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Charlie and the original owner are both so lucky that they bumped into someone who has the same passion in collecting cards. I feel like the guy can finally rest in peace knowing his collection is in good hands
Idk am i the only one who thinks this stuff is kinda shameless how do these things even work like wouldn’t the stuff go to the family members like inheritance instead of just some random dude who can do what he wants with it?
Even though there was some (typical) decaying bits of stuff in the unit, it was nicely organized and you could tell it was mostly meaningful things he was passionate about (if he might be deceased). He seems like an interesting guy. Hopefully Charlie will save or sell the space memories so that they can be properly cared for! I wish I had that cool NASA crate!
A bunch of Kassner posters sold for $3000 at Sothebys in 2021, including a copy of the one you threw in the trash box. Kassner was the most important stage illusionist of the first half of the 20th century.
@ToPNEAAow bro.... Charlie is a better person than you will ever be. He used to donate 100% of his revenue to charity. Now he still does any excess goes to charity
@@beep_boop12 Your point is not related to this video at all, I never said Charlie is a piece of shit. I love Charlie and he is an amazing dude who gives away money literally all the time to people in need. He's a saint, but in this video, they toss out so much valuable things that it's foolish.
Storage wars is fake sadly. I use to watch it with my dad n what not. But we were watching it one time n when they first "Opened" the unit for showing everything was one way. and once the "Bidding" started there was like 4-7 things miss placed like blatantly moved boxes/other key items. So was like a "ewww everything they go thro n find is prob placed now.. and nothing at all has a smidge of realness at that point."
@@MaddieFrankX ya Ik but if they woulda just not made it so obvious or like in your face. Wouldn’t have bothered me. Ik it wasn’t all real from the start.
As someone who's cleaned out a lot of bank owned homes, I've seen a lot of sad things. Had a home that was raided ebcuase they were growing weed in the basement and shit. Had to clean this house with tons of stuff in one day. Basically a hoarder house. Nasty ass piss bottles in the basement, the works. But somehow noticed the two crates that were commemorative of the kid who's mom originally got the home. Congratulations on buying it and shit. Then the viles of heparin, showing she at one point got sick, probably died. Kid likely got into some shit, when she died he took over the house and made it a drug house. Really sad to see. We took pictures of it cleaned out, then left the signed plates congratulating the original owner on her new house over the fireplace in a sort of memorial. Hey, our proof shows an empty house. Who knows what got put in there after we left. Sad part is house went for $19,000. Just overall a sad story.
@@YungRekless I looked it up online to check cuz it looked expensive and I used the lowest price I could find. There were a couple I found well over $600.
The former owner of the storage honestly looks like a such cool guy. Lots of collectables, videogames, trading cards, goddamn shark teeth collection. All that while being an astronaut engineer. What a life.
Yeah you get the feeling he was pretty chill in his down time which is probably a good thing for someone in his profession. I wonder how old this dude is. Cuz man... some of those signed baseball cards were freaking ancient!
@@xjlover2058 they threw out alot of things that has a large amount of value either financially speaking or other.....I understand they were on a time crunch but....more respect and care woulda been great. They maybe woulda noticed how much they actually had
@@joshlaverick2002 did you not watch the video? Even if every item in there only sold for $1 each, which is a massive understatement, the unit would still be profitable.
Yeah, he'll probably do an appraisal video after he gets all the ones of value sorted out. I'm also curious about the coins and if the Rolex and jewelry are legit.
Even at the storage lockers, people hide from each other what’s behind them so no one sees. Either from fear of getting broken into, or because like the mind, it is a compartment that many find intimate and won’t let others see. The things are meaningless to others like an ugly chair, but the story is where the value is. 😆
Actually genius. Could make it into a trilogy with this being first, then a visit to an appraiser, then a trip to Las Vegas for pawn stars lol it would be cool
The rolex was a bootleg unfortunately, but some of the cards were around 15$ max which means since there's so much of them sorting through could be well over 500$ worth of cards in there
How do you know this, please? Did he release an update video that I missed? Thanks. EDIT .. nevermind .. I found it: *IF YOU'RE LOOKING FOR THE FOLLOW UP VIDEO* - *SEARCH FOR:* *_" I Found A Michael Jordan Collection in an Astronaut's Storage Unit"_*
The Rolex may have been a childhood birthday or graduation gift from an uncle or father or grandfather. It didn’t matter that it is real. What mattered is that the moment was significant for the person & it was marked by memories of celebration and relationship. Whether something is real or fake matters very little. It’s the personal memory that is created that matters.🤍 In this case, it was owned by an astronaut and that is quite valuable in itself!
