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

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Nephasth:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 11, 2012, 02:12:38 pm ---Either back it up or don't act like you know.

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Is this a new year's resolution? ::)

Le Chuck:
Legit question:  Due to the financial difficulties of late has the market for collectibles (be it classic cars, pinball, arcade machines, even juke boxes) undergone a temporary depression from which you antcipate will recover to say 2007 levels (or similar high water mark) or do you think that the market for these type of luxury items has been irrevocably adjusted to a lower base?

I, as only a casual follower of the pricepoints, get the feeling that the prices will recover some but not as much as many hope... at least not anytime soon, so in effect we are looking at the new base for this stuff.

The follow-up, for me, is does a new lower base prevent some individuals from entering the market?  If you can't get $10K profit from doing a frame up OEM restore on a "classic car" anymore does that mean fewer will be comercially available except to the die-hard and DIYers?  Is that how the community begins to come back?

I think so, but I'm interested to know how others see the impact on the hobby without getting too much into the politics of it. 

DaveMMR:

--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 11, 2012, 02:12:38 pm ---
--- Quote from: Anpanman on January 11, 2012, 01:54:33 pm ---As someone who's very familiar with the way production works,

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Either back it up or don't act like you know.

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Well, aren't we in a good mood today.

Mikezilla:
My sister took a picture with Dave hester from the original storage wars. He was peddling his wares at our local swap meet here in SD. She said he had the normal trash/junk that regulars have there. There was an episode we watched the other day where he got a locker full of old books and he valued it at 15k dollars. It was a complete joke. She asked about em and said "How much did you sell those books for?" and he replied "15k just like the show said". Said he was a total dick, just like in the show. I thought it was great because he was selling his stupid yuuuuupp caps and sweatshirts. The dude is a joke.  :lol

Really short too.

Sorry to hijack the thread but I thought it was sort of relevant.

Howard_Casto:

--- Quote from: Anpanman on January 11, 2012, 01:54:33 pm ---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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This is the case for survivor, but sruvivor isn't a reality show, it's a gameshow.  They can call it reality all they want,  but it isn't.  Also this isn't "secret insider knowledge"  it is a commonly known fact.  They have had several specials showing a behind the scenes look at survivor as well as in depth interviews with the host and producers where they say as much.

In the case of storage wars I find it HIGHLY UNLIKELY that they reshoot the auctions.....  If they did then why are there people with blurred-out heads so often on the show?  Seems like they'd manage to get permission to film all those paid extras for the staging.  ;)

Now "talking heads" segments are filmed after the fact of course, but that is obvious.  There are also segments where they do a little "joke" at the end of some shows, those are often staged as well.... you can just tell due to the bad acting.  And that's the thing right there... if the whole thing is staged then why would their "acting" be so good on some parts and so bad in others

Oh and people get paid for starring in a tv show?  Really?  You don't say?

And to quell pbj's fears, no the lockers are not staged...  what they do is only show the really interesting lockers on tv... 75-90% of the lockers they actually get are never shown.  Again, this is common knowledge, they explained it on the behind the scenes special and there's even a little blurb about it at the end of some of the shows in the credits.  I think you might be confusing storage wars with auction hunters... pretty sure the spike tv rip-off of SW got into some trouble over staging stuff.  

Now do I know any of this 100% for certain... no....  because I haven't personally witnessed a taping... but this is the digital age, it's pretty easy to research this stuff.  ;)

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