Ok here it goes again.

I am having a very hard time actively selling my finds. I don't think my prices are bad, the stuff is good, at least priced accordingly.
Yet they sell reaaalllll slow....

A little more background.
I am in a financially VERY depressed area. People simply do not have money to waste.
I have a 1,500 sq ft warehouse of thich I use about 700 sq ft for display of my stuff. ostly 'ok' furniture.
I can not do yardsales at home (apartment).
I CAN do yardsales at my warehouse, but being in a somewhat remote industrial area limits the traffic.
I tried it 3 times and it was sluggish the firsat 2 times, the 3rd time was a disaster. 3 people, $13 total.

I tried fleamarket. A LOT OF WORK for little $$. Blew out the good stuff for pennies on the dollar and got stuck taking back 90% of my smalls anyway.

I have been working with a nice consignment store in a neighboring city with more favorable demographics. At first I was taken back by them taking 50% of the sale. But once I realzied they are getting WAY more than double what I could ever get it was actually a real winner. Of course not everything will sell, but so far so good.
They also are VERY selective. It has to be in real nice condition or unique for them to take it.

On top of all this I am not a very sociable guy. I am wrking hard on getting better at this, as I understand it is a key in this business, but at 43 I will never be mister popular ever. LOL....

So here is my thinking....
I can get a few more consignment arrangements going. Some are also willing to take the rejects of the 'better' store. Same deal 50/50 split, but probably get more money than I could, so it wopuld be a win/win situation.

I am very good at ebay and amazon for the stuff that's worth it and practial enough.

I am thinking I will try to get as many consignment and wholesale arrangements set up as I can and for the smalls I would actualy continue my yardsale at the warehouse.
I also have consigned to a local auction house and the results were ok as well.

Do you guys think this business can be viable if I focus heavily on the passive sales, e.g. let others sell the stuff I can't handle online or otherwise?

Were they extremely tall?

Nope, I was the tallest in attendance as always at 6'5" and I don't think I could have even reached in tippy toeing.

Yes, the small units sell at a premium everywhere. But not THAT kind of premium.
It's been an ongoing problem for months.

I bought a few $1 to $5 crapper units un Dec and Jan. Haven't seen any. Those currently go for $40-80.

Madness. Really frustrating, especially when you spend 3 hours on the road and walk away emtpy handed.

Maybe it was working when it left the house. Then either got damaged during the move, or from extreme heat or cold while in storage. On a piece auction, the people running it were fools to not plug the TV in and test it. If they could say it was working they could've potentially got more for it.

Why do peopel store actual GARBAGE in their lockers?
Why broken stuff?

Tons of reasons, mostly they were in a rush. Likely HAD to move stuff out quick. Garbage access is limited in most cases. So dumping tons of stuff into their garbage bins was not an option. Lazyness to not take it to the county dump is the second.
Or what I believe is the most common case: They never intended it to become a permanent situation. It was just for a few weeks until they 'get to it'.

Which also explains the common miconception that someone that paid 10 years on stuff MUST have something valuable in there.
No tenant looks at it as: I spent $8,000 or whatever on rent to store my stuff.
They look at it as a monthly charge. They only pay $50, 75 or 125 for it .... (every month, but they don't think like that).

California....
Central Valley, Sac Metro and some East Bay so far.