"Storage Wars" Dave Hester sues show...calls it a fraud
 

heheh....Nice try Dave....as if we didnt know already......



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Storage Wars star Dave Hester today sued A&E and the producers of the reality show, calling it a staged “fraud on the public”. Represented by attorney Marty Singer in his suit (read it here), Hester is seeking more than $750,000 in damages and fees from the network and Original Productions for their actions and for firing him from the show. “When Plaintiff David Hester (“Hester”) complained to producers that A&E’s fraudulent conduct of salting and staging the storage lockers was possibly illegal, he was fired from the Series. As further evidence of Defendants’ outrageous conduct, they purported to rescind their written exercise of an option retaining Hester’s services this coming season,” says the 14-page complaint, which is suing for wrongful termination, breach of contract, breach of good faith and fair dealing, unfair business practices and declaratory relief.

Reality shows are often accused of sleight-of-hand manipulation of events, contestants and other participants, but Hester’s suit tarnishes Storage Wars almost from top to bottom. “Nearly every aspect of the Series is faked, even down to the plastic surgery that one of the female cast members underwent in order to create more “sex appeal” for the show, the cost of which was paid for by Original,” the suit claims. “Original regularly ‘salts’ the storage lockers that are the subject of the auctions portrayed on the Series with valuable or unusual items to add dramatic effect, even going so far as to stage entire storage units. Original also manipulates the outcome of certain auctions by paying for storage units on behalf of the weaker cast members who lack the both the skill and financial wherewithal to place winning bids,” it adds. Hester is seeking a jury trial.


Now in its third season, the highly rated Storage Wars pits buyers against one another for contents of abandoned storage lockers. Known as “the Mogul,” Hester has been one of the seven main participants on the show since it debuted in 2010. The second half of Storage Wars’ latest season began last week.

Sucks he got fired the show will go down hill.

YYYYYYYUUUUPPPPPP

Of course it's fake. There's never anything but dirty underwear in abandoned storage units.

Never did like him. He seems like a giant pussy.

and ****in rats.
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Bugeater on suicide watch

Who?

They really will make a show about anything anymore and people really will watch.

Um, people -- it's a REALITY show. Therefore, it HAS to be real.

Case dismissed.

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Brandi is not pleased


Should kick Jarrod to the curb any ways.

People are going to war over storage?

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Only reason to watch

Unless your Omaha

/too fat

Wow..... If only the Chiefs didn't suck balls!

She's kind of dumb too. That's a plus

What do we got here, a busted toaster that's 40 or 50 bucks, an old 25 inch TV, that's a hundred bucks, and holy shit! A box full of gold doubloons!

I am exceedingly proud to say that I haven't watched 5 minutes of any reality show in over 3 years. The only one that might disqualify the afore mentioned claim is Mythbusters. I haven't watched that show in over a year. Every one of them is shit and gives people cancer.

Just don't tell me American Pickers is a fraud that will break my heart

ROFL

My favorite was "that's an old xbox, that's at least 100 bucks right there" Plus Barry "The Collector" always finds weird shit, how could it not be staged.

They should make a reality show about people who watch reality shows.

Brandi ?

I hope he loses, stupid lawsuit and he was a prick in the show, doubt he is much different in life seeing this..

Never seen it, but I figured that show is just as fake as the shows about the pawn shops, moonshiners, repo men, etc.

Duh it's fake lol still an ok show. Hester is a pussy and a bit**! Never liked him. Shove his YUUUP up his fat ass

Duh its a fraud. I was approached for another one of these "reality" shows several times to be one of their "experts" for the show. However, the real job of the "expert" is solely to find interesting items to have brought in to enhance the item selection used in the show.

So I turned it down - 3 times.

Yuup

80 percent of the time no no locker has anything interesting. Once in a while they strike on something cool.

If this shit is as fraud as they say it is, then these storage units would have alot more cool shit inside. MOst of the time its all junk.

I know its frauded to some degree and its for TV, just like i said above. alot of the shit is crap

well, outside of brandis titties, i've never seen anything i'm interested in.
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If he is anything like he is portrayed on the show then yeah it's a dick move. He waits till third or fourth season to blow the lid open to make 750K

Meow how the hell could Barry Weis afford cars like this?

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They're fake? Both of them?

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now that one of the cast members is letting the secrets out, I won't be watching anymore. I always knew (or thought) that shit was fake, but now that's it's officially fake I won't be watching lol

Is this a big deal? Never heard of the show. :shrug:

I guarantee you that there are people who watch this show avidly. Decided to open up a thrift store or some shit and lost a lot of money, because of this show. This opens up the doors for those people to sue if they lost their money lol.

