Fake Customers
We’ve already mentioned staged scenes, but sometimes the customers themselves are actually actors. Viewers have no reason to doubt that the people they see on TV coming into the store aren’t real customers with antiques and unique items that they’ve just happened to find.
This is often the case, but sometimes the show needs some excitement and may bring in fake customers. Family and friends of the shop owners and the crew have acted on the show. For example, a mom of one of the store’s employees came in selling a guitar that the show asked her to sell.