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| mojoeskateco:
--- Quote from: superchop on February 12, 2013, 12:07:15 PM ---This morning I was watching an episode of Pawn Stars that I had DVR'd from last night and I found it interesting and funny that Pat the nes punk was on the show trying to "sell" his NWC carts. Pat the NES punk on an episode of Pawn Stars http://youtu.be/PHKBbY_Anuk Besides that one of the other references I remember seeing was on an episode of Storage Wars where a guy thought a plain old NES was worth like 30k cause of an auction he heard about. So it kinda got me wondering what other type of references or appearances have people done on those reality shows --- End quote --- Apparently the dude who thought the NES was worth big bucks was found dead over the weekend. From Wikipedia: Mark Balelo (Season 2-3): Balelo owned a liquidation, wholesale, and distribution company, and an auction house, and also used to own a gaming store called The Game Exchange from 2009-2012. He was known for bringing large sums of money to auctions, as much as $50,000 at a time. He also earned the name “Rico Suave” for his tendency to dress in fancy clothes at storage auctions. He was known to be a dirty player, overpricing Barry to $1,500 and Dave to almost $10,000, which took place in the episode "Enemy of the Enemy". Mark's approximate net worth was $2 million.[19] He appeared four times in the second season, once in the third season. Balelo committed suicide on February 11, 2013, at his auction house in Simi Valley, CA, by carbon monoxide poisoning after being released on bail from drug charges Crazy stuff! |
| Misanthroat:
Crazy... I live in Simi... |
| Superchop:
--- Quote from: mojoeskateco on February 12, 2013, 04:46:25 PM ---, and also used to own a gaming store called The Game Exchange from 2009-2012. --- End quote --- Kind of funny now that I'm reading it...wasn't the store that he took the system to a Game Exchange? If so that means he got shut down by one of his own employees lol...that's got to hurt even more. |
| mojoeskateco:
--- Quote from: superchop on February 13, 2013, 10:39:40 AM --- --- Quote from: mojoeskateco on February 12, 2013, 04:46:25 PM ---, and also used to own a gaming store called The Game Exchange from 2009-2012. --- End quote --- Kind of funny now that I'm reading it...wasn't the store that he took the system to a Game Exchange? If so that means he got shut down by one of his own employees lol...that's got to hurt even more. --- End quote --- Further evidence that the show is fixed. You'd think he would know that NES-001 is a model # and not a serial number if owned a game store. Also after the system doesn't power on the employee offers him $5 which it total BS see as he a had a few games (which they don't show). The system could have been working fine and maybe the power cord was damaged. |
| Beastman1975:
do you really think ANY reality tv show isnt scripted/setup/fake? i dont believe a single one of them are anywhere near even 25% real |
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