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Real-life ‘Storage Wars’ draws bidders to W. Bridgewater auction

Hooked by reality TV shows, crowds flocking to storage unit auctions

By Jennette Barnes

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  March 25, 2012

When the door went up on the first storage unit of the day, two friends in their 20s saw a reason to bid. To win, they would have to out-bid some 130 people gathered at Atlas Self Storage in West Bridgewater, where an auction of 22 rent-delinquent units was about to begin. Like many of today’s storage auction bidders, the friends learned the ropes from reality television shows, like A&E’s “Storage Wars’’ and Spike TV’s “Auction Hunters.’’

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