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LividLiquid posted:I've watched 56 episodes of Pawn Stars over the last few weeks and only two things have been pawned in that entire run. Between that, the constant subway product placement and the obvious scripting, it's a drat good thing the artifacts are interesting. That's the point though. It's on History channel, not a reality channel. The history of what's being sold is more important than the dull, sad day to day of a pawn shop.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 06:21 |
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That's another reason I hate Canadian Pickers. It's on the History Channel and you got that white haired poo poo goblin going "I know I'm in this house filled with Anne of Green Gables stuff but I just wish he'd stop talking about the history and let me rip him off on this pretty dog painting"
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 06:36 |
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That brettly kid on American Restoration is fascinatingly retarded. Why is he wearing a conductor's hat? How does he remember to breathe?
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 08:36 |
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lordblytzkrieg posted:That brettly kid on American Restoration is fascinatingly retarded. Why is he wearing a conductor's hat? How does he remember to breathe? That's Rick's son. He's at that age of being an idle know it all.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 08:47 |
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I just watched Chumlee have a dream sequence. A dream sequence on a reality show.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 09:27 |
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LividLiquid posted:I've watched 56 episodes of Pawn Stars over the last few weeks...
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 12:17 |
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Fozaldo posted:That's Rick's son. He's at that age of being an idle know it all. No, Tyler is Rick's son. He's the one with the half-n-half hair. Brettly is the goofus with the engineer's cap that they get to do all the poo poo work. I think he's the 'tarded half of AR's version of Chumlee. The lazy genius half would be Rick's brother Ron.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 12:22 |
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Donny Brook posted:No, Tyler is Rick's son. He's the one with the half-n-half hair. Brettly is the goofus with the engineer's cap that they get to do all the poo poo work. I think he's the 'tarded half of AR's version of Chumlee. The lazy genius half would be Rick's brother Ron. Doh you got me. I know who you mean now.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 12:30 |
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Just started watching Dirty Money, up to episode 4. Every single thing they have made so far is utterly awful. It's hilarious.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 15:39 |
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Loving Life Partner posted:So Dirty Money is pretty fun. I like the idea of a Brooklyn wiseguy putting random poo poo together in his basement and ripping off hipsters. Wait, there's a show that does this? Because this is like my standard daydream, the other being loading all hipsters into a car crusher.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 19:48 |
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LividLiquid posted:I've watched 56 episodes of Pawn Stars over the last few weeks and only two things have been pawned in that entire run. In his book, Rick mentions that the legal aspects of taping and showing true pawn transactions on tv was a pain to deal with so they phased it out. 80% of their business is still people pawning off watches and jewelery.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 19:58 |
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golgo13sf posted:Wait, there's a show that does this? Because this is like my standard daydream, the other being loading all hipsters into a car crusher. From what I've seen so far, that's all they do. Make crap in their basement, and sell it at flea markets to Brooklyn hipsters. Last episode, they melted vinyl records they found on the street into "bowls" and sold them for like $5 a pop.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 20:46 |
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EvilMuppet posted:Just started watching Dirty Money, up to episode 4. Every single thing they have made so far is utterly awful. It's hilarious. I liked the steam-punk keyboard, but they wanted way too much money for the drat thing. Same thing with the drive-in speakers. If I walked by a sale and saw those for like $50 I would have bought them in a heart-beat, but they wanted like $200 which I thought was insane. High prices seems to be what they're all about. Out of all the shows currently on I'd say Dirty Money is probably the most realistic one to imitate if you were looking for extra cash. I know first hand that you find some really nice crap trash-picking, and if you had the knowledge to fix things up and the time to run a lawn-sale on weekends then you could probably pick up an extra C note every week.
