Those shows are completely scripted. On Storage Wars for instance, everything, yes everything is placed in the storage unit ahead of time. Neighbors son works in LA as a PA for some of these shows.
On Nov 7, 2012, at 3:28 PM, Dan Penoff wrote: > This reminds me of the pawn shop in Las Vegas that has the show. People bring > stuff in there that the owners (or their "experts") place stupid values on it. > > I dealt in pinball machines for many years, so I was interested in watching > this particular episode. > > Some guy brought in an old pinball machine that they took to an "expert" who > rebuilt it and claimed it was now worth about 3X what the actual market value > was. > > There was a lot of chatter in the pinball community over it, and the so > called expert really got taken to the woodshed over it and lost a lot of > credibility as a result. While he would never admit it, many of us thought > there might very well have been some collusion in an effort to make the show > more "exciting". > > This sort of behavior does two things: > > It causes the general public to have unrealistic expectations of value for > something; and, it drives prices up in the market for much the same reason. > > Dan > > On Nov 7, 2012, at 3:09 PM, Dimitri Seretakis <dsereta...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> These events only go to show that low mileage, clean original W123s are >> gaining ground. >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Bob Rentfro <azbob...@gmail.com> >> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> >> Sent: Wednesday, November 7, 2012 2:30 PM >> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 240D on Chasing Classic Cars >> >> Chip is like BFF with Wayne. >> >> Bob R >> On Nov 7, 2012 11:53 AM, "Alex Chamberlain" <apchamberl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Anybody else watch the show "Chasing Classic Cars" on Velocity Channel? >>> The host buys and sells a huge variety of interesting iron, mostly older >>> Ferraris and Porsches but lots of other stuff too. The last episode I saw, >>> he bought a showroom-condition W123 240D with 20K mi on the clock for >>> $25,000--presumably thinking he could flip it for significantly more. >>> >>> Alex >>> _______________________________________ >>> http://www.okiebenz.com >>> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >>> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >>> >>> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >>> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >>> >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com >> _______________________________________ >> http://www.okiebenz.com >> For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com >> To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ >> >> To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: >> http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
