I manage a storage facility, and am the auctioneer for our sale units. Storage Wars has been an amazing boost to our sale prices!
Before the show, we would get anywhere from $5 to $200 for a unit. Now, a 10x10 that's full will bring as high as $1500... from folks that are sure that they are going to find that elusive treasure that's valued at $20K. It's almost kind of sad, really, since most folks that have anything of value pay for their units!
Those "treasure" units are few and far between, and SW doesn't show all of the units these guys buy that they loose money on. Not only that, but I'd go to a few of these auctions myself if I had the resources that these guys have for researching value!
I love watching the show tho, and would love to have those guys show up at one of our auctions!! Would show my own "Dave", "Barry", and wussernames a thing or two!