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| # ? Aug 25, 2011 22:02 |
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Loving Life Partner posted:From what I've seen so far, that's all they do. Make crap in their basement, and sell it at flea markets to Brooklyn hipsters. Fuckin living the dream, separating hipsters and their trust fund/parent's money
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Liar posted:I liked the steam-punk keyboard, but they wanted way too much money for the drat thing. I liked the keyboard too. They charged so much because they were trying to offset the one guy overpaying for that typewriter. Didja notice that the junk seller was originally going to sell the typewriter cover separately? I also liked that lovely buzz-saw bass he made.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 03:25 |
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Donny Brook posted:I liked the keyboard too. They charged so much because they were trying to offset the one guy overpaying for that typewriter. Didja notice that the junk seller was originally going to sell the typewriter cover separately? At first glance I liked it too. The bezel he made with the typewriter thing on top was nice. The keys though were halfarsed and just glued on top of the old keys, with a bunch of old keys just left over.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 07:52 |
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Another show in this genre is Hollywood Treasure on SyFy. The odd thing is that it is about a pretty big normal auction company for Hollywood memorabilia (Profiles in History), but it tries to take a "find stuff in the attic" approach.
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smackfu posted:Another show in this genre is Hollywood Treasure on SyFy. The odd thing is that it is about a pretty big normal auction company for Hollywood memorabilia (Profiles in History), but it tries to take a "find stuff in the attic" approach. Is that the one where they found the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car? That would be an awesome auction to win. *buys lotto ticket* *crosses fingers*
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 15:56 |
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Donny Brook posted:Is that the one where they found the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang car? That would be an awesome auction to win. *buys lotto ticket* *crosses fingers* I hate to break this to you, but it doesn't actually fly. Besides, I called dibs on it. P.S. Please please please let it fly.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 17:43 |
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Did anyone else catch the premier of FOXs "Buried Treasure"? It's almost on par with Hardcore Pawn as far as ghetto stupidity goes. Two brothers host the show. Both professional appraisers. One works for Sotheby's, and another has his own high end auction...thing. Anyways, they both look a bit odd. They go to peoples homes and look for expensive items. First home is this lady who came from a wealthy family. But she's a hoarder now. Her house is literally full of poo poo. No where to sleep, etc, etc. Her daughter is telling the guys they need money to stay afloat, etc. The daughter seems like she's a meth head or something. She's dressed up nice, but something about her is "off". So they find like 10 items worth tens of thousands of dollars buried. Bowls from 1500AD, Mayan totems, signed picture of Charles Dickens, etc. Buried in this house. When ever they told the value the daughter was all 'gently caress YEA FUCKKKKKKKKK YEAH WERE RICH!!' and the two hosts are practically mortified how ghetto these people are.  Lady, please put a bra on. The saggy old lady no bra nipple pokes were disgusting.  Second person was a total comic nerd goon who had these expensive comics and a mail order bride from some Eastern European country. He had the first issue of spiderman, etc. They took all these comics to a comic appraiser and they pointed out that there were rips and stains covered up with colored markers and they guy is just standing there with his mouth open the entire time. A mouth breather neck beard wearing some weird looking 80s Michael Jackson meets Tron inspired jacket. They told him the value of the damaged items and he didn't want to sell them because he thought he could get more somewhere else. (Instead of $200k for this comic, it's now worth $2k because you used a colored marker to try and hide rips!)  Third person had an old violin.. His last name was Howard. He was married. His wifes last name? "Groocock". Yes, she married and didn't take the last name of Howard, so that she could keep her last name of "Groocock". WHAT. THE. gently caress. Anyways, the violin was a huge fake.  The show was kinda hosed. It was just creepy to watch. Philthy fucked around with this message at Aug 28, 2011 around 01:50 |
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Haha, that sounds awesome.
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| # ? Aug 27, 2011 17:40 |
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That sounds like it might wrap around from uncomfortable (American Pickers) to hilarious.
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| # ? Aug 27, 2011 18:53 |
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Grin and Tonic posted:Haha, that sounds awesome. Don't be fooled it's a half hour show in an hour time slot.
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| # ? Aug 27, 2011 19:44 |
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Philthy posted:Most of it seemed badly staged to me.
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| # ? Aug 27, 2011 21:16 |
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That neckbeard comic book guy who looked like a roadie for RATT circa 1986 was infuriating. He and his mail order bride, Treblinka or whatever the hell her name was, are living in what appears to be a 1 bedroom apartment and the walls are covered in what looked like Frank Frazetta prints, and cardboard boxes filled with comic book swag littering the hallways, gets offered 58,000 dollars cash for a rare comic, and turns the buyers down flat because he's so loving stupid, he thinks it'll be worth 250K or more "if I just wait a few more years down the line". I wanted to throw a molotov cocktail at him through the TV screen. I really do hope his wife divorces him in the next 2-3 years and takes all his money back to Pripyat, Ukraine with her.
