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i.love.barry.

 

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My son in law's mom was on an episode when they were in the Bay area. Her boyfriend is real good friends with the older white haired guy on the show. I don't watch it. It was real.

 

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He's my favorite as well. I swear he just does it for the fun of it all. He seems to be independently wealthy.

On a side note I did read somewhere that for every episode they air where something "nifty" is found, they went through 50+ other auctions of crap that wasn't worth the tape it was filmed on.

 

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Barry is the only one that doesn't have a junk store to sell all his treasures. All the other bidders have shops. They picked him for the show because he's weird. And yes, he's very wealthy and having a blast. My daughter said he's much crazier off camera.

 

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I work in the moving/storage biz and we have storage auctions every few years. We do everything we can to avoid an auction, typically the outstanding storage charges far exceed anything you'll get from an auction. The storage contents usually are worthless household goods and crappy furniture with the occasional antique and collectible thrown in for good measure.


I usually have no use or interest in other peoples junk, but I did buy one storage lot a few years back from a local self storage facility. I bought this unit because I had a bit of inside knowledge about the stuff because we had moved the person into storage. In this case the items belonged to an elderly woman from an upscale home who was moving to a nursing home. Her son who was moving her wrote us a few bad checks and obviously did the same to the storage company. When I spoke to him he said he didn't care about her "junk" and good luck getting any money from him. I bought the locker for $375 including auction fees. Items I got and sold from the unit:


Haviland/Limoges set of china complete with every serving piece known to man, sold to dealer for $1,400.

30-40 misc Royal Doultons, including a few rare ones, sold for $850 to dealer.

30-40 "Occupied Japan" figurines, sold for $350.

1 Swiss clock from around 1850, sold for $650.

Other misc sold for an additional $500.


The thing that got me were all the priceless items in the storage lot, 70 years of family photos and correspondance, letters from her father who was in both WWI and WW2. There were irreplaceble family archives that her idiot son labeled as junk. I saved these items and a few pieces of what I took to be family heirloom jewelry and tried to contact her son many times to have him come get them, to this day he has not retrieved them.

 

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Sounds like the son doesn't really give a damn, all he wants is whatever funds he can get when his mom dies, so he can blow it all.

 

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for reality programming (long form: hour length) the ratio of film shot to film usable is roughly 500:1
keep in mind that there are multiple cameras shooting (and everyone is digital, so it's not like it costs a ton in film)

 

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That is awesome.

 

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