"Storage Wars" participant gets kicked off show and sues

[D. Bergin]

Reading the filing it seems like sour grapes because they were encouraging others to bid against him by providing cash to the other stars for the bidding process.

Seems his ego got the best of him and he decided to throw away whatever they were paying him to be on the show because they didn't want him to win every locker he bid on, therefore destroying any built up drama on the show.

Going so far as to mention somebody else's plastic surgery in a lawsuit seems ridiculous. It's television stupid..........and the law they were bringing up seems applicable to game and quiz shows to me. When a show has cast members it would seem to forfeit being a "competition" to me.

Obviously most of it is staged. C'mon, finding some single rare antique in the beat up dresser drawer of an otherwise pile of garbage.

I'm sure there's some gold mines out there (forgotten estates, sudden deaths, etc..), but I wonder why most people who abandon these units don't just go in and take out the more valuable items before they stop paying their bills.

[teetwoohsix]

To add on to Dave's last sentence, I've always wondered what's stopping the people who run the storage unit from cutting the lock, going through the items first, and then putting a new lock on prior to the auction. I mean, they just cut the lock off anyway, so who would know?

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Sincerely, Clayton

[Wymers Auction]

From an auction standpoint this show is "unreality" at best and borders on total fabrication. I think it is funny that people now flock to storage unit sales when they used to be very sparsely attended sales. Brilliant marketing tactic for Storage Unit managers and auctioneers. What is obviously fake to most of us is not so clear to the rest.

[D. Bergin]

Originally Posted by Wymers Auction

From an auction standpoint this show is "unreality" at best and borders on total fabrication. I think it is funny that people now flock to storage unit sales when they used to be very sparsely attended sales. Brilliant marketing tactic for Storage Unit managers and auctioneers. What is obviously fake to most of us is not so clear to the rest.

I'll admit the show had a brief allure for me. I thought for about 3 minutes of looking for a storage auction to attend............and then I thought to myself..........but how am I going to get rid of all the garbage in each unit I win?......and remembered my town dump charges like two hundred bucks a pickup truck load for "bulk disposal", to discourage contractors from dumping their loads there.

A peaceful feeling entered my body, and I never considered it again.

[steve B]

The show is probably staged, but there's a lot of decent stuff out there.

Before our city went to a single bin for trash the company would take nearly anything. And loads of great stuff would be on the curb.

Freight car mover- about a 15 foot long pry bar.
Small coal shovel.
Push type lawn edge trimmer - like the push mowers, but tiny and with only one wheel
Stained glass window.
Bicycle sized tire chain.- Showed it to a guy with a great collection of balloon tire bikes and he said he'd never even heard of it.
Plus a bunch of architectural salvage like window frames with the old wavy glass. I sold 30+ frames for $10 each. Not bad for stuff that was free.

All that was from within 3 blocks of my house.

So I wouldn't be at all surprised to find something decent in a storage locker.

Steve B

[alanu]

The thing that struck me funny about the lawsuit is that Dave Hester was earning $25,000 per episode, which has to be more than he could dream about getting from storage units, so even if he does win his lawsuit, he's throwing away maybe millions in future earnings from the show with his stupid comments.

[chaddurbin]

knew the show was fake, what i didn't know was dave hester IS an asshole and just didn't play one as a character with this lawsuit.

[bn2cardz]

Originally Posted by alanu

The thing that struck me funny about the lawsuit is that Dave Hester was earning $25,000 per episode, which has to be more than he could dream about getting from storage units, so even if he does win his lawsuit, he's throwing away maybe millions in future earnings from the show with his stupid comments.

From my understanding he was let go THEN sued. He didn't begin his lawsuit before being terminated. The first complaint is for "wrongful termination". So he isn't losing his paycheck because of the lawsuit, the lawsuit is because he lost his paycheck.

[David W]

Originally Posted by D. Bergin

I'll admit the show had a brief allure for me. I thought for about 3 minutes of looking for a storage auction to attend............and then I thought to myself..........but how am I going to get rid of all the garbage in each unit I win?......and remembered my town dump charges like two hundred bucks a pickup truck load for "bulk disposal", to discourage contractors from dumping their loads there.

A peaceful feeling entered my body, and I never considered it again.

I attended some auctions 5 years before this show ever hit, and my feelings were exactly like yours - They should pay me to put this junk in the dumpster, not the other way around. There were about 20 units, most were pure garbage, some did not sell.

There was however one unit completely packed to the top and back that had a snow mobile in it that went for close to $1000, so someone could have gotten a deal.