The top rated A&E cable television show “Storage Wars” premiered this week on its new night, Tuesday at 10:00 pm EST/9:00 pm CST. Storage Wars airs in two back-to-back 30 minutes episodes, featuring the same feisty buyers.
Dave “The Mogul” Hester
The buyer that freezes or boils the blood of his competitors, Hester is famous for his signature’yeeep’ bid. Hester owns and operates the “Rags to Riches” consignment store in Costa Mesa, California. Part of Hester’s large overhead costs is his fifteen employee workforce. So, it imperative that a storage locker he wins contain quality goods that will move quickly.
Hester has drawn the ire of fellow buyers for his last minute bids to drive up the cost of a storage locker. A tactic that hamstrings his competition by making them pay more for a locker, which increases their cost of doing business. Hester sees the move as eliminating the competition, while other buyers consider him as the heartless bad guy.
Darrell “The Gambler” Sheets and son, Brandon Sheets
This father and son buyer team has an eye for big value items. Darrell has unconcealed disdain for Dave Hester, and has come in more than once with a last minute bid to drive up the cost of a locker Hester wants.
Jarrod “The Young Gun” Schulz and Brandi Passante
This buyer duo counterbalances each other perfectly. Brandi controls the purse strings which she uses to rein in Jarrod, the risk taker. The couple owns “Now and Then Second Hand Store.” On a recent “Storage Wars” sit down discussion with the three other featured buyers on the show, Brandi revealed she and Jarrod are not married. Together, the couple have two children.
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Barry “The Collector” Weiss
At 60-years-old, Weiss is the senior featured buyer on “Storage Wars.” Weiss is an antique collector and frequently ends up in the red at the end of the show.
Dan and Laura Dotson
Dan and Laura are the auctioneers on “Storage Wars.” The husband and wife team head up the operation of American Auctioneers, and receive a percentage of the winning bids.
The success of “Storage Wars” has brought in a flood of newbies into the storage locker auction arena. Some go to storage locker auctions to build an inventory for their own start up business, but soon find out it’s a tough venture.
Still others attend storage locker auctions looking for that one locker that holds hidden treasure. Just this week in California the contents of an abandoned storage unit was purchased, and inside the buyer found an estimated $500,000 cache of gold doubloons, silver Spanish dollars, and gold and silver bars nestled in a Rubbermaid plastic container.
“Storage Wars” has whet the appetite of latent entrepreneurs looking for an enterprise to unleash their skills to become their own boss.
Sources
http://www.aetv.com/storage-wars/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/11/15/BACP1LV1BV.DTL
http://www.storageauctions.com/3.htm