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Storage Wars Find
redsox2012:
Anyone else see last week's episode of "Storage Wars"?
Darrell bought a locker with a box of NES stuff. Most of it looked pretty common, but he took it to a store called Video Game Geeks (must be somewhere in LA) to have it appraised. There was a Stadium Events, Snow Brothers & Zombie Nation as well as some other rare stuff I couldn't make out (carts only).
They valued it at around $3000. Darrell offered to flip the owner for either $5000 or $5, but he refused. Looking at a recent sale, Stadium Events sold for over $8000 for cart only.
larryinc64:
I call BS on that find.
"OH HEY WE FOUND EARTHBOUND, 5 NWC CARTS, AND SHIGERU MIYAMOTO"
It was probably staged. A lot of these shows are.
Like this episode of Pawn Stars, Pat the NES Punk was trying to pawn his NWC carts, like that would happen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrntYxB92GU
Also, unrelated but related:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRv6v_ScrJo
cloud_weaver:
They do stage a lot of the rare stuff they hide in there. Someone got in trouble a bit back with the show and outed them on it.
TDIRunner:
I used to really enjoy that show, but it wore off pretty quick. Of all the reality shows, that one is probably the furthest from actual reality. Personally, that doesn't bother me. I don't care if it's real. I only care if I'm entertained. For a while I was entertained and therefore, I watched the show. But now that my interest was gone, I just don't care anymore.
Shipping wars was another. Absolutely no reality whatsoever. But it was entertaining to watch.....for about two weeks.
FritzWhite:
For me, a lot of the entertainment value is linked to it being real. Once I realized it's a sham, my interest faded. I didn't have specific plans to go buy storage lockers, but in the beginning I'd feel the thrill of the hunt thinking that anyone those of lockers and the treasures inside could be mine if I was at the right auction at the right time. Even if the show was real, I'd think it would be a lot harder anyways because a lot of people had the same idea after seeing the show and now overbid those auctions. Same problem with craigslist and a lot of garage sales these days. Too many sharks and not enough good deals. Once or twice, I've had the seller of a well priced lot on craigslist raise it 3x the original asking price because of the ensuing frenzy of calls and emails.