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WouldDesk posted:Can't you all tell Jarrod is an Outlaw, I mean he prints it right on his lovely shirts: I like how the handcuffs look more like a "3" than a "W." With business acumen like that, how is that not a Fortune 500 company yet?!
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| # ¿ Sep 9, 2011 21:58 |
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Rhyno posted:The husband and wife team on Flip This House, Armando or something, were scamming people left and right. I don't know how they stayed out of jail. Ahh, I just Googled that guy's name. I've seen his super sleazy MAKE MILLIONS IN TODAY'S ABYSMAL REAL ESTATE MARKET infomercials, but never thought an actual cable show would give him screen time.
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| # ¿ Sep 16, 2011 15:53 |
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Toolband posted:Hardcore Pawn is pretty close to the casinos in Detroit and what they portray on the show is pretty much what it's like up there sadly Personally, I'm just impressed that they found a business in Detroit that isn't boarded up and/or constantly on fire.
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| # ¿ Oct 7, 2011 15:26 |
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Donny Brook posted:Dave Hester does. The same crooks broke into Jarrod's house but beat a hasty retreat when they realized that a shitton of OUTLAW shirts was the only thing to be had.
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 18:39 |
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fnordcircle posted:He sold produce for like 20-25 years and also collected antiques. He's the Robert Evans of the storage locker world.
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| # ¿ Dec 12, 2011 20:42 |
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clockworx posted:even Man Who Bids With Chicken would be an improvement at this point I'm missing a show where a man bids while holding a chicken? Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck.
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| # ¿ Dec 22, 2011 13:45 |
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Philthy posted:TruTV is a bit notorious about doing stuff like this. It happened with their show Operation Repo. Each episode kept getting more and more ridiculous. One guy has to poo poo so bad he floors the tow truck and flips the BMW they were towing. Naked chicks coming running out of houses screaming. Etc. Eventually people internet detectived them all and they were all paid actors with no actual Repo licenses at all. The show is still popular, it's draws in the whole WWF type crowd or something. She wears underwear with dick holes in 'em.
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2011 21:40 |
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Liar posted:Well to be fair they say at the beginning of episodes in really tiny text that the episodes are only based on other repo agent stories. But honestly the show's just stupidly fake to the point of not trying. Hell, how many times has their Stone Cold Steve Austin guy just started punching the hell out of people like it's somehow perfectly fine for repo guys to kick the poo poo out of people. The very first few episodes were clearly staged, but not to the absurd point they are now. And yes, you're correct about fake Stone Cold. He would be arrested for assault pretty much every day. I would imagine most repo guys have fairly mundane jobs overall.
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| # ¿ Dec 28, 2011 21:48 |
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fnordcircle posted:My wife and I did the same in 2 weeks and felt guilty about it but she loves watching and wants to do some storage locker auctions when we move to a lesser populated area. You'd think Darrell would lose interest in loving with Jarrod. It doesn't seem very hard to do.
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| # ¿ Dec 29, 2011 17:06 |
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"A nice Mother in Pearl inlay."
"It's mother of Pearl."
"You said 'Mother in Pearl.'"
"IT'S MOTHER OF PEARL."
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Donny Brook posted:They also stick to a smart strategy. They figure out what a locker is worth based on what they can see from the door, not what they think might be in that cool looking old trunk in the back, then they cut that number in half and never bid over that. They don't get into the same bullshit the Storage Warriors get into. If I had a dollar for everytime either Darrel, Dave or Jarrod said that a room was worth x and ended up spending x + $500+ just because they weren't going to let the other guy beat them, I'd have about a $200 bill. Look, if your strategy doesn't involve a midget wearing night-vision goggles, I ain't interested.
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| # ¿ Dec 30, 2011 01:32 |
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epheneh posted:Insomniac did the night shift thing in 2003. For some reason I don't think we're going to see people pawning $5 items. God I loved Insomniac. Right after the 2nd commercial break was when Dave usually got really hammered.
