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Loving Life Partner posted:I saw he has a truck that says "DAVE HESTER AUCTIONS", so what's the deal with that? Is he auctioning junk or doing storage auctions or what? He runs large estate auctions, and apparently sells goods from the lockers he wins on TV. Apparently he does quite well too. Here's his very professional looking website: http://www.davehesterauctions.com/ I'm shocked to hear he closed his store. He says he did it to focus more on auctions, but I wonder if that was really the case or he'd just been unable to handle the "TV Crowd" of assholes loving with his business, or what.
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| # ? Jan 7, 2012 23:10 |
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Now I'm picturing a bunch of guys standing in front of his shop yelling "Yuuuuuup!" over and over again.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 00:02 |
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Patchwork Shaman posted:Now I'm picturing a bunch of guys standing in front of his shop yelling "Yuuuuuup!" over and over again. According to Dave, this was going on everywhere he went. If I ever saw him I wouldn't be able to help it.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 00:06 |
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I read somewhere that Dave is worth 2.5 million. My mind boggles.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 01:11 |
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Disappointing Pie posted:I read somewhere that Dave is worth 2.5 million. My mind boggles. Gross or net?
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 01:52 |
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Disappointing Pie posted:I read somewhere that Dave is worth 2.5 million. My mind boggles. You not see all those Elvis newspapers?
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 01:54 |
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jscolon2.0 posted:Gross or net? I believe it was net.
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jscolon2.0 posted:Gross or net? Darrel is the gross one.
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Disappointing Pie posted:I read somewhere that Dave is worth 2.5 million. My mind boggles. They always over inflate estimates for the show. Probably more like 1.2 million, amd most of that is probably the equity in his home, which he probably still values at 2006 prices. WouldDesk posted:You not see all those Elvis newspapers? Or the Stradivarius?
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 04:53 |
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Donny Brook posted:Or the Stradivarius? I just caught that episode tonight. The fact that he even had a HOPE that it was a Stradivarius pretty much killed any modicum of perceived intelligence or respect for Dave. Holy HELL. I'm kind of a classical music fan to the smallest extent and I could tell instantly that it was a small child's violin that's beat to hell and not worth poo poo. The fact that he thought it could be a 300 year old masterwork of craftsmanship why I argh 
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 05:41 |
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The commercials for Shipping Wars make me feel incredibly homicidal.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 06:50 |
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Rhyno posted:The commercials for Shipping Wars make me feel incredibly homicidal. The Cowgirl: I'm tough. *vomits when camel sneezes" This Storage Wars: Texas is straight up pissing me off. "Bring It!" "Right Here!" gently caress you. And I thought "Yuuuuup!" was bad
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 07:51 |
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Shipping Wars? Sheesh. Up next: Hoarder Wars! Everyone gets to dig through the mounds of trash at the house of a deceased hoarder and the person who finds the most valuable item WINS IT ALL! Brandi and Jarod made $.04 from their half used bottle of mascara from 1973. Dave Hester found the same half used bottle of mascara but his is worth $8,000 at least. Darrell Sheets found a case of expired sardines, became distracted, and did not finish the competition. He left with a full belly. Barry Weiss was crushed to death by a mound of diapers after being told by his psychic companion there were valuable 8 track tapes buried within. Shortly after being declared the winner Dave Hester was taken to the emergency room with severe chest pains and breathing problems. Rather than wear a proper breathing apparatus he decided to go without so he could talk poo poo and say YEEEEEEEEP a lot. In a followup interview several days later he told A&E he regrets nothing and that his $8,000 half used bottle of mascara and the diaper pile will easily cover his hospital bill.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 07:53 |
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Hoarder Wars is called American Pickers.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 08:16 |
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hackedaccount posted:Shipping Wars? Sheesh. Up next: Hoarder Wars! Everyone gets to dig through the mounds of trash at the house of a deceased hoarder and the person who finds the most valuable item WINS IT ALL! This is the best thing ever.
