american pickers

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machine girl

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those picker guys are in town taping a show across town, this guy has a lot of stuff, (cars and everything else) tried to get close (NO WAY):(
 
I sure would like to see their wearhouse that they do not tell you about nor where it is.

I am sure that their two places that we see on the show are just small shops compaired to where they take their goodies after a road trip.

Pluck
 
What? You mean they actually plan these things out? They just don't randomly show up and buy stuff from people who don't expect them coming? They don't rehearse anything, do they? This can't be true, because it is REALITY TV.

Obviously just kidding!
 
Pluck, I stopped at the Iowa store a few weeks ago when I was on a road trip with my neighbor. It was small and not worth driving too far out of the way to see. They have a small car inside and some old motorcycles. Everything was priced high.
 
A year ago January, their scouts gave me a call to pick our 7,500 square ft. warehouse collection. The said that they would be by the first week of June. At first I said OK, but by the time that they called me in March, I had changed my mind and I said no. They called me again in May and they tried me again. Their whole program is a portable National Geographic scripted movie set. If a person is ready to cash out their collection and have someone cherry pick it first, I guess that they could let the American Pickers have at it. I would rather let it all go at an auction and leave the cherries in place to attract more buyers.
 
They have been discussed before on here. Nothing new, Scripted situations, pre bargained prices, Out of sight prices, and No Guns!
Terry
 
Terry said:
They have been discussed before on here. Nothing new, Scripted situations, pre bargained prices, Out of sight prices, and No Guns!
Terry
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Terry,

Didn't they purchase some guns used in the Civil War for the Confederate Museum?

But on the whole...you are right.

Pluck
 
I met them afew years before their TV gig started. Nice guys, but watching their show after the first few seasons it seems their main qwest is to broaden their own collections rather than keeping a small business going. $3200 for an oil can was the last straw for me watching them. Also it is now nearly impossible to contact them. I tried for over a month a couple of years ago to see what they ran onto for KRW tools and never even received a call or email back. That was a definate clue the show is now bigger than the business. Rod
 
what is their real main business, as they can't be supporting themselves driving all over the country quibbling with eccentric old-timers over signs and rusty bikes. Are they auctioneers or estate liquidators?
 
Steve Plucker said:
I sure would like to see their wearhouse that they do not tell you about nor where it is.

I am sure that their two places that we see on the show are just small shops compaired to where they take their goodies after a road trip.

Pluck
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ericr said:
what is their real main business, as they can't be supporting themselves driving all over the country quibbling with eccentric old-timers over signs and rusty bikes. Are they auctioneers or estate liquidators?
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TV show stars is there main business. That Discovery Channel money pays good I'm sure:D:cool:
 
Those guys don't actually drive around to find their stuff. Their crew and set is already done when they fly in to do the show. As far as Discovery paying good, I know the're pretty cheap when it pays the actors for some of their other shows.
 
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