^^^^^ I wouldn't be so sure about that....there's some genuine animosity there. Same as Dave and Jarrod, they've almost come to blows a few times and believe me, if I was Jarrod? I would have dropped that prick on his head....
It's kind of a gay premise (the show) but can be entertaining......Same as Auction Hunters, those guys "seem" to be making a killing but they always give a caveate: that most of their lockers end up busts. Same as these guys, you have to wonder just how much good stuff they actually get.
You also have to realize that you have to have deep pockets (at least in the states) and be able to throw $1000.00 out the window without batting an eye. They all (except Barry) have a business to run where they get their inventory from these lockers. Think of all the thrift shops and their inventory. It has to come from somewhere.
But with all that being said I know a guy up here whose summer job is garage saling. He hits all the local garage sales (in the summer there's as many as 30 on saturday) then twice or thrice a year he goes to the flea market in Barrie and sells it all at a profit. I'm told he makes about $50K doing this (and spends the winter in FLA with the proceeds).
I don't know about the locker laws up here. There was an ad in the local paper about a storage unit that needed to be paid by x date or the contents disposed of. I recall the wording indicated that the contents would be thrown out, not sold by auction. I also know someone who, about 5 yrs ago, had a storage unit full of tools and fell behind in the payments and the owner seized the contents. He was a fucking idiot because he literally had about $5000 worth of tools and equipment that he walked away from.....(and his back rent was only $200.00 idiot!).
One interesting point that gets brought up from time to time is the amount of cash that is found inside the units. In one they found $3000.00 in cash. The reasoning is that a lot of old timers don't trust banks then what happens is they run short of money, then once you're delinquent, you can't get in your locker so you can't get the money to pay for the locker.
I thought about getting into it too but again, you have to have a pretty hefty bankroll before you even think about it......
