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I was watching a rerun of last weeks show the other day. They were in that Antique Emporium in Tennessee where that woman provided props for music videos. As soon as they walked in the door,there sat red shield "Oliver Finest in Farm Machinery" sign. They walked right past it and bought a headless teddy bear,a rickety old shoe shine stand and an old dentist chair!
I'd like to follow those guys around just to get the good stuff that they miss. On the same show they bought a box of junk plastic toys while right there where Mike could touch it,was a Marx wind up toy crawler with good tracks. Makes me sick sometimes.
 
I tried to watch that show once. It's so fake (scripted?) there's better stuff on the cartoon network.....
 
Often locations they go to are remote and unsecured.
If the "pickers" want to do their own thing, that's okay, but I don't think it should be televised. What better way to case a location for looting than to see it on TV. I believe most people are honest, but get enough people together and there's always going to be a thief in the crowd.
Just my opinion.
 
There was just such a thing happened here in Michigan. A house that they picked in Muskegon was broken into after the show aired.
 
I've also watched it a few times. Cracks me up when they list the "picked" cost and then the "value" they think they'll get for it. Seems like they're "hoping" to make a hundred bucks or so for driving to some remote location, spending lord knows how many hours and how much gas to make a few bucks. Especially when you consider they've got to pay themselves, the girl back at the shop, the expenses of the shop, vehicle expense, their traveling expenses on the road, etc.

Just seems like the only way they can actually make money "picking" is by selling the rights to follow them around to the TV producers.
 
I agre that they couldn't survive on what they show I think they buy alot more than they show. Once in a while you will catch a glimpse of something elese in the truck or on the ground to be loaded.
 
I don't have paid television so only see the show on occasion while away visiting.

I did get a kick out of the one guy getting burned on what he paid for an old car. Nice old car, but $6,000 (at least that is what I recall). Maybe that was just the asking price.
 
I suppose they are invited where they go ??, but they act like some of their stops are "cold calls"
I'd like to see them stop somewhere uninvited,and be given 3 minutes to get their "SUGARBOY" tails off the property,like they would, should they come here.
 
LOL It is what it is. a show.

If I had some of the stuff they pretend to buy, I'd not bicker on their offer on most a guy 80 some years old won't part with. family left over will scrap it anyway.

I like storage wars too. Heh heh someone can't afford to pay rent on a storage shed but they found a picture frame with thousands of dollars in it .
 
The show is edited so there's no way to know if there's more items they purchased. If they bought something for say $100 that was worth a couple thousand, I doubt they'd air that on TV. Just because someone else thinks an item is valuable, or they'd like to have it, doesn't mean the pickers have to be interested in it. Do you notice that when they show them driving down the road, there is a curtain pulled so you can't see what's in the van. They also don't give the exact locations of where they go. Dave
 
They were kicked off of a property on one show I saw. Camera showed them hustling toward the van with a stern faced property owner in the background.

Those guys have to pick and sell a lot more than we see in the show to pay the fuel/motel/food bill for their travels. I don't see them picking in the winter. Don't rightly blame them for not wanting to! Jim
 
The best one I saw was when the old boy sent them out to the barn in the field where the wild farm animals was.

My uncle always had city folk wanting to hunt on his land. He told them he wasn't responsible for their vehicle if they hunted but he wouldn't tell them no. Some of the hunters came back to find a flat tire. My uncle gave them the number of a mechanic who'd fix their tire. That was my other uncle.
 
Those guys are looking for old Harleys and Indians.....they are well known in antique motorcycle circles. They got an antique treasure seeker TV show just to dig for old motorcycles. And bicycles. Paul
 
Yeah, criminals are tuning into American Pickers to case houses... They don't show addresses, or give the people's full names!

The criminal would have to happen to recognize the house, and know where it was. If that's the case, they've already cased it and targeted it to rob.
 
On one episode and old farmer mentioned he had a lot of tractor stuff and they said the don't really look for that stuff. I did notice the Oliver sign in that episode also. I know they have been a couple of places where I'm drooling over the old tractors their crawling over.
 
That show probably pays a couple hundred thousand for the TV rights,so they can pick nickel and dime junk.
 
Heck of a lot better'n American Idol. It's a sad state of affairs when the best show on teevee is "Wipeout"...
 
You weren't watching a while back when the old coot came to the door and run them off? I thought that was the funniest scene ever. Of course I watch them and Pawn Stars and that Pawn show from Detroit.Not much else worth watching.
 
I really love the episode where they found that FORD TRACTOR sign that once stood in front of a dealership!

Also,...anyone remember the show where they purchased that one-owner Ford Fairlane? Nice!
 
Ya,this week they bought 2 Ford neon signs. One red tractor sign and one blue,what I figured was probably an auto sign. They paid $4500 for the pair!
 
I'll admit they spice up the show some when it comes to the bidding/rivalry between the 'stars' but the fact there is something valuable in the building means nothing when it comes to people paying. I've got a buddy that recently bought a commercial sprayer from a guy that had left the engine and main pump off of it in a storage building. The pump was worth nearly $1500 and the engine about another $1000 but the guy only owed about $150 for the storage. He actually sold the sprayer, and gave my buddy the engine and pump for the spray unit, to get the money to keep from losing everything else he had in storage.

This same buddy used to hit the sales all the time and it's amazing the stuff that people store. One that I remember best being told about was a unit full of sheet metal and other assorted 'junk' that could be seen from the door. Bidding started at $1.00 and no one wanted to pay to clean it out so no one bid. To get some bids going they decided to move some of the stuff around and see what else was in the unit. A few pieces of sheet metal later they uncovered a Snap-On tool box with several thousand dollars worth of tools in it. Needless to say my buddy is still kicking himself in the a$$ every time he thinks about the deal he could have had for a dollar.
 
You see just what the TV show is showing they have a noumber of U HAUL vans that follow them around you dont see that haul too
 
I'd really love to tag along with those guys on that show! I know it is a show, but I am pretty sure that the people that they deal with are 100% real.
 
(quoted from post at 11:50:02 02/10/11) They were kicked off of a property on one show I saw. Camera showed them hustling toward the van with a stern faced property owner in the background.

Those guys have to pick and sell a lot more than we see in the show to pay the fuel/motel/food bill for their travels. I don't see them picking in the winter. Don't rightly blame them for not wanting to! Jim
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Someone I know had them visit him,they showed themselves buying about 400 dollars worth of stuff off him on tv..He said in reality they spent about 7 grand.....so remember its tv...
 
I think they're kind of cruel to people sometimes. They had a show recently where they had to "trade up" an item that nobody wanted along the way to amuse themselves....the way they treated people, especially the young guy in the house with the accordian, was a little mean. I use to enjoy the show but don't watch it as much anymore.
 
We watched the show the other night where Mike found a civil war belt buckle with a bullet still in the buckle. They picked it for $50.00 and sold it for $200.00. He could have gotten ALOT more for it. Heck I would have paid more for it.
 
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