Luggage Wars! The Next Big Auction Reality Show

Have you ever gone on vacation and your luggage didn't make it to your vacation destination?  The entire trip your luggage/suitcase is missing but you proceed anyway with the vacation of your dreams.  A few months go by and you call the airline at least twice a week to see if your item has been found.  Finally they call you to pick up your baggage and you rush right over after work to claim your lost luggage.

However, have you ever wondered what happens to unclaimed luggage? Well their is a new show that shows you.  Thousands of unclaimed luggage from U.S. and International flights from around the globe are auctioned off yearly to the highest bidder.  Just like Storage Wars (where storage companies auction off storage units that have been left unpaid for a period of time), Luggage Wars auction off different types of luggage such as duffel bags, suitcases, and carry-on's without bidders being able to see what is inside each bag up for auction.  Bidders judge the bag by its outward appearance, the airline it was on and the country it came from all in the hopes of hitting the jackpot for some expensive valuables waiting inside the luggage.

Perhaps it’s the troubled economy that has people looking for alternate means of making extra money on the side. Maybe it’s the pure excitement of bidding on a storage unit or a container without knowing for sure what’s inside but Americans are hooked on bidding wars shows.  This show just like Auction Wars, Pawn Stars and Storage Wars is just as exciting and Luggage Wars is slated to be the next big bidding war show phenomenon. 

One young-man (a new bidder) spent $1700 dollars cash on a Louis Vuitton duffel bag only to find a pair of new Chanel shoes worth $800 dollars, $4000 pair of diamond earrings, and an iPad 2.  He definitely made a great purchase and made his investment back and then some.  However, other bidders made high purchases on luggage and made no money because their bags contained just basic travel items (pajamas, underwear, Ipod nano, toiletries) inside.

The show comes on Spike TV which is the man version of Lifetime Television. You will need to check your local cable/satellite network to find out showtimes in your area.  

Really entertaining and interesting to watch and I think you will enjoy it, just as I did!

Find Our Missing on TV One

Find Our Missing hosted by S. Epatha Merkersen (of Law and Order Fame: Is designed to "draw attention" to missing black Americans whose disappearances have mostly gone unnoticed by the national media.  I’ve been watching a similar show on the ID Channel (for last three years) and they may showcase 10 or so episodes each season and maybe one out of the ten missing showcased will be African American.

This may be overstating the obvious, but if you are black and if you go missing, your chances of becoming the main focus of a relentless, obsessive, exhaustive discussion by Nancy Grace on CNN is slim to none (or ZERO). This certainly isn't to suggest that all missing white people will get that treatment, but the odds are better than zero and much better if the subject is blond and female.  TV One, to its credit, isn't pointing fingers or griping, and, in fact, notes in their piece when both local media and police coverage was quick and responsive. Pictures on milk carton just aren’t enough anymore to get the missing’s message across but a well produced series like this just might.  So I’m so proud of TV One for being daring enough to put on this show because this is the first time in history that a show is solely dedicated to missing African Americans of all ages, sexual orientation and gender.

The series premiered back in January of 2012 but you can catch all the repeats on TV One on Wednesdays at 10 pm.  I urge everyone to check it out and support this ground breaking new show to return for a second season on TV One.  We need to let the media know that our missing people are just as important as other racial groups.

Below is a short clip from the show on Jaliek Rainwalker (a missing child) who's foster parents are suspected in his disappearance.