Up here in the Seattle area they are still selling, but at prices probably one third of what they were selling for 10 years ago......I've managed to sell a few really nice pieces for ridiculously high prices, but for the most part prices are way down from the "good old days".

I've used them to mow my lawn, move lockers, and do some work on a mobile home crawlspace.  Usually pay them $10 and hour, and if they are good, buy them lunch and maybe give them a little bonus at end of day to bump it up to around $12 an hour.  Then, if they are good, I'll keep their number and they'll want to come back because I'm not a cheap ass!

I once bought a 12'x30' locker with 12' ceilings.  It was an entire contracting business that had closed down and the owner had thrown all his tools and tons of materials in this unit and defaulted.  Unfortunately this was before I started keeping pictures of all my cool finds. 

The facility actually let us have a garage sale out of it for three days.  It was awesome, sold 7k worth of stuff (only paid 1k for the locker) before we even had to move anything out.  Instead of having to move truckload after truckload of tools and equipment and lumber and racking, we got to move a couple truck and trailer loads along with a pile of benjamins...

I got multiple air compressers......emglo and dewalt.  I got 20 plus battery operated tool kits....a huge knaack job box that I literally filled to the top with just battery tools, drills, saws, corded tools, etc.  Big drill press, lots of lumber, plumbing, electrical, etc.  It was a big project, but it paid off very well......we were still selling items off over a year later! 

I bought another locker at that facility a couple of years later and got another unit where the guy did nothing but commercial bathrooms.  Got five brand new in box hand dryers....you know, the electric ones you mount on the wall and push the button and it blows hot air to dry your hands.  Battery operated tools.  Tons of stainless steel kick plates for the bottoms of bathroom doors, stainless handles, door closers, soap dispensers and paper towel dispensers, all brand new in box stuff.  Pallet racking, three big propane powered bullet heaters (I think I have pictures of some of the stuff out of this locker in one of my old postings somewhere...MM?)......lot's of electrical stuff, tools, carts, etc.  Another great locker and I only paid $300 for it.....bunch of other auctions that day and hardly anybody showed up to this one! 

I've had others.....concrete contractor.....thrift stores (for some reason a LOT of those go out of business and then default on their inventory.....lol)....Commercial kitchen equipment.......guy that made and sold all kinds of supplies for Mason Bees....some weird stuff, but a profitable locker...........Bakery/Candy store......dressmaker with totes and totes of materials and patterns and sewing machines and dress dummies, etc......commercial fire sprinkler system guy with tons of orange fittings and pipe and a bunch of ladders and tools..........cabinet maker with saws, planers, jointers, etc.  It goes on if you have been doing this awhile.......especially the "pre show" era.......only a couple of those have been in the last two years!

I put length, width, and height in every ad......if you don't, you end up with endless "how wide is this?" or "how tall is it?".....and I keep about 200 ads always going under four different accounts, so I don't have time to mess with that......just easier to put it in at the beginning.

If your service is intangible, PayPal looks at it like you didn't really lose anything. When, in actuality, a lot of time and money goes into providing our service.

So that's why the craigslist prostitutes don't accept PayPal!   

Kink of makes you want to file suit against the producers for ruining our income, doesn't it?

I wonder if those of us that could prove we were in the game before the shows could file a class action for lost income?  Wouldn't that grab some headlines...........

My going rate for participating on any new forum is a $100 gift card (per month of participation, payable in advance).

Picking and auctions must be really bad to give up all that time for only $100 a month!