Storage Wars on A&E:

[LGM]

Stupidest reality show ever = Iceberg Hunters. That sh*t should be illegal.

Amish Mafia is right up there as well.

[griz]

Yep, Brandi must be kicking herself now...200-300 bucks more and she wud have had it...

Theres a new guy coming in soon.

I think we will still see Hester at auctions though...

The Yup guy got fired?

[Capemay Eagle]

It's kind of like those fishing shows. They don't really catch 25 bass in 22 minutes of programming. It may take these people weeks and even months of searching lockers before they find the value content that gets aired on television. Another thing to consider is that they do this for a living and search through hundreds if not thousands of lockers per year. That said, I still think the show is rigged to some degree.

The thing that really gives it away is that it is the same 5 people bidding on these lockers. There's always a crowd of people, but it is the same 5 or so cast members that win the bids. If you notice the people in the crowd, they always bid to a $100 or $200 and then they get outbid by the same old foes. I have to say it is a great show, I like it, but it is as fake as Ghost Hunters.

[Nastradamus]

Ghost Hunters was fake??

[Cory J. Bonini]

The thing that really gives it away is that it is the same 5 people bidding on these lockers. There's always a crowd of people, but it is the same 5 or so cast members that win the bids. If you notice the people in the crowd, they always bid to a $100 or $200 and then they get outbid by the same old foes. I have to say it is a great show, I like it, but it is as fake as Ghost Hunters.

haha. nice!

I've seen Storage Wars a few times and thought it was a neat concept, but I'm sure it's a combination of editing and being somewhat rigged. People eat it up anyway, so however they do it seems to be quite successful.

[Cory J. Bonini]

Stupidest reality show ever = Iceberg Hunters. That sh*t should be illegal.

I'm going with that Finding Bigfoot show. "There's a 'squatch in dem der woods."

[ErkTheJerk]

The Yup guy got fired?

Yuuup!

[Lofaw]

Hester never had a problem with what was going on with the show for years and now that his business is faltering he has a problem with the show. He's just looking for an excuse to use why his business is going bankrupt. His EGO is so big that he can't except the fact that he couldn't cut it in the business and needs to place blame elsewhere.

[trev]

Hester never had a problem with what was going on with the show for years and now that his business is faltering he has a problem with the show. He's just looking for an excuse to use why his business is going bankrupt. His EGO is so big that he can't except the fact that he couldn't cut it in the business and needs to place blame elsewhere.

Always seemed to me that Hester was the only one who truly ran like a business.

[Hyped]

Jarrod and Brandi have a store, but they are the poorest of all main characters.

Hester is worth about three million himself. He got into it following a DUI conviction in which he had to work at Goodwill (non profit thrift stores in CA) as a part of his probation. Last year he expanded his business and turned it into an auction business instead if a thrift store business. That's prolly why he is broke.

Sheets has a regular job as a Denny's waiter, but he has a warehouse and prolly eBays his stuff. Sheets is in it to strike it rich...and now is successful.

Weis is just in it for the fun of it... he comes from money. We saw his mother's house in Beverly Hills once....very fancy. Also, he ran a produce distribution business with his brother for years before retiring. He knew the producer of the show personally and knows a lot of people in Hollywood....according to him its because peeps keep getting confused by thinking he is a producer.... Instead of in produce.

[Hyped]

I also question the prices the characters quote...like for example they might find some old wooden shelf and say, "Thats 200, right there" when I wouldn't spend more than 40 on it.

Also, I question how quickly they liquidate their goods. In one episode, Hester bought a unit with tons of books and said he could sell them all for 2k or something (about 20-30 boxes full). You don't sell books fast....

[Raid]

Eagles football is the biggest hoax ever played on the viewing audience. Ok, maybe the Lions beat them out...

[Breed]

Amish Mafia is right up there as well.

I've never watched that, but I always figured there'd be at least a couple "I'd hit that." babes on the show.

I'm going with that Finding Bigfoot show. "There's a 'squatch in dem der woods."

Never watched this either, but it does bring to mind South Park's take on Ghost Hunters. Where all the Ghost Hunters guys were pissin their pants and that makes me chuckle.

I watched Iceberg Hunters once for about 15 minutes just to see what the concept was. I found no appeal to it whatsoever. Shooting chunks of ice off icebergs, WTF! And those accents, what's that about about? A combination of most annoying east coast and most annoying Canadian with an extra dose of talking through your nose nasal twinge thrown in.