags. Then she asked me to help her shift them. I tried to be smut peddler but it didn't really happen. She found a very happy buyer though.
There is some other show that I don't think has been mentioned that features an Antique shop with a really smug owner who asks everyone who brings shit in "how much were you thinking of asking for this?" When he knows they didn't even know WTF it was until a minute ago. Lucky for him there is no popsike for vintage gall stones or mummified cats.
------- Thank you.
Who was it who told me they bought Donald Byrds lps from a storage locker dealer in LA? Mostafa?
I don't know if you're talking about the show or IRL, but from what I've been told they take boltcutters to the lock in front of the potential bidders at the real auctions (I've never been to one, however).
Well. You are talking about the ones on the ironically named TruTV, which are the ones that are utterly 100% fake (and so obviously so they're just plain offensive). I know most of the other ones are manipulated/sculpted/partly scripted/etc but all of the shows that AREN'T on that channel are usually based on some kernel of truth.