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2012 22:27 |
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Obeast posted:Thirding a recommendation for Rick's book. Even though what we got is obviously scripted, I think it's a billion times better than HBO's idea of (spoiler from Rick's book)making a Taxi Cab Confessions-style show by having a hidden camera by the night window and showing crazy meth heads, drunks, and gambling addicts trying to pawn/sell their stuff (some of which was likely stolen) off to feed their habits. Yeah that would've gotten pretty bleak after the first episode.
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| # ¿ Jan 3, 2012 23:43 |
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Saint Freak posted:And yet Hardcore Pawn rolls on. The skullet on Les is just too hypnotic.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2012 00:19 |
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I wonder if any of the guys have been robbed on their way to an auction. They always appear to carry a good deal of cash on them.
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| # ¿ Jan 4, 2012 19:04 |
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GreenNight posted:I'm not sure how it is in Canada but here in WI, at my parents house, the basement bedroom can't legally be considered a bedroom because there isn't an easy way to escape due to a fire. So does that mean thousands upon thousands of goons are technically homeless?
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| # ¿ Jan 5, 2012 17:20 |
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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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Toucan Sam posted:There's no question in my mind there will be violence in this show. If the camera wouldn't have been there he would have probably messed the phone booth guy up. What did the phone booth guy do? Screw him over on price?
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2012 17:31 |
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Saint Freak posted:-Phone booth was about twice as heavy as they claimed it would be. The guy didn't even have enough money? Baffling. If I was the shipper, I would've just kept that thing locked up in the office till he did.
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| # ¿ Jan 11, 2012 17:49 |
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HMRising posted:I'd be curious to see if anyone has actually been to the Gold & Silver Pawn Shop recently, or at least since the show started. It would be interesting to see if some of the items that are featured on the show end up on the showroom floor, and how accurately whatever price they say they're going to sell a particular item reflects its actual in-store price. It would also be interesting to know what the main cast is actually like when not under a staged setting too. I like to think its a lot like that "Insomniac" clip: Rick yelling "TEN DOLLARS" over and over again through a pane of bulletproof glass to some crackhead at 3am.
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| # ¿ Jan 17, 2012 20:39 |
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I swear, every time I see the Old Man on TV I think he's dead and being controlled via wacky "Weekend At Bernie's" hijinx.
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| # ¿ Jan 17, 2012 23:46 |
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nerox posted:We need a Detroit goon to buy the chair then take it to the hardcore pawn guys to sell it. Or smash it over the head of the really annoying broad.
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| # ¿ Jan 18, 2012 02:18 |
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Oh Wikipedia... For the shipping wars, or tensions, between fans (or shippers) of two or more different character relationships in either canon or fan fiction, see shipping (fandom).
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 14:23 |
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I wonder if any of the shippers have clauses in their contracts that absolve them of late delivery penalties in case of extreme weather/acts of God/etc. Seems kind of lovely that you would lose money because of a freak snowstorm or something (or that one guy transporting the classic car through what appeared to be a severe rainstorm).
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| # ¿ Jan 19, 2012 15:49 |
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FateoMcSkippy posted:According to Rick's book, yes. While trying to stop using meth, every time he got a craving for it he would go to Carl's Jr. and get a bunch of double bacon cheeseburgers or something. I bet Carl's Jr. got him hooked on meth to begin with, in order to raise store profits.
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| # ¿ Jan 23, 2012 19:56 |
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Liar posted:Every customer is the same thing. Seeing Seth try to act like a tough guy really kills me. You know he would immediately get curb stomped by 99% of the customers in that store, including the females.
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| # ¿ Jan 27, 2012 18:39 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:Parking Wars is cool but the Philadelphia part is so much better than the Detroit part. I was in Philly a whole bunch of times over the summer and every time I found a parking spot I spent a good 15 minutes checking every sign to make sure I was actually legally parked. Finding legal parking was actually pretty easy. Driving in that city is the lovely part, since you share the same narrow roads with every form of public transportation known to man.
