It's just started on our pay tv provider. Cool show about two blokes travelling around trying to pick up old collectables and sell them on for a profit. I can imagine them finding a huge stash of unused double rings in some old blokes garage.
American Pickers - Great TV show
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We will just have to find them before they do. The hunt is on!
But seriously this is a great show.
We will just have to find them before they do. The hunt is on!
But seriously this is a great show.
+1. I also like Pawn Stars which often precedes it.
This is a great show. I watch it every chance I get. What seems so interesting to me is that they pick up the stuff that I would pass over every time if I had to guess what was worth the most money in a barn full of antiques.
American Pickers and Pawn Stars are my two favorite TV shows currently running...
Sadly enough, the highlight of my week is Monday nights
Sadly enough, the highlight of my week is Monday nights
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We don't get Pawn Stars. I have heard of it but I'll have to wait and see if Foxtel in Australia pick it up.
My only gripe with American Pickers is that it depicts an impossible business model. Sure, they make 125% profit on this or that, but how do they pay for the two guys in their newish van driving 100 miles over several hours on top of the overhead of the shop and their facilitator making the phone calls? I haven't seen them make a cent yet. It is fun to watch though.
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I'm loving Pawn Stars
I have wondered this myself.... for example in the latest show when they are in NC they don't buy hardly anything that will make a profit (out of all the stuff they probably made $600 profit). How would that cover two guys driving from Iowa, spending a week in motel rooms? But it still is a great show!
My assumption is that the show only covers a very small percentage of the total business they do. Much like Pawn Stars where they cover 3-4 items each show but they actually deal in thousands of items each week. The Pawn Stars show did give out a number once of how many items they deal in and all I remember is it was a "really big number". The pickers show will be a similar situation -- but probably a lower number.
I've been watching Pickers but sort of hit a wall after seeing Hoarders.
Hmmmmm. Piles and piles of stuff precariously piled, often with vermin infestations amongst everything. One show treats it as really cool treasure hunting, the other as a sad sort of addiction (or should I say aquisiton disorder?
) that keeps people isolated from others, often living in shame and a sense of helplessness, and frequently facing eviction from landlords or condemnation from local authorities.
I couldn't watch Pickers with as much enthusiasm after the Hoarders marathon. Still, Pickers does draw me in a buried treasure sort of way.
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Hmmmmm. Piles and piles of stuff precariously piled, often with vermin infestations amongst everything. One show treats it as really cool treasure hunting, the other as a sad sort of addiction (or should I say aquisiton disorder?
) that keeps people isolated from others, often living in shame and a sense of helplessness, and frequently facing eviction from landlords or condemnation from local authorities.I couldn't watch Pickers with as much enthusiasm after the Hoarders marathon. Still, Pickers does draw me in a buried treasure sort of way.
Roger
I do like Pickers, but I feel bad at times. Not that they take advantage of some of these guys, but they seem to take advantage of these guys. I like the show, but dont watch religiously.
Anyone ever been in a Famous Daves rib joint or similar decorated establishment. Ever wonder how they decorate the place with old oil cans, fishing tackle, and other items of the various periods. I guess these two guys are the answer.
It took me a while to warm up to "Pickers", but I do like it. "Pawn Stars" is hit or miss with me.
Same here. I wish they would quit showing that schlub Chummley so much on Pawn Stars. How can a man be so daft. My favorite character is Old Man.
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i have the DVR set to record Pawn Stars, and I appreciate the show for the historical aspect of some of the stuff that people carry in there, but the shows is way to scripted with all the banter that goes back and forth between those guys. My Parents stayed at the Stratosphere over Memorial Day weekend, and walked down to the pawn shop. They said none of the people that are on the show were in the store.
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I agree on both counts.
Judging by how funny the things Chumley says are, I don't think he's as dumb as he appears.
I suspect that television is picking up the tab for all the hotel rooms, the van, the gas, and the $50 oil cans and $200 bike frames on American Pickers. There is no way on earth those two guys could run a business that way.
Pawn Stars I find downright annoying - Big Hoss, with his girth, double chins, and malicious little eyes sunk in all those fat rolls, reminds me of Jabba the Hutt every time I see him on tv.
Pawn Stars I find downright annoying - Big Hoss, with his girth, double chins, and malicious little eyes sunk in all those fat rolls, reminds me of Jabba the Hutt every time I see him on tv.
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