Wow.

and another thing I don't like. When they are going through the lockers and they are like "Oh that's $50, that's $350, etc, etc" and then they show the profits like they already sold that shit.

come on! I bet most of that shit doesnt sell for half of what they say they will get.

LMAO

i've watched it, but outside of those titties that brandi is packin, i couldn't tell you a thing about it.
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very nice

I'd pick Danielle from American Pickers, I'd pick it all day alll riiiggght giggity giggity

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Did anyone actually think it was real?
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I also don't understand how the show puts stuff in the lockers and then actually has to buy them.

Kinda makes no sense
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Dave Hester is on my list of people I'd like to punch in the face. Ideally while he's yelling "Yuuuup"

That's the Wow factor.

Only a blubbering moron could watch that show and think it's real.

Most "reality" is staged.

Funny how the show portraits them as abandoned units but the reality in many cases is some poor sap got behind on his payments/late penalties and couldn't afford to get it back.
You know there had to be some crying going on by some while watching there personal belongings being pilfered over by strangers.

Pay your ****ing bills then.
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Sadly yes. Most of those storage unit, pawn shop, whatever else type of shows are staged.

He's going to have a hard time proving damages, even if he is right. I have a friend who claims he has supplied them with a variety of film props/memorabilia in the past so the allegation that they "salt" the lockers would seem to be true. But it shouldn't be that surprising -- it would be prohibitively expensive to just "guess" each week if there would be anything worthwhile in the lockers and/or try to find "experts" who could provide any kind of real guidance AND would sign likeness release forms. On the budgets these shows run you just can't take that risk, which is why most reality shows are filled with contrived situations -- there may be film crews following their subjects around all day but they simply can't afford the possibility that they capture nothing of interest.

They are all staged to one extent or the other -- again, for the reasons above.

ehhh.... some people fall on hard times.

Barry is an old Hollywood guy who made his money in produce, if I'm not mistaken (which I very well could be)...he's also a close friend of one of the producers which is why he's on the show...

they always have some sort of gun they have to shoot.

That's Ton and Allen

As others have said...obviously staged. No surprise here.

Honestly, i doubt someone lost money by starting a thrift store from the show if that was their idea..

Hell Brandy and her husband started out that way.. The only thing fake is the rate they find unbelievable items..

The December 7th of storage wars....

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I'd hammer Brandi. Hard.

I've always wanted to take advantage of a storage unit's first month free special, never pay my bill, and put a bunch of empty boxes with enticing labels stacked around 4 strategically placed upright tires just to go watch the auction take place.

again, they hardly find unbelievable items. ITS RARE that any of them make any really really good money of their storage finds. Sometimes they bank in when they find coin collections and what not, but its not often.

I remember saying man, you can buy a new xbox for around 200! so why the hell would anyone want an outdated xbox? He would always find bags of clothes and say there's 50 dollars right there

Ya label em sports memoribilia and coin collection LMAO

Oh, shit. I used to be in this business. We had people do exactly that, and just dump their junk off. I've cleaned out hundreds of these things, and 99 percent of them are just people's trash. Getting rid of that thing was the best thing I ever did.

Plus it was a shitty original xbox not even a 360. Plus who knows if any of the electronics they find actually work, but they put those high estimates anyway.

Brutal. I used to go to damaged freight auctions. Scored big dozens of times. Then the damaged freight carrier opened their own retail store and they started putting reserves on crap you couldn't even test. Had to pay almost half of retail to get anything good and got burnt on a couple of electronics that were supposedly tested so I quit going.

‘Storage Wars’ star Brandi Passante sues over sex tape

Oct. 30 Brandi Passante, one of the stars of A&E’s “Storage Wars” is suing Hunter Moore over a pornographic video he released.

The Chicago Tribune also reported that Hunter Moore was once the operator “Is Anyone Up,“ a pornographic website. Brandi Passante claims it is not her and is suing Hunter Moore for damages, attorney fees and a judgment to destroy everything owned by Hunter Moore regarding the sex tape.

A District Court judge issued a restraining order. That order demands that the video and photos be removed from “Is Anyone Up” as well as Fleshbot.com, another pornographic site where Hunter Moore posted the sex tape.

pics or it didn't happen.

That's what I've read on the internet, so........

Never watched it.

What does this "salting" accomplish?

Keeps the items in the lockers fresh, sort of like curing a ham with salt and smoke.

ROFL

Yeah, this. How was he damaged exactly?

Of course, this suit just proves what an a-hole he is. Enjoyed the show, hated him.

I'm really hating reality TV these days. It's all freaking fake.

The worst that's out there right now is Amish Mafia. What a bunch of bullshit.

Duh, I can't believe people watch this garbage.

Eh, it is entertainment and as such you should expect some staged components. If you accept that I don't see any reason to consider it garbage (other than personal preference). Just like every other TV show really.