If you just returned from a trip but your luggage did not, somebody may be claiming ownership of your stuff right now -- and it's perfectly legal.
Now it's perfectly entertaining, too.
Travel Channel's newest reality spectacle, "Baggage Battles," premiering Wednesday, April 11, lets you tag along with four "auction specialists" who've made a tidy living buying unclaimed baggage at sales around the globe and reselling the contents in their thrift and specialty stores.
Watching these characters heft locked suitcases, prod plastic bags full of jewelry and jockey for prized offerings is as interesting as the dazzling array of items they land. Trash-talking New Yorker Mark Meyer still lives with his folks but has an eye for a buy that belies his young age. Billy Leroy, dashing owner of the Big Apple's iconic Billy's Antiques & Props, talks a gunslinger's game but is curiously cautious with his cash.
It's Englishman Laurence Martin,...
Now it's perfectly entertaining, too.
Travel Channel's newest reality spectacle, "Baggage Battles," premiering Wednesday, April 11, lets you tag along with four "auction specialists" who've made a tidy living buying unclaimed baggage at sales around the globe and reselling the contents in their thrift and specialty stores.
Watching these characters heft locked suitcases, prod plastic bags full of jewelry and jockey for prized offerings is as interesting as the dazzling array of items they land. Trash-talking New Yorker Mark Meyer still lives with his folks but has an eye for a buy that belies his young age. Billy Leroy, dashing owner of the Big Apple's iconic Billy's Antiques & Props, talks a gunslinger's game but is curiously cautious with his cash.
It's Englishman Laurence Martin,...
- 4/11/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
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