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Storage Wars Texas: Proof that now even arcade OPERATORS are stupid.
Nephasth:
--- Quote from: Howard_Casto on January 11, 2012, 12:13:37 am ---...this damn economy has killed the value of EVERYTHING!
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It's a good time to be a buyer. Now go out and stimulate the economy!
404:
--- Quote from: pinballjim on January 10, 2012, 11:38:42 pm ---*sigh* Remember when A&E used to be low budget recordings of Shakespeare plays?
Guess I'll have to give this one a download and see if I recognize anyone. I can assure you that arcade games and pinball machines are borderline worthless in this state.
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what we need to do is put put a clip of the segment on youtube and send it to every game site on the net and expose this sham. Really, I have some small ties with some game sites. Thinking of doing this today. This gives legit collectors a bad name and is simply done to pander to bad reality television.
--- Quote from: Le Chuck on January 10, 2012, 11:53:10 pm ---I had a similar experience the other day. I was all stoked riding in my friend's sweet looking mustang. It had to have been a '67 from the "looks" of it... anyway we were kinda lost so my friend hits the OnStar button. Man, I couldn't believe it. All those stories about my Dad getting lost back in the day and all he had to do was a hit a button. Moron! The ride was in sweet condition, he must have put a lot of work in it considering it had power seats, windows, and a cool clutchless shifter (we can't drive sticks). That Onstar was OEM though, you could tell. Classic!
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Actually, you can put the OnStar service on any Vehicle, new or old by simply buying the OnStar kit. http://www.onstar.com/web/fmv/home
TopJimmyCooks:
PBJ, you need to ship your machines and 48 in ones to NC to sell. check out these local pawnshop guys trolling for idiots:
http://wilmington.craigslist.org/for/2786001918.html
"Works most of the time"!
ChadTower:
Or, you can accept it for what it is, and that's a TV show about people who pull crap from staged storage units. Very little about any of those shows is authentic. Scam appraisers exist in every field. For an extra couple hundred you get an "expert appraisal" of value that is stupidly high so the seller can turn around and get that from an unsuspecting buyer.
How do you think so many houses got refinanced above actual market value prior to the housing crash? They tried it with my house when I refinanced. That guy appraised the house probably 25% over what would be reasonable given some common sense comparisons to recent sales. Then they tried like hell to get me to refi to 100% of that appraisal. I didn't, and then the market crashed, so I didn't end up underwater. But I understand how a lot of people could fall for that and end up in trouble.
DaveMMR:
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.
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