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Collectibles/Picking/Auction TV Show Overkill?

TonyCTonyC Posts: 1,399 ✭✭✭
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After seeing a recent post about a Ty Cobb checkbook on The Great Big American auction last night (I never heard of the show before then), I just need to ask:


How many TV shows about collectibles/picking/auctions do we need?


When it started off with Pawn Stars, and then American Pickers, I enjoyed watching them (I know they are staged, but they were still entertaining and to a certain degree enlightening). Then the storage auction shows (Auction Hunters and Storage Wars) came on, and those were fun in their own way. But now, this is a list (probably incomplete, I will edit the post if people mention others) of all the shows in this genre now on TV:

Pawn Stars
American Pickers
Auction Hunters
Storage Wars
Storage Wars Texas (yes, I guess there is a spin-off)
The Great Big American Auction
Auction Kings
Picker Sisters
Hardcore Pawn
Oddities
Storage Hunters
American Restoration
Buried Treasure
Cash & Cari
Real Deal


There are 15 shows listed; I can't even keep up with half of them if I wanted to.

I know the networks will air whatever is working for them, but this market has become over-saturated in my opinion.
Collecting Tony Conigliaro

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  • grote15grote15 Posts: 29,750 ✭✭✭✭✭
    They wouldn't be so many if people weren't watching or the networks weren't making money. I find some (pawn Stars, Storage Wars, Auction Kings) to be more entertaining and informative than others, but they're all essentially guilty pleasures.


    Collecting 1970s Topps baseball wax, rack and cello packs, as well as PCGS graded Half Cents, Large Cents, Two Cent pieces and Three Cent Silver pieces.
  • KbKardsKbKards Posts: 1,782 ✭✭✭
    Whatever. More importantly, what's your opinion on $4.00 Ebay shipping and the proliferation of BIN's?
  • itzagoneritzagoner Posts: 8,753 ✭✭
    if they did a show called Star Dingers, the popcorn would fly.
  • KeepItWarmKeepItWarm Posts: 579 ✭
    Out of all those shows....Antiques Roadshow is still the very best one.

    No bu!!sheet, no 'characters' trying to be funny, no commercials....just bam, bam, bam, bam.

    South of Heaven...North of Canada
  • bobbyw8469bobbyw8469 Posts: 7,139 ✭✭✭
    Whatever. More importantly, what's your opinion on cynicism and shallowness?
  • bkingbking Posts: 3,095 ✭✭


    << <i>They wouldn't be so many if people weren't watching or the networks weren't making money. I find some (pawn Stars, Storage Wars, Auction Kings) to be more entertaining and informative than others, but they're all essentially guilty pleasures. >>



    Most of these all run on 2nd-tier cable channels that struggle to afford original programming. From what I've heard, "reality" TV is REALLY inexpensive compared to a sitcom or drama.
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  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭
    PSA should have a show. Is this '58 Mantle a 10, or is it trimmed? We're about to find out live here on Grade My Cards....but first, it's time for a short commercial break. <audience groans>
  • bkingbking Posts: 3,095 ✭✭


    << <i>PSA should have a show. Is this '58 Mantle a 10, or is it trimmed? We're about to find out live here on Grade My Cards....but first, it's time for a short commercial break. <audience groans> >>



    Would you have to wait 45 episodes to find out??
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  • byronscott4everbyronscott4ever Posts: 932 ✭✭✭
    Real Deal is another one. I prefer the ones that have some kind of hunting aspect rather than the pawn ones where everything comes to them.
  • dennis07dennis07 Posts: 1,842 ✭✭✭
    The lady seemed real upset that her 136 Ty Cobb auto's only went for 90K. I wonder if the winner will leave the checkbook intact!!
    Collecting 1970 Topps baseball
  • leathtechleathtech Posts: 3,191 ✭
    I'd like to see Steve @ the BBCE do a show when he goes out on buying trips.
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  • zep33zep33 Posts: 6,897 ✭✭✭


    << <i>if they did a show called Star Dingers, the popcorn would fly. >>



    WINNING!!
  • 72skywalker72skywalker Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭
    American Pickers is our favorite by far. I love watching the hunt and seeing what they find and then learning a little about them. Then next time I am at a tag sale I might run into something they found and realize it is worth money. It is also amazing at what people have kept throughout the years.
    Collecting Yankees and vintage Star Wars
  • mlbfan2mlbfan2 Posts: 3,115 ✭✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>PSA should have a show. Is this '58 Mantle a 10, or is it trimmed? We're about to find out live here on Grade My Cards....but first, it's time for a short commercial break. <audience groans> >>



    Would you have to wait 45 episodes to find out?? >>



    No no, two cards are graded per hour-long episode. image
  • brianwintersfanbrianwintersfan Posts: 3,626 ✭✭
    I enjoy:

    Storage Wars
    Hardcore Pawn
    American Restoration
    Pawn Stars
    American Pickers

    The rest are just poor imitations!

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  • jimradjimrad Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭
    Hollywood has taken over these shows - too bad
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  • RipublicaninMassRipublicaninMass Posts: 10,051 ✭✭✭
    Born dealers


    I agree, now everyone thinks there 1987 topps are worth millions!
  • brendanb438brendanb438 Posts: 1,595 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I enjoy:

    Storage Wars
    Hardcore Pawn
    American Restoration
    Pawn Stars
    American Pickers

    The rest are just poor imitations!

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    Sorry but Hardcore Pawn has to be the worst show out there when it comes to "fake" reality TV. I would love to see that whole family abducted and made to disappear.
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