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25 May 14
12:55
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Just looked in (again, sadly) while eating my breakfast.
Usual 'playing up' for the camera by all the different buyers.
One pair bid $27,000 on a 20 foot container when the only visible thing was a hardbaard frame obscuring the view of whatever was inside.
The next 20 foot container had a tier of boxes that was 5 high and 6 across, and you could see down a slight gap at the side and over the top that they were all the same size.
The bald one who is in charge of the auction appears to have badly failed maths at school. He said 'Got a starting bid of $10,000, who's bidding next? C'mon, there's gotta be 75 boxes in there.'
75 my arse!!
Given the size of the boxes, there would be at least 17 rows, giving a minimum total of 510 boxes. The 'winning bid' was over $40k, and the load was all wristbands and headbands. The two buyers said they had done all their profit by buying it.
There are easily a minimum of 500 items in each box, and if they sold each item for just 25 cents each, they would make $20k profit, but they walked off with the hump instead.
Camera cuts back to the first container as they remove the hardboard frame, and sitting there in the container is an electric Tesla car, with no cover on it, and not one speck of dust to be seen, valued at $100,000.
You don't ship cars in containers by parking them, putting on the handbrake and hoping they won't move, even for short journeys, never mind across the high seas.
Ratchet straps are used across the underneath of the car to stop it bouncing, that's why you see metal rings welded on the roof and floor of containers,. The wheels are chocked with timber wider than the tyres to stop it rolling backwards or forwards. Then timbers the length of the car are nailed to the timbers protruding out from behind the wheels, to stop it moving sideways. Any timber that comes into contact with the bodywork is covered in thick foam rubber before being nailed in place.
Apart from the hardboard frame that was thrown on the ground, there was no other packaging material anywhere on the floor.
WALOFS!!
Usual 'playing up' for the camera by all the different buyers.
One pair bid $27,000 on a 20 foot container when the only visible thing was a hardbaard frame obscuring the view of whatever was inside.
The next 20 foot container had a tier of boxes that was 5 high and 6 across, and you could see down a slight gap at the side and over the top that they were all the same size.
The bald one who is in charge of the auction appears to have badly failed maths at school. He said 'Got a starting bid of $10,000, who's bidding next? C'mon, there's gotta be 75 boxes in there.'
75 my arse!!
Given the size of the boxes, there would be at least 17 rows, giving a minimum total of 510 boxes. The 'winning bid' was over $40k, and the load was all wristbands and headbands. The two buyers said they had done all their profit by buying it.
There are easily a minimum of 500 items in each box, and if they sold each item for just 25 cents each, they would make $20k profit, but they walked off with the hump instead.
Camera cuts back to the first container as they remove the hardboard frame, and sitting there in the container is an electric Tesla car, with no cover on it, and not one speck of dust to be seen, valued at $100,000.
You don't ship cars in containers by parking them, putting on the handbrake and hoping they won't move, even for short journeys, never mind across the high seas.
Ratchet straps are used across the underneath of the car to stop it bouncing, that's why you see metal rings welded on the roof and floor of containers,. The wheels are chocked with timber wider than the tyres to stop it rolling backwards or forwards. Then timbers the length of the car are nailed to the timbers protruding out from behind the wheels, to stop it moving sideways. Any timber that comes into contact with the bodywork is covered in thick foam rubber before being nailed in place.
Apart from the hardboard frame that was thrown on the ground, there was no other packaging material anywhere on the floor.
WALOFS!!
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agree ,used to be good even yeeeeeeep dave jacked it in
have you seen rat b@stards,very good imo |
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Never heard of rat bastards.
If it's on Sky, I don't have it. |
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scripted like alot of discovery and these "reality" tv shows.
I dont really get the whole concept. Shirely the guy with the debt the container renter will have had first look anyway  |
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Don't know what the hell is happening to theHistory Channel, I used to enjoy the war docs but now it isjust this American cr@p
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Bear Grylls went down in my opinion when he tried to survive in the wild Irish countryside. He jumped into a bog hole saying they were extremely dangerous. Why didn't he just walk past it?
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Maybe in order to demonstrate how to get out of it, should the event ever be encountered by the viewer?
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