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Philthy posted:Edit: I swear "Fire House" originally aired with the name "Masturbation Station". I just now looked up their show - I caught it once but forgot what channel it was on. Pretty cool they appear to have all the episodes available to stream. Also: 
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I went on a sprint and watched all of Flip Men up to current. It's a pretty interesting show, but a few things bug me. -I have no idea how they get things done so cheaply and quickly. It might be that I'm in a city that requires licensing and lots of inspections, and they're not, but their price to do stuff just seems insanely low. Same w/ turnaround time, just to coordinate schedules for everything you usually end up w/ some slippage due to contractor's other jobs and timing conflicts for stuff that can't go on at the same time. -I have no idea why the show acts like they're doing so much of the work hands-on. They supposedly have 15 or so homes in the air at once, and these two guys are the head of the company. Other than a few immediate emergencies, there's no reason to believe they're in the homes doing demo and painting and whatever. I don't need to pretend they're hands-on with all the work for the show to be interesting, so I'm curious what they felt the angle was for that to be necessary. clockworx fucked around with this message at Jan 8, 2012 around 17:20 |
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They use the same kind of magic that Ty Pennington uses to construct lavish, fully furnished multiple-story homes in ONE WEEK for people with no faces/lungs/bones on Extreme Home Makeover. Dark magic.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 17:13 |
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Hey now, Ty uses the powers of masses of completely untrained labour to build his houses in record time. Besides, the stuff they're building is pretty much just scaled up LEGO houses.
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clockworx posted:I went on a sprint and watched all of Flip Men up to current. It's a pretty interesting show, but a few things bug me. The impression I got was that for 95% of the houses they buy, they come in, say "OK, this one needs carpets/paint/sod/whatever" and then they leave and just have the contractors basically do mild work unsupervised, and then they come back in a week and do a final check, and sell the house. Those are the houses not on the show. The ones on the show are the ones where there's so much wrong that they want to be on site to personally supervise all the work, and if you're gonna be on site anyway, why not hang drywall and tear up carpet yourself and save labor costs?
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 20:05 |
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I think Storage Wars has become detrimental to my marriage. My wife hates Dave Hester, but I can't help but giggle like a little girl every time he comes out of nowhere with his "YUUPP!" and snags a locker out from under someone, especially Darryl. Or when Darryl gets it in his head that he's going to dump a locker on Dave, then Dave pulls a reversal and leaves Darryl sitting with a bunch of crap. My wife gets seriously pissed at me for rooting for the bad guy, but I just can't help it. It's the most irrational argument we've ever had, and it worsens every show. I know Dave's an rear end in a top hat (which is part of the appeal I guess) but it says something when a dude has the guts and capital to blow a grand on a locker just to prove a point to the competition. He's the only one who seems truly serious about his profession (and apparently makes bank doing it). I saw an interview where he said the only reason he did the show was because he knew it was going to happen with or without him, and he didn't want the business to be portrayed in a bad light. And he's right, because without him the show would just be three morons and an eccentric old man.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 20:59 |
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Dave Hester rules. He's such an amazingly trollish shitheel, you can't help but like him. I know i'm probably in the minority, here, too. I wish Darryl would buy a locker that contains the Ark of the Covenant and then take a peek inside of it. I hate his stupid guts.
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| # ? Jan 8, 2012 21:03 |
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Coffee Wolf posted:I just now looked up their show - I caught it once but forgot what channel it was on. Pretty cool they appear to have all the episodes available to stream. I love how in the intro to the episode, they blur out the PBR logo, but leave this un-blurred:  (just in case)http://imgur.com/zp79o LordOfThePants fucked around with this message at Jan 8, 2012 around 22:03 |
| # ? Jan 8, 2012 22:00 |
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Five minutes into Cajun Pawn Stars and already had enough of the Southern hick thing to last me a lifetime.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 03:05 |
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Liar posted:Five minutes into Cajun Pawn Stars and already had enough of the Southern hick thing to last me a lifetime. I did like the explanation about how the biggest bill in American currency is the $100.00 bill so that way if you wanna go out of the country to buy drugs you can't just have a $10,000.00 bill in your wallet. Need a suitcase for that..