@@CatsInHats-S.CrouchingTiger yea, but like, to charlie it could've been worth money because he didn't experience the astronaut's memories did he? 🤗🤗🤗
Its just a heavy duty electronics box. That's made to be loaded into non-pressurized spaces without fear of damage to the equipment inside. That one is the smallest version I've seen available. However even the larger used version only goes for around 200-600 USD dependent on condition.
@@aybee63 He was a NASA engineer... they were probably going to toss the box, he grabbed it, and he threw some stickers on it cause its cool. Those are just the stickers they slap on every single cargo container that's needed for a mission. Weather is actually going into space or not. I have one of those stickers on my laptop. Theyre like 5 for 50 USD online.
That's a Rolex... was the moment I finally died... 😂😂🤣😭... How can you be so lucky in life... I would take that instead of millions in the lottery without any doubt... the fun had to be unimaginable unpacking all that stuff working towards that big NASA box...
PLEASE KEEP THE PATCHES, COINS AND CERTIFICATES!!!!! The engineer that owned that unit is almost certainly dead to leave that stuff behind. You'd have to kill me to get my patches and coins, and i don't even really collect them. Generally the aerospace patches and coins you only get if you are directly involved in a program, or if you trade with someone. i highly doubt the owner of the unit was an astronaut, but instead as an aerospace engineer. He probably spent his hobby money on collectables. Engineers have a LOT of hobby money. That said, i'd pay quite a bit for those sweet, sweet STS patches. the guy worked on some of the first ISS missions and that letter referenced Mir, which was the older space station that crashed. The crazy thing is, i almost certainly know someone who worked with whoever owned that unit because the aerospace world is pretty small. It is a bit strange to see that kind of stuff in a unit though because every engineer i know (myself included) keeps their work in their house, assuming its not classified. You get into the habit of keeping your work close by for reference even after you retire or switch careers. It almost looks like the engineer died, and his apartment was put into storage, and then abandoned eventually.
I collect diecast cars and I know a bit about collecting the other collectables and its the same sort of thing. Plus I'm an engineer so I know exactly what your talking about. So much history and the collectables are incredible
Yeah I was gonna say someone would pay good money to have that. Think of all the cool things you could convert it to, I’d build a computer in it and tell people it’s my space super computer and all I need is the rocket and I’m good to go .
In the future, it’ll all come full circle when someone finds a storage unit full of Charlie’s Yugioh and Pokémon cards and be as stoked as these guys finding the baseball and basketball cards
I actually like that for a video series/concept. I'm sure he has enough junk to memorabilia to open a bunch of storage unites and have a real life opening package.
We definitely need a follow up video of “we appraised all the stuff we found in an astronaut’s storage locker” just to see the results of the watch + card values alone
Our man I think was not an astronaut but a PGOC member or payload ground operator. The STS-91 was the mission launched June 2 1998 flying the discovery to Mir to retrieve astronaut Andrew S.W. Thomas. The letter was signed by retired Bruce E. Melnick that was an astronaut in the STS-41 mission or the 11th Discovery mission carrying the Ulysses probe, and STS-49 was on the Space Shuttle Endeavour flying satellite missions.
Charlie: *doesn't want to touch anything in the storage unit* also Charlie: *literally man handles 2011 sports illustrated swimsuit edition* I was just waiting for him to find a page that was stuck together
Right I was thinking like why is he acting like a puss about some dust and dirt on boxes when he most definitely just touched a magazine that was used to jerk off with lmfao
@@loganbrown2807 Ikr why is he so scared to touch the shit?. some ancient dried jizz is fine but a little dust, no way in hell "it's yucky" lol.. Charlie's scawed to get his hands a wittle dirty
Looks like an SL-1200 from what I could see, probably from like the 90s, maybe early 00s. New they are still like $1k, used ones of the right vintage still command a decent price.
this unit was so sick. Almost everything a guy would love. Even if it isn't worth million dollars its still cool to be able to preserve the history of these pieces for that much longer.
