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Next Monday, 8/1, American Pickers has a pick at a collector's house/warehouse. I saw the preview yesterday and the person looked like they owned a huge number of games. I wonder who it is....
 
i saw that too.. huge row of pins, looks like they end up with a monsterous old hockey game of some sort. Also on pawn stars, i see they have a Galaga in the showroom now too.
 
i saw that too.. huge row of pins, looks like they end up with a monsterous old hockey game of some sort. Also on pawn stars, i see they have a Galaga in the showroom now too.

I saw the Galaga in the showroom when I visited the shop on vacation last month. It wasn't plugged in, so I don't know if it was working, but they wanted $1000 for it, which is way more than it would be worth, working or not.
 
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"While my partner was haggling over signs, I saw the real deal. A MAME cabinet. These things go for BIG bucks and it looked old, so I knew I had to have it."

Bought = 1200
Value = Bajillion Mo Zillion
Profit = Bajillion Mo Jillion and change
 
"While my partner was haggling over signs, I saw the real deal. A MAME cabinet. These things go for BIG bucks and it looked old, so I knew I had to have it."

Bought = 1200
Value = Bajillion Mo Zillion
Profit = Bajillion Mo Jillion and change

That is awesome! So true.
 
The show formula is getting old, and the entire value assessment of what they bought vs projection of sales is ridiculous.

Just like the lame storage wars shows, it's everyone's assumption of worth, which of course flames the fire of newbie's into the hobby with illusions of grandeur.

I work in television and when it encroaches upon my personal life and hobbies, it's crossed the line dammit!
 
I saw the Galaga in the showroom when I visited the shop on vacation last month. It wasn't plugged in, so I don't know if it was working, but they wanted $1000 for it, which is way more than it would be worth, working or not.

I don't think $1000 is that bad of a retail price for a working Galaga.
 
I watch pawn stars all the time. Rick's son and chumlee bought a pac-man cocktail for like $150 or $200? Spent like $500 getting it restored. But I think the guy only replaced the glass and overlay. Said they could get like $1200+ for it. Oldman played it and said he rather play solitaire. lol
 
... and all that was fake. Just like American Pickers is fake. Last night, they bought a Beatles 'butcher' cover that was beat all to hell for a grand, they're all over ebay in perfect shape for 200 bucks. It's on the History channel. It's just a vehicle to show History, and they don't have to pay the screenwriters guild because it's 'reality'. In the meanwhile a producer comes up with the ideas and they fake all the shit to get around paying the screenwriters. Pretty brilliant, actually.

Absolute worst one is "auction hunters". Least bullshitted up fake-ass show is American Restoration.
 
Fake or not, who cares. America Pickers and Pawn Stars are great shows. I'm always interested in seeing items that I would normally never see and hear about some history of it. If these "fake" shows bother people, then why are they watching them?
 
Yeah, that butcher cover would be steep unless it was a first state. If it was a first state, even beat up, they might have done okay.

American Pickers has gotten more fake as time has gone on. They often try to play like they just happened to find some place when it's obviously set up. Or, when they did the cross-over show with Pawn Stars and American Restoration it was wierd how they tried to avoid the obvious fact that these people have to know who each other are.

I don't care though. I still watch the hell out them. They have vids and pins on them all the time. Anybody catch the Krazy Kong the other week?
 
I love old stuff so I love American Pickers. It is one of the shows I have automatically added to my DVR. I recall an older episode where there was a Super Pac and the guys totally ignored it.

I wonder how fake it is though -- did you ever notice that the owners never look into the camera? If someone shows up at your house with a camera and sound crew in tow you'd be looking into the camera a bunch; or at least ask what was up with the camera... Also, notice how in some instances (admittedly not always) when the guys first go into a house the camera crew is already in the house filming them coming inside. So, of course they have been told to act like these guys just showed up at their door. So, there is definitely some acting going on, but it is for dramatic purposes so it doesn't bother me.
 
I want to say that a member here posted about his father-in-law, who has a bunch of games, being visited by the Pickers guys (Abbot & Costello).

Was this a NEW show or a re-run?
 
did you ever notice that the owners never look into the camera? If someone shows up at your house with a camera and sound crew in tow you'd be looking into the camera a bunch; or at least ask what was up with the camera... Also, notice how in some instances (admittedly not always) when the guys first go into a house the camera crew is already in the house filming them coming inside. So, of course they have been told to act like these guys just showed up at their door. So, there is definitely some acting going on, but it is for dramatic purposes so it doesn't bother me.

Totally! They walked up to a house on one episode and the guy started yelling at them to leave and get out of here type crap. When they walked up to him you could see he was already wearing a wireless pack. SET UP!

Chumlee throwing the ball through the back glass on the bowler - fake. My guess is they had the original backglass which was flaking all to hell and a replacement for it. They showed it from an angle so you couldn't see the ball actually going through the back glass. Why? They probably had the bad backglass set up with a piece of plywood behind it so they wouldn't tear up anything else.

The potty chair falling out of the truck and smashing to a million piece. Fake

Chumlee dropping the ball and chain through the display case. Puhleese. Scripted.

I swear they sit around and draw straws to decide who is going to make the screw up for this week.

And now the show features 75% more Chumlee. Almost every scene no matter who is doing the negotiating, Chumlee is standing next to them to make stupid comments.

Yeah, i know, why do i watch it then? Well a lot of shows are fake but still entertaining. I watch hard core pawn too. The items aren't interesting, it's more about the people. But most of em seem to be actors.

The absolute worst show in the "reality" category is "operation repo." Jeepers, it's more fakie then the alligator eating the parachuter in faces of death.
 
operation repo admits they are staged using actors, its in the credits.

pickers episode with the "get off my property" guy, i noticed one of the camera angles was shot from behind the fence...
 
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