Baggage Battles

Following the colourful personalities who make a living buying items at auctions is a favourite subject of TV producers. `Baggage Battles', essentially a replica of A&E Network's `Storage Wars' minus the storage units, depicts the process of `auction specialists' bidding for, buying and reselling property found in unclaimed luggage. It features three teams of bidders: Laurence and Sally Martin, who have appeared on `Storage Wars' appraising items in their California antiques store; young entrepreneur Mark Meyer, who owns a Long Island, NY, thrift store; and Billy Leroy, the proprietor of Billy's Antiques and Props, a famous eclectic prop and antique store in the Bowery neighbourhood of Manhattan.