I get people all the time negotiating with me in completely nonsense ways because they saw it on American Pickers or a similar show (I think there's one called Flea Market flip that's even more fake). I love the show of course but a lot of the negotiating on there isn't how it really works in real life, lol.

so they'll say things like "Is that the most you'll offer?" sometimes I mess with them and offer less....

My favorite part of American Pickers, is how they'll go to somebody's house, buy 3 things, leave 10,000 things, tell the guy they'll be back, then drive 1500 miles down the road to buy 3 other things from somebody else. This is not believable to me.

If i'm gong on a operator warehouse raid, I'M BUYING EVERYTHING I mean I'm going to leave there with all the operators tools, his old stock capacitors that are probably bad, all the manuals I can find, whatever I can fit in the truck!

They definitely don't pack the buildings for the show, those are real hoards they're finding, the purchases are staged though. I honestly believe most of the stuff they probably never actually even buy, they just pick out an interesting item, talk about it, haggle a little bit, probably give the seller whatever price they haggled and then leave the item there with them.

I haven't read up on it, but I think on Pawn Stars the experts they call in just bring in an item they own, you have a fake person try to sell it to the show, he calls an expert, the expert comes in and explains his own item, and then they do the fake purchase or negotiation for the show. They probably look for different and interesting 'experts' to bring cool stuff on the show, one time they had a guy who was an expert on shipwreck treasure who according to the show was local to Vegas (he just called him up to come on down). So they're telling you a shipwreck expert lives in the middle of the Nevada desert.

Part of the fun of the shows is bitching about how stupid they think we are

And you know this how? Please don't tell me because you saw it on the show

Very cool Robert, I wasn't trying to suggest they're ripping anybody off or anything, I was just saying I don't trust what I see on the show That's cool they were as nice in person as they are on the show.