HISTORY CHANNEL****FOR SHAME***AMERICAN PICKERS

These guys on American pickers with the same lingo How much do you have to get on something like this ? Makes me sick and I want to punch that grey haired ugly thief . They are taking advantage of older collectors and acting novice , they have to Wake up and look at their ugly asses . God will deal with these losers the show American ass pickers is gross and they are crooks!!!

These guys on American pickers with the same lingo How much do you have to get on something like this ? Makes me sick and I want to punch that grey haired ugly thief . They are taking advantage of older collectors and acting novice , they have to Wake up and look at their ugly asses . God will deal with these losers the show American ass pickers is gross and they are crooks!!!

These two pieces of fu ck need arrested and or shot and the filthy tattooed cu nt needs whacked also fu ck you mike frank and Danny useless fu cking d

Who gives a goddamned fuck? Fuck History Channel and fuck TV.

These guys are.doing what they do and that's their business, the real issue are people willing to do business with them and putting a price on something that was handed down for several.generations.

I have a few.things handed down to me that belong to grandparents, most of it which a lot of monatary value. Sell it ? Hell no! It wasn't given to to me to sell, it was given to me as part of my family history that I will some day pass to my children or grand children.

There will always be scum that what will buy what you have for sale esp if times are hard and they know it, that's not the problem, the problem are those willing to sell their family history.

Frank fritz mike Wolfe daniell cushman , three fu ck thieves

or the whole thing could have been staged.

YEah how dare they treat that 88 yr old MAN like an adult.

You're surprised?! Take a look around. We have nothing but good examples of thievery everywhere we look. Our government does a fine job of this, as do the police (freedom/money), the military (our freedom/money), universities (our money), banks (our money), corporations (our jobs & our money)etc., etc. We have nothing but examples of thievery. There are no redeeming qualities left in this world any longer, save about 3% of the population who have a problem with it all. So, no... not surprising at all to see a TV show screwing some old folks. Par for the course.

Who is the DUMBASS that made this post, the Pickers are making money for those people that have all that stuff laying around, if it was not for them or others like them than the stuff would just still be there collecting dust, when was it wrong to buy low and sell high, I think the OPer is a commie pussy mommy's boy that still needs tucked in at night..

Great job American pickers keep up the good work, I do love your show..

Those guys came by my place a while back. Drove up a quarter mile driveway that is posted "no trespassing".

That little fat bald headed fucker knocked on my door and handed me some flyer -- I grabbed my shotgun and told them to get the hell off my property!

Sure you did.

I TOTALY 100% DISAGREE WITH YOUR SORRY ASS OPINION! 99.9% of the people on the show are greedy ass,not doing there homework, lazy bastards!!!!!!!!! The guys look through the shit and do ALL the work, and half the time the people don't know what the hell their nasty ass broken untaken care of junk is worth!!! They see these fools coming and the greedy pieces of shits see nothing but the lottery when these fools come around and try to milk them like cows!!! Example: Volkswagen greedy fuck & the old bitch and bastard at the opera house in Colorado. I can't stand watching the show anymore, it makes me sick to my stomach!!!!!! Bunch of greedy,greedy,greedy sons of bitches!!!!

Wow u guys r Fucking stupid

So sick of American pickers, my favorite channel and the ruin it by showing American pickers over, over, over and over again. Geeez

I've heard for years the pro pickers argument, "they were willing to sell it for what I offered so it's a fair deal". I've always said that if they seller were actually informed as to an item's actual resale value, they'd change their price really quick.

Here is a funny example that just happened to a picker I know yesterday.

This picker (we'll call him picker A) went to a garage sale and found 2, antique xxx's (don't want to say in case this post is read by him). He made an offer of $20 each and it was accepted. The items were actually worth $300 to $400 each. As he was loading one of them into his car, he didn't see a man walk up to the other one and put his hand on it trying to hold it for himself until the seller came his way.

In the meantime, this other gentleman had one hand on the item, the other on his I-phone looking up the resale value of the item. In the meantime, picker A walks back and asks what picker B thinks he is doing and asks the seller to inform picker B that the item is already sold.

Picker B, angry that he was a few minutes too late, tells the seller, "look, these sell for $500. This guy's just going to turn around and sell it for that." We'll, that's exactly what he was going to do also.

The seller hearing the actual value of the items then tries to renegotiate the price with picker A. The seller actually stated that there's no way he would have sold them for $40 total if he knew what they were worth. Lucky for picker A the seller's wife came out and said, "you made a deal honey so deal with it".

Another example of a seller ONLY accepting a ridiculous offer on his item(s) because he didn't know the fair market value. When informed of the reality of value, he changed his tune really quickly.

The funniest part about this story is that this picker (A) has a bad gambling problem and when these items sell, he'll just loose the money in a week or less as usual.

I've heard for years the pro pickers argument, "they were willing to sell it for what I offered so it's a fair deal". I've always said that if they seller were actually informed as to an item's actual resale value, they'd change their price really quick.

Here is a funny example that just happened to a picker I know yesterday.

