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13-09-12, 20:49
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Combat Cash
Has anyone seen this show on Discovery Channel called Combat Cash???
I caught a couple episodes last night. Premise of the show is a guy who owns a large militaria business in S. California and his business partner who go searching out various militaria of all types for cash. Kinda like a Pawn Stars meets American Pickers meets Storage Wars concept. Supposedly they get customers looking for something and search it out for big cash....  I think I need to give up my day job and join these guys. I must be doing it all wrong though because I always seem to be spending more on old army junk than I evr make from it.  BTW, I rate the show a 5/10 because of the B.S factor involved...
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13-09-12, 21:04
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It's another staged show for entertainment value. Before filming the pilot episode, they put word out that they were needing a folding BSA bicycle. They wanted to buy one for use in the show but were willing to settle for renting one from someone. That way they could pretend to be haggling and purchase one from a person that they actually flew in from England that would pose as the owner wanting to sell it. Naturally the price was significantly higher than market for the bicycle and it caused a surge in people suddenly trying to get big bucks for their own BSA folding bicycles.
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13-09-12, 23:51
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I was flipping through the channels last night an found it. Yes, very contrived and patterned after those endless, dreary pawn star/storage locker disasters. (Right, as if a militaria dealers really get all weepy reuniting items with war veterans.)
Still, the topic is better than baseball cards and old coke bottles.
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