As a person who runs an 'everyday' yard sale, you expect to haggle. Combating this can be as simple as pricing your items a few dollars higher than what you'd really take. Also not pricing your items with stickers keeps you flexible. I have different prices depending on who the person is, if its a regular who's spent hundreds of dollars over the course of time, they're going to get a better price than a new face.

I went to an auction yesterday in a smallish town about an hour away. 10 or so bidders for 6 rooms. I walked away with 4 for the grand total of $155.

Unit 1 - $10. Auctioneer had said the guy had died, mostly crappy stuff with a couple of bags of DVDs.
Unit 2 - $100. Laptops showing, a lot of nice woman's clothes/shoes/purses household items.
Unit 3 - $40. Nice Mattress Set, few boxes of misc
Unit 4 - $5. Nice desk, tub of clothes.

Even though I walked away with the most, I'm not so sure I walked away with the best.

Ive been to some backwoods country auctions where they've had a bidder over the phone, or even another instance where the auctioneer claimed they let someone look the units over the day before and start with a 'minimum bid' that this no show stranger provided.

The whole thing is, at least in my state, there is no one policing these facilities to make sure stuff is being sold the right way at auction. I have a few places myself where I just go out and make the guy an offer on his units, with no kind of auction process at all. Facility owners can pretty much do whatever they want around here once a unit falls into debt.

Wall of leftovers: $150
Boat Motor: $100
Locker: $300
Princess Stuff: $50

Wow. Now that was worth signing up to post. Keep us updated on what that sells for.

I'm surprised this thread hasn't been deleted yet, but maybe it isn't personal enough. Let the good times roll.

There are no piece by piece auctions that I'm aware of anywhere close to me. Nice pics, I would like to go to one. Would be interesting to see everything in a unit without having to buy it all!

Wow. I remember the days when I felt the need to write about every unit/auction. Everything will work out, either you become a "pro" or you flame out.