Yeeeeeeeep! Dave Hester fired from Storage Wars

[MisterJackson]

How much less could you care?

lmao

 

[Platypus]

*yuuuuuuuuuuuup

 

[waggy]

I don't think they could do that. These places are locked down and you would have to get by the security gate first. I would think any storage place run by someone with half a brain would not allow people past due to get into their lockers, at least at some point.

I think it is also the case that some people don't understand the worth of items or maybe even forgotten what they had. Of maybe they are in jail or dead? Clearly in a lot of these, if they were true, the item could be sold to pay the locker fees.

I actually talked with someone that use to bid on the things before the show became popular. They have stopped now because too many people show up and the lockers have gotten too expensive. She said, that people use to come and bid on their own lockers because it was cheaper than paying what was owed. Apparently, that usually isn't the case anymore.

-KeithP

I used to go to storage auctions all the time. Before these type of shows came out i could get some good stuff for a good price. NOw there are 100 or so people (when there was maybe 20) bidding the fuck out of the shit. I would put stuff on ebay and i made a decent income from it.

about 90% of the stuff i would toss. but that 10% would make up for it.

now its a waste. to many people keep bidding and bidding.

 

[Tim]

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep!

 

[thegimp03]

I didn't see this in the OP, but there was also an allegation that the show paid for Brandi's plastic surgery to make her more appealing to male viewers.
I never saw how someone could keep a valuable coin collection worth thousands of dollars behind a $15 Master Lock, THEN forget to pay the $100 rent to the point that it goes up for auction.

 

[Fritzo]

Ya'll like Berry? Really? He is a moron. Hester is a family man with a successful business that he build with his own hard work, pretty much the American Dream. Probably the only one on that show I respected.

You seriously wouldn't like to go out and have a drink with Barry? He's like the most interesting man on the planet. He knows a ton of people in the music industry for some reason, he restores hot rods as a hobby, he's filthy rich from a produce company he owns, and he's hilarious.

Dos Equis should use him for the most interesting man in the world.

 

[Fritzo]

If you thought this show was real, I have terrible news for you. Santa never actually came down your chimney.

I saw this porn once that proves you wrong.

 

[dmcowen674]

Brandi is hot, so what that they are fake.

Hester is a cry baby because he went bankrupt.

 

[FallenHero]

You seriously wouldn't like to go out and have a drink with Barry? He's like the most interesting man on the planet. He knows a ton of people in the music industry for some reason, he restores hot rods as a hobby, he's filthy rich from a produce company he owns, and he's hilarious.

Dos Equis should use him for the most interesting man in the world.

I would LOVE to chat with Barry for hours. Dude is awesome. Pretty sure my wife, who usually has high standards for celebs, would bang him as well just to say she did.

 

[OverVolt]

Dave Hester is in it for the money. Its a double win for him, because the TV show directly increased the competition he faces in what he does, and so now he gets to sue them AND make the show unpopular.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Berry is too. he got filthy rich by owning a produce market in LA. then he got into antiques and was very successful at that as well. please do your homework before you bash somebody.

I come into the show assuming that all of these people are acting. I know that in reality each of them has a successful business that lets them move the stuff they buy, so all I am talking about it the characters they play.

You seriously wouldn't like to go out and have a drink with Barry?

I think he would drive me crazy. I doubt he is anything like the person he plays on camera, but that camera personality is just annoying to me.

 

[LTC8K6]

I didn't see this in the OP, but there was also an allegation that the show paid for Brandi's plastic surgery to make her more appealing to male viewers.
I never saw how someone could keep a valuable coin collection worth thousands of dollars behind a $15 Master Lock, THEN forget to pay the $100 rent to the point that it goes up for auction.

The lock would have been put on by the storage company when the rent wasn't paid.

They remove the lock of the deadbeat and replace it so they can't get back in to the locker.

Of course, anyone in financial trouble would clean out the locker before the rent was due, knowing they aren't going to be paying the rent.

So it really makes no sense for their to be much of high value in very many lockers.

 

[SMOGZINN]

So it really makes no sense for their to be much of high value in very many lockers.

You would be surprised as how many people are just too lazy, or you get situations like the one a friend of mine was just in. She was paying the rent on a locker she shared with her Ex, she told her ex that she was no longer going to pay for it, and took her stuff out and left his. AFAIK he never came and picked his stuff up, and I know there was some really nice stuff in there.

 

[SP33Demon]

I knew the show was rigged and I knew that guy was a little wormy loser. Good riddance.