In years past I went to estate auctions, storage unit liquidations etc. My best haul was buying out a dental classroom for less than $400. Nobody there had use for dental chairs and had no clue what an autoclave was or it's value. My investment netted a couple grand by the time I had turned all the items on ebay. The worst deal I witnessed was a unit that had plywood and a fridge ocki g view of the u it the winning g bid 25 bucks the hidden items, junk car tires they legally had to pay to dispose of.
I love storage wars. It's basically like opening a giant mystery box. Never knowing what ur gonna get. Love the anticipation. Wish we could see more of this guy opening more storage units lol
Your friend was right on the money as they threw the Kassner Illusionen poster in the trash, saying it was probably a grand cause it's circa 1920's and auction bids at $800-1200. If a Nasa Engineer had it in storage, it was probably worth saving.
This is so flippin cool! I looked up astronauts and I'm thinking maybe this could be the unit of Joesph Acaba? He was born in the 60s and the stuff in this unit kinda makes sense for a guy of that age. The baseball cards and the nerdy collectibles in particular. It's probably a reach but it would be so cool to find out who this stuff belonged to
@Rich Woogie 2 weeks later charlie gets an email from NASA saying something like there's actually an item in there its just stored in another dimension and the item is super radioactive and its radioactiveness can cross dimensions
@@Knowledgesquad1 idk if its the same guy though. And the awards don't overlap with the date on the actual certificate (2003). I also tried finding people that generally fit the story of dying sometime this year, but it doesn't seem like anyone under that name died this year, so this guy could just be in a retirement home. His stuff also makes it apparent that he was a bit of a social outcast, so who knows if he even has an obituary or anything of the sort.
Charlie refused to touch anything except the ONE thing I wouldn't have dared to touch that was in another mans possession which is Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition. God bless this man.
I have about 13,500 hockey cards stashed away in a very organized manner. All from 1982-1992 and I can say with great sadness that I couldn't get $1000 for the whole lot.
@@ThePriceisRightB Yeah. I'm Canadian. As a kid hockey was the only sport that existed. I got a bazzilion Martin Brodeau, Sergei Federov, Pavel Bure and Jarmor Jagr rookie cards.... barely worth the paper they were printed on.
my theory: this person was obviously involved with NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011. he most likely repaired and prepared shuttle's at KSC before launch, judging by his note from Boeing and reflective vest. chances are he was layed off from NASA just around 2011, after or before the Shuttle Program came to close. he either died, or simply lost his storage unit sometime afterward. (the mars rover documents are of the Spirit rover, which was around the mid-late 2000's.)
The NASA container is a standard transit case for sensitive electronics for a majority of US Government agencies. They are designed to be water tight, the walls are hallow so it floats, and they are incredibly sturdy if treated right. - A former repair technician that worked on a big Navy project.
This is like a comedy skit. The one and only storage unit he's ever bought and he finds Jordan cards, a gold Rolex watch, proof of aliens, Elvis is living in there and Charlie throws Elvis in the trash, etc.
@@kasoncarter5440 Nah, a lot more than that. Lets just assume all of those cards are low tier and they are able to sell them for 0.5c - $1 a card. There were THOUSANDS of those cards. And a lot of them are worth more than $1 (considering that they are 30 years old). If that Rolex was real? That alone would be a few grand. It will probably pay off the entire unit cost. It really just depends on what is real, what has autographs, and what is rare.
@@travisdingolaite6184 Watching his update video, I agree. He made bank on this and he was only looking at the cards in that video. He didn't mention anything else. If they are the real deal, he can probably retire now lol. I think just one card he was looking at sold on ebay for around 20k+, but he is waiting to get appraisers out to grade them and check everything out. If they are real... then damn he got lucky on his first unit lol.