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| # ¿ Jan 30, 2012 17:12 |
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I wonder if you can use Rick's constant hand gesturing as a clue to whether or not he really wants an item. Kind of like Teddy KGB & his Oreos in "Rounders."
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| # ¿ Feb 14, 2012 19:03 |
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Burning Beard posted:That episode killed me. I started laughing hard when he went into tantrum mode. I know Hester is supposed to be the "villain" but he's so drat over the top and incompetent that I can't help but like him in a weird sort of way. My new drinking game is to shout "YUUUUUUUUUP" everytime he radically over-prices some mundane item. I'm waiting for him to buy a helicopter with YUUUUUUUUUUUUP on the side or some poo poo.
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| # ¿ Mar 1, 2012 16:02 |
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quote:For $49.99 you can own these coveted Elvis newspapers, signed by Dan Doston who auctioned off the unit on Storage Wars and you'll also receive Dan Dotson's certificate of authenticity. Free tax, shipping & handling. So $49.99 for the ENTIRE lot? That better not be the price for one paper. And wow, autographed by some rear end in a top hat auctioneer on TV!!!
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 18:18 |
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clockworx posted:It's for two single issues of the two papers together. $50 signed or $25 unsigned. Amazing. That really makes me question whatever "profit" totals they talk about at the end of this show.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 18:35 |
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clockworx posted:You must not have seen Dave Hester's used book fortune yet. $14,000 or something ridiculous? He must have some pretty goddamn rare books then, considering my city's library is no longer accepting donations because they can't even GIVE them away for free.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 19:00 |
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MrBling posted:Hey now, Dan is a nice guy. You're right, that was unnecessarily harsh of me. I was just suggesting that the signature of an auctioneer shouldn't really double the price of an item like that.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 19:55 |
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Yeah I mean it seems like a self-storage place is almost a turnkey operation to begin with, and Dan has the added benefit of a huge number of people showing up to buy abandoned units for (especially now) greatly inflated sums of cash. Although I've never noticed if they show a sign on the property with the phone number & address. They usually blur that stuff out.
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| # ¿ Mar 5, 2012 20:18 |
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Its appropriate that Jarrod's clothing line uses those handcuffs because poor Brandi is sure trapped in that disaster of a relationship.
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| # ¿ Mar 6, 2012 13:36 |
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Gonz posted:Hardcore Pawn is back with a new season tonight. They're still trying to convince people that the Seth/Ashley/Les family feud is legitimate and not totally scripted bullshit put on by TruTV. I hope the Skullett gene runs in the family and Seth & Ashley both wind up with one.
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| # ¿ Mar 21, 2012 16:46 |
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Retail Slave posted:That Alaskan Auctioneer totally screwed them over. I'm surprised they didn't file some sort of complaint against him. That was unethical as gently caress. What happened there?
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| # ¿ Mar 29, 2012 18:48 |
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ElwoodCuse posted:I finally saw a bit of All-Star Dealers on the Velocity channel, which I never even knew existed. As much as we complain about it, it proves that the built-in, played-up personalities or dare I say characters we get on Pawn Stars are essential to good TV. The guys running this sports memorabilia house are basically unlikeable, uncharismatic jerks. I once heard that the rule for sports memorabilia is "If you didn't see the athlete sign it, its probably fake."
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| # ¿ Mar 30, 2012 12:23 |
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Donny Brook posted:I like (or rather despise) the ones who bring in a family heirloom... More like "I wanna sell it so I can give the money to my coke dealer who's waiting in the parking lot with a knife to my wife's throat."
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| # ¿ Apr 29, 2012 01:22 |
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Hardcore Pawn would be infinitely more interesting if Les had gone through with his plan to arm all his dimwit security people.
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| # ¿ May 10, 2012 18:14 |
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Schizotek posted:They still have electricity in Detroit? I'd assumed we had stopped sending resources there in preparation of nuking the site from orbit. They need to just reinstall Kwame Kilpatrick as mayor. Everything will work itself out.
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