Barry admitted last year that the show was rigged in an interview and that he didn't even know Dave until the show asked him to be on it. They also don't all live in CA like the shows says.

 

[djnsmith7]

I've watched the show a few times & always thought it was crazy for someone to pay $$$ for a storage unit they only get to look at for 30 seconds. Some of the amounts people pay on that show are outrageous.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I've watched the show a few times & always thought it was crazy for someone to pay $$$ for a storage unit they only get to look at for 30 seconds. Some of the amounts people pay on that show are outrageous.

If you go back to the first episodes you see that they only pay 1-3 hundred for most of the units, unless it had something obviously valuable in it. Now it seems they are paying $1k+ for even trash filled units.
The people I know who does this are telling me that it is like that in real life as well, the price of a unit has at least tripled in the last few years.

 

[kranky]

If you go back to the first episodes you see that they only pay 1-3 hundred for most of the units, unless it had something obviously valuable in it. Now it seems they are paying $1k+ for even trash filled units.
The people I know who does this are telling me that it is like that in real life as well, the price of a unit has at least tripled in the last few years.

1. Own self-storage facility
2. Make arrangements with local Goodwill to take off their hands all their donations that were too crappy to resell in their store. Free stuff for me.
3. Put ex-Goodwill stuff in storage locker
4. Advertise storage auctions.
5. Profit. No ??? needed.

 

[JoeBleed]

from someone that worked at a mini storage place for about 7-9 months, i can say people somehow do leave stuff behind when rent comes due. I can only guess as to why. not having the money or resources to move stuff out could be one. Though if they had valuable small items, you'd think they'd just come by before the month was up and get it all. Which they may.

I remember cleaning out units where people came buy, got what they wanted and left the rest. We tried our bet to work with people and get them to pay up before their unit got auctioned. We kept reminding them if they paid a little, we wouldn't/couldn't auction it off. i don't remember if we just wouldn't or actually couldn't. the units stayed locked with our locks and their access codes were disabled, but we wouldn't auction it off.

When i worked there i remember gearing up for auctions only twice. one was canceled the day of due to some paperwork issue out of the main office. This was all before this show. There were only about 6-8 people to show up.

a lot of people seemed to think we'd give them a free month now and then or they could pay when they liked. most people learned quickly the rules were the rules and they applied to everyone. but i remember two people that would be late every month and come in the office to bitch about our lock being on their unit and how they weren't going to pay until we removed it. Both of them were contractors of sorts and had some sizable units. One of them, as it turned out, was a close relative to the owner. He eventually started to mention this every time trying to get into his unit with out paying. We kept refusing. I eventually called the gm and she laughed and said never let him in until he pays. Standing order from the owner that referenced him specifically. He left when i told him this.

Rent is due on the 1st we wouldn't lock them until the 6th. People generally had time to get any valuables out if they had the means.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

If the show is worried about money they could pitch a new show called "Brandi on a trampoline"

It'd get record ratings

That surgeon did a damn good job.

 

[CVSiN]

If you thought this show was real, I have terrible news for you. Santa never actually came down your chimney.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

You ruined Christmas!!

 

[Ausm]

That surgeon did a damn good job.

I agree and I think should could probably suck start a leaf blower.

 

[Pr0d1gy]

I agree and I think should could probably suck start a leaf blower.

I'd let her suck my leaf blower....hehehe

 

[MetalMat]

What prevents the storage locker company from going through a locker and getting anything valuable from it before they put it up for auction?

 

[zerocool84]

What prevents the storage locker company from going through a locker and getting anything valuable from it before they put it up for auction?

I'm sure nothing but how do those people know good from bad stuff plus having to piece out all the junk to make money off that too.

 

[JoeBleed]

What prevents the storage locker company from going through a locker and getting anything valuable from it before they put it up for auction?

For the place i worked at, i think it was just policy. i doubt there is any law about it.

It makes sense. You want the people that show up for auctions to find decent things now and then. If they don't, they're not likely to show up again or will be less likely to bid much on any of the units that go up for auction at your place. I think i asked why didn't we just sell off the good stuff ourselves and trash the rest. i can't remember for sure, but i think they either said it wasn't worth it or that and liability.

Oh, the customers locks were still on there come auction day. our units had a place to add our lock to lock out the customer. For the smart ass customers that thought they could avoid being locked out by using two of their own locks, we had a device for this. We never cut a customers lock until the unit was ready to be auctioned off. at which point it all belongs to the storage company i think.