@@redgrove7063 why dont the people who own the unit (not the engineer) after they no longer have access to the unit but still have stuff in it and sell the stuff in it instead of potentially losing out on thousands?
@@travisdingolaite6184 From how I understand it, if the rent on the unit is no longer being paid, the storage facility takes over ownership. While there are a few diamonds in the rough like this one, many are full of junk. They would have to clean out the unit, go through everything inside it, determine value, and then find a way to somehow sell it. Meanwhile they have already lost out on the rent, could potentially lose more the longer it stays full, and they would need to pay people to go through it for them to find valuables/trash junk. They set up auctions in order to get others to clean if for them for free and get back the lost rent. If the unit is full of junk, they could make a profit if the auction bids high. If its full of valuables, the auction still bids high normally, so they still get profit on it. It get cleaned out the same day it is sold and the storage seller doesn't have to worry about sorting/cleaning costs.
Given that storage wars episodes are staged so each unit has at least one thing worth talking about and they say regular storage hunting takes a lot of duds before you come across something actually remarkable or profitable this really was lucky, then again he did say he payed a premium price for it so i think they knew there had to be something good in it.
@@TheRicardochocjr i’m from Maryland and my mom has been friends with jimi sense high school love their music and had no clue anyone outside of the dmv sub area knew about them
me being broke looking at this unit is a dream like even that shelf they threw or those posters id literally end up keeping everything I may be a hoarder.
You can see Matt's entire life flashing before his eyes, finally seeing what it all added up to. He did it-- he made all the correct decisions for almost 30 years. Somehow, he just slipped a Rolex into his pocket. He's peaked.
@@williamrichie2636 It is fake, and most of what is in the storage unit is not worth anything. Some stuff is, including stuff they mishandled or tossed.
@@EcnalKcin That's a Day Date ref 1803. Should be made around 1970. There is no way on earth that this watch is a fake unless someone put a new vintage fake in there later and made it look worn down. Chinese knock offs were pretty trash until 8-10 Years ago. Back then that machinery was only used by the Swiss and Germans in Glasshüte. And yeah as William Richie said goes for at least 12-18 k depending on the state and restoration.
Almost a year later, and would love an update on these gems. C'mon Charlie. Give us some closure on what all you found in this treasure trove of memorabilia
Literally NEVER have seen someone pull a storage unit with that much return coming back. WOW! We need a follow-up episode of the appraisal for all the items.
Charlie just needs to be careful that the card appraisal person doesn't lie as I could definitely see someone seeing some valuable cards and thinking hey, if I can get them to sell it to me for $50 then I'll make a lot of money
@@JordanPlayz158 I could totally see that happening if he was to do it in private, but if he's going to do a video on it the person doing the appraisal will shoot themselves in the foot career wise if they become known for scamming a popular youtuber.
Found a couple listings for 100 to 150 so it's not that much but ye still quite a bit. Probably would sell for about 60-80 if it was brought out now looking at the piece count
@@basilisk1997 This one belonged to the guy who built the ACTUAL rover though lol, worth tons more just because of that, and this video authenticates it
Kassner, The most important European stage illusionist of the first half of the twentieth century - Some of those posters are worth 2k. He was a collector! lol
If Charlie just started buying storage units for a living and reselling the stuff he finds at the warehouse and started videoing it all I would never ever stop watching
@@connorjohanning9604 Yeah although I'm gonna be honest why it's possible some of the cards may have value the only extraordinary find was the watch and maybe the jewelry if it's real.
@@austinblackburn8095 Man idk i think the nascar models will be worth something, they just glanced over them, but i think some of the stuff can be worth something
Charlie rifling through a dead mans documents and pocketing a rolex, then proceeding to toss pristine collectors items in the trash, including a cleaver that may have well been a Foster Bros piece of work (considered by many to be a part of american history, up to $1,500 for the bigger two handed rusted over cleavers) is peak pengiunz0 activity. Immeasurable chaotic energy. He even loaded up a tub of shit for his dad, gotta love him lmao
Agreed, makes it even more authentic when charlie casually chucks the items towards the box and then Danny pans the camera over to Charlie pretending like nothing happened lol peak penguinz0 content
