2014年、デビッド・ヘスターは、Storage Warsという番組のオークション前に、高価なアイテムが倉庫に仕込まれていたとして、A&Eテレビを訴えた。その結果、彼は番組を解雇された。
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挿話2014年、デビッド・ヘスターは、Storage Warsという番組のオークション前に、高価なアイテムが倉庫に仕込まれていたとして、A&Eテレビを訴えた。その結果、彼は番組を解雇された。
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Wait, so the reality t.v. show was faked?
Who would have guessed!
They quickly realized he was the main draw of the show and brought him back. Money makes the world go round.
Spike TV was even worse with their “Reality” shows. Many if not all had fine print in the credits saying that they contained “dramatic re-creations of events” or something like that.
That’s why (for example) the towing company office shows had so many breakable items and a glass door that would often get smashed. Actors were instructed to break various things in “anger”.
Garage auctions aren’t usually exciting, the show attraction was discovery, and the reality didn’t match the expectations of the show and ratings. Just like any reality show.
My friends were on House Hunters, I almost was on the show but my friend cock blocked walked right in front of me during filming
The owners already had bought their house and faked the entire show like they were looking at 2 other houses
They weren’t even asked to do the show UNTIL they were closing their house.
As someone who works in storage this tracks. People make a lot of money off of our auctions, but it’s usually from tools, furniture, and electronics. Most people aren’t going to store anything valuable AND interesting in their storage unit unless they are antique hoarders. Those people are way too possessive to let their units get past due.
They literally found Ernst Udet’s pistol on one of those shows.
He was a very high ranking Luftwaffe officer and a WW1 ace, and probably used that pistol to kill himself.
But it randomly ends up in a storage locker in New Jersey? It was worth more than 100K.
I collect movie Props, A few years ago i was contacted by a Pawn type show, i think it was Beverly hills pawn or something.
The deal they offered
You pay to come to the show, you pay for all your own expenses. We will “pretend” to buy your item on the show but you get to keep it and the money.
I passed.
Can you imagine the effort it would take to actually sell all of the “valuable” crap that they supposedly found in those lockers. Experts would tell them what the stuff was worth, but the experts never bought any of it. So who did they sell it to?
I read this as Devin Hester at first and was very confused why a then active NFL player would be on Storage Wars.
Wait a minute, you mean there isn’t exactly one interesting item in every abandoned storage locker?
If you already couldn’t figure that out by watching the show… well god bless you 🙏
YUUUUUP!
I figured it was probably faked. Probably the majority of the time when they’re auctioning off a storage unit, it’s usually because somebody wasn’t paying the rent and they’re usually not the sort of people who’d keep expensive items in a storage unit. And in the rare event that somebody does find something valuable in a storage unit, the most likely explanation is that the previous owner didn’t know what they had.
It was painfully obvious they were rigging things from the get-go. You’d have a storage locker that was filled with stuff an 80-year-old woman would own – and they’d find one single, really expensive thing, that only a younger man would own.
Interestingly enough, he wasn’t suing because it was rigged, he was suing because they rigged it for his competition more than him.
He didn’t mind it being faked, he just wanted more planted items in his lockers.
We actually saw Hester at Kobey’s Swap Meet in San Diego just a few months ago. 3 tables of random stuff, a case of jewelry, and a couple of large pieces of furniture. Nothing with buying, and the box of comics I flipped through was overpriced.
IIRC in the first seasons lockers were going for 200 $300. And then later seasons, the lockers were going upwards of $2000. I always thought they exaggerated the prices to add drama.
But he eventually came back
This one time, a guy won a storage auction because he thought there was an Atari Cosmos in it, with original box. Turns out the box was just full of junk.
I knew it was fake the day they found Magic cards in a locker and the year of the cards didn’t make sense. Also, I’m almost positive the expensive cards were just fakes they printed. No way someone has modern cards, and randomly has power nine, including a a black lotus stuffed in a binder. Anyone with modern cards would know a lotus is worth tens of thousands. It looked like there was binder of mostly junk Magic cards in the locker and they printed a bunch of old expensive cards and shoved them in the binder.
That’s integrity.
Are you telling me that all reality TV is plotted and scripted!!?
Every single lock on the storage units is brand new…. Just sayin’
>Granting that relief would have made the Court the producer of the program instead of Defendants,” notes the judge,
Such a bs argument by the Judge.
I always figured, was still fun to watch. American Pickers was the far superior show.
These shows are faked.
I was on an episode of baggage battles (remember that one) i have a picture of the script they left out.
I only watched for Brandy anyway.
I was one day late on rent for a storage unit. I went to pay that day and the lock had already been cut off and all my stuff had been rooted through. Nothing good gets auctioned. The workers take anything valuable long before that.
So, dude thought the “reality TV” show would actually reflect reality, and wasn’t just as staged as everything else?
I watched a couple of these when it was new. Some dude “saw” something in a back and it was an old car worth a ton and I remember the car not being dirty and not visible AT ALL.
I wonder how many people, after watching that show, started going to local storage unit sales expecting to find rare antique collectible figurines in every drawer.
I have long ago quit watching any of these fake reality shows. That means I have pretty much quit watching TV. Any of the channels that had anything interesting all seemed to load up on the fake BS shows. The fact that a lawsuit was brought pointing out the fake nature of the show is not surprising, defending the lie was. That seems to be SOP for so much of the world around us now, defend your lie.
Storage Wars fucked up a revenue stream I had when I was laid off. Get a couple abandoned units, spend the day sorting and throwing away the junk. A $100 was an expensive unit, far and few between.
Then the show, then the crowds and no more cheap units. $100, $200, $300 !!!! units every time. The Storage Unit owners then spent more time and money because the New Guys just left piles of junk around the dumpsters, some even started to lock up the trash..
I don’t doubt it, but that dude is a POS. He was absolutely the slimiest of the people featured in that show.