I think he gets away with it because he has all those videos and people watch those and think he must have some super secret info that they will learn by buying his overpriced book.  Gotta hand it to the guy though......he's probably one of the few still making good money off the storage auctions.....and he doesn't have to deal with the crowds or dig through the crap!

That sucks!  Hope you had some comped tickets and didn't actually have to spend your hard earned cash!

I've had EVERY kind of ad flagged on craigslist!  I think some people get off on flagging you just because they can, even if there was nothing wrong in your ad.  Oh well, it keeps it at the top I guess. 

I think I only bought around 14 or so for all of 2012....WAY down from 2011, which was WAY WAY down from 2010. 

I'm with Fred.......... between picking and the commercial auctions I do, the storage auctions are kind of a bust.  I won't even waste my time on a Public Storage run anymore.  Too many idiots and I'm just tired of waiting in line all day just so everybody can get a peak at the unit before they spend too much money!

I have a few places I will continue to go to, but I'm being very selective about which storage auctions I attend now, not like before when I wanted to hit them all. 

Good Job with the review.......you just saved me an hour out of my life that I don't need to waste on that show now!

If your too damn poor to afford gas to go to auctions find another line of work..

I do it because some of those long runs are boring as hell!  I usually end up driving and paying for gas anyway, but at least you have somebody along to talk to.....and as someone else mentioned, you have help pulling a few things out of a locker you just bought.  I always try to grab the little items that have a higher value right away, just in case.........

I do it frequently, especially on some of the longer Public Storage runs.  Did it this one time, and a big locker came up that we were both interested in.  The other bidders couldn't believe it when the two of us who had ridden together got in a bidding war.  I ended up letting him have it for $800, and he lost his as*!  Whew! 

Eventually, just about every jurisdiction will have to change their laws.  How many more years are newspapers actually going to be around?  As the population ages, more and more of their customers are dying off every year, and the younger generations are used to getting their news on an electronic device.....phone, tablets, computers, etc. 

I don't even remember the last time I actually bought a newspaper.  I can read all the local news online for free and I don't have a big mess to clean up after!  You don't even need them for the coupons anymore because you can just find what you need online and print it out, or some of them you can even download to your phone.

Besides that, it's a big expense that the storage places shouldn't have to pay for.  Newspaper advertising is so expensive, especially in the bigger city newspapers.  Why publish ads in the local newspaper when you can run as many ads as you want on craigslist for free? 

Having said all that.....I still do run ads for about three days in my local paper running up to any large garage sales or especially estate sales I'm having........that same group of people that are dying off are the same people that have a tendency to bring large amounts of money to estate sales, and they're still reading the newspaper!