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Gonz posted:I wanted to throw a molotov cocktail at him through the TV screen. I really do hope his wife divorces him in the next 2-3 years and takes all his money back to Pripyat, Ukraine with her. Nah, part of the deal is they get to bleed those losers dry AND get citizenship.
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| # ? Aug 28, 2011 00:04 |
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Wow, every time I watch a new episode of Hardcore Pawn I'm more convinced that Ashley's vagina is full of glassy sand. Did anyone catch the episode? What the gently caress is the point of having managers if you don't want them to in any way, shape, or form manage. I hope this poo poo's scripted or she's just terrible. Also I'd buy the gently caress out of that Alien.
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Liar posted:Wow, every time I watch a new episode of Hardcore Pawn I'm more convinced that Ashley's vagina is full of glassy sand. Did anyone catch the episode? What the gently caress is the point of having managers if you don't want them to in any way, shape, or form manage. I hope this poo poo's scripted or she's just terrible. "WHO PRICED THESE BRACELETS?!"  The man took initiative and told some employees they need to fill out paper work and then priced some jewelery and he gets yelled at from a truly psychotic bitch, simply because she is a control freaks control freak. Who gets mad at someone for helping.
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WouldDesk posted:Who gets mad at someone for helping. It goes beyond that. It's literally his loving job to do those things. I mean it'd be like owning a store, hiring a cashier, and kicking them in the face for touching the cash register. He's a manager. It's his goddamn job to manage. But somehow I imagine all of this is horribly scripted, and it's leading to some sort of story line about Ashley pushing the staff to turn against her. If this show's not horribly scripted then honestly the whole family running the place is retarded and it's amazing they stay in business.
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| # ? Aug 31, 2011 04:14 |
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Good to see Dave think he wisely spent his money, but ended up falling flat. I know it's scripted, but the whole 'possible Stradivarius' violin plot was ridiculous. I believe most of those violins are accounted for at this point anyway (as far as the most valuable ones).
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Has anyone else watched the Picker Sisters show? It's these two women who travel around the country, supposedly pulling a trailer, going to farms and buying people's old rusty junk. Then they take it back to their store in Los Angeles where they turn it into tables and decorations which they sell for $3000 or whatever. The premise is completely ridiculous, of course. While I understand that it's possible to turn rusty junk into furniture to sell to rich people, there's no way anyone would go about it the way that is being shown. Why would anyone drive from California to Alabama or Ohio or wherever, just to visit a farm and buy some old rusty pieces of metal? There's plenty of junk in California. They show the prices that they're paying for things, $20 for an old piece of a table or $35 for a rusted out metal sign, but don't bother mentioning the thousands of dollars it would cost in gas and hotels to drive thousands of miles back and forth across the country. Keep in mind, they're not buying antiques, they're buying some old piece of farm equipment which happens to be cone shaped, then taking it back and having some guy sand it down and turn it into a lamp. No one would ever do this if it weren't being filmed.
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FlamingLiberal posted:Good to see Dave think he wisely spent his money, but ended up falling flat. I know it's scripted, but the whole 'possible Stradivarius' violin plot was ridiculous. I believe most of those violins are accounted for at this point anyway (as far as the most valuable ones). I've never even seen a Stradivarius before and even I could tell that piece of crap wasn't worth anything. Hester should have spent the $200 needed to make it worth $300-400. I can't imagine anybody other than the appraiser thinking it was worth anything. It was nice to see Barry come out on top for a change. Did anybody see the "Unlocked" special afterward? It was kind of interesting. It was hosted by the show's creator and had the gang sitting around a card table in The Sahara shooting the poo poo and answering internet questions. They even brought in Mark towards the end and that was the funniest part. He said how they're all good friends and they cut to Brandi who sprouted the cutest "What the gently caress is he talking about?" look on her face. It seemed like Hester hates him. Jarrod and Brandi don't like him. Barry flat out said he doesn't like him, but he said it in a kind of joking way. I get the feeling he doesn't like him but he said it that way so he could play it off as "I was only kidding" later on if necessary. I thnk Darrell only likes him because he choked on that game console so bad. Orange Sunshine posted:Has anyone else watched the Picker Sisters show? I agree with everything you said, but I still kind of like the show because the brunette is hot. Plus, some of the stuff they come up with is pretty cool. OTOH, hearing them say "This will make a great lamp/chair/table" does get pretty old. Their worker bee did make a sink out of a meat saw, so there's that. In addition to their road expenses, the overhead on their shop and what they spend on crap, they also have to pay that dude to make stuff, so yeah, it would be a lot cheaper to pick over just about any metal scrap yard, of which there are plenty right here in sunny Southern CA, that it wouldn't be very cost effective to schlep off to Alabama to buy a piece of pipe off of a pesticide sprayer to turn into tract lighting just because you like the patina.
