I am sure your experience was real, but many of the people that go "crazy" on the show are fake. There are not "boom mikes" or handheld cameras like in "Cops" used in Hardcore Pawn. All of the people that run out of the store screaming and carrying on in the parking lot are miked. Sometimes you can see the microphone packs tucked in the back of their pants. I think this show and the others, take real items and sellers, and then to add some drama, and fake, crazy people and stupid story lines - "Oh my God, Les collapsed in the backroom!!!", "Les was owed $60K and was given watchbands instead", etc...