I used to watch the show a lot before.
I've been in the second business for nearly my entire working life. Hester is an idiot. I used to think he was the best out of the bunch, but I don't think so anymore. There is a reason he has had problems with his business. He is so out to lunch on pricing. That book thing was a joke. And its not just that, sometimes I am amazed at how someone who has been around the second hand business as long as he has doesn't have a good grasp of what something is. It could be just part of the show, but there were some things he would take to get checked out and I knew it was a waste of his time. There was an episode where he was hoping a violin was a Stradivarius... I seen it on TV and I could tell it was just a cheapo violin because of the sticker inside. There has been other times where I shake my head when he talks and I wonder aloud what drugs he is on.
Darryl is more accurate with his pricing then Hester is. They both are a bit out to lunch but Darryl is more reasonable, believe it or not. It is a second hand business, you can never go up in price. He runs tables at flea markets IIRC, and that is how that business goes. Start high and haggle down.
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