| Narrated: | Jake Kaplan |
| Country: | Canada |
| Language: | English |
| Num Seasons: | 5 |
| Num Episodes: | 65 |
| Network: | Travel Channel |
Baggage Battles is an American docu-reality series produced by The Travel Channel from 2012 until 2016. The first episode of the show was aired on April 11, 2012. Season 5 was produced in Canada for Travel Channel International and Canada's CMT Network.
Laurence and Sally Martin are also recurring appraisers on Storage Wars. William Leroy appeared once in Toy Hunter and Jordan Hembrough appeared three times on "Baggage Battles".
A spin-off focussing on William Leroy "Billy Buys Brooklyn", aired its first 20 episodes in 2021. Mark Meyer made an appearance in the first season.
The program is related to lost baggage auctions, police auctions, and estate auctions. Season 5 features professional buyers Billy Leroy (an antique expert and dealer) who owned the famous Billy's Antiques on the Bowery in New York City, Val (a production designer and online store owner) and Mark Meyer (an eCommerce expert) traveling around North America searching for amazing finds to resell. Previous seasons of the series featured other buyers such as Laurence and Sally Martin, and Traci Lombardo. They often call experts/appraisers to evaluate the objects they have bought. Leroy started filming his new series Billy Buys Brooklyn on August 6, 2020, for Discovery channel. It premiered on Discovery plus in the UK on June 16, 2021.
The show is well received by the critics. It has received 7.4/10 ratings on TV.com and has received 2.3/10 ratings on TVGuide.co.uk. AV Club found it derivative of Storage Wars, but more positively said that the travel angle did add some local color and occasionally it did surprise with what the participants found.[1]
On A&E Australia and 7mate
On DMAX Germany and TLC Germany
On Lifetime (South East Asia), under the name "行李大戰(Baggage Wars)"
On History TV18
On DMAX Italia and Fine Living, under the name Affari in valigia
on Travel Channel Ireland and Discovery Channel Ireland
On Travel Channel HD (Asia), under the name "行李戰爭(Baggage Wars)"
On Discovery Channel Malta and Travel Channel Malta
On Discovery Channel Poland, under the name Walka o Bagaż.
On Discovery Channel Spain under the name "Perdido, Vendido"
On SRF zwei
On Discovery Channel Netherlands
On Travel Channel UK and Discovery Channel UK
Ireland