This picker (we'll call him picker A) went to a garage sale and found 2, antique xxx's (don't want to say in case this post is read by him). He made an offer of $20 each and it was accepted. The items were actually worth $300 to $400 each. As he was loading one of them into his car, he didn't see a man walk up to the other one and put his hand on it trying to hold it for himself until the seller came his way.

In the meantime, this other gentleman had one hand on the item, the other on his I-phone looking up the resale value of the item. In the meantime, picker A walks back and asks what picker B thinks he is doing and asks the seller to inform picker B that the item is already sold.

Picker B, angry that he was a few minutes too late, tells the seller, "look, these sell for $500. This guy's just going to turn around and sell it for that." We'll, that's exactly what he was going to do also. He was just angry that he didn't get the steal of the day first.

The seller hearing the actual value of the items then tries to renegotiate the price with picker A. The seller actually stated that there's no way he would have sold them for $40 total if he knew what they were worth. Lucky for picker A the seller's wife came out and said, "you made a deal honey so deal with it".

Another example of a seller ONLY accepting a ridiculous offer on his item(s) because he didn't know the fair market value. When informed of the reality of value, he changed his tune really quickly.

The funniest part about this story is that this picker (A) has a bad gambling problem and when these items sell, he'll just loose the money in a week or less as usual.

Watched yesterday's show (1-28-15), and I'm still outraged. (Driving my wife nuts, so I thought I'd let loose here.) This was the worst show since they started. I had thought they got a little better. They were robbing this poor guy. The man was accepting every (low ball) offer. Pickers weren't even trying to bargain. They were taking advantage of this guy. They had the nerve to dicker about dust on an Edison wax cylinder phonograph with the cylinders. Come on now!! Once they saw that he was taking any offer offered, they starting making even lower offers. If these guys were buying something from a blind person, they would probably put singles in the person's hands rather than hundreds (depending on the price) because they could get away with it.

This is how they act ON CAMERA. I can't even imagine what goes on behind the scenes. They have no scruples. They have no qualms about taking advantage of people. They are robbers, not pickers.

If they ever come this way, I'm ready for them. These guys have no conscience, no principles. I understand making a profit, but not when you take advantage of a person. That's just theft. They are SCUM. They make politicians look honest. They would probably steal candy from a child.
This show just took the cake.

You people act as if they hadn't shown up all these folks would be living on easy street had they not been "ripped off". Let's be freaking honest here, on average most people are just surprised that people would WANT to buy their junk, secondly the profit margin is on average, only about 60 to 80%, so it's not like they're offering $5 and getting $5,000.

Actually, the average profit margin of real pickers is around 800%-1000% (minus business costs of course). I know real pickers and watch what they sell and for how much. I always find out what they paid for many items. By the way, when the cameras are off, those two are actually doing the same.

Another great example. One of the pickers I know bought a item at a garage sale for $40. He turned around and sold it online for $1,000 the next day. That means he could have even gotten more if he wanted to wait for the right buyer. After business expenses ($150 as a kind estimate), that's still really a profit of over 2,000%.

Did he bother to tell the individual at the garage sale, "did you know that someone would be willing to pay over $1,200 for this so, I'll give you $600"? Of course not. He had a rough idea of what he could get for it while never intending to let the seller know its' true value and basically stole it for $40.

Someone should beat the $h11te out of Frankefritz and Mike the Wolf! They are a disgrace!

Many times, I've seen Mike offer someone far more than they ask for and educate them as to the true value. You have no idea what you're talking about.

That's because it's a t.v. show and not real. Those are sets and scripted, do some research and you'll see. When the cameras are off everything is just as I've previously stated.

Yeah guys, how dare these business men try to make maximum profit for their business. Thats the definition of business, to make fucking profit on the products you are selling. No one is holding a fucking gun to the sellers head, mike and frank offer a price, and they either can accept it or not. Also, most of the places they go are leads on which they are invited to these peoples homes because they WANT to sell their "junk". They dont run a charity that they are looking to break even on, they run a business to make max profit on what they purchase. Wake and shut the fuck up u guys sound like idiots.

The History channel used to be good, showed interesting, informative documentaries, same as the Discovery channel.
Nowadays all they have on now is those stupid reality things like "i'm from louisiana and cook crabs", "i buy second hand cars" " 2 kentukians in a grocers".

WHO, WHO, WHO REALYY WATCHES THESE SORT OF THINGS AND FIND THEM INTERESTING???? THEY ARE DUMBING US DOWN WITH DRIVEL AND TRIPE!!!

to all u idiots

I really think Mike and Frank should be stopped from the way they take advantage of a lot of older people that really do not know what they have. Some have knowledge of the internet to look items up they have owned for 50 years. In a business like this if you buy something from something that is not knowledgeable I feel like anything over 75% profit should be refunded to the seller. No I am not talking about your local yard sale. These guys know what they are doing and they know what they can get for things their customers do not.

It takes up a lot of room...don't know how long it will sit....gotta find the right guy etc....LIARS!