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Storage Wars Texas: Proof that now even arcade OPERATORS are stupid.

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Malenko:
Is it really any worse than when Antiques Roadshow tells someone they can probably get $10,000 for a trinket from the 60s at auction? I'm sure there are antiques guys that have a forum like this that say the same kind of stuff. Im sure even fewer people would watch that show if everything was worth $20

As for the other thing,  I only buy games I want to keep so its a great time to buy, but I'm broke :/

ChadTower:

Heh, I remember Atariage going off on Antiques Roadshow because some guy appraised a beaten up 2600 and some games for a stupid amount of money.

Donkbaca:
The lame thing about this stuff is now any idiot with a beat up arcade machine thinks its worth tons of money.  You go on Craigslist and some idiot posts a "rare colelctible" EM pinball machine that is beat to hell and asks 5 grand for it....

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: thefearsomefearful on January 11, 2012, 10:10:06 am ---
--- Quote from: DaveMMR on January 11, 2012, 09:10:54 am ---Yeah stuff like this bothers me too, but basically these shows are more interested in story first and "reality" second. We just have to take what they present with a grain of salt.

--- End quote ---

Agreed. If the junk appraised for low values, the show would be less dramatic, and therefore less interesting. Accurate price points are probably not their priority.

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I don't think it that, so much as these dumb guys that buy these lockers on tv are so competative that they never want to admit that they just threw their money away so when rummaging through in front of the camera man they'll say, for example, that a dirty, beat-up, 20 year old toaster oven is worth 20 bucks, when I can go to any walmart and buy a BRAND NEW toaster oven for 20 bucks. 

Let's put it this way... if they actually price the stuff as they value it in their second hand stores I don't know how they sleep at night!

Anpanman:
As someone who's very familiar with the way production works, let me assure you that there is very little reality in reality television.  This is the case for every single reality show.  Survivor, for example, employed literally hundreds of crew members and millions of dollars in equipment (cranes, etc.) you never saw on television.  A very large camp had to be built every season to house the crew.  I don't want to ruin anyone's perception of the show but those people were in no way, shape or form living on a deserted island.  

In the case of Storage Wars, the units are not staged.  The majority of the show's footage is produced after the fact, including a re-creation of the auction.  The only footage possibly shot as it happened would be the emptying the of the lockers.  Also keep in mind that all of the participants are paid.

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