Anybody seen this tv show?It's basically a "reality" show that follows four guys that bid on storage units people didn't pay for that the storage facility now owns, and auctions off to recover money.I think I've seen about 6 episodes, and the show probably has another 6 left in it unless they adapt (which I have no clue how they would do).The guys they follow are all fish, except for this one guy Dave, who seems to consistently know what he's doing.The other guys are Jarrod, the worst of them all. Jarrod has the lowest budget, but makes the worst choices. He actually has a pretty good looking, fairly smart girlfriend, who is constantly talking some sense into Jarrod. THey own a thrift store, so that's where they bids go. They are usually bidding on stuff like used furniture and old clothes, tools, basically low budget stuff.Then there's this crazy collector guy. He kind of has a clue, but he's still a fish.The last guy, I forgot his name. He comes with his son and is kind of the aggressive, redneck of the bunch. They showed his house once,and it's a massive collection of random stuff he's picked up at storage auctions.So anyways, it's kind of a fun show to watch these guys bid on storage units. Dave routinely runs the bidding up on everybody, and even when he's stuck with units he didn't want, still seems to make a pretty buck. THe other guys are hit or miss, Jarrod I think was down a ton of money (they show the profit after each show) in the first few shows, but luckboxed a few units. Dave is consistently at the top of the profit totals.Thought I'd throw this up there and see if anybody else had seen this. I'll probably stay with this show another few episodes, but it does get repetitive fast. THere's good fish humor in it for awhile though, so I'd recommend throwing it on if you're looking for something non intensive to watch.
well i promised myself no shows while grinding but this sounds too good.. going to check it out.
check out the show Easy Money (unfortunately cutoff after 1 season) which is about one of those moneyshark companies and a guy who works there. They give ridiculous money to struggling people and are quite creative in collecting (non violent) Do these companies really exist in the US?
And How to make it in America is an awesome show too. There is a second season coming soon. Two guys trying to make it in New York. An ENtourage kind of vibe but NY style and they aren't made.
Both are easy to watch, struggling hustler shows, that are funny in a serious way.
I think I saw how to make it in america once while flipping channels, I'll give it a full look sometime soon.
Easy Money doesn't sound familiar, so I'll look that up too.
Just rewatching Deadwood now, and I only watch TV at night, so time is somewhat limited.
If you haven't seen Deadwood, that's one of my all time favorites and I'd recommend it to just about anybody.
As for those types of US companies.... there are money sharks. You can borrow from "fast money" places with insane interest rates pretty easily, especially in poor areas. There are rules setup for these places that vary state by state I believe. I'm not sure how collection methods work, but in most cases there are specific businesses setup to collect debts, they are called collection agencies, and while they sound scary to most people they actually have to operate by a very strict set of laws that in many cases is very favorable to ordinary people.
It's about one of those companies. I watched like five episodes of SW and it's very good :) That young guy with the girlfriend is a strange character, because there is nothing good about him except maybe that he is with her. I love that antiques hustler.
Yea the young guy, Jarrod or whatever, he's such a fish (or at least seems that way).I've watched a few more episodes since this post. It's still interesting enough to watch, but man, some of these B-C grade reality shows just repeat and drag stuff out way too much. Hopefully there actually is value and they see it in condensing their footage a bit. I'd rather see the first 10 episodes edited into 5-6 shows than what they have now. It can't be that expensive to film this stuff either, so just create a few more similar shows, condense the material so it has more quality content throughout each show, and you have a much stronger product for your channel!Jarrod seems to be doing better in the last few episodes though. He got some collection of levi jeans in one of them that he swore was worth a lot and it ended up making him a nice return. I have to admit, I was hoping he was told they were worth what they looked like (thrift store quality). They went to vegas in that episode I think and aside from the older Michael Douglasesque guy they seemed to clean up.