Jackson Residents Have Opportunity Wednesday to Become “Auction Hunters”

By Phil Stilton

Local fans of the Spike TV series, Auction Hunters, will have the chance to be just like their widescreen heroes, Allen and Ton on February 15th when Storage Station puts two units on the block.

Ronald Weaver, manager of Storage Station says that ever since the show started, he’s seen a big increase in locals coming out hoping to find the big score. “We’ve had up to 60 people come out in recent months for these auctions. It’s tripled.” Weaver said “Before the show, we would get just a handful.”

In the show, Allen Haff and Clinton “Ton” Jones travel across America, bidding on unclaimed storage units, hoping to find forgotten treasures, which they then sell for huge profits sometimes.

As for local treasure hunters, Weaver said it’s hit and miss and you never know what you’re going to find inside the units.  ”In the past, if we opened up a unit and it had a couple black plastic bags or a box or two, I couldn’t pay anyone to take it.” he said ”A while back, we had one just like that and a guy paid 10 bucks.  He found a box full of 14 karat gold jewelry.”

There will also be an auction at the New Jersey Self-Storage in Jackson Township on Wednesday at 4:30 pm.   The auction is tentative.  A representative of NJ Self-Storage said today, unless the current owner comes in before tomorrow to pay their bill, there will be an auction.

Photo: Allen Haff (L) and Clinton “Ton” Jones (R) from the hit Spike TV reality show, Auction Hunters. Courtesy of Spike Tv.

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