Posted on 09/26/2011 9:14:30 AM PDT by ExTxMarine
A&E's "Storage Wars," a show about people who bid on the contents of abandoned storage lockers, had its second season premiere this summer to 5.1 million viewers. It's the HIGHEST RATED show in the network's history.
Tru TV's nearly identical "Storage Hunters" has become a breakout hit - ALMOST as big of a hit as Spike's nearly identical "Auction Hunters."
That's right. There are three DIFFERENT shows on TV about STORAGE LOCKERS.
Reality TV is frequently trashy, but never before has it featured so much actual trash.
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She said, "These bleeding heart liberals want you to feel sorry for the people who lost their storage units. But, some of these had over $10K worth of stuff in them! Why in the heck didn't they go sell the stuff so that they could continue to live their lives!?!?"
She said, "I don't feel sorry for someone too stupid to sell something valuable in a time of need! Common sense should kick in at some ficking time!" The mouth-breather on the TV said that these storage units contain "someone's LIFE." My wife retorted out loud, "They shouldn't be locking their life away in some stupid forgotten storage unit! Most people don't store valuable family albums in a remote storage unit; they would have the dang thing in their home or with their family!"
I think I actually saw part of that soft liberal spot toughen up a little yesterday morning!
Congratulations on your wife’s Damascus Road experience with the scales falling from her eyes to clearly see the error of liberal thinking. I just saw a promo for the SpikeTV show with Alan and Ton finding some collectible guns that sold for around $10k. Outside of the unit’s renter dying and nobody in the family being aware of the items stored, I just can’t imagine walking away from those kind of items.
I wonder what percentage of lockers are abandoned.
I don’t have tv but I did see that show once at a relatives house. They dragged out a moderately interesting event that could have been covered in minutes into a full episode. And all I care about is what they found in the unit, not all the personal comment tripe and “competition” of the bidders.
But regarding the liberal bent:
I think the greatest testamony against our culture is the proliferation of storage units. Sure, there is a need, like when we moved to another state and didn’t have the space for all our stuff we rented the smallest unit they had until we could maximize our space and sell off or donate what was not really needed. But our culture is so based on consumerism that people buy way more stuff than they need and then pay monthly just to store the crap.
And anyone that cannot afford to pay the paulty rental fees for their unit should not be storing anything of real value there. They should get off their butts and sell it. I was unemployed about 8 years ago and between looking for jobs I parted out a dead motorcycle on Ebay. I made almost the entire purchase price back.
Losing your storage unit is what I call a “stupid tax”. There are two that come to mind right off the top of my head. The other one, of course, is lotto tickets.
Comically, they are both completely voluntary taxes.
My 27 year old daughter loves Storage Wars. I just don’t get it.
It’s a business and has been long before cable TV took notice.
How have these reality TV shows influenced the business? Has it been good for business? Has it been good for TV? Is it good for America?
I don’t have a problem with it unless they go too far by including house and apartment rental properties where evictions have taken place.
I don’t know if that’s even legal but where does it end?
A lot of lockers that go to auction are because people died and the relatives didn’t know about it. Which can be sad but is really the deceased’s fault for not leaving clear records.
The rest are of course bad thinking, people didn’t pay the bill, didn’t think through what was in there to get it out before they were in arrears.
Oh, puleez! If those idiots can’t figure out that selling granny’s diamond necklace would buy 10 years worth of storage unit’s rent, then don’t blame the people to buy those abandoned units. If they don’t care enough about granny or some other family heirloom to get it out of the unit before it goes up for auction, then I’m sorry granny gave it to them in the first place.
I enjoy the show. It’s like a treasure hunt/Christmas present/Easter egg hunt/auction/Birthday all rolled up in one.
For the wife and I it’s all about Barry. He’s just damn funny. One of those people I’d just love to run into in a bar. And some of the stuff they find is really interesting.
There is “Nothing” real about reality TV. Its all cleaver and often not so cleaver slight of hand designed to fool the fools. It’s entertainment nothing more. You are not suppose to think about the multiple camera angles, the changing of the light reflectors for the different angles, and the sound booms and stage crews just out of sight. That 30 second spot shown on the program could have taken several hours to set up and shoot. We caught this on the TV show “Tanked” which is about a crew that builds custom fish tanks. One short segment that was about 15 seconds of air time started out showing a receptionist and behind her a clock showing 12:14. The camera moved onto someone else in the room and then back to her. The clock now was after 4 pm.
The only show I like is Pawn Stars but even that is phony and scripted. I met real visitors to that store, and they say you don’t even see the cast members, and there is a large line to get in now that the store is a TV star. They actually close the store for the program shooting, allowing only a limited number in just for realities sake.
I think these shows are great. They offer a very important lesson: pay your bills, understand your contracts. Storage lockers are not a right. If you keep your junk in there sans payment, the person who owns the facility isn’t going to be making money on your unit. You know, the person who actually runs the business and invested their time and money. I don’t feel sorry for those who lose out. It’s not theft.
For the one treasure that’s found, they go through a dozen units that are full of nothing but garbage. Many of them are exactly that - garbage. When moving out of a place, people want their deposit back and it’s cheaper to dump their trash in these units than it is to rent a dumpster.
Barry’s the man! I love how he keeps a lot of the interesting things he finds. He must have quite a collection at his place.
Barry’s the man! I love how he keeps a lot of the interesting things he finds. He must have quite a collection at his place.
Barry’s the man! I love how he keeps a lot of the interesting things he finds. He must have quite a collection at his place.
Usually, the abandoned lockers are full of borderline garbage, like 1970’s TV sets and puked on baby clothes. I also know that the prices that are quoted for many of the items on storage wars are just pie-in-the sky wishful thinking.
One would think the executor would notice the bill in the mail or read the letter that the unit is in arrears and up for auction. Legally, the owner must be notified of such action and given X amount of time to make payment.
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