Newsflash...they are ALL faked.
You think people are going to tote museum quality stuff into a pawn shop and sell it for 30-40% of retail? if they can even put a retail value on it? Seriously use your frigging head.
Oh and while we're at it, Ghost Hunters is fake too, and so is wrestling. Just in case you may have been fooled.
Storage lockers are still a decent way to make money. And before these TV shows people did actually make a decent living doing it. But these guys never ever (and I have seen maybe 10 tapings the past coule years) get multiple units at the same location. Most locations have at most 7 auctions and generally 2 or 3 of those arent worth bidding on, so the fact they show these guys or at least 3 of the 4 getting lockers from the same location is all set up. I recognize some of the untis they have bought, but not sure about others they pair them up with on the same show. Also, I am sure they plant stuff in the lockers as well.
While you can and do find some decent stuff you surely dont find multiple examples in the same locker. So it is definitely reality BASED, not reality.
Besdies there are guys out here that do these things professionally that could buy and sell Dave, so him being put forth as the big shark in a little tank is really hilarious. I have been going ot these things for maybe 5 years now and i never ever once saw him at a single one. I saw the gambler a few times before, and barry a couple. And Jarred at a few (no wife) butfrom what I remember he never bid on anything he just walked around. Basically the only guy I remember ever buying a locker out of that bunch was the gambler. Like I said they ran the word around the circuit they were going to make a TV show based on it, and 99% of the regulars laughed. but they took these guys and put the show together. Then because they wanted a 'hot' chick, they threw Jarreds wife in the mix after a couple shows. And after a couple weeks she was supposed to be some sort of expert. If you lived out here and wanted to you could have been portrayed as an expert next season as well.