A favorite show of mine of late has been Storage Wars on A&E. Basically buyer purchase abandoned storage lockers at auction with the hope of making finds in the lockers that will turn them a small to huge profit.
Episode 8 had two of the buyers(Jarrod & Brandi) buying a storage locker for a hefty price of $1700.
Little did they know what they would find at the back of the locker. Carefully packaged were a few different boxes of toys including around 12 original Mego figures from the 1970's - all collectors grade MIB and sealed in protective cases.
An expert apraised their find at between $12-$14 thousand dollars - I don't know about that after having a glance at E-Bay, but that said they did find a lot of cool stuff that was certinly worth more than what they paid.
I nitoced Thor, Lizard Man, Green Arrow, Hulk, two different Spidermans, Aquaman, plus a few more.
Here's the appraisal scene from Youtube. Start at 7:32.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWIvm...eature=related