I watched the premier of "Big Brian the Fortune Seller" on TruTV last night:
Big Brian the Fortune Seller on truTV
He runs estate sales. Last night's episode was about the home sellers from hell ... the house was totally packed and cluttered from basement to attic to garage ... and the sellers were closing in 4 days! Thankfully, most of the stuff they had was not total junk, and some of it turned out to be very collectible (a pair of gorgeous Marlin rifles from the 1800s that sold for $15K cash on the spot, a coin that was put out as a memorial for George Washington's death that sold for $2K which the buyer found in a jar of old keychains, a silver-tipped cane that was once owned by Houdini to be sent to an auction house). They had tons of stuff ... like 700 cookie jars ... they had collected and Brian's crew organized a massive sale that attracted hundreds of people that literally lined up out the door and down the block. I don't know where the house was, but it must have been in Suffolk because one person said he came from Brooklyn and it took him three hours to get there.
Now for the people:
Brian and his crew are nutty, but in a nice way. Likeable for the most part and all are stereotypical LOUD Long Islanders with the strong (infamous) accent. Brian is a very tacky guy ... he had a women's thong underwear with the name of his business on it on the back that he wanted his female sales worker to wear under her jeans (so that when she bent over people could see it). She refused of course.
The customers were another story. For those of you that hate Long Islanders, you will have a good laugh if you watch this episode!
Man from Brooklyn (fat, loud and pushy) arrives the day before the sale, while Brian and the crew are setting up. Brian tells him "no previews" and the guy starts arguing and Brian had to sic his huge security guy on him. Curses and threats are exchanged; man finally leaves when he realizes he is not getting a chance to buy anything before the sale. The next day, the fat guy from Brooklyn returns and while he is browsing they catch him on hidden video stealing something and stuffing it in his bag. The big guard makes him open the bag and what did he steal? An old porno tape! Fat guy from Brooklyn is ejected from the sale. How pathetic.
Two grown women come to blows while fighting over an old fur coat, complete with hair pulling and cursing. Brian and his crew have to break it up. One of the women actually grabs the fur coat without paying and runs down the block with it, trying to steal it. The other woman and one of Brian's crew are in hot pursuit. They catch up to her and the other woman grabs the coat from her and then won't give up the coat, so Brian's worker grabs it and runs away back to the sale. The women were quite a disgrace to Long Island women everywhere.
The female sales worker also had some "tricks of the trade" to share about what people who go to these sales DO in order to chase others away while they are looking for treasures to buy. One is to FART noxious gas and clear the room. Another is not to bathe and get really smelly and invade the space of other browsers so they will go away. Horrible and I can't believe people would do this.
Will this show last? Who knows. What I liked the most was looking at all the collectibles and stuff in the homeowners' hoard. I am not allowed to hoard (as per my husband), so I can only hoard vicariously. As a matter of fact, when I was watching this show, I think he was getting nervous that I was going to start attending Brian's sales ...
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