Tune in alert for the coolest guy in all of picker-dom, Mr. Billy Leroy, whose interesting facial hair and tatts set him apart form just about every American picker on TV. Leroy is the star of Travel Channel's "Baggage Battles," back for season 2. Travel Channel.s popular series returns with a brand-new season on Wednesday, November 14 with two back-to-back half hour episodes at 8 Pm Et/Pt and 8:30Pm Et/Pt. Auction experts Billy Leroy, Mark Meyer and Laurence and Sally Martin are all back, and this time, they go even bigger as they seek hidden treasures of all shapes and sizes at airport auctions, police and seizure auctions, vehicular auctions and estate auctions. From Travel Channel...
- 10/23/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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
If you just returned from a trip but your luggage did not, somebody may be claiming new ownership of your stuff right now. And it’s perfectly legal. Travel Channel’s newest reality extravaganza, Baggage Battles, lets you tag along with four “auction specialists” who’ve made a tidy living purchasing unclaimed baggage at sales and reselling the contents in their thrift and specialty stores. Trash-talking New Yorker Mark Meyer still lives with his folks, but has an eye for a buy that belies his 25 years. Dashing Billy Leroy — owner of the Big Apple’s iconic Billy’s Antiques & Props — talks [...]...
- 3/26/2012
- by Lori Acken
- ChannelGuideMag
Travel Channel brings "Hotel Impossible" on April 9 at 10p.m. Et/Pt and "Baggage Battles" on April 11 at 10p.m. Et/Pt. You will meet the .hotel fixer. Anthony Melchiorri and .auction specialists. Laurence and Sally Martin, Mark Meyer and Billy Leroy. The secrets of the hospitality industy unfold as competition is fierce for your hotel business. Online review sites can kill a business. reputation with one bad review. Staffs are untrained, surly or apathetic in a profession that lives or dies on service. So what.s a struggling hotel operator to do? Bring in Anthony Melchiorri, a hotel .fixer,. who can turn any establishment around in weeks. From Travel Channel Travel Channel.s new original weekly one-hour...
- 2/6/2012
- by April MacIntyre
- Monsters and Critics
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