First Ice Road Truckers now Storage Wars called Fake

From what I am reading, the show 'rented' some items from the contestants so that they could plant valuable items in the lockers. Dave Hester, who filed the lawsuit after being fired, was supposed to have been paid $700,000 for just the second season of the show. In the 3rd year of production, the show began putting their locks on the purchased lockers so they could hide items in the lockers while buyers were not present. While filming, they would direct the buyers toward the parts of the unit where items were hidden. Other allegations are that the show would bankroll weaker bidders to make the show more interesting by having them win. They were also supposed to have paid for plastic surgery for a female contestant to make her look more attractive. This could be very bad news for A&E since they also run Storage Wars Texas and were getting ready to run Storage Wars New York. Couldn't they have stuck to running reruns of Law and Order: Criminal Intent?

I sure would have been happy with Law and Order, as the shows have had some great seasons. I really enjoy watching the first seasons of any of them. They had some great casts and the guest stars have been outstanding many times.

As I said above and have said elsewhere, it always seemed strange that the same group of bidders would always show up along with the same auctioneer. How do they all know they need to show up unless they were told to be there? Also the more I watch, the more it seems to 'glorify' auction buying without truly justifying their bids. The buyer will go through a locker and say, that table is worth $100, the stereo equipment is worth $400, that camera is woth $100, etc. They don't actually show the items being sold and the bidder realizing his profit or loss. This even goes for some of the 'special' items they find that they go and have appraised. It seems in most of those cases, they get the item appraised BUT they don't sell the item to the appraiser. While its great to have an item appraised, it only becomes worth the appraisal value when the item is SOLD for that amount. When you consider some of the odd ball items they get appraised, how can they expect to find a buyer to sell the items to for the appraisal value when they didn't know if the thing was valuable in the first place. The show auction hunters on Spike seems much more realistic. At least there you see only two guys who each week are bidding against different people with different auctioneers. And they go out and find buyers for the best stuff that they find.

True. There's only one moonshiner who had his voice and photo obscured.

They've already replaced Hester on the show. I remember reading about Ben and Kate Plus Eight and some of the things they did on that show to fake reality. Among the worst things, they filmed a Christmas show, when it wasn't Christmas, and gave the kids presents to open. Some of the smaller kids became confused and upset when they were forced to give the presents back since it wasn't really Christmas.