Same as everything on the show, the appraisers are only there for one reason, to promote themselves. To promote what they are interested in buying. To promote their business. Believe it or not, most are probably paid for their appearance!
They have to get permission from everybody they show on their show. How do you do that? By paying people a fee. When you see somebody arguing and threatening on one of these "reality" shows, do you really believe that person let them show them in such a bad light on national TV? For Free? No! Gloria Allred would have to hire 1000 lawyers to keep up with all the lawsuits. What am I saying? It's all soap opera fake! If somebody threatened you with broken beer bottle would they be able to show up at your business the next day to pick up their car? NO!!!!!! You'd call the police and they'd be cooling it in prison an hour later. Heck, you have video proof! Why aren't they? Because it's ALL FAKE!
Once you start paying people on TV for anything, is it really "reality"?
Like those two clowns on American Pickers. Most of the time, even when they do admit that they made a few $1000 off a pick, if you stop to think about it, they didn't make anything if this is their true lively hood. They're 1000 miles from home, in a vehicle that gets 12 miles to a gallon, and they're splitting supposedly.
Now if you realize they are getting $10,000 an episode...are they really antique pickers, or just playing two on TV? These two guys are ridiculously obvious..look at their IMDB profiles! They REALLY ARE actors playing the role of auction hunters.
It's an indisputable fact that the girl on American Pickers was an actress they hired to play their warehouse girl. They, themselves admit this! Case closed!! Everything she does on the show is made up! They all should be paying fees to The WWE! This kind of shenanigans started with them.
The real money in the Antique and Collectibles business is servicing people who try to make a living buying and selling them. Charging fees! Rents in antique shops, action fees, EVEN storage fees, even feeding people at auctions!
It's the same thing it always has been. Go back to the gold rush, did many people get rich finding gold? For every person who struck it rich, there were hundreds who went broke! All you needed was to promote the few that did!
The real money was anybody who opened a store, a bar or a casino servicing these people! Giving then .10 on a Dollar when they did come in with a few meager nuggets! All based on the belief they were sacrificing these nuggets because tomorrow they were going to make that big find.
These storage unit auctions have worked out the perfect scam! They're not only renting, and then auctioning off left containers. What's to stop them from loading up containers with crap themselves? Not a dam thing! No law against it!
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