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Yeah. I couldn't watch more than an episode of Picker sisters because of that. How hard is it to just drive to the Inland Empire, Kern County or just about anywhere in Central California to pick the very same sort of rusted junk to "fix up" and sell to rich people.
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Jack Skeleton posted:Yeah. I couldn't watch more than an episode of Picker sisters because of that. How hard is it to just drive to the Inland Empire, Kern County or just about anywhere in Central California to pick the very same sort of rusted junk to "fix up" and sell to rich people. If only this were the future where someone in another state with something to sell could take some sort of magical digital photo to send to them, and if they liked it that person could use some sort of UPS to send it to them for a tenth of the cost of driving across twenty states to pick it up. So generally I agree that the show's stupid.
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| # ? Sep 1, 2011 12:45 |
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Donny Brook posted:I thnk Darrell only likes him because he choked on that game console so bad. That's the funniest thing about this show so far. "YOU HAVE A VERSION 1 NES. COULD BE WORTH $12,000." *isn't worth anything* *is retarded*
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Technowrite posted:That's the funniest thing about this show so far. "YOU HAVE A VERSION 1 NES. COULD BE WORTH $12,000." *isn't worth anything* *is retarded* I don't care if everything he buys flubs. I just like to see him piss off everyone else by overbidding on every goddamn room. And I really want to see him and Dave go at it in a pissing contest... You know, one of those rooms where Dave declares it's his in advance and goes to put his lock on it, but out of the blue here comes Mark with his endless bank account.
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Orange Sunshine posted:Has anyone else watched the Picker Sisters show? I always wonder what the American Picker dudes think of these ladies buying a lot of the same stuff they do and painting it gold and selling it as kitch?
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Astroman posted:I always wonder what the American Picker dudes think of these ladies buying a lot of the same stuff they do and painting it gold and selling it as kitch? "Oh gee, look, a cute little 1910 Harley bicycle frame with original paint. This would look great painted yellow and used as a table stand."
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FlamingLiberal posted:Good to see Dave think he wisely spent his money, but ended up falling flat. I know it's scripted, but the whole 'possible Stradivarius' violin plot was ridiculous. I believe most of those violins are accounted for at this point anyway (as far as the most valuable ones). Finding a "possible old firearm or book" is one thing but for him to even think some guy who owned a a super rare violin decided to put it in a crappy case and leave it in a storage locker (and not pay the rent) is dumb. Scripted or not it is dumb, makes me feel dumber for even thinking producers thought it would be suspenseful. Barry's ugly rear end carnival canvas' were a nice surprise though.
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WouldDesk posted:Finding a "possible old firearm or book" is one thing but for him to even think some guy who owned a a super rare violin decided to put it in a crappy case and leave it in a storage locker (and not pay the rent) is dumb. Scripted or not it is dumb, makes me feel dumber for even thinking producers thought it would be suspenseful. Barry's ugly rear end carnival canvas' were a nice surprise though. It's more common than you think, I've seen people think they have Stradavarious's at least twice recently and three times that I can recall off the top of my head on Antiques Roadshow(UK). Also not all of Stradavarious's (No idea how to spell that) we're made by one man but all genuine ones are valuable to one extent or another. Also many hundreds of fakes exist. It's quite as silly as you are making out.
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