Unbelievable!
I predict Storage Wars will be a hit, and start a wildly popular hobby. I know a few people already do this small time, but nothing like it will be after this silly program.
Us Americans are crazy. 
Peace,
mangeorge
They have been previewing this at AMC theaters, and it is one of the most depressing things I have ever seen. Every aspect. The carefully cast, and utterly fake, set of douche-bags bidding on the stuff. The poor people who lost all their stuff because they couldn’t come up with a couple hundred dollars for the back fees. The fact that this scumbag of a producer is breathing air that could be used by actual human beings or animals.
When I read the title I expected to see a documentary on the computer storage companies, I was expecting to see Hitachi, Seagate and Western Digital in a battle royal for more Terabytes, and Pentabytes… 
There’s always that side of forclosures, repossessions, etc. And there’s always the question of what happens to the stuff if it isn’r sold. I doubt that the storage companies give it back to the original owners.
These scumbags are simply buying low, selling high, an all American good thing. Like Walmart.
Welcome to the free market system we all love.
Auction Hunters started the war almost a month ago.
There is a difference between something regrettable happening, and a national TV show celebrating that regrettable thing. Yes, poor unfortunate people lost their stuff - do they have to see some scumbag doing a happy dance over winning it?
They’re identifying the people who lost their belongings? That is rotten.
A lot of those people are in that position because they lost their homes and have no place to put their stuff.
If you read my OP you’ll see that I’m not cheering the producers on.
I agree the concept seems distasteful but I have to admit, it would have been fun to see them go through Paris Hilton’s belongings when she lost her storage unit. Maybe they should have done a one time special on that, kinda like Al Capone’s vault only with more herpes medication.
I guess. Is anything too distasteful for cable? A small price, I think, for the right to free speech. Of course I’m not one of those losing all my stuff. If you want my tv, you can pry it from my cold dead fingers.
Not everybody who gets their storage unit foreclosed on deserve our sympathy. A lot of people are just really shitty about paying their bills on time due to spending their money on frivolous things instead of paying attention to their storage unit fees.
I’ll watch this, it sounds entertaining.
I predict that one day soon there will be a television show that airs pictures of people’s actual soiled laundry, with gastroenterologist and biochemists giving expert opinions on exactly what kind of intestinal distress might have caused each stain, and nutritionists speculating on what each person might have eaten to cause such stains. And then the phrase won’t be a euphemism any more.
Well, I wouldn’t go so far as to say they shouldn’t be allowed to make the show. I do hope they keep peoples identities private (I expect they will).
I think the reason it feels so dirty is the current state of the economy. Bob Ducca is right that it isn’t just down-on-their-luck people who are losing their stuff but I am sure there are lots of sad stories behind the losses.
Maybe they can do a crossover show with Downsized.
Ive been watching Auction Hunters since it premiered last month. The two main guys on that show seem like nice normal guys. I watched the premiere of Storage Hunters tonight and these guys seem kind of dirty, arrogant and douchy.
I DVR’d this program and will watch it soon. The commercials brought back some bad memories – I lost almost all my worldly possessions a few years ago when I could not keep up the payments on my storage unit. Whoever got my storage unit really scored. I had a whole household’s worth of goods in there, including a king-size mattress and brass bed frame, a whole bunch of nice furniture, great framed art and a full kitchen’s worth of silverware, dishes, pots, pans, glasses, utensils, etc. I miss my stuff 
sounds great funiture.
Why didn’t you sell your stuff before the storage place took it?
I was watching Auction Hunters and trying to figure out why Allen Haff looked so familiar. Turns out he was on *Clean House *as the yard sale guy, going by Allen Lee Haff. My preference is for the Auction Hunters guys. They know their stuff.
Years ago I used to go to auctions on upaid storage units - back then they opened units and auctioned items individually. Not the “whole unit - only 5 minutes to look inside - stay beyond the doorway” way they do it on this show.
I got some really decent stuff - the best were cases where some elderly relative had passed away, the heirs had stored everything and then basically let it go because they didn’t have a clue what to do with it all. Otherwise, there were a lot of junk piles.
The show is like so many other reality shows, they cast colorful character and amp up the supposed drama. It’s basically BS. I can imagine a bunch of noobs are going to see the show and think they can get in on the action - they’ll have to shut down the show when they start getting 1,000 schmucks show up to bid.
I don’t feel that bad…it’s not like the people miss one payment and the next day their stuff is sold. They are typically three, four, or more months behind, and they get several notices to pay up or their stuff will be auctioned off. And since they have the key to their unit (notice how the auctioneer has to cut the lock off,) there’s nothing stopping them from “cleaning it out” before the auction date.
I wonder if any of the units are for people who have passed away?
I only watched 20 minutes of the show and don’t know if the producers covered this or not, but they should point out, that it doesn’t matter if they get $20,000 on a unit or $100,000, the self-storage facility doesn’t get to keep it if it is similar to TX law. The facility only gets to keep the rent and other expenses owed to him.
Every state law is different, but I think are generally similar here. I own a medium sized self storage facility in this state. It is required by our state law to give them their money back, minus their storage rent, late fees and other costs that come up on our end to sell it. It cost me several hundred dollars just in legal newspaper ads that I must run twice in order to legally sale it, as well as a certified letter addressed to them on the address they gave me when they signed the contract.
I’m out of time for tonight, but I have a lot more I want to contribute to on this thread.