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 03:13 |
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So I used to watch Storage Wars regularly, then during one of the hiatuses I discovered Auction Hunters/Flip Men were on and started watching them instead as Storage Wars was boring me and quite frankly Barry's antics weren't enough to make me put up with everyone else. I caught up with some of the recent episodes over the holiday - when the hell did Dave decide it was a great idea to walk around with a loving 'YEEEEP' cap? At least Jarrod was wearing his stupid Outlaw gear back when the series started...
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 03:28 |
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A friend of mine informs me that the Outlaw Motorcycle Club are pissed about Jarrod's dumb clothing line. Anyone know much about this? Is Jarrod gonna get murdered during a filming hiatus?
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Liar posted:Five minutes into Cajun Pawn Stars and already had enough of the Southern hick thing to last me a lifetime. They are more white trash (really rich, might I add) than anything else. The entire premise of the show being about Cajun pawn shop owners is hilarious considering the fact that their family has nothing to do with Louisiana French culture other than being in the same state.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 04:17 |
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"Yuuup" might be annoying, but it's no loving "that's a $15 dollar bill all week" and every variation from Mr. Sheets.
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Digital Scumbag posted:"Yuuup" might be annoying, but it's no loving "that's a $15 dollar bill all week" and every variation from Mr. Sheets. It's hard to have sympathy for the guy (the home invasion) when he's such a jackass.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 04:48 |
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Liar posted:Five minutes into Cajun Pawn Stars and already had enough of the Southern hick thing to last me a lifetime. What? You don't like Joker?
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 06:28 |
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It's even more forced than Storage Wars Texas.. I think I'll give it a miss
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 06:44 |
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I watched about 2 minutes of Cajan pawn stars. I turned it on just to see this guy appraising this record (didn't catch the artist) at around $15k-$20k. Pawn shop guy offered $15k, declined, then offered $30k  Guy still turned it down cause he wanted $100k
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FateoMcSkippy posted:I watched about 2 minutes of Cajan pawn stars. I turned it on just to see this guy appraising this record (didn't catch the artist) at around $15k-$20k. Pawn shop guy offered $15k, declined, then offered $30k It was Jerry Lee Lewis' unknown first recording, and the guy's estimate was a total guess. That record is priceless to some collectors.
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empty baggie posted:It was Jerry Lee Lewis' unknown first recording, and the guy's estimate was a total guess. That record is priceless to some collectors. Ah well didn't know that. From the time I tuned in it looked like the pawn guy was vastly overpaying just cause he wanted it and the record guy was dumb for not selling for double the estimate.
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That whole scene annoyed me (as did the entire show) because the guy with the record claimed to have been good friends with Jerry Lee Lewis and had paid for Jerry Lee to have the record made, yet when the appraiser came in, the record guy acted like he wasn't quite sure if it was real or not.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 15:10 |
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quote:"Storage Wars" star Dave Hester -- the "YUUUP" guy -- tells TMZ he's ready and willing to walk away from the biggest A&E reality show ever ... if the network doesn't up their "unjust" contract offer. http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/09/stora...t-negotiations/
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poser posted:http://www.tmz.com/2012/01/09/stora...t-negotiations/ What the gently caress, he should probably be happy they're paying him any amount of money.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 18:06 |
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That show would absolutely blow without Dave Hester.
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| # ? Jan 9, 2012 18:06 |
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Especially because the "dumb loving network decisions" playbook would call for them to replace Dave with the most Dave like substitute they can find, which would probably be offensively retarded. I'd love to see what the unjust contract looks like. That junkman in his schoolboy shorts should be thankful for the exposure and money he's already received, for seriously.
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