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WOWEE A REAL 'REALITY' SHOW!

posted 11 years ago by xnobozos
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Yea, Right! This show makes Storage Wars look REAL. Imagine a group of people that you would never invite into your home and you have the cast of this over the top, really BAD, cheaply produced, reality show. The main difference between the other fake shows and this fake show is that the actors are pretending to bid on abandoned shipping containers. They are like mobile storage lockers, but are supposed to be from overseas. First of all, the containers shown are rarely packed as if they were on a sea voyage, even on a large ship these containers get banged around and tilted and the stuff inside them would be broken or strewn around the container if not packed well and stabilized. There is little or none of the stabilization ever exhibited in these containers. It appears that merchandise and boxes have merely been loaded into the containers. The contents of some the containers make little sense. A realist would question why anyone would rent and pay to ship a container across the ocean with such a small amount of items in them.
The real laugh besides the fake drama and tension between the bidders is the astronomical dollar amounts being bid by people who look like they buy their wardrobe at the Goodwill store. $10,000., $25,000., $40,000.+ are bid on each show for "mystery" contents, just like Storage Wars, Auction Hunters, etc. Again, these buyers put ridiculous values upon their purchases, whooping it up on how much money they made. It's also ALWAYS the same five bidders on every show. No one ever seems to get any of the containers except these five bidders. At least it's not like Auction Hunters where they make a fortune on every locker, occasionally they lose money (big money), but you have to remember, it's NOT REAL.
Last night another two new shows debuted on the National Geographic Channel called AUCTION AGENT and ALASKA PICKERS, both about antiques and collectibles, both were total rip offs of other shows (Auction Kings and American Pickers) and just as dumb. They just keep coming and coming.

[–] Ltrazordaddio 11 years ago

...yes they do x... that's what you got to love about these slimeball Cable TV Channels.. their originality in programming ... they have oversaturated the market with this cheaply produced crap... they churn it out so fast.. people don't even know about the new shows... shame on NatGeo.. they certainly went into the cesspool fast.. I didn't even know about those two gems.. I take it they tanked ???

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[–] lump66 10 years ago

I thought that Storage hunters was unbelievably fake and bad, but Container wars beats its by miles, i had thought Storage Hunters was the lowest of the low but boy oh boy how wrong i was, both shows are 1001 % fake as can be, Auction Hunters are also 100% fake, the fake part in storage wars is after the storage lockers content have been sold for real, after there sold the producers then salt the storage lockers with extra goodies.

[–] kameljoe21-1 10 years ago

yeah this show is as fake as everything else

i have moved enough stuff over the years to know that stuff stacked up like that will fall and shift

and what the hell is with bidding in the thousands

at them prices i know that they wont make a profit

even with the items worth 10,000 the time that it takes to get the money back is a loss

there no way you can profit from this crap

on sticks out at me is that ddr max 2 machine
i bet he didn't get 7 to 9 grand for it most likely he got 4 grand for it

and they dress like they are bums

[–] Mike_Smith76 10 years ago

It is fake as hell, but I don't care. I watch it because the Israeli guys are hysterical. They make it worth my time to watch to see how they interact with the others. I think of it as a sitcom rather than reality tv.