The sad part about this is that people believe it is real. And after American Pickers, they turn on Home Shopping Network to buy a "bargain" .

Nobody is going to let these guys come and shuffle through their trash if "breaking the ice" means using real prices.

Sort of like a movie that is "based on true events" and the only thing that is true is that they got the guy's name right.

The real sad part is that the politicians use the same formula to get you to vote for them.
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Here is a Canadian antique dealer who is out there doing it on his own. No script writers. No TV crew. This guy is the real deal and can be interesting to watch. But if he was on TV, most people would flip to the next channel.

Would you like to run that math by me again?

What would your profit be if you bought for $300.00 and sold for $900.00? That's plus $600.00. What would that be, profit percentage wise?

This is the best laugh I have had in a .....long time

Frank and Mike were doing this before the TV guys entered the picture.

Mike said when big-budget TV got involved they started sleeping in nice hotels instead of the back of the van or some dump of a room.

On their own, they had to cut a profit. With TV money they are on easy street.

I like watching the show to see what they dig up but the prices leave me scratching my head.

OTOH, it was not long ago that Pawn Stars had some pinball machines with crazy prices. And today, those prices are not crazy, anymore. Well, today’s prices are crazy but you know what I mean.

There was one episode where they were all gaga over some rare type of juke box. The juke was the star of the show. For awhile, I was watching "reruns" on Netflix so I don't know if the episodes were in correct order, but there was another episode with one of the same type of rare jukeboxes taking up space in the back ground and not a word was said about it. I thought hat was strange that it at least did not get a mention, like," hey, we bought one of those a few episodes back".

I'm like you. I like seeing what is sitting around but the cam is moving too fast.

You are correct. I owe you an apology.

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Google to the rescue.

https://www.brattbank.com/bcalc/ProfitMargin.html
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No. It is not moot. I threw out some bad info. It needed to be corrected. Bad info. is like a rumor. It gathers a life of its own and it gets hard to determine fact from fiction.

Yes.

Did you mean to say 200% ? The webpage I linked suggests that to me. And that's the way I would look at it when I was doing some trading.

There was one Pawn Stars where a guy was selling a guitar. The camera was on two other guitars hanging on the wall. Later on, with the same guy selling the same guitar, one of the guitars on the wall was different. I read somewhere, maybe on pinside, that that there might be 2 or 3 different shoots on different days to get that part of the episode set up.

If we saw the episode you were in would we be thinking you are some old fart holding onto everything for dear life ? You have crap stacked around everywhere?

There was one show where that bought an old car, really rare, blowing some smoke from the tail pipe. And they hit the road. They were headed north to somewhere. Part of the route was on US 66. I Google Earthed their point "A" and point "B". It was over 400 miles.

I have a hard believing that they drove all that distance in some old tub. I'm figure they had a trailer stashed nearby. but that is just a guess.
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I cannot begin to tell you how disappointed I was to find out in Easy Rider, Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper did not ride those two Harley Panheads across country. When the cameras were not rolling those two bikes were on trailers. So much for Ride to Live:Live to Ride

....For the younger generation hanging out on pinside, Easy Rider was a movie that was made in 1969 where two dudes moved a large quantity of cocaine, unloaded their 2 rice burners for two righteous Harley-Davidson motorcycles and hit the road for New Orleans.....

Damn !! I just now see with Google that a local theatre is showing Easy Rider for the 50th Anniversary. Tomorrow night I'm going to the movies !